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…
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. [...]
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.
Also filed in apps, history, internet, storytelling, technology
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Tagged apps, Civil War, communication, history, internet, iPad, iPad app, storytelling
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