Posted in Places, Process, Tools, Video on Jan 25th, 2012 8 Comments »
Fantastic. I started on an Olympia portable typewriter although didn’t learn to touch type until my third computer. I noticed the reporter in the video wasn’t using all her fingers and was looking at the keyboard. [via Retronaut]
Posted in Creativity, Process, Tools, Video on Jan 24th, 2012 No Comments »
PressPausePlay from House of Radon on Vimeo. The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of [...]
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 Creativity, People, Tools, Video on Nov 18th, 2011 No Comments »
In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It’s called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Our Place, Tools on Nov 3rd, 2011 11 Comments »
I’ve been having problems with the fuel systems in both of my chainsaws and while I have them serviced regularly every now and then one of them needs its carburetor cleaned. Unfortunately both of my saws were in the shop when the big storm hit us so I borrowed a neighbor’s saw to do a [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Opinion, Reading, Tools on Oct 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
Informal e-reader library comparison Marco Arment (creator of Instapaper) has done a very nice comparison of the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks on the iPad. He’s comparing availability of content (books and periodicals) less usability of the various tools. By the way, Instapaper on the iPad is an incredible way to read articles that you’ve [...]
Posted in Humor, iPad, People, Tools on Oct 4th, 2011 13 Comments »
Seen in a comment thread this morning: Person 1: “Anyone know: what planet or star system is Jeff Bezos from?” Person 2: “Kindle.” Brilliant! In all seriousness, the Kindle Fire looks like a very interesting device. The iPad and Kindle Fire are two different things and will appeal to two different types of users. My [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Process, Tools on Aug 25th, 2011 2 Comments »
Apple’s iPad Replacing Cash Registers at Major Retailers At larger stores cash registers are connected to an inventory server either locally or in the cloud. At some point someone’s going to write an app that allows an iPad to hook into that system. I’m reminded of what Apple does in their own stores: employees carry [...]
Posted in Objects, Process, Tools, Video on Aug 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Many years ago a friend and I cleaned out a very old barn in Woodbury, Connecticut. Inside we found thousands of cedar blanks which we found out later were blanks for making pencils. This barn was well over 100 years old and the pencil operation had been run by water wheel. I still have many [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Tools on Aug 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Load Carrier for Labour Design for less developed nations is incredibly difficult to do well. You can’t just transplant highly developed materials and constructions, as tech almost always requires a support and maintenance structure to keep it working. So how do you help billions of people improve the way they carry, to improve their efficiency [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Photography, Social Software, Tools, Travel on Jul 10th, 2011 6 Comments »
My friend Steve, his wife Cathy and daughter Kristen who live in Oregon recently went on a three week trip to Spain. They wanted snapshots of the trip and wanted to be able to communicate with the outside world as they travelled (email, upload pictures, etc.). These folks like to travel light so no taking [...]
Posted in Creativity, Music, People, Tools on Jun 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
What makes the Stradivarius violin so special? Ms Todes agrees that Stradivari’s instruments were “exquisitely crafted, the pinnacle of sound engineering”. She says the quality of a Stradivarius is “down to someone who was always trying to do better, he was always getting feedback from players, there was constant self-criticism”. However, Dr Whiteley points out [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Tools, Video on Jun 21st, 2011 2 Comments »
Capture Camera Clip System Peter Dering has come up with a very interesting tool for attaching cameras with quick release plates to belts, harnesses, packs, and more. He’s using Kickstarter to fund his project and whether or not you pledge money, it’s worth watching the video to see the idea in action. It looks to [...]
Posted in Ideas, Learning Disabilities, Opinion, Tools on Jun 2nd, 2011 2 Comments »
Despite Spell Check, Interest in Spelling Bees Is Way Up I always thought that a spell checker on a computer would affect spelling in a good way by showing us in real time the correct spelling of a word and maybe reinforcing that correct spelling. Many thought spell checkers would do so much thinking for [...]
Posted in Process, Tools, Travel on May 31st, 2011 3 Comments »
Carryology From backpacks and messengers, to wallets and pocket design, we help you keep the things that are most precious to you close by when you go out to conquer the world. And we can do it all without straps cutting into us, bulk weighing us down, or weirdly placed pockets hiding our keys. For [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tools, Travel on Mar 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
United Continental Holdings to Expand Wi-Fi Service to More Than 200 Aircraft The downside is it doesn’t look like they’re using the same gogo inflight internet service United is using on their PS flights. Bummer. One would think that a newly merged company would consider making it easier for its customers to use either legacy [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, SSD (solid state drive), Tech Stuff, Tools on Mar 23rd, 2011 31 Comments »
I just bought a new 15″ MacBook Pro with 2.0GHz i7 quad-core processor, 8GB memory, 512GB SSD, Hi-Res Antiglare (matte) screen. I didn’t want to buy it but my granddaughter forced me to. (wink) Backstory As some of you know I upgraded my 3 year old 2.5GHz MacBook Pro with the addition of an OWC [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Reading, Social Software, Tools on Feb 11th, 2011 2 Comments »
Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? Fascinating piece with graphs on the reading habits of people who are consuming at least some of their reading material on computers and hand-held devices and using services like Instapaper and Read it Later to time-shift when they read things they find. The study is from Read it Later. [...]
Posted in Ideas, Places, Tools on Feb 4th, 2011 No Comments »
National Geographic Giant Traveling Maps Imagine a 26×33 foot vinyl map of Europe that can be walked on with socks. They won’t fit in a classroom, but have to be unfolded and unrolled in a gymnasium or something similarly large. I love it. [via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in Apple, iPad, Tools on Jan 27th, 2011 1 Comment »
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad a year ago. Amazing how it’s done in just a year. Darrell Etherington has put together a nice timeline of the iPad’s first year: The Unlikely Story of the iPad, One Year In.
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