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05 Mar 2010 21:37

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Tech: At least one publisher gets how awesome iPad books can be

  • The iPad represents the first real opportunity to create a paid distribution model that will be attractive to consumers. The psychology of payment on tablets is different to the psychology on a PC.
  • Penguin Books CEO John Makinson • Regarding what he sees as the future of books. What’s that future of books? Well, in the case of the children’s books he used as an example, a really fun, educational experience, the kind of thing everyone was hoping for with the iPad when it was first suggested (but Apple forgot to show when announcing it). This looks really awesome, Penguin Books. source
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28 Feb 2010 12:03

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Culture: Chatroulette, that interweb fad, is turning heads

  • We hope that this person didn’t catch anybody naked when they were trying to do this. Then it might start to get a little weird. Well done, though.
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22 Feb 2010 10:30

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Tech: Happy 20th birthday Photoshop! We’ve used you before, we think

  • Yay Photoshop! No single app has brought graphic design into a mainstream light better than Photoshop, which is a great reason to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Strangely enough, this timeline doesn’t mention anything about that slow transition to supporting Intel Macs. Must’ve forgot that. Either way, heck yeah! Happy birthday Photoshop! source
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21 Feb 2010 11:23

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Tech: Photoshop nostalgia hits the iPhone, is concentrated awesome

Photoshop turns 20 this year, and to celebrate, some developers decided to build an iPhone version of the original Photoshop for the Mac. In three days. source
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09 Feb 2010 14:12

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Tech: Twitter’s abuzz about Google Buzz, and so are we



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04 Feb 2010 10:50

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Offbeat: These birds know how to rock, if somewhat unintentionally

  • Let’s place a bunch of random birds in a room with a couple of Les Paul guitars, and see what happens. And what happened was avant-garde goodness that some might find just a little amazing. BBC art critic Will Gompertz compares the style of artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, who created this, to Marcel Duchamp, in that it adds chance as a factor in the music’s creation. The result? For more than the birds. source
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04 Feb 2010 10:36

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Offbeat: Awesome nerd decides to mix photos and math together

  • Consider it the merging of art and math. Photography and mathematics student Nikki Graziano has been merging her two majors (which she studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology), finding cool images of clouds, shrubs and other things and then graphing how they would repeat in mathematics. Nerd. Arty nerd. source
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31 Jan 2010 11:51

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Culture: Obama: Good president, better Georgetown play-by-play dude

  • Our president is a total badass, guys. Whether or not you agree with the president’s policies, this is way better than, say, Bill Clinton playing the sax for Arsenio Hall back in the day. It’s like he knows how to let loose and have fun occasionally despite the level of politics going on. And in case you see a dip in the guy’s work output around March or so, he explains why in the video. He watches every single game of March Madness. source
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27 Jan 2010 20:39

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U.S.: iPad: Some Tablet thing got everyone worked up today

  • On the scale of one to awesome, the iPad is pretty cool. The $499 starting price is reasonable, as is the data plan. The high-end of the scale is admittedly pretty high, but it is just a giant iPod Touch. Let’s not kid ourselves. But really, isn’t that what we wanted? source
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24 Jan 2010 20:29

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Tech: Faux-awesome: The guy who makes those fake movie GUIs speaks

Why do these things never look real? “The entire point of those things is to tell a story,” according to interface designer Mark Coleran. source
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