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From another angle.
Worked some today.
Mostly created space to work and let my snake hang out by the monitor.
That’s one of my fav vintage fountain pens.
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We’ve been moving toward adding rich media resources for our clients. Rich media used wisely is a great way to tell a story. Here’s a look at one of the partners we’ve talked to about doing a couple short pieces, John Welsh. John is a photo journalist and we like what that brings to the process. He’s a member of ASMP : philadelphia and we worked with him to launch their new site.
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You can buy the Tilt-Shift Camera at the Photojojo Store!
Sometimes a one trick pony is all you need. This sweet little digital baby does tilt-shift. That’s it. Shooting images that look like all of life is a scale model. No filters, no Photoshop, just click.
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When we bought our iPad we automatically looked for a case to protect it. It was going to be traveling quite a bit and we didn’t want to scratch any surfaces especially the screen. We asked the nice kid at the Apple Store and he showed us a couple options. — unimpressive, too expensive, too heavy. We bought the Apple cover because it was the least expensive and not ugly; basic black is good. The Apple case is also easy to clean.
We’ve been looking for the perfect cover ever since.
We think we’ve found it.
from the website:
ZAGGmate is made from aircraft aluminum with a bead-blasted, anodized finish matching the design, look and feel of your iPad. The ZAGGmate is the thinnest hard cover protector for the front of the iPad. Its simple yet innovative hinge provides viewing and typing angles in both portrait and landscape mode.
Not crazy about the name but hey. It’s a hardcover which we’re interested in for obvious reasons. The thinness, design, and weight all hit the right note with us. The price isn’t bad. Santa?
They also offer one with a keyboard if you are interested.
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So we were were searching around for some new bluetooth headsets. Our new phone system uses bluetooth. Cool and a pain at the same time. But that’s another post.
We have been looking for a wireless speaker system that would work with the iPad or iPod. It needs to be small, compact, an well… beautiful. Our search has been much like that for the holy grail — until today.
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The Jambox is certainly beautiful. It comes in a wonderful selection of colors and the surface design reflects the feeling the color invokes. They are small boxes only 6 x 2.25 x 1.5 inches and they say you can get about 10 hours of continuous play, depending on volume. The battery consumption displays on your iPhone or iPad. But what about the sound?
well…
“We weren’t expecting this bedside speaker-box to muster decent, let alone kick-ass sound…We can’t help but reiterate just how thrilling it can be when a device, quite literally, out-performs expectation.”
- Steve Leckart, Wired
Works for us.
Now, what color?
Read MoreThe buzz about an Apple tablet has been constant for some time. The pre-emptive strike recently by Microsoft — announcing its upcoming tablet called Courier has only created more buzz. Who will have he killer device?
Well Apple of course.
I don’t say that just because I use Apple products. I say it because Apple creates products that change the way we do things. Apple’s success with the ipod was giving people a device that had not only innovative hardware design but an engine inside and on your laptop that changed the way almost everyone buys, manages, plays, and shares music. They transformed buying and distribution of music as data.
Then the iPhone. Another device that has changed the way people think about how they interact with the internet and 3rd party devices. They created more than a phone; in fact the iPhone is a mini computer that just happens to let you make phone calls. Just ask ATT, they can’t keep up with the data streams as iPhone users are contantly connected using the device to instant message, surf the net, buy tickets, find out what restaurants are nearby, and play rich interactive games.
So now everyone is waiting for the tablet.
Microsoft has tried to own the buzz by releasing videos of its upcoming tablet. Actually two tablets that fold.
It’s a handheld computer. Ok.
It does mult-touch, cool.
It uses a stylus too. Nice.
It uses drag and drop. So Apple.
It’s nice. They’ll sell a bunch I’m sure.
But what does it bring that changes everything? Nothing.
Then we start to hear a bit more about the Apple tablet, expected to make it’s debut in early 2010.
A new device that is set on changing or maybe saving another dinosaur industry. Publishing. What do you think that Amazon has done that with the Kindle?
Newspapers and publishers are in the tar pit. They don’t have the slightest idea how to change the way they deliver their content. Feeble efforts by newspapers have failed. Amazon brought us the Kindle as a vehicle to increase product sales but it’s a one trick pony and the price is too high.
So, I’m looking to one of the most innovative companies we have right now.
Apple.
I don’t think they will disappoint.
Read MoreGizmodo created a post today that pro ports video of a new Microsoft tablet device.
Do we see Microsoft having to compete and maybe even innovate?
If we are to believe the video and images that Gizmodo has posted this is a hinged tablet that uses a stylist and touchscreen combined.
It is intriguing.
Why make a hinged device? Because it allows you to make a more compact device. It also creates two information spaces. A menu or selection side — a finder of sorts and an active side where the interaction with the application takes place. It could work but, the hinge has been the death of many a laptop. It doesn’t thrill me.
Consumer hokey.
I also see the journal concept with the same distaste as Time Machine’s sci-fi graphics. Is the tablet a consumer device? Is it really just a bigger smarter iPhone?
A stylus.
A stylus is an interesting addition. However we can’t write as fast as we can type. Will the handwriting recognition be good?
I had an early Palm and before that the much more interesting Newton. Can this new pad or Apple’s really change computing as much as the original PDA? Apple created a new platform with the iPhone. Can they extend it’s power in a new tablet. I can’t wait to see what Apple has to offer.
Who will make the next dominant device?
Gizmodo created a post today that pro ports video of a new Microsoft tablet device.
Do we see Microsoft having to compete and maybe even innovate?
If we are to believe the video and images that Gizmodo has posted this is a hinged tablet that uses a stylist and touchscreen combined.
It is intriguing.
Why make a hinged device? Because it allows you to make a more compact device. It also creates two information spaces. A menu or selection side — a finder of sorts and an active side where the interaction with the application takes place. It could work but, the hinge has been the death of many a laptop. It doesn’t thrill me.
Consumer hokey.
I also see the journal concept with the same distaste as Time Machine’s sci-fi graphics. Is the tablet a consumer device? Is it really just a bigger smarter iPhone?
A stylus.
A stylus is an interesting addition. However we can’t write as fast as we can type. Will the handwriting recognition be good?
I had an early Palm and before that the much more interesting Newton. Can this new pad or Apple’s really change computing as much as the original PDA? Apple created a new platform with the iPhone. Can they extend it’s power in a new tablet. I can’t wait to see what Apple has to offer.
Who will make the next dominant device?
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The first time that the people that made the Bernoulli Box became iomega with removable drives that were all about YOUR STUFF I thought their was some very savvy thinking about the desires of consumers. Then the CD burner came into being and smashed their success in the portable storage marketspace. Well, It looks like Iomega is returning to its old smart self creating a very desirable, very sexy new ego 320 GB hard drive. The reviews I’ve read are very good and the drive is exceptionally good looking.
It reminds me of a flask with something warm inside for when the cold winds blow. Or maybe a cigarette/cigar case — something very personal. The kind of gift you give to someone you are very fond of, something to inscribe.
This is a product with a very interesting emotional connection.
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Tags: hardware, hard drive, fire wire, iomega, usb, design, red, desirable
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