Archive for Technology
The Times are a Changin’
I vividly remember the first time I saw a computer. It was in the early 90s and my dad, a shop teacher, brought me home what I now know was a 64kb Apple IIe. I walked in to his office and he asked me if I wanted to see something cool. He told me he [...]
The Digital Future of Magazines?
I have a confession to make. I love magazines. You could say I am a magazine addict. This doesn’t really fit with my image as a digital media professor, but I can’t help myself. Maybe it has something to do with the smell of a new magazine, that unique combination of glossy paper and ink. [...]
Anticipating the Future // Web Design
I attended AIGA’s ThinkTank conference in Nashville recently and one of the keynote speakers was Jina Bolton, a user interface designer for EngineYard in California. She runs a couple of blogs, sushiandrobots and artinmycoffee which are a fun distraction if you need help procrastinating. Jina gave a few tips when it comes to web design [...]
Digital Cinema at Entry-level Prices
Achieving a film look with entry level video cameras has either been extremely difficult or downright elusive to most. In 2002, Panasonic made the 24p look mainstream with the introduction of the DVX-100, a standard definition, mini-DV camcorder. In 2004, Redrock Microsystems introduced their low-cost 35mm lens adapter, making film-style depth of field available to [...]
Video Cameras are seeing RED
RED is one of the hottest new developments in video cameras with its RED ONE aluminum alloy body weighing in at 10lbs and providing more than 5 times the amount of information available per second than other HD cameras. RED’s true innovation is its 12 Megapixel Mysterium™ CMOS sensor and its capacity to shoot with [...]
Keep Your Media Shopping in Order With “SnapTell”
Now free on the App Store on iTunes is “SnapTell”. SnapTell allows you to snap a picture of a DVD, VideoGame, Book, or CD with your iPhone and access information about that product on the web.
The Easiest Way to Blog
With so many ways of communicating with your friends available on the internet, it’s hard to settle for one. The competition among social media websites is fierce. In order to convince people to accept a network, the site should let people know what they have to offer that people can’t get anywhere else. Since I’m [...]
PAC-MAN app for the iPhone
There are many iPhone and iPod Touch applications that can be misconstrued as nonproductive; this is not one of them. On October 14th of 2009 the best thing to hit the iPhone was released as a free download. PAC-MAN Lite is identical to the first stage of the retro arcade classic. The mazes, soundtrack and [...]
It’s A Modern Marvel
The iPhone has proven to be a huge step in the advancement of technology. Since its release on July 11, 2008, the iPhone has taken culture by storm. It started as a touch phone that could access the Internet, play streaming video and allow users to have a phone that could do more than the [...]
Stroboscopic Technique
Professional photographer Joe McNally has mastered light and the use of flash to produce creative images. In a video, McNally narrates the process he took to produce creative images of dancers. (Click on the image to go to the video’s site.) Before the subjects arrived, he programmed his lights to repeated flash mode, mounted SB900 [...]
