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Publications granted new life with iPad

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
13-02-2010
technology

It doesn’t take much imag­i­na­tion to get the dif­fer­ence hav­ing a good tablet device will make to media providers/publishers. It actu­ally may awaken the pub­lish­ing indus­try to the require­ment to pro­vide con­text and new mean­ing to the sto­ries they pub­lish. We can google any­thing we want to on the web, but it is raw data. Con­text is what is needed and this new portable plat­form may be just the place for pub­lish­ers to really get inter­ac­tive media religion.

Here’s a video to stim­u­late your imagination.

This col­lab­o­ra­tion between The Won­der­fac­tory and Time, Inc. is an excel­lent exam­ple of how tablets will enable the cre­ation of inno­v­a­tive, addic­tive expe­ri­ences by pub­lish­ers, media com­pa­nies, and advertisers.

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Microsoft’s secret tablet, really?

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
23-09-2009
culture, objects, software, technology
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?
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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iphone discovery 3

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
18-11-2008
software, technology
a find at the itunes store

a find at the itunes store

I crawl around the iphone store now and again to add more fod­der to my need for an iPhone. Here is a really cool app that solves one of the prob­lems that dri­ves me crazy from time to time. I use my lap­top for almost every­thing — that means no num­ber keys. I hate the extended key­boards because they just take up too much space on my desk.

{ Do you remem­ber when you could buy a num­ber­pad to attach to your key­board when you needed it? I had one of those clunky beige things that worked by plug­ging it into my key­board… I used it for key­ing in coor­di­nates for objects in my vec­tor files or lay­out appli­ca­tions. Most of all I used it when cre­at­ing sched­ules and I had to put in date fields. }

Well, here’s a sweet lit­tle iPhone app that lets you turn your iPhone into a num­ber key­pad and it’s wire­less. All for $1.99.

One caveat it’s Mac only.

Ah, the beauty of the iPhone platform.

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