ideas on spatially aware devices

ElmaStudio, a WordPress themes foundry to keep an eye on

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve discovered ElmaStudio‘s work.

First I fell in love with the (free) Ari theme. Then, while helping my friend Stef(igno) to update his (italian’s) blog we decided to invest  12€ in the Nilmini theme. Last week I provided (for free) to Ellen and Manuel an italian translation of that theme.

Then I’ve brought their Piha theme too just in time to see the previews, and later on the final release, of Nori. Nori aims to be (and probably is) the first WordPress theme out there developed mainly and in first place for mobile devices’ browsers, and later ‘adapted’ to normal ones.

Since they put their money were their mouth is they’ve adopted it on their website and so I had the chance to see a real deployment of that theme and not just a 5 post wide demo. Here are the screenshots!

(the last one is what you see enabling the Reader feature in Mobile Safari). What do you think of the theme?

Let me know in the comments…

iSync, Lion and Symbian phone syncronization

It’s been some years now that I own a cell/smarphone Nokia N80/strong>, based on the (almost) defunct mobile’s operating system Symbian. Since when, later on, I’ve made the switch on Mac OS X I’ve started using iSync.

It’s a shame that in the latest version on Apple’s operating system “Lion” the application has been dismissed!!! And shame on me of having passed by the news, without making a mental note when, circa a month ago, I did a full clean installation of Mac OS X 10.7 on my MacBook Pro!!!

To make a long story short, the issue is quickly solved in two ways.

1. The first is to save, before upgrading to Lion, the iSync.app from your Applications folders or – if you use it – from the Time Machine backup of the system.
2. The second way is to get the application back thanks to some friend or the WWW.

In my case I had to choose the second way and thanks to this thread of MacRumors’s forum I got my file. After the download (a bit scared, I’d have to admit) I’ve extracted the app, installed and launched it. ALL went (Thankfully!) for the better, as you can see thanks to the provided screenshot!

IPhone and Android Apps Breach Privacy

“In the world of mobile, there is no anonymity”

says Michael Becker of the Mobile Marketing Association, an industry trade group.

via online.wsj.com

The End of Unlimited Bandwidth

This slideshare has caught my eyes a little ago while diggin’ my slidehare setting page (I was evaluating the opportunity for my employee to open an account there and spread our bioinformatics keynotes).

Have a read. They’re really interesting and very, very, very well executed!

Designing for Touch Screen

By now you should all have heard of the iPad, and if not then you must have been living under a rock for the last few months! Touch screen devices are here to stay and you need to start thinking about how to design and develop to get the most out of them. Apple would like you to believe that the iPad is the only touch screen device that anyone should own (and to be honest it probably is the best), but there are already some strong competitors, and many more coming to the market this year. So, you need to get your thinking caps on and start designing your websites to work with them, as well as updating your other sites, too. There are a lot of things to consider… here are just a few.

Read more on whatcreative.co.uk

iPhone: Which iOS 4 software features does my iPhone support?

Use this table to determine which features of iOS 4 are available for your iPhone model:

iOS 4 Feature	iPhone 3G	iPhone 3GS	iPhone 4
Home screen Folders	√	√	√
Unified Inbox and threading for Mail	√	√	√
Internet tethering1	√	√	√
Multitasking		√	√
Bluetooth keyboard support		√	√
Home screen wallpaper		√	√
Data protection		√	√
FaceTime			√
VGA out2			√

For a list of additional features and capabilities available on all iPhone models, see the iOS 4 Software Update page.

Notes:

1. Internet tethering for AT&T requires iOS 4. Internet tethering is not available in all areas; fees may apply. See this article for availability.
2. Requires the Dock Connector to VGA Cable, sold separately.

via support.apple.com