Archive for the ‘Multimedia’ Category
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Cupertino Syndrome
For the first time in as long as I can remember, I got angry at my computer. Not just perturbed, but teeth-clenching, fist pounding, expletive-blurting, co-worker-disturbing angry.
Surprisingly, my anger wasn’t directed at the network for being slow or at Parallels for taking entirely too long to boot up or shut down. It wasn’t because I [...] -
Usability of Streaming Video Interfaces
It’s all about Feedback
Feedback is important. Whether in the context of personal relationships, professional careers, or user interface design, it’s important for people to know how they’re doing and what’s going on in some one else’s head (or on some server). In fact, I can think of very few situations where more feedback would be [...] -
This American Life Podcast
In an effort to be a non-wasteful, environmentally-conscious individual, I recently decided that I would not buy a new iPod touch if my old iPod — my very old iPod — was still working. Unfortunately, it is It doesn’t have touch (well, barely, if you count the touch wheel), and it doesn’t have [...]
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Review: Kinoma Play Mobile Media Browser
I’ve had the chance to spend some time fiddling with the new Kinoma Play Mobile Media Browser, and I’m pretty blown away. This product delivers on the promise of being a mobile media powerhouse to the maximum extent that any device with a 2.5″ screen clunking along on a 2.5G network can deliver a “powerful” [...]
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FotoViewr: Gorgeous embeddable photo galleries in less than ten seconds
Fotoviewr is an online service that lets you create gorgeous 3d photo galleries from your Flickr photos in about ten seconds flat. In literally eight mouse clicks (and a couple keystrokes), you go from not having any photos on your blog or web page (or having lame two dimensional photos that don’t even obey the [...]
