http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net Webdesign, Social Marketing, Gadget, Tech and Web 2.0 News Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:18:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sheer awesomeness! A set of 304 Star Wars photos from the film set of the actors, George Lucas and the space ship models, of course! Featureing Princess Leia taking a nap, script drawings, Darth Vader on Hoth and laser sword fights! Pure SW eye candy! I cannot spot the "We brake ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/11/11/star-wars-flickr-set/ Generally this is no rocket science, using the CSS3 attribute "opacity", unfortunately CSS3 is not supported by many browsers. As an alternative one could use JavaScript, which also might not work everywhere (if disabled due to security measures). So the easy way only works in the latest versions of Firefox ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/11/04/css-mouse-over-opacity-effect/ The San Francisco LucasArts office announces the next sequel of the StarWars KOTOR series will be a MMORPG. All availaible information still is quite vague, but some statements can be found on kotaku.com: Art Director Jeff Dobson says that Old Republic will not have a totally realistic art style; but neither ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/10/22/star-wars-the-old-republic-mmorpg-announced/ Mozilla.org offers an early developer release of the mobile version of their web browser Firefox called Fennec. A fennec (Vulpes zerda) is a fox subspecie, which can be found in North-African Sahara and the Sinai. It features huge ears and a extra large tail, making that little night active critter ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/10/20/mozilla-mobile-browser-fennec/ http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/10/13/piracy-vs-drm/ Keith Thompson offers a great portfolio in general, but the vehicles section is really mindblowing. His pieces of art range from futuristic spaceships via dark and creepy carriages over to steam punk assault devices. Strange and frightening the Zero atomic blossom. The whole collection is to be found on keiththompsonart.com http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/10/10/steampunk-vehicles-gallery/ Here is an interesting opportunity to get your advertisement displayed on ten differents blogs for free:The AdSpace Contest The idea is simple: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) before October 15th. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! Shortly after ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/09/30/win-ad-space-on-10-blogs/ Officially unlocked iPhone at the Apple Store HK The Hongkong Apple Store has the legally, officially, hakkx-free unlocked iPhone 3G! The unlocked iPhone 3G purchased at the Apple Online Store can be activated with any wireless carrier. Simply insert the SIM from your current phone into iPhone 3G and connect to ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/09/26/unlocked-iphone-3g-available/ Even James Bond would be desperately lost, if Q would not provide him with his genious masterpieces of technikal gadgets. Same as Double-O, those amoung you who have to cut their own path through the street jungle without a license to kill will inestimably value to be able to conjure ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/09/25/gadget-round-up/ Interesting study about the usage and the behaviour of social media platform users from over 29 countries from webguild.org: A new study by Universal McCann called When did we start trusting strangers? found that rather than being passive, consumers have taken not only active, but also creative roles in consumerism. In fact, consumers have ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/09/22/social-media-study/ Pretty cool! The new features, like application filters, contact categories and und subscription management of the "secret" test version one could try out via beta.friendfeed.com now are implemented on the main stage. Just see: friendfeed.com/mrmojorisin This is really neat and definitely will make friendfeed even more informative and addictive! Nice job! http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/09/19/friendfeed-switched-beta-version/ News aggregators: friendfeed.com Friendfeed works as a feed of your social community activities, one adds services like flickr, picasa, twitter, google reader, digg, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, youtube, fast.fm and of course own blogs sharing the own post/messages/links with other people and commenting the interesting stuff from others. Seriously good source of hot news ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/09/11/social-media-sites/ Google is passing the next logical milestone towards complete internet domination in a determined way, they are releasing their very own browser. Denied since years the gauntlet shall be slapped on Microsoft today at 20:00 GMT and Chrome should be available for download in over 100 countries. The own browser closes ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/09/02/google-browser-chrome/ For customizing Firefox to your personal needs and for maximum performance by using the options menue, close limits are set. But there is more: By typing "about:config" into the address bar and hitting "Enter" you will access a vast list of parameters handling the behavior of your Fox. Using Firefox. 2.x ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/09/01/modding-your-firefox/ Micro$oft presents the next generation of their browser compensatory Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, claiming as usual, having made is faster, better, easier and more secure... One of the problably most discussed features is "InPrivate", sarcastically baptised the "porn mode" due to is most striking operation field. But this function is ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/08/29/ie8-beta-2-released/ The Sziget Festival is not only a pure music festival, it also involves art of any kind like dance performances, very impressive Kiton B, acrobats, theater and amazing installations like the Luminarium (Photos). Thus the festival really engages all the senses - and it is a hell-of-a-party for five days!!! ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/08/21/back-from-sziget-festival-2008/ There is someone new in the search engine shark pool: cuil.com. They do not start silently, they know who is the enemy and the attack is declared: cuil.com [Cuil means knowledge in Irish] claims to search 121,617,892,992 web pages, which is "three times as many as Google and ten times as many ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/07/29/cuil-com-threat-for-google/ Viral Marketing, Social Marketing and digg-effect these buzz words symbolize the wet fantasy of many marketeers, making a product, brand or website the latest hype without spending a multi zillion Dollar budget on advertisement, sponsoring and PR. The good news: Yes, it's possible, no doubt. The bad one: It's hard work ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/07/19/social-media-get-some-tailwind-out-of-communities/ Here you find an amazing collection of conceptual art illustrations of space ships, experimental flying devices and fighting drones. Real ones and fictional futuristic design concepts. Plus featuring several cool illustrations from Ralph McQuarries STAR WARS Portfolio, can't tell how I like such stuff! Take a look at the concept ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/07/15/concept-spaceships-an-art-blog/ CSS (cascading style sheets) is the ultimate tool to create lean, fast, functional, SEO friendly and, though, sexy layouts. Storing style attributes in one file provides several advantages as faster loading times, the source code takes a radical diet, if all the attributes do not appear on the pages itself. You ... http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2008/07/13/css-basic-hints/