Month: April 2012

  • Essential iPad apps

    It seems a tradition for anyone with a blog and an iPad to list their “essential” apps, so here’s mine. Accuweather – Is it still raining outside and you hadn’t noticed? http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/accuweather-free-for-ipad/id364616869  Adobe Ideas – Sketching app that also works with other documents for annotation. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-ideas-1-0-for-ipad/id364617858 Adobe Photoshop Express – Simple photo editor http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235 Amazon –…

  • Live data visuals – fashion and cities

    I’ve seen two examples of impressive live data visuals today, from two very different systems for very different projects from The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and French fashion retailer Pimkie. Color Forecast By analysing live webcam footage from Paris, Milan and Antwerp, this site collects colour information and presents it as trends for days, weeks and…