Category Archives: Tech

Roll your own iPhone Application

Lately there have been a couple new websites and services which allow users to “roll their own” iPhone and mobile applications. Sites like ShoutEm, AppMakr and iSites all take your content feed, and re-present it in a custom designed iPhone, Android, or general mobile app.
Most roll-your-own app makers charge a small fee, and import an [...]

Hacking Esquire Magazine’s Augmented Reality Issue

Esquire Magazine just released their latest techie issue, featuring Augmented Reality. Sitting here at my desk, I didn’t have time to run out and buy it off newstands.. but I wanted to try it out. So, I hacked it. In the Esquire Magazine Augmented Reality introduction video posted on YouTube, the cover is shown at [...]

Is Twitter Moving Too Fast For Society?

In this short video clip, Nicole Wong speaks at UC Berkeley on social responsibility and societal acceptance in using Twitter, and how society is adapting it’s usage in real time.
Interesting thoughts – she makes the comparison to the introduction of TV, Cable, and the relatively drawn out period of time when the new medium’s acceptable [...]

Google Wave In Action

At their IO conference this week, Google unveiled their new communications platform Google Wave. It supposedly combines multiple forms of communication – namely email and IM, into a collaborative communications suite. There’s been HUGE buzz on this lately, and Ben Parr of Mashable has posted a good Google Wave guide.
I think Google Wave does have [...]

Aviary’s Myna Pushing Web Applications Further

Lately, with the strengthening of web applications such as Google Gears and Aviary’s tools, web based applications, and application platforms, have been boosted to the forefront of ubiquitous tech.
Aviary, which already has a number of other graphical manipulation web apps, just acquired an web based audio editor platform Digimix, with the perceived goal to integrate Digimix’s tech [...]

GE Gives Us Wind and Solar Power With Augmented Reality

To promote it’s Smart Grid Technology, GE just put up its super cool Smart Grid augmented reality site. You simply print out a target image on a piece of paper, and show it to your webcam. The Augmented Reality flash element, powered by the FLAR Tool Kit, picks up on the target and shows you [...]

Blogging From The Field – Turkey and Israel 2008-2009

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One of the (many) objectives of my recent trek through Turkey and Israel was to experiment with blogging from the field. I didn’t a laptop with me, but I did take my iPhone, which is actually quite powerful. My plan was to use both my iPhone, as well as [...]

Testing Before (Possible) Departure

Testing the email to wordpress feature before heading off. For some
reason posts send via email are being classified as “pending review”
by Wordpress, instead of “published”. Something I’ll need to look
into- I thinks it relates to the email address used to send the
message…
Things in EWR are looking ok still… Weather sucks, but no flight
delays.. Yet.

Posting From Wordpress For iPhone

Posting from the Wordpress iPhone app. Just another way of blogging while on the go.

Sent via Wordpress for iPhone

Launching Two New Sites: Panasonic Get Your Groom On and Trading Direct

Two of the websites I’ve been working with developers on for the past few weeks just launched this week – thought I’d post a little blurb about each…
The Panasonic Get Your Groom On site is a microsite to promote Panasonic’s new line of razors. I worked with Panasonic directly, as well as their developers to [...]