Archive for the 'tiny' Category
Some things just won’t work
Saturday, August 25th, 2007A few months ago I included search functionality in the back side of the Tiny Widget. It works fine, but I thought a more useful way of having the search there would be to let people load a particular icon to the front of the widget for editing. After a few months of staring at the same 10 lines of Javascript code, I have decided to give up. It almost works; the result for the search query is properly paginated, and clicking on any icon flips the widget around and loads an icon, the wrong icon. I can’t figure out why, and I have decided not to worry about it anymore. The Widget is here for you to play with if you want.
5000 Icons at Once
Monday, July 16th, 2007The Tiny Icon factory, viewed in a 30 inch Apple display.
When the page loads, it looks like the icons are racing towards their final positions in the grid.
If an Icon was alive, what would it like to have for breakfast, clicks?
Tiny Trace by Florian
Monday, April 23rd, 2007Florian Jenett attacks again, this time augmenting the Tiny Icon Factory with an interesting way of tracing vector drawings over the collection of icons, and enabling download in SVG format. His Tiny Trace tool is a good example of how you can combine the search API developed by Brent during IAP this winter with new ways of using icon data to generate graphics.
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Cities and Icons
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007After looking at the statistics of the Tiny Icon Factory since its creation date, in September 13th 2006, until tonight, February 22nd 2007, I formatted a paragraph that shows the City-Visits ratio between both dates in a decreasing order. 69184 new visitors and 5610 returning visitors over a total of exactly 100 cities have created 147701 icons. I really like it that Brooklyn is a separate entity than NYC, and that some of this places I didn’t even know they existed.
This are the results (world map provided by Google Analytics):
Amsterdam-1020, Madrid-772, New York-650, Los Angeles-640, Cambridge-620, London-521, Rotterdam-472, Toronto-380, Barcelona-377, Paris-342, Chicago-333, Utrecht-322, Groningen-313, Athens-301, Buenos Aires-299, Seattle-295, Brooklyn-275, The Hague-270, San Francisco-269, Mexico-265, Santiago-259, Tokyo-258, Houston-256, Singapore-255, Nijmegen-244, Austin-243, Portland-243, Rome-239, Minneapolis-230, Vienna-224, Amersfoort-216, Beijing-216, Delft-215, Atlanta-214, Enschede-206, Vancouver-204, San Diego-202, Brussels-200, Washington-194, São Paulo-191, Dallas-188, Eindhoven-186, Stockholm-184, Cambridge-183, Helmond-172, Istanbul-171, Montréal-170, Berlin-169, Phoenix-167, Tilburg-162, Columbus-156, Calgary-156, Oakland-153, Zutphen-149, Taipei-144, Seoul-143, Miami-142, Saint Louis-141, Caracas-140, Central District-139, Ottawa-134, Boston-133, Denver-132, Bangkok-131, Pittsburgh-125, Bogotá-125, Valencia-124, Moscow-122, Saint Paul-122, Breda-116, Zwolle-116, Hamburg-113, Alphen Aan Den Rijn-112, Indianapolis-112, Hayward-112, Amstelveen-112, Hoofddorp-111, Lima-110, Federal-107, Zoetermeer-107, Philadelphia-106, Auckland-106, Leiden-105, Melbourne-105, Garlasco-105, San Leandro-102, Hilversum-102, Schiedam-100, Salt Lake City-98, Cincinnati-98, Sydney-98, Baltimore-97, Somerville-97, Oslo-96, De Bilt-94, Maastricht-92, Honolulu-91, Edmonton-90, Orlando-90, Shanghai-89.
Tiny Search Api
Friday, January 26th, 2007This an example search form using json, that retrieves the first 252 or less icons matching a given term from the Tiny Icon Factory. I am using Brent's new REST style search API for the Tiny framework. It is very simple to use, you just have to query the server with a URL that looks like this:
http://tiny.media.mit.edu/search/[term].[format]
where term stands for what you're searching for, and format can be html, xml, or json (term.js in this case), with html as the default. When using json, you can optionally provide a name for a callback function:
http://tiny.media.mit.edu/search/tiny.js?callback=myfunction
You can visit the Tiny Search Documentation page for more detailed information on how to use this API. These are a few examples using html:
http://tiny.media.mit.edu/search/obey.html
http://tiny.media.mit.edu/search/sun.html
http://tiny.media.mit.edu/search/slime.html
http://tiny.media.mit.edu/search/lock.html
It is interesting what you get when you search for love:
http://tiny.media.mit.edu/search/love.html
You get contradiction.
Here are links to the icons named with the 13 first positive integers:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Weird.
Other fun things to try: any letter from the alphabet (a, t, or any other), no,
pong, joe, play, martini, jesus ... or anything else (almost).
Tiny Widget for Mac OS X
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007by Luis Blackaller and Brent Fitzgerald
You can download it here. Brent claims that the experience of drawing icons in the Dashboard is much more intimate than in the browser. I agree.
Brent has published links to a couple of cool cocoa applications written by Florian Jenett that grab the Tiny RSS feed and place icons in the apple dock or in the menubar:
