Posted in Movies, Tech Stuff on Jan 13th, 2012 No Comments »
Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, ASC, uses RED ONEs and EPICsto expose The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Because of its many locations and logistical demands, the 160-day shoot was broken up into several stages. The production started in Sweden shooting all the winter exteriors and a few interior sets, and then went to Zurich for two [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Travel on Jan 13th, 2012 No Comments »
Lifehacker has a useful info graphic up: The Best Tech-Friendly Airports and Airlines. Click on the long info graphic to make it larger.
Posted in Disability, Tech Stuff on Jan 12th, 2012 No Comments »
Travis Bonfield is The Intel engineer behind Stephen Hawking’s computer. Excellent image of Hawking by lwpkommunikacio.
Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Tech Stuff, Video on Jan 11th, 2012 4 Comments »
Google TV product manager Rishi Chandra: ‘Android is going to be a successful operating system on TVs’ Watch the video. Nilay Patel interviews Rishi Chandra on GoogleTV, Android’s future as an OS for televisions, cable boxes, DVRs, and other TV add-ons. Not a single mention of AppleTV, iOS, or any of Apple’s work in this [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jan 9th, 2012 4 Comments »
Guy English: How I’d Build an Apple Television Set The piece of Guy’s essay that appeals to me most is this: So if you’re in an Apple based household the odds are good that your new Apple TV will be able to talk to one of your other devices and get the required network info [...]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Video on Dec 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
This is great, less for the LED robot, more for the style of the instruction. Having a video like this makes building almost anything a heck of a lot easier. And, for those who like instructions in list form, here you go. I think the “maker movement” and instructional videos like this are the missing [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Dec 19th, 2011 4 Comments »
Apple’s Work on Wearable Computer Concepts Includes Wrist-Wrapping iPod with Siri Imagine an iPod Nano wristwatch that’s also a bluetooth-connected communicator. Makes perfect sense, the question isn’t if Apple will make this, more like when. Not sure I want to have even a short phone conversation talking to my wrist but for some things I [...]
Posted in Photography, Process, Tech Stuff, Video on Dec 14th, 2011 2 Comments »
I don’t watch Monday Night Football but this behind the scenes slide show tour narrated by Mike Tirico is absolutely amazing. What a team. What a process. [via Devour]
Posted in Ideas, NPR, Tech Stuff, Tools on Dec 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Libraries Make Room For High-Tech ‘Hackerspaces’ “We see the library as not being in the book business, but being in the learning business and the exploration business and the expand-your-mind business,” he says. “We feel this is really in that spirit, that we provide a resource to the community that individuals would not be able [...]
Posted in iPhone, Tech Stuff on Nov 4th, 2011 2 Comments »
In my last report on this I noted that an Apple phone support person (Patrick) had me completely reset my iPhone: back it up to iTunes, reinstall iOS5, then sync my stuff back onto it. When I did this yesterday it seemed to be helping, a single full charge lasted all day and while I [...]
Posted in iPhone, Tech Stuff on Nov 3rd, 2011 2 Comments »
I’ve only had my iPhone 4S for a week but I noticed early on that it was sucking battery juice much more rapidly than my iPhone 4 with the same apps and iOS 5 on it. Unfortunately, we lost power for almost a week so it was tough to get it charged regularly to test [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Ask Different Ask Different is a brilliantly built discussion site that allows people to ask questions about their Apple products and get a variety of answers and tips from others. I first heard about it back here and I decided to subscribe to its RSS feed for a while to see what kinds of questions [...]
Posted in Gadgets, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Oct 19th, 2011 2 Comments »
Google announces NFC-based Android Beam for sharing between phones Watch the video, it’s very cool. Since the old days of Palm Pilots I’ve wanted a way to beam a single address to a nearby iPhone, or, any single piece of data that I want to share. The Palm had IR for this and the iPhone [...]
Posted in Process, Tech Stuff, Video on Sep 28th, 2011 2 Comments »
These two videos take some time but if you like this kind of view of fabrication you’re gonna love it. The piano music goes well with it but gets long after a while. Turning sound off helps but then you miss the occassional sound of the fabrication tools. Note: I originally posted this on January [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Sep 27th, 2011 4 Comments »
What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard? Ask Different collected a lot of great discoveries about Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) that make people smile. I knew about some of these but not many. Great tips. [via Hypertext (Justin Blanton)]
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Sep 26th, 2011 6 Comments »
Apple’s ‘Assistant’ Seen as Key Feature for New iPhone Hardware Apple has been thinking about virtual assistants for years. Some of you may remember their mock up called Knowledge Navigator that included a visual person in the form of a guy with a bow tie. That bow tie guy is an assistant who understands natural [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Printing, Tech Stuff, Video on Sep 17th, 2011 1 Comment »
My friend Edward and I saw the Joel Meyerowitz show of his large ground zero images at The Tremaine Gallery in Lakeville, Connecticut and we were both impressed by the way the images were mounted and hung. The above video shows the process. This isn’t something I want to do with my own images; I [...]
Posted in Disability, Process, Tech Stuff, Video on Aug 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Great stuff. Glen creates hacked Kindle for his sister who has cerebral palsy. This reminds me so much of the early days of what is now called assistive technology: Hacked Apple IIs, HyperCard running X10 controllers, big switches, and the Closing the Gap conference where we all shared this stuff. This was my life for [...]
Posted in Audio, Gadgets, Ideas, NPR, People, Process, Tech Stuff on Aug 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Young Entrepreneur Has A Better Idea. Now What? Meredith Perry turned 22 this month. She just graduated from college and started a new company built around a technology she recently invented. There’s plenty of bad economic news these days, but Perry and her company, called UBeam, are trying to defy it — she’s hiring and [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot G12, Macintosh, Objects, Tech Stuff on Aug 13th, 2011 6 Comments »
For those of you who are Mac users, this is a self-made Mac OS 10.7 Lion install on a USB flash drive. I could have gotten a 4 gig drive but the 8 gig was cheaper. Why do this? Because Apple is phasing out optical drives and this will boot any modern Mac and do [...]
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