Take a look most of the way down this page. Yes, it’s me, a speaker at a conference. Well, I’m on a couple of panels, and very curious to see how all this is going to go down.
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Some of this is a bit hardcore, but I like where he’s coming from.
I have created an iPhone app. It’s not new, though it hadn’t been done when I thought of it and still hasn’t been done in a really elegant way. Right now, I need beta testers. There’s so little to it that I don’t expect it to take you long to test, but test I must. If you have an iPhone and a few minutes, please send me your UDID by following these instructions and I’ll send you back an app for you to test shortly. Email [myfirstname] @ [thiswebsite.com]. Thanks!
I just tried the demo of the game “Braid” on Xbox 360, and my brain exploded with happiness. It’s wonderful, joyous, liberating.
If you download just one iPhone app, make it Stanza. A free book reader, it lets you download hundreds of copyright-free classics and many current Creative-Commons licensed books, such as those by Cory Doctorow. You can customise colour, font, size and more. Perfect when you’re stuck in a car with a sleeping baby, for example. It’s easy to read on the iPhone because the screen is very high resolution, and you can see why printed books will be a niche collectible product in years to come. Great. Now all I need is time to read.
Rant:
Does anyone else cringe a little when they see “iTouch”? There is not and has never been a product called iTouch. iPod touch, yes. iTouch is just another iBlah name, and it’s not even Apple’s fault. Well, not directly, anyway.
Every new iSomething name out there, from web designers to florists, is a little death in our collective imagination.
Well. Google has announced their new browser by launching a comic explaining the whole thing. It uses Webkit, as used and developed by Apple, with a host of great UI and functionality improvements. Available tomorrow but sadly Windows-only at first, I suspect this could be a big deal.
But hey — no problem testing against another browser if it’s another browser based on WebKit. Maybe this will actually wake up all the corporate IT people mandating Internet Explorer.
Make sure you take some stills next time you’re on a video shoot. In the near future, you might be able to use photographs to enhance your videos out of sight. Some fantastic, gobsmacking work here. Automatic retouching, resolution enhancement and high dynamic range for video.
Hazel’s starting to speak. Her spoken vocabulary now includes “boobies” or just “bbies” along with “mummy”, “daddy”, “yum” and “yayayayayyayaya”. This morning, though, she gave us a fresh example of learning in action. We told her that the flat thing at the edge of the room was called a “wall”. Then, after being read a tiny alphabet book which she likes, she pointed at the “Ww walrus in the waves” and said “wall”.
She hears, she says, we smile.
Oh, and she’s walking almost everywhere now. Still with a fair likelihood of falling over backwards and often with her hands in the air like she just doesn’t care.