This was activated on my account just now and being able to select a theme with light text on a dark background is something I’ve waited for since I started using Gmail. More info about themes in Gmail is available on the development team blog.
I really hope that the Reader team will add themes to their product as well, sooner rather than later.
Offworld, Boing Boing’s new gaming blog
That web design is so retro it makes me want to eat mushrooms.
[via:Waxy]
Vaasa Central Hospital’s new website includes speech synthesis (In Swedish)
The announcement can be heard in Swedish and Finnish.
The tools used to run the service are created by Phoneticom.
[via:MediUutiset (fi)]
Kauppalehti listaa yritysten verkkotunnukset
“Kauppalehden uudesta yritystietopalvelusta löytyy myös yritysten rekisteröimät suomalaiset verkkotunnukset. Toiminnon avulla yritys voi katsoa mitä verkkotunnuksia kilpailija on rekisteröinyt ja onko yritykseltä tulossa uusia tuotelanseerauksia.”
WolfenFlickr 3D - Wolfenstein 3D / Flickr JavaScript Mashup
A Wolfenstein 3D level with Flickr photos from a user account or search query instead of nazi art covering the walls. Explained in detail on the developer’s blog.
[via:waxy]
Ubiquity for Firefox: short commands for “instant mashups”
See also: Ubiquity on the Mozilla Wiki, Vimeo link to the video.
[via:Scoble]
Ten tumblelog themes for Wordpress
I found Typographic (license: GPLv2), the theme currently used on this site in the above list.
My profile just noticed be about this. The new (vastly improved and less cluttered) layout is available for testing at new.facebook.com, but it’s also terribly unresponsive and slow at this time.
Facebook apparently posted about this yesterday on the company blog.
Thanks to Aza Raskin, you can now generate one-click art using a simple, open source javascript tool in your browser. Demo video included.
Here’s an example of what can be done with this.
Those who don’t use Firefox 3 should probably get and install it immediately (Opera, and to a certain degree Safari users are excused) to ensure a non-suck web browsing experience.
A useless but fun feature, or “Easter egg” in the new release, is a message from our soon to be robot overlords. Open the address about:robots to view it. A screenshot is enclosed below for those who prefer to practice bad taste by using another browser (again, excluding Opera and Safari users).
For some reason I’m never able to find the mini-reference for last.fm’s forum markup language/BBcode when I need it.
Well, now I have it bookmarked:
http://www.last.fm/forum/markup
280slides is an impressive web application mimicking Apple’s Keynote presentation program. It’s built using a Javascript based port of the OSX Cocoa API, Objective-J. According to these interviews, Objective-J may be released under a Free Software license.
Add the news of Apple choosing to use SproutCore for web applications, and I’m already hoping to see less of that terrible, freedom hating Flash on the future web.
