Interesting Restaurant Payment Gadget

Here's an interesting payment gadget for the restaurant industry. It's called The Rail.

http://bit.ly/x1BXS4

http://viableware.com

PSD 2 Facebook Fan Page

Now here's a creative service. These guys went the extra step to think about why someone would want an HTML version of their PSD design, besides the obvious for the website. My hats off to these people for providing this nifty service.

PSD2FanPage.com

Awesome Art of All Types

I hope to work with these people some day. Their art is amazing in whatever medium you can imagine, whether its graphics, video, 3D, etc. 

Wetanz.com

HTML5 Predictions for 2012

Very interesting and probably right on the money.

TechCrunch predictions

Skitch: Doodling Done Right

After choosing your starting point (a photo, screenshot, etc.), you can edit your creation using a number of built-in tools that take advantage of the iPad's touchscreen interface. Objects you draw on the screen can be moved around with your finger or pulled into the trash. A pencil tool lets you draw freehand. You can add text. And you can drag, pull and adjust other objects like arrows, circles, squares and lines.

None of this is entirely ground-breaking stuff, but Skitch does what it does very well. It's a pleasure to use.

TechCrunch Review

Skitch

Transformers Stroller

The 4Moms Origami Stroller is like a transformer that goes from being an ordinary stroller for a baby, down to a nice little buggy car for a toddler. It looks really neat.

This "transfomers concept" should be taking off very soon into other types of products. I wonder what could be next?

WoozWorld: A Facebook For Kids

Another facebook site for kids.

WoozWorld.com

Antengo: A Real-time Craiglist

It's time for a real-time craigslist alternative, now that everyone carries around a smartphone.

Antengo.com

Creative Use of Instagram API

CanvasPop.com uses Instagram's API to provide canvas prints of a user's instagram photos. Very nice and one to emulate.

Best Free Icon Sets

This guy from Germany,  Oliver Twardowski, has produced some of the all-time best and free icon sets I have ever seen.

Free Icon Sets

Map of Site Visitors

Free. Get a map on your site of all your visitors worldwide.

ClustrMaps.com

Mixel: Can't Wait 2 C What U Made!

With Mixel, your friends and the world is waiting to see what you made. Take any images from anywhere, mix'em, and you get a "mixel".

Mixel.cc

Become An Artist With Mixel's Remixable iPad Collage App

OneDrum Keeps The Beat For Office Docs

Sitepoint.com writes:

Having trouble getting your clients to use Google Docs? I know the feeling. My clients work a lot in MS Office, and many are too scared to try Google Docs, think it's too much of a hassle, or can't access it from restricted corporate networks. The result is outdated documents, endless change-merging—you name it. It seems I'm always searching my emails looking for the latest version of whatever they've sent me.

Finally, there's a solution. oneDrum, released this week, is a peer-to-peer coauthoring platform like Google Docs, based entirely in Microsoft Office.

It offers:

• automatic syncing of shared folders and files, so everyone always has the latest version on their computer
• complete version history, so you can roll back to a previous version of the file at any time
• real-time editing of documents (on PC, coming soon to Mac)
• and end to confusion between system and application keystrokes and clipboards
• all over a peer-to-peer desktop application.

Oh, and it's free.

Boxbe Manages Inboxes

I recently emailed a friend of mine and noticed I got a bounce back but it was of a different kind. The subject line said Action Requested and the body had this message:

Please add yourself to my Guest List so your messages will be delivered to my Inbox. Use the link below.

So I clicked the link and got directed to Boxbe.com, at which point I had to complete a CAPTCHA in order to deliver my original message to my friend. Lo and behold I had discovered an auto-CAPTCHA system for all of my email inboxes so I can stop all the nonsense spam. This is awesome stuff.

Lemon Slice Your Online Receipts

How would you like to organize all those online receipts you have stored away somewhere as emails? Well now there are at least two competitors in this space trying to get you to use their service to organize all your receipts stuck in Gmail, Yahoo, etc. 

Lemon.com

Slice

TC review of Lemon

TC review of Slice

Scan Photos/Art With iPhone

Cool. Now there's an app to help you quickly scan printed photos or even art, by just using your iPhone. That'll save some time.

The ShoeBox App

TC review

Modern Client Web Development

This is the new way to program all those fancy, nimble web interfaces cropping up all over the web. In a nutshell you need to use an MVC framework for all client-side web applications. With Spline you will be able to store all your data with models and whenever any change occurs to that data, both the view (HTML) and the server-side with be automatically notified and updated. CoffeeScript enables you to make javascript code sing and dance.

Use Spine.js

Use CoffeeScript

Get this book: Javascript Web Applications by Alex MacCaw

UPDATE: Better to look at Knockoutjs, Angularjs, Ember.js

Cool Image Overlays

Thinglink has some neat options for image overlays that display further info, videos, or where to buy what is shown in the image. This is just another service trying to monetize online images. Big gotcha is that users who share the images will also copy the script tags along with the image source. They are also into "printable NFC-enabled images".

TC review

New Guitar 3.0 Update!

Now there's a demo video of the new Gibson Firebird X Guitar. I just wish I knew more about guitars to really appreciate this new technology.

TC video

NFC 2.0 - No Additional Hardware

The next version of near-field communication NFC 2.0 is being pioneered by Tagattitude and is based on inaudible super-sonic signals.

TC review