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by Damon O'Sullivan Technical Architect U can't MonoTouch this

Currently, iPhone applications can only be created using Objective-C and Xcode. Soon there may be a .NET based alternative.

Filed under: .net development

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director Game design: Making people feel good

If you were playing AFL, would kicking a ball between sticks be as much fun if the crowd didn't cheer afterwards? Or if the crowd didn't exist in the first place?

Filed under: flash, games

by Brenton Crowley Interaction Developer 3D paper tech demo

We’ve been developing a new 3D catalogue viewer and needed a quick proof-of-concept to make sure the idea was feasible.

Filed under: flash

by Ryan Seddon Web Developer Google I/O showing off the next wave of web innovation

The Google I/O conference, held May 27-28 2009 in San Francisco, showed off a very cool product called Google Wave which is what email would be if it were invented today.

Filed under: html / css

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director Force directed automatic graph layout

God that sounds boring. But actually, it's pretty cool :D

A common problem is wanting to make things look pretty. Often you have a diagram of some kind that you'd like to layout automatically. If the diagram is made up of nodes connected by lines, you can do it automatically using some physics trickery.

Filed under: flash, physics

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director OK, I've invented a revolutionary new interface...

... I call it the soccer ball slider ;) The idea was to make an interface for browsing linear content that was minimal (in terms of controls) but fun, unique and which also allowed subtle control.

Filed under: flash

by Brenton Crowley Interaction Developer 3D football freekick game with physics

We've been developing a freekick game in flash that utilises the best of Papervision and JiglibFlash.

Filed under: flash, games, physics

by Jarrod Cope Senior Interaction Developer Head tracking in Flash

Using the actionscript port of OpenCV, we can now do face detection in Flash.

Filed under: flash, webcams

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director Fractal trees in Box2D

Most of the experiments I make these days have something to do with either fractals or Box2D, so I had this brilliant thought on the weekend ... how about fractal trees in Box2D! Ok, maybe it's not that brilliant.

Filed under: flash, physics

by Stefano Perfili Production Developer CSS tables, simply... or not

I'll admit I was kind of excited to make my way down to Loop Bar in the city for my first Web Standards Group event last night, on the topic "Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong!". I wasn't sure what to expect, but I'd heard whisperings about the subject matter, and such events are great place to exchange ideas.

Filed under: html / css

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director Welcome to our Labs blog!

We're learning every day. Our labs blog is where we share our discoveries, opinions, experiments and other bits and pieces we find along the way.

Filed under: dtdigital