pass the relish

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  How about a moving picture?  What about one where you can control the action?  That’s gotta be worth a gajillion words.

Recently, Relish was asked by AMD to help them announce a new chip  — dubbed “Cinema 2.0″ — that plans to blur the line between movies and video games.  Imagine combining the immersive and emotional (albeit passive) cinematic experience with the interactivity of video games. What if you were able to peek around the corner to see if the villain’s about …

by Steve Palmer on July 25, 2008

Who says too many cooks spoil the broth? In a massively collaborative effort that brought together Stitch Media, White Pine Pictures, James Eberhardt, Jam3 Media, the CBC, and everyone’s favourite condiment: Relish, history was made.

This past June, at the Banff World Television Awards, the first ever award for “Mobile Programs & Enhancements” was given to The Border Mobile Contest. The contest—a coast-to-coast phenomenon where users raced to capture QR codes scattered across the country with their …

by Sacha on July 21, 2008

The last few weeks have been torturous.  I’ve been hanging out at the mailbox every morning and checking my online tracking code repeatedly throughout the day, but alas no delivery came.  Until now…

What could be so important?  What could be more powerful than Facebook at reducing my productivity?  I’m glad you asked… my new MouseRug!  Bring the cozy comfort of your den to your office.  I have and there’s no turning back.  I decided to go with the Classic Nain from the Oriental Collection.  Here’s a photo of my new baby:

What?  …

by Paul on July 7, 2008

Obviously the answer is yes.  We all know that.

The only thing we don’t know as fine makers of web sites is when exactly we can safely stop supporting the stellar Internet Explorer 6 in the work we do (i.e. when it will piss off an acceptably low portion of the audience).  I don’t think Relish is quite there yet, but it looks like 37signals is as they’ve announced they’ll stop supporting IE6 in all their products in August.

We’re big fans of 37signals’ flagship product Basecamp.  We use it for just about every project we work on …

by Steve Palmer on July 4, 2008