27 July, 2010

iPacman

I love that you can use this image as the background for all your apps on the iPhone. This is just one of the raft of pages you can download it from:

http://www.geeksugar.com/Pac-Man-iPhone-Wallpaper-9017178


It's alright to be a bit geeky when it's retro.

26 July, 2010

Make yourself the most important person in the lift - always.


This could be the single most important piece of information you learn on a Monday afternoon.

More from Courage Wolf



Never a truer word said. My other personal favourite -

LIVE YOUR LIFE IN CAPS LOCK!

13 July, 2010

It's not very professional...but damn that's funny

The 'I did not know that' of the week

Who is D.B Cooper?

D. B. Cooper

A 1972 FBI composite drawing of D. B. Cooper
Other names Dan Cooper
Occupation Unknown
Known for Hijacking a Boeing 727 on November 24, 1971, and parachuting out of the plane in flight

D. B. Cooper is the name attributed to a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States on November 24, 1971, received US$200,000[1] in ransom, and parachuted from the plane. The name he used to board the plane was Dan Cooper, but through a later press miscommunication, he became known as "D. B. Cooper". Despite hundreds of leads through the years, no conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper's true identity or whereabouts, and the bulk of the money has never been recovered. Several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump, but the FBI believes he did not survive.[2]

The nature of Cooper's escape and the uncertainty of his fate continue to intrigue people. The Cooper case (code-named "Norjak" by the FBI)[3] is the only unsolved U.S. aircraft hijacking,[4] and one of the few such cases anywhere in the world, along with Malaysia Airlines Flight 653.


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27 May, 2010

The Cars the Star

Some of Hollywood's best known and loved automobiles all in one handy chart - No Pontiac Firebird from Smokey & and the Bandit. What kind of list is this..?

Another 'Damn, I wish i'd done that ad'


Nice. That's all you can say really - spot on, quick and so Land Rover.

07 May, 2010

Things I'm going to have to learn...quickly

What with my wife now carrying our first child - this is the only info I can find for new fathers. I'll be honest, it all seems fairly straight forward

28 April, 2010

22 April, 2010

21 April, 2010

The new BBC farming correspondent really knew their stuff

This is what I woke to the other day, or was I still asleep?
Either way, no feta before bed from now on.

08 April, 2010

29 March, 2010

Desktop Tidy wallpaper


This has been a godsend for my desktop plus the image of Viggo the Carpathian is a lovely little addition for all you Ghostbuster 2 fans.

Album covers of the day



17 March, 2010

FlashForward Yourself




This is the work we've just done for Channel FIVE promoting the return of FlashForward to our screens. The brief was to produce a social media campaign to promote this so we came up with the idea of a FlashForward generator on Facebook. By clicking on the FlashForward Yourself button it will tell you what you'll be doing 6 months in the future (just like the premise of the show) and post it in your FB Status. This would then appear in all your friends news feeds and help promote the show.

From the banal to the extreme, I had to write over 1000 of these flashforwards so there would be a large variety of events - although it felt like a very dark trip into my psyche once we'd done the ordinary ones. The aim is to recruit 50,000 fans, so far we have 15,725 - fingers crossed we reach it.

My favourite FF I wrote?
Easy.

'In my FlashForward I was putting bricks into a pillowcase'

15 March, 2010

More Toast sightings - Toast a new religion

Creme Egg iPhone Splat-plication






As part of the Creme Egg 2010 Campaign we also did CMW's and Cadbury's first ever iPhone app. Consisting of two different games, once you downloaded it from the App store you could either 'Scramble' an Egg or play 'Egg marks the Spot'.

'Scramble' the egg uses the iPhones acceleromter so you can shake the egg and get it to release its goo. Once the egg has splatted you can then play with the goo and rub it all over the screen.

'Egg marks the Spot' uses LAYAR type technology whereby we can overlay images onto the real world using the iPhones camera - taking this technology we placed Creme Eggs around the country at various famous landmarks incl: The BT Tower, Stonehenge, The Angel of the North and Land's End to name a few.

By going to these landmarks and opening the application, you can then see the egg at the location. Pressing on the egg then gets it to goo and links to the 'Your Country needs Goo' game where you can win a gooey prize.

The App went live on the 12th March and by the 13th it had become the #1 Free Download in the country. At this time, it's still at the top spot (15th) and we've had over 7000 comments so far.

Never had a number 1 before, but I could get used to it.

Update: 16/03/2010
So far it's been downloaded 221,894 times and has 10,858 reviews

Update: 29/03/2010
Downloads - 380,478, Reviews - 20,884

Update: 07/04/2010
Downloads - 513,047, Reviews - 26,611

01 March, 2010

Simple, Stupid, Sensational


That's all folks...

Egg-Mented Reality - AR Creme Egg 2010







As part of this year's Creme Egg campaign and 'Your country needs Goo' game we have produced our (and Cadbury's) very first augmented reality experience - 'Egg-memted Reality'.

By going to the ER page on the Creme Egg website, there are set of instructions showing you how you can release the Creme Egg that's trapped inside the AR card. By printing out the special marker card and placing it infront of your web cam, it projects a 3D image of a Creme Egg messing about with the classic office toy the 'Newton's Cradle'. It then plays out until once again a Creme Egg comes to a very sticky end.