Thursday, December 1, 2011
Every summer as a kid, my dad took me and my younger sister to a couple of new US states for a short vacation. After ten years of doing that, plus some school and personal trips, I’d covered 48 states.
Now that Jey’s here, I want him to see all of the amazing vistas and interesting spots around this massive country, so we’ve started doing a fair bit of traveling ourselves. But we ran into a couple of problems: first, what’s the best way to keep the memories of those trips alive in our home, so that we can enjoy them, and share them with others? Second, how can we display our digital photos, and further, still tell a story about where we’ve been and what we’ve seen?
We eventually landed on a solution…
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In the mood for some Halloween films? Me too! I love Halloween as much as I love using Netflix Instant and making lists, so I’ve compiled my favorite movies available for streaming, as of 2011. It’s a big list, with everything from goofy comedy gore to truly disturbing horror, and everything in between; check it out below.
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Today’s meditation/inspiration is about seeing creative potential in the in-between spaces of technology, user experience and mundane activities.
Every Gmail user is familiar with this menu, which allows you to load images in an email message only when you wish to see them:
Normally, the email message is just a series of blank white squares. But in July of this year, Pizza Express made people want to click that “Display images below” option.
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Found the coolest iPad app: The Civil War Today. It’s a daily newspaper with push notifications and all the fun gadgetry associated with news delivery apps, only each day’s content is from one hundred and fifty years ago, to the day.
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Filed in apps, communication, history, internet, storytelling, technology
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Tagged apps, Civil War, communication, history, internet, iPad, iPad app, storytelling
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First, a note on my experimental literature monthly project. Taking on a new, totally unexpected freelance position has suddenly reduced my spare time to almost zero, and I’m scrambling to regain balance between my work and personal lives. Unfortunately, that’s also meant that the several writing side projects I’ve had going have taken the brunt, and at least in regards to the monthly thing I mentioned, there was no way hit my goal completion date of July 6.
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