Posted in Apple, Process, Tech Stuff on Mar 27th, 2013 6 Comments »
Why Are TV Remotes So Terrible? This short NPR piece is interesting and it overlaps nicely with the speculation that Apple is cooking up something in the TV area beyond the current AppleTV. I don’t agree that the primary reason remotes suck is because there are now more channels, it’s easy enough to plug any [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Process, Tech Stuff, Video on Mar 26th, 2013 3 Comments »
3 Tricks For Your Impossibly Small Film Crew from Vimeo Video School on Vimeo. This is great. I don’t shoot video but this makes me want to try it. Very well produced how-to on doing low tech video shooting. [via Devour]
Posted in Opinion, Process, Reading, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 17th, 2013 8 Comments »
There’s an interesting backstory to why I’m so interested in the fate of Google Reader, RSS in general, RSS vs. Twitter and the evolution of tools for collecting, organizing, and reading news. In the various pieces that I’ve read about this issue in the past week (all of them excellent) none has touched on the [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 14th, 2013 No Comments »
The outrage and sadness of Google Reader’s demise More broadly speaking, Reader’s ultimate fail is the latest major rebalancing of the internet’s legacy symmetry of “push” and “pull.” RSS has always been a useful time-saver for voracious internet binge consumers. Rather than circling among dozens of websites and suffering through tiresome page loads at each [...]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 14th, 2013 No Comments »
RSS: an appreciation Nicholas Carr talks about the difference between a set of a la carte tools and platforms (AOL and Facebook) where the tools are built as well as the fact that many modern platforms don’t put out RSS feeds. A very well thought out post and a different take on the demise of [...]
Posted in Done, Opinion, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 14th, 2013 No Comments »
Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects This is a great history and commentary from one of the creators of Google Reader. If there were things that went wrong, then there is a lot of positive things that came from Google Reader, Wetherell said. He believed that one of the main reasons [...]
Posted in Process, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 14th, 2013 7 Comments »
We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can [...]
Posted in Gadgets, iPhone, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Video on Mar 13th, 2013 2 Comments »
This is an incredible invention: Plug Automatic Link into your car’s data port and it shares all kinds of data on your car’s health and your driving habits with an app on your smartphone. You can find out if your car or phone is supported here (you don’t need to go through with the pre-order). [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Video on Feb 6th, 2013 No Comments »
American Experience: Silicon Valley This is an excellent documentary on the history of Silicon Valley (area northwest of San Jose, California) and you can watch the full program online at the link above. Zoom it out and/or AirPlay it on your TV.
Posted in Creativity, Done, iPad, Tech Stuff, Video on Jan 18th, 2013 No Comments »
The Audi quattro Experience is a one-of-a-kind interactive installation that features a 20-foot by 7-foot, handcrafted raceway built by custom slot track builder David Beattie of Slot Mods USA. The scale model Audi A4 slot cars were made from scratch with in-car cameras that allow racers a first-person look as they zip around the track, [...]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Video on Nov 25th, 2012 No Comments »
Mine Kafon | Callum Cooper from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo. Short film by Callum Cooper on the Afghan designer Massoud Hassani’s work designing an inexpensive tool to detonate land mines in Afghanistan. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Apple, Tech Stuff on Nov 17th, 2012 No Comments »
The Computer Backup Rule of Three Scott Hanselman’s rationale is excellent. I don’t follow all of it but the post and the comments following are all worth reading. If you don’t back up your computer or your mobile devices you’re looking for trouble, simple as that. Hard disks fail and short of that, operating systems [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Tech Stuff on Nov 9th, 2012 4 Comments »
Flickr photographer Joi Ito has posted a wonderful portrait of Stanford Ovshinsky who passed away last month. Ovshinsky’s work on energy conversion products and batteries caught my attention in 1972 and I’ve been following him ever since. He was a genius who struggled against the weight of big business’ denial of a need for a [...]
Posted in iPhone, Process, Tech Stuff, Video on Oct 9th, 2012 No Comments »
What Happens When You Send a Video Message from Gizmodo on Vimeo. This is fascinating and no doubt the same series of servers handle pretty much everything sent via a cell phone. [via Gizmodo and Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in Apple, HyperCard, Tech Stuff on Aug 11th, 2012 4 Comments »
Computer Chronicles: HyperCard An introduction to Apple’s Hypercard. Guests include Apple Fellow and Hypercard creator Bill Atkinson, Hypercard senior engineer Dan Winkler, author of “The Complete Hypercard Handbook” Danny Goodman, and Robert Stein, Publisher of Voyager Company. Demonstrations include Hypercard 1.0, Complete Car Cost Guide, Focal Point, Laserstacks, and National Gallery of Art. Originally broadcast [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Aug 9th, 2012 No Comments »
The Very Model of a Modern Mountain Lion Document Matt Neuburg does an outstanding job of describing Apple’s new document model in Mountain Lion, how it improves upon Lion and how both of them are vastly different from document models in earlier versions of Mac OS. I’ve been struggling with “Save,” Save As…” and auto [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Stories, Tech Stuff on Aug 7th, 2012 3 Comments »
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking This is a both a fascinating and sad story and a wakeup call for those of us who have built up a complex life online. It’s also a wakeup call for those of us who do not back up our computers, iPhones, iPads, and [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Jul 15th, 2012 2 Comments »
Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole This is an amazing piece of history by Loren Feldman at the New York Times and it’s not just about Goldman Sachs, it’s also about Dragon Systems (founded and run by Janet and Jim Baker), the inventors of Dragon Naturally Speaking, one of the first continuous speech [...]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Events, Fireworks, People, Places, Slide Show, Tech Stuff on Jul 4th, 2012 4 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in iPad, Opinion, Tech Stuff on Jun 22nd, 2012 No Comments »
Half Baked Michael Mulvey has written an excellent review of Microsoft’s recent demonstration of their new tablet computer, the Surface. If I were a Microsoft Windows user I’d go for one of the many knock offs of the MacBook Air from Sony and others before I’d go for this. It’s neither an iPad nor a [...]
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