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Asteroids! A Blast from the Past!

Feeling nostalic and analogue, the days a large arcade games, Texas Instruments and 3x5 floppy disks with 20 kb? Sure, we can all use some fun and games this season, which is why Infogrames Entertainment’s old school v-game label Atari -- remember Atari, kids? -- is relaunching Atari.com as a free arcade portal. That's right -- log on and play, once again,  “Asteroids,” “Battlezone,” “Lunar Lander” or “Yars Revenge” to your heart’s content while the company markets geek-tested merchandise and more…
November 25, 2009
DesignDevelopment

What a difference a BG makes

ISM: a community project is a non-profit "inspiring innovative interaction and conversation both online and offline," which is why Ninthlink is happy to have been working with them for a few years now. Ever since Craig's initial designs manifested themselves, there was the idea floating around of how rad it would be to get artists to contribute backgrounds for the ISMcommunity.org site. Now that we finally had a few minutes to spare leading up to this holiday weekend, I was…
November 25, 2009
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New 4U @YouTube

There’s some cool changes over at YouTube, folks, and it makes the world of online video even more accessible to the masses.  Accessibility is everything! An automatic captioning/subtitling feature, once only available to a few educational partners, will soon be available to YouTube's general audience. Choose "transcribe audio" from the captioning menu of any video and you'll be able to use Google's speech recognition software to place captions or subtitles at the bottom of the screen so that viewers who…
November 20, 2009
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Wear In The World

Over the past week and a half, I had the privilege of building out a WordPress site to support Adidas Golf's Wear In The World endeavor. The design is based off the flash site at www.adidasgolf.com, but translated in to html to allow the two most lucky Adidas employees / contest winners to get their blog on as they travel the glove to five of the most exotic golf locations. (more…)
November 19, 2009
DevelopmentTips

Three Essential WordPress Plugins

After spending the past ... 7? months working in Drupal, I found myself thrust back in to the wonderful world of Wordpress. And now that the dust is settling at least a little bit, after cranking out what seems like 5 sites since the start of November, I am able to look back and truly appreciate some of the goodness from this open source community. While its not (yet?) as easy (for me) to accomplish some of the heavy-lifting that…
November 19, 2009