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Forever leading from the front when it comes to finding new ways to engage with it’s customers, Nike has launched True City, an iPhone application that provides users with a unique insight into six European cities, making the hidden visible through the knowledge and insight of Nike Insiders—local tastemakers who pride themselves on being at the forefront of things happenings in their cities.

More than just a digital guidebook application, the app is a powerful combination of geotagged content and social media integration, updated in real-time by real people using tools to easily tag locations (through a series of badge-like icons), as well as describing and rating them. From hard-to-find sneaker boutiques to gallery openings and underground concerts, True City provides a finger on the pulse of a city.

With exclusive previews of upcoming Nike product launches and events also playing a vital part in the experience, True City is a good example of how some brands are reconfiguring app culture to incorporate two-way relationships with consumers.

The six cities in the initial True City network are: London, Berlin, Milan, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Paris and the app is available for free download through the iTunes App Store.

The new DaylightCal iPhone app, from Bureau for Visual Affairs, integrates dynamic daylight and weather information for any location worldwide and displays it by means of some beautiful examples of data visualisation.

I reckon it’s the perfect tool for assessing lighting conditions when pre-planning location photographic and film shoots.

DaylightCal is available for free download from the iTunes App Store.

Inspired by early tape and computer music composers, Grid, from KIN, is a customisable minimalist noise synthesizer app for the iPhone, using an open source additive wave synthesis system for making rhythmic or melodic aural textures.

For anyone interested in making a 1:00 song, if you email KIN they will give you a code to get it for free.

KERN from FORMation is “a minimalist typography experience challenging you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures!  Practice and prove your typographical acumen with a score that gives new meaning to point-size!”

It was two weeks ago I finally gave Firefox the push due to it’s processor sapping qualities. I gave Camino a go for a while, which made for a better browsing experience but under the advice of Netsight colleague, Matt, I have upgraded to the latest version of Safari for casual browsing and I am now cruising the interweb at a blistering pace..!

I have finally lost my marbles - well specifically the spinning marble of doom that normally accompanies crashing applications on my Mac.

Fed up with having Firefox suck the life out of my Mac’s processor performance I have finally decided to ditch it for casual browsing and move over to the leaner Mozilla browser, Camino.

That once sleek and wiley old fox has become far too bloated and flabby with features for my liking, greedily feeding off the increased processor capacity of today’s faster computers. Most of the time all I want from a browser is to load a site and let me browse forwards and backwards through it’s pages - it’s not a big ask.

I am now cruising down the information superhighway (showing my age now..!) in my El Camino with the top down, wind in my hair and smile on my face whilst the bloated old fox is still back at the start loading up his saddlebags.

From now on I will now only use Firefox as a development tool making use of the excellent Firebug extension.

Cool collection of free bouncing avatars over on Trendland … (if bouncing avatars are your thing..!).

Why not celebrate Barack Obama’s victory by downloading these Obamabats - a collection of 24 high-quality dingbats by designer Jeff Domke, featuring Obama and various design elements!

Cool minimal screensaver from Due3.

This neat minimal calendar screensaver is available for download from Destroy Today.