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Stary Night iPad Christmas Greeting by @Torchbox

Nice work guys!

A Starry Night from Torchbox on Vimeo.

The team at Torchbox want to wish our clients, friends and families a very merry Christmas.

As a treat, we've made this short video to brighten the day and warm cold toes.

Filmed and edited at our offices in Oxfordshire, UK. Music recorded and produced at Torchbox by Katie Overbury, Wes West and Tom Dyson.

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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite available for Beta download

Got Adobe CS5? Fancy making digital magazines for the iPad or smart devices easily? Adobe have released a beta for their Digital Publishing Suite platform. 

The Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite is a turnkey set of hosted services and viewer technology that tightly integrates with Adobe Creative Suite® 5 products. Using the Digital Publishing Suite, professional publishers can design and deploy engaging reading experiences across mobile devices and marketplaces. This beta release of the Digital Publishing Suite supports creation, preview and sharing of digital magazines like WIRED Reader, The New Yorker, iGizmo and Sabado Bicentenario on the Apple iPad through an Adobe branded viewer.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/digitalpublishing/

Apple WWDC 2010 App Wall and iPod/Pad goodness

Apple's WWDC 2010 App Wall. Watch the whole thing to see the final "effect".

Some more iPad goodness....this is pretty damn cool...

This is a video showing the build of the Welikesmall iPod wall. It was made from 20 iPods over the course of about three weeks in our spare time. Tasks included building and designing the wooden box, programming an iPhone application that runs off the Game Kit framework, hacking a USB hardware fan together, developing a Python / Django web server application, and designing a quick UI. To keep the wall constantly powered we used a Cambrionix B2 USB powered hub.

Our current iPhone Application allows for 4 different modes, a screen saver mode, a full image split mode (the controlling iPod looks for an image and then the server executes a script to split that image among all 20 iPods), a single image grid mode (the controlling iPod tells the server to give a random image to each iPhone), and a hybrid mode which displays all three. In addition, the server is always checking to ensure that each iPod is synched.

Future releases will allow all sorts of external user interaction. Stay tuned.

You can check out the actual Game Kit framework here