Category: Tech Stuff
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the future is no paper
Anyone that’s in magazine or print design and isn’t looking seriously at the iPad and eBooks is on very dangerous ground… it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee Magazines of Tomorrow
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Video Name Tag
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bH9YIDwMD0&NR] more info here
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Video Jukebox Anyone?
Want to download a video from YouTube (or most websites?) Install this plugin for Firefox http://www.downloadhelper.net/ Of course most files stored on YouTube are in Adobe’s Flash format (.flv), so you will require something to play them back. You can use VLC, but wouldn’t it be better if you could us QuickTime? Download and install Perian (you’ll need…
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Does My iPad Look Big in This?
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iPad
After five years of speculation and 15 years after The Steve canned the Newton (still have my three in the attic!), Apple have announced the iPad. I have mixed feelings on the iPad, from a business & user perspective, I think it’s great, it’s been well thought through and it looks gorgeous, sure the big…
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The Apple iPad
mmmmmmm… not quite what I was expecting from Apple! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFNQE_TzQNI]
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Left a bit, a little bit more, ah there you are
Staying with the Augmented Reality theme, BrightKite announced last month that their partnership with Layar to offer AR of your BrightKite friends posts over live video on your mobile, is now available on the iPhone (originally only available for Android) Another AR app recently launched on the iPhone is Wikitude, that overlays live video with…
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The Business cARd
I stumbled across these pieces this morning. First a business card and a video ident sting for E4, both of which use the popular method of using a pattern encased in a square, but the third example uses a different approach, whereby the camera recognises any pre-stored image, in this case a photograph on a…
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Augmented Reality Coming To A Bookshelf Near You
Having already tested the water with an issue using e-Ink technology, it’s interesting to see Esquire extending the user experience of their paper based magazine with online media, I see this as a terrific medium for marketeers & advertisers, but also educational titles or children’s books where the story or information can be brought to…
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There’s An Ad For That
You have to admire Verizon’s audacity in creating this advert to try and snag AT&T customers over to their network, by playing upon Apple’s “There’s an App for That” tagline used in their iPhone & App Store adverts (in case you’ve been living in a cave for the past year, you’ll find plenty of them…