EPS Vector Soccer Football Pitch

Today I made some changes to the West Ham United Season Results Prediction to include a football pitch as a background image to the tabled data.

I wanted to download a vector image to include rather than recreate one, but everywhere I looked I was presented with "please pay".

This is the internet though, and I only pay for things I can't do myself.

I took a screen grab of the pitch and placed it onto an illustrator file, before tracing it and coming up with my own version. 

Keeping with the true essence on the Interwebs........ please find this available for download below. 

Download: Illustrator Vector Image - Football Soccer Pitch

Author: Justin Avery

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Controling your computer with iTeleport

http://www.iteleportmobile.com is a handy tool that will allow you to access your computer from anywhere in the world via your iphone or ipad.

"But this is just for macs" I hear Paul Manning say. Well, not this time.

iTeleport Mobile allows you to connect to both your PC and Mac meaning that you can run it across your work pc and your home mac laptop.

Have more then one of each device? That's no problem for iTeleport Mobile as you can run multiple devices from the one iphone or ipad.

At $24.99 the price is a little more steep than your usual purchase from the app store, but these guys are pulling in about $1000 a day in downloads so they must be doing something right. Head over to theapp store to get your copy of iTeleport Mobile

Non Hover Event in Touch Screen Devices

I came across an article on non hover events for touch screen devices and dropped the below in as a comment.

It's an interesting topic and one that will begin to become more and more important as the touch screen world evolves.

The sales figures are definitely pointing towards the need to do something now.

376 Million touch-screen phones being sold in 2009 is nothing to balk at :)

Having said that though what are the actual usage statistics? I had a quick whip around the interweb in search of such data but have come back fairly empty handed in terms of real statistics, but quite a few ways to detect such devices.

I agree that we should be designing interfaces that are accessible across all mediums, but we need to be able to cater for each of these with some relative ease.

Here, http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html, is a list of user strings for most of the current mobile phones, and over here http://www.hand-interactive.com/resources/detect-mobile-php.htm we have a break down of iphone/windows/symbian/blackberry etc etc.

http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ offers an XML file of available mobile devices and a very detailed review of their capabilities.

MobileESP is available from the code base on google, http://code.google.com/p/mobileesp/, which appears to be quite helpful, but also goes on to say it’s not a replacement for WURFL or Hand Interactive.

Hand Interactive uses PHP to identify what device you have such as the iPhone/iPod Touch, Symbian S60 or BlackBerry – http://www.hand-interactive.com/resources/detect-mobile-php.htm

Does anyone use other ways to touch/smart phone detection? Is it possible to identify if a device offers touch capabilities as part of the user agent string rather than comparing it to another list?

Author: Justin Avery

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