A little background

I’ve thought about creating the iPad simulator shortly after I bought my iPad. I was fascinated by the UI and wanted to see if I can recreate it.

This isn’t the first online simulator I’ve built, before this, was a Nokia n97 simulator, also built with JS + CSS  (http://nokian97.co.il)

I’ve uploaded the iPad simulator a while ago, started playing with it, adding apps  (google maps, safari, photos etc’) , and I was getting 5 hits daily (most of them me from work)

Forrst

I joined Forrst and decided to share it with the forrsters , and I got amazing feedback. And people there told me they want to hack on it, so I’ve released the code on github.

W3c Israel

Some weeks after, I went to a W3C Israel meeting on web app development and after a short hackaton (results of which you can see  here and fork on github ) I’ve showed the guys there the iPad simulator among other things. They told me I have to publish it somewhere. I’ve sent an email to ajaxians@ajaxian.com and went to sleep.

Morning After

I wake up, and I see that someone mentioned me on twitter (I’m @altryne) and he talked about my iPad simulator. I went and checked google analytics and I was amazed to see that while I was sleeping more then 2000 unique hits arrived at my site.

Twitter

Turns out my site was a hit on twitter, with guys like Dylan Schiemann (@dylans), Jesse Newhart (@JesseNewhart),Dion Almaer (@dalmaer),Cameron Moll (@cameronmoll) and a lot more – thanx a lot guys I’m glad you like it.

Websites and blogs

Like I said, I never expected this kind of embrace by the community, and I certainly was surprised to see my link in the guardian tech blog and on Developer.Yahoo.com tech blog and I was proud.

Also I was featured on habrahabr.ru , techweb.com.cn, Ycombinator, macmagazine.com.br and event 1 youtube video!

What’s next?

Well I read all the comments I could find, including the trolling and I have a ton of stuff to do.

One thing I was thinking about, is showing a web demo of some iPad applications, and ask developers to provides those demo’s, because screenshots are too static

If your’e an iPad app developer and want to see your app in the simulator, contact me : alex [at]  alexw.me

I’m also gonna finish my photos app and it’s gonna be awesome! Stay tuned.

Anyway, I wanted to see what I can do with transitions and animations in webkit, and I made this :

Css only (well almost) analog clock

Click the Image to see the live demo

Support :

Firefox + Webkit browsers
In firefox I use javascript to move the properties
In Webkit, all the animation and the calculation is in CSS!!
I did cheat however : I used js to determine the current time. Now way to do that in css. I didn’t want to include jquery here, as u can see all the code is pure js, but I had to because it’s dufficult to do browser detection properly with js.

Lessons learned :

• CSS3 is awesome!! Especially the way webkit does it (transitions, animations)
  But it still has a LONG way to go untill we see compability cross browsers
• In Safari and Mobile safari, the arrows were jagged untill I gave the css-shadow, So it seems that giving this property turns on antialiasing somehow. Cool

Well? google buzz hehe

So many questions, will this destroy facebook?

Is this the ultimate dating app? ( as some people sudjested that I found using buzzes near me)

We’ll live and see, but the war has just begun, because I hear facebook is going to release a mail service based on all the users it currently has.

Somehow btw, I haven’t connected my blog to Buzz, and it knew it was mine and posted the last post in my blog via Buzz!! So weird! I didn’t even gave it permission to do so!

Anyway, read more here, I just wanted too see if Buzz will update my status with this Post.

Google Buzz: Is it a Logical Choice for the Social Web? | Affinity Consulting Group.

I’ve posted pictures of my new hobby(light-writing,Light-painting,light-drawing) in the previous post.

And since then I upgraded.

I used stop-animation and created these :

and This was before it :

Hope you like

-alex

this is my newly found hobby….I set the exposure on my camera to 15 seconds and in a dark room I stat to play with LEDs more pics after the jump