Richard’s Notes

99 extraordinary, creative and unusual uses for ordinary and everyday objects
Wow, these really are useful.
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In a discussion on flickr on what it takes to be a “great photographer” the conjecture is that one can’t do it with a point and shoot camera. It’s both an immature conjecture and an interesting consideration wrapped up together.
O/T Point and Shoot Rant
In one of my replies as I was struggling to voice an [...]

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Fontstruct allows you to build, share, and download finished fonts. The editor looks quite good and there are lots of great fonts in their library to download..
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I might have to get me a copy of Thriving Office, people call and all they hear is crickets in the background.
Love the sample. Might have to try this out, just for fun.
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© 2000 Richard Wanderman
March, 2008: This is old stuff I wrote a while ago and published in numerous print and web publications in 2000. But this history may still be interesting for modern digital photographers. In writing it I was trying to document not only the early days but a trajectory of what might come. [...]

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Team Aquaduct wins Innovate or Die competition
Fantastic.

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Apple has made the Steve Jobs Macworld Expo Keynote video available at their site. I urge you all to take the time to watch it.
I’ve just started reading the editorials about what Apple released yesterday but I don’t agree with much of it. I think they’ve done a great job of tightening their strategy of [...]

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WIRED Magazine has: The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry.
In 2002, shortly after the first iPod was released, Jobs started thinking about developing a phone. He saw millions of Americans lugging separate phones, BlackBerrys, and — now — MP3 players; naturally, consumers would prefer just one device. He also saw a [...]

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David Pogue seems to like the Amazon Kindle more than most: An E-Book Reader That Just May Catch On.
He makes excellent points and he gives a more detailed look at the various features of Kindle: the screen, “ink” and reading experience, and the user interface. I have to say, his review softens me on this [...]

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This reminds me of the birth of the Mac, the birth of the iPod and more. Steven Levy at Newsweek has written the opening big story about the new Amazon reading device and service: The Future of Reading. It’s just too bad that this device/service doesn’t seem like it’s going to be a winner.
You can [...]

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Robert X. Cringely on Why an Apple/Google collaboration has been so difficult to make happen.
Whether or not you agree with his predictions about phones and such, this is a useful article on the history of the relationship and Eric Schmidt’s background (head of Google and on Apple’s board).
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My good friend Leavenworth Jackson, one of the most well-known rubber stamp artists and designers in the world, is having an open studio this month in Berkeley, California.
Her stamps are some of the most interesting and beautiful around and if you’re in the area I highly recommend dropping by.
You can download her current catalog in [...]

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Improvements on the Lap
Laptops are sometimes more convenient than desktop computers, but they can generate a lot of heat. After it sits on a bed, a sofa or a lap for an extended period of time, a notebook computer can become uncomfortably hot, even dangerous.
We use Road Tools Podium Coolpads. Available online or at Apple [...]

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Crave TV: Steve Jobs gets a grilling at UK iPhone launch
I don’t think he got a grilling, this is a useful and successful launch. Lots of questions answered clearly.

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iPhone-specific web development is misguided
Christopher Schmitt on the fact that focusing on web site development for the small iPhone screen probably will leave out the accessibility features that makes web sites accessible to people with various disabilities on computers with regular browsers.
My comment:
I think Apple needs to do a bit more to make all of [...]

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No Way to Add New Calendar Events on iPod Touch?
Crap, there it is. No way I’m getting one of these as a PIM (personal information manager). If I can’t use this thing to manage addresses and calendar then I’m sticking with the older, smaller iPod.
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Apple Sells One Million iPhones in 74 days. Hopefully the pricing thing will be a blip and won’t eclipse the great technology. I want one bad, just to be able to make a conference call with the push of a button.

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Apple has produced a great iPod Touch Guided Tour.
Wow, this looks fantastic. Just what I’ve wanted all along.
I had a Palm Pilot and various generations of Palm organizers in the early days but moved away from the device as syncing to the Mac became more awkward and unreliable. I always had a use for devices [...]

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Steve Jobs has written a letter to iPhone customers about the $200 price drop on the iPhone.
Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.
Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who [...]

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Kevin Kelly (Cool Tools) reviews Nelles Maps:
Nelles Maps are the best foldable maps for travelers I’ve seen. I favor them for six reasons: 1) They come at a good practical scale for traveling, fine enough to show most small rural towns. 2) Each map displays shaded physical relief of mountains, highway numbers and even ‘places [...]

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