Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, Macintosh, Travel on Oct 30th, 2010 12 Comments »
Yesterday my friend Edward and I went to the Apple store in Chelsea (New York City) to check out the 21″ iMac, 11″ MacBook Air, 13″ MacBook Air, 13″ MacBook Pro, and iPad. Edward is an old friend and a MacHead of the first order. He’d not seen the new MacBook Airs yet so this [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR, People, Social Software on Oct 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Sci-Fi’s Cory Doctorow Separates Self-Publishing Fact From Fiction Listen to the interview, it’s quite interesting. The short of it: he’s trying a many things in parallel hoping that they’ll add up to more than the traditional single publishing method alone. I think he’s on to something and people in the music, photography or even consulting [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Movies, Tech Stuff on Oct 29th, 2010 2 Comments »
Ask a Hacker: Does The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Know What She’s Doing? The interesting thing is, everything that she does is completely plausible—it’s the way she does it that is for the most part completely nonsensical as a technical matter. Well, she chose the right computer (MacBook Pro), the rest is details. [...]
Posted in iPad, Macintosh, Tools on Oct 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Typing Errur? Your Fingers Know Even When Your Brain Doesn’t As a touch typist the full size keyboard with decent tactile feedback on the MacBook Air is extremely important to me. As I write this I’m using all of my fingers, looking at the screen and I can feel and see mistakes as they happen. [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Opinion, Photo Gear on Oct 28th, 2010 No Comments »
A Love Letter to a Camera David Pogue’s review of the Canon PowerShot S95 In short, he loves it. I must say, I love my S90 as well.
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh on Oct 28th, 2010 12 Comments »
I’ve been a MacBook Pro user and before that a PowerBook user since there have been portable Macs. I moved to having a PowerBook as my sole machine many years ago and a 15″ MacBook Pro has been my only computer since they came out. My current three year old 15″ MacBook Pro is one [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, Macintosh on Oct 27th, 2010 5 Comments »
New Macs’ resolutions I haven’t gone to see the new MacBook Airs at the Apple store yet, I will tomorrow, but this article is stating what I feared on reading the technical specs of both the 11″ model and the 13″ model: The screen resolution is so high that they’ve shrunk everything making it difficult [...]
Posted in Adventure, Places, Video on Oct 27th, 2010 6 Comments »
Watch each of these full screen, have mind blown. Slack line walking at altitude = highlining. Send it sistah ! from sébastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo. SKYLINERS – A Documentary by Seb Montaz from sébastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.
Posted in Events, Places, Video on Oct 27th, 2010 2 Comments »
Nova: Emergency Mine Rescue You can watch the entire video online. Not the best Nova I’ve ever seen but I’m fascinated by how this rescue worked and it was interesting to fill in the behind the scenes pieces on the various plans to rescue the men.
Posted in Apple, iPad, Macintosh on Oct 25th, 2010 11 Comments »
The Air’s Spot in the Lineup John Gruber has laid out my exact thinking about how the Macintosh lineup works. If you want a portable Macintosh as your sole computer, the MacBook Pro is the way to go. Probably the 15″ model, high end everything would be best. You can add an external monitor later [...]
Posted in Food, People, Places, Video on Oct 25th, 2010 4 Comments »
The Best Thing I Ever Done HQ from MargaretEmily MacKenzie on Vimeo. This is a wonderful documentary by M.E. MacKenzie about Dom DeMarco, a pizzeria owner/operator in New York. Dom is like a character out of Moonstruck. I’ve watched this twice, will no doubt watch it again. I hope to eat one of his pizzas [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Oct 25th, 2010 No Comments »
Self-Publisher Comes to SoHo Blurb, a popular self-publishing company based in San Francisco, has tried to assuage that fear by planting a pop-up store, its first, in the middle of SoHo in New York. It will be there until the end of the month, complete with displays of finished books created by real customers.
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Objects on Oct 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Things Organized Neatly Wonderful photography, design, web design. The index grows as you scroll. Click on an image to see it bigger. Reminds me of A Collection a Day. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Opinion on Oct 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Should There Be iOS Support for the Mac? As I’ve said before, yes. May, 2010: An attached/hinged keyboard for the iPad solves this problem nicely and is a built in cover for the screen and I’m thinking that the iPhone/iPad OS would work nicely in the skin of a MacBook Air or something even thinner. [...]
Posted in Photojournalism, Places on Oct 24th, 2010 6 Comments »
Widespread Impact From an Afghan Mine Joao Silva was embedded with a patrol in Kandahar Province, on assignment for The New York Times when he stepped on a mine and was severely injured. Link above shows images of him and his excellent work.
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR on Oct 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
How To Win Doctors And Influence Prescriptions This is incredible (and depressing) piece by NPR’s Alix Spiegel on big pharmaceutical companies getting around rules barring them from wining and dining doctors to get them to prescribe drugs by asking them to do speeches which inflates their egos and over time, gets them writing more prescriptions [...]
Posted in Humor, Smigly, Social Software, Video on Oct 23rd, 2010 6 Comments »
Fantastic. Maybe best not to get an iPad or MacBook Air… keep this stuff at bay. More from Allen Mezquida at Smigly TV. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in iPhone, Social Software, Texting on Oct 22nd, 2010 2 Comments »
Japanese Teenagers Teach Us Something About Being In Two Places At Once Consider a fascinating study of the text messaging behavior of Tokyo teenagers that was conducted as part of a much larger investigation of “digital youth” by Mimi Ito, the late Peter Lyman and their colleagues. The kids text back and forth all day. [...]
Posted in Food on Oct 22nd, 2010 4 Comments »
Beyond Delicious New York Magazine has a great feature on apples grown in New York State with excellent photographs and descriptions of each variety. Many of these are found at our local orchard here in Connecticut. Our favorite is spigold which is a hybrid of northern spy and golden delicious. This is approximately one apple [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Social Software on Oct 22nd, 2010 3 Comments »
A while ago when I was deep into flickr I wrote a piece on how too much concern with the social networking aspects of it can affect one’s photography: Flickr Explore. Now Thomas Webber at The Daily Beast has taken apart how Facebook’s popularity contest works in a fascinating piece: Cracking the Facebook Code. How [...]
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