if by design

Reorb is a professional networking website dedicated to commercial real estate.

The site, built and designed by if by design, was launched yesterday.

If you are in the real estate industry sign up now at www.reorb.com

This advert was first shown in the late 1990s. Whilst I have been aware of the campaign for a number of years, today was the first time I saw the advert. Inspiring stuff.

Today if by design launched Morrison Photography’s new website - www.morrisonphotography.co.uk. Morrison Photography is run by award winning photographer Peter Morrison.

Built and designed by if by design, the site uses Ruby on Rails and features an easy to use administration system allowing Peter to update it from anywhere.

Peter has an impressive portfolio of photographs that are well worth a look. My favourite photo is the nuns voting.

Having spent the day importing and sorting my contacts in Highrise I was annoyed to find that the vCard export didn’t include images. I didn’t fancy the prospect of having to go through each contact and manually export their photograph so I created a script to do it for me.

The following Ruby script uses Highrise’s API to export vCards with the photographs intact ready for Mac OS X Address Book.

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We love our Apple TV. We particularly like the screensaver that scrolls through our photo collection. However, we quickly got bored of watching the same photos stream past again and again.

So I decided to see if it would be possible to automatically download a daily dose of interesting photos from Flickr directly on to our Apple TV.

Here is how I did it.

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Hope is the stunning new debut album from Foy Vance.
Released today, it’s crammed full of 15 gorgeous tracks. I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak of the album a few of weeks ago and it’s been played pretty much non-stop ever since.

It’s available from Amazon, HMV, iTunes and a load of other places.

I can’t recommend it enough.

Just days after signing an agreement with Universal, SpiralFrog have announced that EMI have joined their new music download service [via Techcrunch]. In return for listening and watching advertisements users of SpiralFrog will be allowed to download music from Universal’s and EMI’s catalogues for free.This combined with the fact that Universal have announced their intention to buy BMG means that potentially 42% of the world’s music could be available for free on SpiralFrog, based on Universal having 12% market-share, BMG 13% and EMI 17% (source).There has been plenty of speculation as to whether SpiralFrog will be an iTunes killer but in my opinion Apple has nothing to worry about - for two reasons. Read on »

My iPod is dead. Apparently they don’t bounce. It obviously has damaged the harddisk and the headphone socket. The question is what to do now? Here are some suggestions I’ve found from around the web…

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Here are two scripts that should help anyone migrating from typo (Ruby on Rails blogging platform) to WordPress. The scripts will import articles, pages, comments, categories and tags through a sequence of SQL queries that map fields from typo to their equivalent in WordPress. Simple, quick and beats importing via RSS.

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&I’m a big fan of Flickr so when Apple’s Aperture arrived I immediately looked for a clever way to upload photographs between the two. The solution was to use a combination of keywords, smart albums and Automator actions.

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