Director 12 Publishes to iOS and Adobe’s Wallet

February 20, 2013

The new release of Director 12 publishes to iOS, which is big news to old Director hands like me. I believed that Adobe had let Director starve to death in the basement while Flash and Co. gobbled up the company’s resources. Now that Flash is dead on Android and, of course, never made it to [...]

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Guide to Camera Types for Interactive Installations

February 19, 2013

Guide to Camera Types for Interactive Installations is an absolutely brilliant, detailed round-up by Blair Neal (@laserpilot). I recently had to do some research into this for a project proposal and it took me hours of web-scouring and asking friends for this information. Bookmark it for future reference!

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Self-Ethnography and the Quantified Life

February 1, 2013

(Image: Nick Felton’s public data on Daytum) Marius Watz has put together a great compilation of “possible resources of interest in connection with the upcoming Self-Ethnography and Data Visualization module at AHO, focusing on tools and inspiration,” posted under Self-Ethnography at AHO, aka Big Data OCD. The resources are based around the growing trend of [...]

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Students, Ideas & Prototyping

December 2, 2012

While perusing Nicolas Nova’s post on Prototyping session with post-its and cardboard at EPFL I followed his link to Stickers on Boxes, a “prototyping tool for generating objects that communicate concepts quickly & simply,” created by Anvil. Looks like a great approach. The other day Nicolas and I were both bemoaning the fact that our [...]

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Marco on The Surface

October 27, 2012

Marco on The Surface is a great subjective account of visiting a Microsoft store and trying to have a go on a Surface Tablet. This bit sums it all up: The Surface is partially for Microsoft’s world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants and Microsoft invented the silver store with [...]

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Kickstarting the Light Fantastic

October 26, 2012

I just backed a new Kickstarter project, Light by Moore’sCloud. What is it? Here: The light that turns you on Beautiful, intelligent, connected light. Fifty-two LEDs in two million colors add up to infinite possibilities of pattern and animation. With a powerful computer and Wifi connectivity, there’s no end to the ways Moore’sCloud Light can [...]

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Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems

October 21, 2012

Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems has already been blogged by John Gruber so you have already read it, so this is more for my own reference as anyone else’s. In case you haven’t already seen it, Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon maps the entertainment ecosystems – Music, Movies, TV Shows, eBooks [...]

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Dropbox’s Mental Models Are Broken

October 19, 2012

As Dropbox develops and expands, decisions they have made early on are tying them, and their users, in knots. The biggest problem they have is that they keep shifting their mental models of how their service works and it has broken Dropbox and exposed many Dropbox Teams users to real privacy problems. It’s A Server, [...]

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On Users, Customers, Interactors, Participants and Roles

October 18, 2012

Jack Dorsey’s post about reconsidering the word users and preferring the word customers has been doing the rounds of various popular tech blogs. John Gruber, naturally makes the case for Apple “always [having] human interface guidelines, not user interface guidelines”. Marco Arment goes into more detail with the linguistic problems this creates: My challenge in [...]

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infogr.am

October 18, 2012

infogr.am is a pretty swish new online service to easily make infographics. You can enter or upload data and use or edit the templates to create some quite beautifully designed infographics from your data. Now there is no excuse for those awful charts in Powerpoint (or Keynote for that matter).

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