Category: Technology

Some good TED talks

TED TED Talks
TED Talks


Sixth Sense Technology

http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/sixth_sense_demo.php

Great technology of the future. Why take a mobile device out of your pocket when your environment is constantly able to take input and interface with all the world knowledge.


Stumbling on Happiness

(The 21 min summary version)

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

Read and loved his book, “Stumbling on Happiness” which gives perspective on the science behind what lead to sadness, happiness, imagination and how poor/amazing those things work.


Sir Ken Robinson on Education

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

What IS smart? DO we reward all sorts of talent or have we progressively become a society that our bodies are simply a transport device for our big brains. Sir Ken gives a humorous take on our recognition of education.

And his follow up years later if you like him:  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html


Physics meets life

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_everything.html

This van bound Hawaiian finds the balance in quantum physics and  life.

AppMakr Hits the Ground Running

AppMakr.com has gotten some good press today 🙂

TechCrunch/CrunchGear
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/06/appmakr-make-your-own-iphone-apps-for-just-two-bills/
“What AppMakr lacks in vowels they make up for in coolness. ”

MobileCrunch
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/01/03/appmakr-transforms-app-store-landscape-enables-anyone-to-make-their-own-iphone-app/
“Surprisingly, AppMakr was extremely well done and easy to use.”

Livingston
http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/2010/01/04/appmakr-makes-iphone-apps-accessible/
“AppMakr service is a no-brainer for most small companies and nonprofits.”

Scobleizer
http://scobleizer.com/2010/01/04/part-i-hot-startups-to-watch-in-2010-2/
“Top 25 Startups of 2010”

Guy Kawasaki
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2010/01/how-to-make-an-iphone-app.html#axzz0benPLHYD
“I can now offer custom iPhone apps for each of the 800 Alltop topics. How cool is that?”

Re-Hashing your reading experience. (Tablet Concepts/MacBook Touch)

Now that tablet PCs are not just “coulds” but are “soons,” designers must start to really reinvent the way the rest of us will digest content. Non laptop touch interactive computers are coming soon, probably the first jaw dropper in late January. So what will this new world be like?

Berg, a design company in London, tasked themselves with creating a video that describes this new reading environment.  How you will read content, scroll through content, orientation, spacing, interaction, etc. must all be well thought out to keep the reader immersed in the content while allowing the great new tools a tablet can offer to become exposed and, well, at your fingertips — ready to go.

Below is a video of Sports Illustreted demo’ing their newest SI release on the Apple MacBook Touch

And then another tablet video for the Courier from MicroSoft

iPhone Secret Feature

iPhone Undo
iPhone Undo

Lately I have noticed that I get prompted to “undo typing” or cancel my text. I would hurriedly press cancel and after getting the message a few times I started to think something was becoming buggy with my phone or my fat fingers were accidentally pressing some wrong button. The I realized — wait there is no “undo” button/feature on the phone where the hell is it coming from? After some quick research, I found out there is an unpublished “undo” feature on the iPhone after SDK 3.0.

Ready for it…..and….

Activate Undo Text Feature:
After typing on the iPhone, shake the phone to undo what you have typed.

Aphorisisms & the Hesitant, Timid Writer

I have always loved Nietzsche’s writings, but not until I started this Blog did I truly recognize the complexity of his work; to convey philosophy through aphorisms. It is, for some reason, so easy to talk about an idea out loud with passion and to do it while another person is right there sitting with you provoking you to push the story forward. Maybe it is easier because you are able to wiggle through the holes in the statements you make or because you are less critical of yourself when you know your mistakes will be lost in time and not in black and white to later be scrutinized by a passerby — the cost is that any of your good substance will be lost in the shuffle.

I am struggling with becoming any level of what can be called a writer and my greatest hurdle is talking through a written medium. Not burdening myself with the need to explain every point that comes up that has some relevant story behind it or to be too verbose, to somehow incorporate my passions and stream of conscious into written form, to have an open dialog within the writing (maybe add a character to debate with) and to not be so critical of posting anything no matter how dumb it may feel.

This I suppose is the next chapter to my first Blog post “My First Blog & the Dreaded Blank Page” and hopefully this broadcast admittance to my fears, hurdles, and lack of skill will once again be an evolution in writing for me.