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Interactive map: U.S. population and race statistics

Friday, 3 June 2011 - 12:39pm
An excellent interactive infographic on the U.S. population and race by state. Hover your mouse over each state to see the key population statistics for each state. Unfortunately Flash is ...
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Interactive Flash-based infographic on the U.S. population

Interactive chart: Australian Population Projections

Wednesday, 1 June 2011 - 2:36pm
The 2011 Australian Census will be conducted on 9 August 2011. Australia's population in 2007 was 21 million. The projections for growth up to 2101 can be seen under three scenarios:
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Graph of Australian Population Projections according to three different scenario

techradar: A future with seven trillion connected devices

Friday, 27 May 2011 - 12:46pm
Tamsin Oxford at techradar.com, provides a glimpse into the future with seven trillion Internet connected devices in the article, 'Internet of Things: how it will change the world'.
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techradar.com: Internet of Things: how it will change the world

Jakob Nielsen on mobile usability: Utilize Available Screen Space

Thursday, 26 May 2011 - 4:30pm
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox article, "Utilize Available Screen Space", outlines findings from iPad usability studies:
higher information density designs are preferred because they minimise ...
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The ABC iPad app

Drupal: using 'Node displays' and 'Display Suite' to present audio in HTML 5 format

Monday, 23 May 2011 - 3:22pm
If you want to present video in HTML5 format in Drupal, the Video for Everybody! module works very well. For audio, you could also use Video for Everybody! but the dimensions of the player ...
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Firefox's HTML5 audio player.

How good designers think

Thursday, 28 April 2011 - 2:38pm
An interesting article by Simon Rucker in the Harvard Business Review Blog on what makes a good designer. Good designers: 
don't rely on focus groups;observe people to identify the ...
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Harvard Business Review Blog article on what makes a good designer

NearMap view of Douglas Street before and after the floods

Friday, 11 February 2011 - 3:19pm
Douglas Street, Milton
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ABC Radio National Bush Telegraph feature on the Queensland Historical Atlas

Wednesday, 2 February 2011 - 2:51pm
ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph program interviewed editors Professor Peter Spearritt and Dr Marion Stell from UQ about the project. Thinking Cap and communications partner, Niche ...
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Listen to ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph interview.

Why is Dropbox more popular than other synchronisation tools?

Wednesday, 2 February 2011 - 10:40am
On Quora, there are interesting awnswers as to why Dropbox is more popular than its competitors.
Answer Summary
Because it's:
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Dropbox folder in the home directory

NearMap view of the Queensland Floods

Monday, 17 January 2011 - 4:18pm
NearMap is a cross between Google Maps and Apple's TimeMachine. You can rewind the clock and view past maps. Here are photos of the Brisbane floods using NearMap. University of Queensland Tennis ...
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NearMap shows photo maps at various points in time.
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