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Ever wondered how it would feel to be on top of the world? No I am not talking about having a top moment but being on top of Mount Everest instead. Not just a picture but a breath taking full screen 360 degree panorama QuickTime movie (it looked stunning on my 22” inch Cinema Display). The QuickTime movies have gorgeous quality and some of them even contain sound. QuickTime is available for Mac and PC btw.

This site is filled with full screen QuickTime panoramas from all over the world. You can spend a whole weekend enjoying visiting all those places ;-) You can imagine that you’re Indiana Jones when visiting “Petra the forgotten City“ in the mountains of Jordan or go to “The Niagara Cascade“ at Reunion Island.

You can even view an X-ray 360 degree panorama inside a mouth or taste what the design of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren feels like. How about the Burning Man Festival 2003?

Did I spark you’re curiosity? Go take a look, you won’t regret it.
I hope you’ll all enjoy the weekend and see you back on Monday.

If you want to catch up and read something interesting about Steve Jobs and all the history behind his career then you must read this cool article by JOHN MARKOFF.

I’ve read on Dave Hyatt‘s weblog that he implemented the support for min-heigth and max-height into Safari. This is great news for CSS developers since this is a very handy property.

Time for getting you up to speed concerning the digital music revolution. It seems that the iPod, iTunes and Digital Rights Management (DRM) are hot topics at NAB.

Let’s start with the sad news. Yes more delays for the European iTunes music store. Apple Europe vice president Pascal Cagni warned this week that the launch of the iTunes Music Store in Europe may be delayed for “a few months”, while the company works to ensure that the service will be “perfect”. He cited Europe’s sometimes-conflicting music-business bureaucracy and its recalcitrance in arranging digital music licenses as cause of the delay.

When you design an interface/lay-out for a website you start probably just like me by translating your ideas into graphics in Photoshop. But while you are doing this, I wonder if you also keep the next step in mind? Are you constantly thinking on how you’ll convert your design into HTML? And whether it is doable yes or no? Or if you’re not, then when should you think about it?