It looks like the new iPad’s overheating problem isn’t such a bad thing after all. In fact, Primary Coffee turned it into their newest, most expensive gadget – Primary Coffee HotPad. Once you’re on the page, simply lay your iPad on a flat surface and press Run. In mere seconds your processor will start to overclock, revealing heat coils on the screen – a perfect spot to place your coffee and keep it warm for hours.
Have you ever wanted the whole world to be Christmasy? So have we.
That’s why we made The Christmaser – a virtual machine that takes anything you type in and makes it a Christmasy GIF. (Because GIFs are the best.)
The recent release of the iPhone 4S got us thinking about the future and all the wonderful things it has in store for us. Sure, we don’t have jetpacks yet, but we do have Siri.
Can a functional QR code be built out of nothing but OREOs? We decided to find out.
The May edition of sweet geek tech-nectar as compiled by the rp Technology Trends Taskforce. If we missed something please notify the Taskforce immediately in the comments down… there…
Ever since OK Go’s music video for “This Too Shall Pass”, I’ve followed SyynLabs fairly closely. They’re the groups of creatives who engineered the Rube Goldberg machine for the video. They do all the things you [i] did when you [i] were [was] 12 and it was raining out and
Most Viral Video Ever, more than Beiber. Best song ever written. Must watch!
General News
Introducing Facebook Deals
Facebook ‘Like’ Button Takes Over Share Button Functionality
Astroturfing Grows
On to the awesome…
We’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with the Facebook Like functionality lately. For good reason, it’s all the rage in Social Media! Since Facebook opened up their Graph API we developer types have been able to get all sorts of fun data to play with. One of those bits of data is the Like count for any Facebook object. Person, post, page, etc…That’s cool and all but how could we take that and make it awesomer?
After a slight hiatus we’re back! ATTTAACKr is our marketing technology trends taskforce made up of everybody and anybody who is interested in all things awesome and tech. Once in a while we all meet at the office, drink Tequila, get inspired, and imagine the possibilities.
Location what? Places who? Yeah, it’s everywhere I know. Add “Social Media” to the mix and you get the ultimate marketing buzz term for ‘011 and beyond, Social Media Location Marketing. SMLM for short. An acronym I just invented that when pronounced is pronounced smell’em; because you’re so close to marketing to someone you can smell them. You can use that. I only charge 25¢ per time you say it which is a pretty good deal I think.
Inspired by this xkcd comic, Paul Hunkin built a brilliant script to bid on random auction items for him. It then tweets what it bid on or won. Oh the things you can do with APIs and a little knowhow.
I know what you’re saying, “Hey Matt, I made this awesome list on Twitter but it’s all locked up on Twitter.com and I want to set it free on my own site.” I know that’s exactly what you’re saying, I know these things. I was thinking the same thing when I was building our social page.
Well, you can use the offical Twitter widgets but they have a limited amount of configurable styling options and as web designer/developer you know this is way too easy and therefore must be done custom. ;) You may like the official widgets and that’s great but if you want more control over the presentation of the tweets then you may want to check out jQuery.
After tinkering around a bit I found out it’s actually pretty easy to do with a function called getJSON(). Imagine that, jQuery had something already built for such an instance. How thoughtful of them. Equally as thoughtful is the fact that Twitter allows for JSONP calls. JSONP is JSON you can call across domains by adding a callback parameter. Browsers block cross-domain AJAX calls by default but the added callback works around it and is perfectly legit.
So how do you do this incredible jQuery tweetaculous pulling magic? Just use the code below and replace “redpepper” with your Twitter username and “redpepperites” with the slug of your list. That’s it! As long as the fail whale isn’t being towed out of the water by small birds at the moment you should be fine. You may want to add error handling for those instances too btw.
