Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Photoshop turns 20

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Photoshop is 20, this post sums it all up. Creative review post. iPhone Photoshop 1.0 simulation. Get the Photoshop.com Mobile iPhone App.


NASA Rover App

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

NASA’s very cool and free Lunar Electric Rover Simulator app.


Apple Glass Staircase

Monday, February 22nd, 2010


Ever wanted to know about those awesome glass staircase’s at the Apple Store?


Links 210210

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

The Wired Tablet, this is one good reason why Flash should be added to the iPad… who needs battery life. The Guggenheim’s Contemplating The Void, I love the mesh concept. Architect Daily’s Building of the Year 2009, this is my fav. Overcome Creative/Design block, some good advice from the pros. Massive re-brand job for the BBC, Global Visual Language 2.0.


iPhone your WordPress blog

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

WPTouch, a neat Plug-In to instantly turn your WordPress blog into a mobile theme.


Apple iPad

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Apple iPad
Its been a week since the launch of the Apple iPad, I actually got up at 5am to follow the keynote presentation online. There was no surprise because the rumors and speculation that went on for months beforehand killed it. I agree, the name is a bad choice. There’s been a lot of talk about what the iPad doesn’t have, like a forward facing camera, alot of it from people who haven’t even laid their hands on one and looking at it from the wrong perspective.. The iPad fills a gap between your smart phone and your desktop, if you are expecting something more, then this is probably not for you. But you know, corporations are good at selling to us what we don’t need.

I think I’m the iPad’s target market. I use my iPhone for exactly what the iPad is made to do all day, light web surfing, YouTube, email, games, reading news/blogs, looking at photos etc… It’s the perfect in-between device for around the house usage, I can see us looking up recipes in the kitchen, checking reviews for a movie on the couch or even using it as a gps in the car. I’m thinking of getting the low end model to do all of the above when it arrives in Australia. The main feature I am keen on is the iBook and using it to view newspapers and magazines.

I’m not keen on Flash on the iPad, Flash is better suited to a larger screen when its done well. I can see why Apple is not supporting it though, Flash applications would kill the App Store control and structure, Flash based games and media applications would rival what the App Store have. So now there is a four way shit fight between Apple, Adobe (Flash), Amazon (Kindle, ebooks) and Google (Nexus One, Apps, Voice etc…).

I really like the Google Tablet concept. Mad TV – iPad. iPad rips off the bookshelf. iPad PDA-Engine-Bra.


iPhone scanner

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

This is genius!


Life Tracking

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

My DAYTUM. Only my recent bike ride distances so far.
I’m interested in tracking and graphing data, I’ve been keeping, for about 8 years now, a pen & paper and more recently an excel sheet of my spending. Wondering how all this would look graphically, what kind of spending trends come of it.


Sixth Sense

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Sixth Sense, awesome!


2008 lists

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

I love making lists and reading lists, here’s a bunch:

Brand New’s Beast & Worst 2008
Time’s Top 10 of Everything of 2008
20 signs you don’t want that web design project
Obama 08 logos


Nikon D3

Monday, April 14th, 2008

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We rented this baby for a recent shoot and jebus! its awesome. Image quality wise, the D80 just doesn’t compare.


Popper Box

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

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Popper Box is creative fun. Check out our videos via YouTube and vimeo and photos via Flickr.


MacBook Air

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

The MacBook Air is super sleek and nice, but I imagined and hoped it would be more like the iPod touch four times bigger.


NetNewsWire

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

One of the best RSS reader for the Mac is now FREE!


Touchy Feely

Friday, December 14th, 2007

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Well, I’ve had the iPod touch for about a week now, playing with it constantly everyday!

This little gadget is so sexy! I haven’t played with something like this and felt the glee of technology since I got my other iPod 3 years ago. Reviews have said that its lacking compared to the iPhone, but we don’t get those down here till next year so you don’t miss what you haven’t got I guess. Surfing the net on the touch is nice, its almost like the real thing without Flash and Quicktime. I’ve emailed via webmail, GMail mobile is simple and clean, went to Amazon to test order a book, Googled stuff, set up Google Reader so I can read all my RSSed blogs and found my house on Google Maps. Facbook is great on the touch too. YouTube is fun, most or all of the popular videos are searchable to watch, even our nerds video.

Typing on the on screen keyboard takes getting used to, mistakes are common. some of the controls don’t pick up your finger input and require several tries sometime.One thing that surprised me was how strong the WiFi detection is, I was driving home one night and decided to see if I could pick up any network. From a short 3km car trip I was constantly picking up people’s WiFi, about half of them were unlocked and I could join. Some of the names were just the modem name like Dlink, Netgear, others were nick names, one was the address of the house it was coming from! and one had “I smell sex and candy” I was never out of range of a single network, blocked or unblocked. If everybody unblocked their WiFi this could potentially be a nice roaming network.

This post was published on an open WiFi network via the touch a short walk from my house ( :