Susan and Arin

I’ve followed these two for the past couple of years… it’s been amazing to watch them fulfill what the ongoing development of digital media has promised. Susan Buice and Arin Crumley, and their project Four Eyed Monsters. They are two filmmakers who, like many others, set out to make their first feature. They were perhaps [...]

Soulver

I love apps that break through your model of what you can do in a particular area. Calculation on the Mac seems to generally revolve around calculators like TopCalculette or spreadsheets, like Excel or Tables. Soulver is one such app. It’s neither a straightforward calculator, though you can certainly use it as one, nor is [...]

TED 2

Ted Robinson on Creativity in Schools. Al Gore on Averting a Climate Crisis Great examples of the good things in TED. I think this might just be the best thing to happen this week… and I’ve a feeling more to come… Related Tags: document.getElementById(“post-41-blankimage”).onload();

TED

First came across TED a few years ago and thought how great it would be to attend that… a conference by leading thinkers in technology, entertainment and design. My cup of tea altogether. The great news is they have put over 100 of the presentations from previous years online. Terrific. All posted under Creative Commons [...]

Leopard to ship in October

Ah feck. I was looking forward to Leopard this coming June… Apparently the current builds are pretty unstable… which means the team must have been seriously depleted. Apple usually get one thing wrong… for years it was hardware… I’d hate to see software being an area of stagnation. Half the issue is Tiger is so [...]

Standing Desks

Every now and then you stumble upon something and then it pops up everywhere. A particular car model, Laksa, scripts involving yoga, all recent culprits… I do the occasional Standing Desk Day. I have an L-shaped desk. One half low and the other half high. The high side is the perfect height for working while [...]

1Passwd encore…

I posted about this earlier in the heat of passion and I have to say it’s blossomed in to a full commitment. 1Password from Agile Web Solutions is something that has become a seamless part of my workflow. It’s an excellent piece of software that generates strong passwords and fills in forms for you as [...]

The Morphing of Interactivity…

While shooting the breeze with Brian Mulligan, who heads up e-learning at our College, we went through our histories, it’s always nice to talk to someone who knows what an Amiga is and who had worked with them. What I also like is chatting to someone else who knows the sweep of things, who remembers [...]

Skim

There’s some apps you just don’t bother replacing. Preview for one. Acrobat has tons more features but it’s slow and over-complex and takes an age to load. It’s not really for just looking at stuff, it’s about doing some work. I always feel that the real app is the Pro version and the cut down [...]

The future of film financing?

Cinematech recently did some interesting coverage of current projects out there seeking finance online, Howard Dean style. http://cinematech.blogspot.com/ It’s too easy to view these projects a little harshly, and no doubt some of them may be finding finance difficult for a reason. But generally I think that would be too simple. Film financing is such [...]