Posted in Photo Gear, Tech Stuff on Mar 6th, 2010 6 Comments »
Your Micro 4/3’s camera + your existing lenses = limitless fun
Tyson Robichaud goes wild with a Panasonic GF1 and a load of Canon lenses. Fantastic post.
Posted in Art and Design, Tech Stuff, iPad on Mar 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Microsoft’s Courier ‘digital journal’
Fantastic, and if they can build it, people will come.
This mock up reminds me of Apple’s concept movie of a future Knowledge Navigator done in 1987. More on the history of Apple’s project here.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Resources, Tech Stuff on Feb 24th, 2010 No Comments »
ND Filters, Top to Bottom
Aaron Bieber explains neutral density filters: what they are, how they work, and why one might want to use them. Clear and excellent.
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Insight
I first learned about Insight through this post at Signal to Noise: “Smart” pasting at The New Yorker site.
If you copy text from a site that has Insight installed, when you paste it the paste will include a link back to the original post. That link is easily deleted if you don’t want it but [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff, Tools on Feb 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Nuance buys up MacSpeech
This is interesting news, speech to text is useful for many people including people with various kinds of disabilities.
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 12th, 2010 6 Comments »
Facebook Login
John Gruber and many others have commented about this in the past day and I’d let it pass me by if I hadn’t seen examples of it first hand in people I know.
Read Gruber’s post and the link to ReadWriteWeb’s initial post: Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login and the comments under [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Tech Stuff, iPhone on Feb 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
Meet the guys behind Pocket God
This is an interesting development story: two guys make a quick and dirty iPhone game app, it’s not very good, users post terrible reviews and give them feedback on how to make it better. The two developers take the feedback and release version 2 quickly, incorporating many of the suggestions. [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Tech Stuff, Video, iPad on Feb 6th, 2010 4 Comments »
Apple’s iPad
Michael Arrington, Walter Mossberg, and David Carr discuss Apple’s new iPad on the Charlie Rose show.
Mossberg is brilliant but all of them, including him, miss the idea that it’s not just the form factor that’s a game changer, it’s the simplicity. The iPad is may be the first computer appliance and while that’s not [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff, iPad on Feb 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
Former Microsoft employee Dick Brass on how the company has failed to innovate over the years.
Some of us have seen this pattern brewing at Microsoft for years. Couple this with the idea that the release of Apple’s iPad seems to be less about hardware, more about a statement that some (maybe many) users [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff, Travel on Feb 3rd, 2010 6 Comments »
Southwest nails down in-flight WiFi partnership, whole fleet to be lit by 2012
Having recently flown on both Virgin America and United on wifi enabled planes, I can say that even in coach where there’s little room for a laptop computer (an iPad would be perfect here), having access to the internet in flight is useful, [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 3rd, 2010 3 Comments »
John Gruber’s Daring Fireball Gets Comments (Whether He Likes It or Not)
The influential site Daring Fireball, John Gruber’s web site that covers all things Macintosh, iPhone, iPad and Apple in general is a weblog with the commenting feature turned off. On popular sites like DF moderating comment threads can be a full time job and [...]
Posted in Reading, Tech Stuff, iPad on Feb 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple’s iBookstore
[EPUB is] a free and open standard format created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and it’s designed for reflowable content that can be optimized to whatever device is being used to read a book file. The IDPF has championed EPUB as a single format that [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Macintosh, People, Tech Stuff, Video, iPad, iPhone on Jan 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Apple’s head of marketing Phil Schiller demonstrates the new iWork application on iPad including the use of multi-touch gestures for getting things done without a mouse.
This is a clip from the iPad unveiling which can be watched in its entirety here.
Posted in Events, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff, iPad, iPhone on Jan 28th, 2010 44 Comments »
I’ve been watching various reactions to Apple’s new iPad and it amazes me that people don’t learn from history that Steve Jobs is a visionary and visionaries take larger steps than the rest of us. This is one of the many things I admire about Jobs and Apple. Not all of these steps work out [...]
Posted in Photographers, Tech Stuff, Video on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Nick Veasey talks about his process for making X-ray photographs at TED.
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jan 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Mouse pointer track after 3 hours of working in Photoshop. Black circles are pointer stops (not clicks).
Flickr user Anatoly Zenkov has written a java applet for the Mac that tracks his mouse movement over time. Fascinating.
[via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Tech Stuff, Tools, iPhone on Jan 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Pen vs. Keyboard vs. Newton vs. Graffiti vs. Treo vs. iPhone
This is a great review. It’s not a scientific test but it explores these different methods of getting text into a device in a way that will help anyone think about the future of text encoding on a variety of devices in a broader way.
The [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Tools on Jan 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Intel Reader Offers High Tech Help For Dyslexics and Visually Impaired
Intel’s Reader, developed by a dyslexic Stanford graduate, is a powerful device for dyslexic and visually impaired readers, allowing them to scan entire pages of text to audio for immediate playback or later review.
This looks quite interesting. If anyone reading this has used one or [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, iPhone on Dec 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Free Speech (Recognition)
David Pogue on the new Dragon Dictation for iPhone, a free, speech to text application that, according to Pogue, works well. Read his review for his discussion of the privacy issues and more.
Posted in Audio, Creativity, NPR, Tech Stuff, Video on Dec 8th, 2009 No Comments »
Wonderful ad for Toshiba. Beautifully executed.
Behind the scenes, the making of Space Chair Project:
Finally, an NPR piece on the making of Space Chair Project: In New Ad, Chair Floats To Space.
All great stuff and a wonderful demonstration of what goes into the making of an analog advertisement (as opposed to something simulated on a computer).
[via [...]
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