Jesse Schmidt

WordPress for Android

Jesse — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:59:45 +0000

The wordpress for android app was just released today and is pretty decent. It still needs the features its big brother wordpress for iphone has but overall not too shabby!

The Best CSS Feature

Jesse — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:58:54 +0000

I recently have been doing more and more research into CSS and all of the new (and old) features that it hides and recently came across the @font-face rule. This is probably one of the best features of CSS because it allows me to use non-standard fonts on sites without having to resort to sIFR or any other font replacement technique. The CSS technique to do this is fairly simple and is supported by a large number of browsers, including Internet Explorer*! The biggest problem of this is that not all fonts are licensed to be used on the web. Therein lies the problem, there are very few fonts that are freely licensed to be used on the web with this technique. However, that doesn’t mean that the fonts that are available are terrible. In fact, there is a wonderful list of fonts that are available to be used freely on the web! The list includes 10 good looking fonts, some of which I am using in some new designs. To view this list head over to OpenType.info.

*Internet Explorer supports @font-face but requires a specially formatted font file, the EOT file. Still, its better than nothing at all!

Android Home Screen Prototype

Jesse — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:32:35 +0000

Recently the touchscreen on my dumbphone took a dump and no longer registers touches… That being the case I have been looking at the new phones coming out within the next few months (preferably on Verizon) and have seen a few cool phones but I am still looking for something…. better. The guys over at LarvaLabs have developed a concept home screen for Android that looks clean and simple and pretty damn nice. Being a concept it obviously isn’t available on any shipping phones but it looks like it could be a good rival for HTC’s SenseUI which I think is absolutely awesome.

I have not really looked into Motorola’s MotoBlur UI for Android yet as I haven’t seen many previews on it. From what I have seen it looks pretty neat but also fairly cluttered. I will reserve final judgment until I see MotoBlur closer and see what hardware is coming for Verizon. Now I just need these phones to pop up on Verizon. The Touch Pro2 looks good but I really want a Hero-esque Android device. We will see… hopefully sooner rather than later!

To Infinity and the Space Station

Jesse — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:42:02 +0000

I didn’t know that this was happening but apparently Buzz Lightyear has been aboard the International Space Station for over a year on a program by NASA and Disney to help get young people interested ins science and space and such. The Buzz action figure went up last May and recently came back on STS-128 last week. Below is a compilation video of Buzz floating around the Space Station! Super awesome :) [via Gizmodo and Orlando Sentinel]

Happy Fourth of July

Jesse — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:17:48 +0000

Here is a pretty cool video to celebrate the 4th of July. Have a great Independence Day!!

Deadline – A Post-It Stop Motion

Jesse — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:07:22 +0000

This is a pretty cool stop motion project done with Post-it notes. There is also a video linked that shows a quick making of video that is also very interesting. YouTube

Little Red Riding Hood

Jesse — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:01:14 +0000

Awesome video bringing the story of Little Red Riding Hood into a high tech video. Animations in the style of airline safety manuals and the random information panes make this video hilarious. via Gizmodo.

Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.