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June 9, 2011: All that money you’ve spent on Apple products? Here’s what it’s going to buy… (1)

Ailing Apple CEO Steve Jobs came out of his medical leave Monday to help make the announcements for all the cool new operating system and cloud storage solutions Apple is introducing. You heard about that, of course. What you might not have heard about: Jobs then took another break from his break Tuesday to pitch a design for a new [...]

May 20, 2011: As if we didn’t have enough ethical issues already: ‘RoboPhotoshopping’ (5)

This one’s a bit complicated. I’ll sum it up as briefly as I can here. But I urge you to head over to Paul Lukas‘ Uni Watch blog to read the long version. Yesterday, there was a story about upcoming intra-league play posted on a web page administered by Major League Baseball. But you see that video embedded there? There’s [...]

April 1, 2011: New Gmail advance from the folks at Google (3)

This year’s big technical announcement. Enjoy…

Jan. 5, 2011: Your tech laugh for the day

If this won’t make you laugh, then nothing will. Enjoy. “Orange” is a telephone network in the U.K., I’m told. Everything else, I think you’ll get. Thanks to my good friend Tammy Cox — a former copy editor for the Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald and the late, great Gwinnett (Ga.) Daily News — for the tip.

Oct. 8, 2010: OK, my mind is blown

On reflection, this makes sense. I guess. But seriously, I had no idea this kind of technology existed right now. And so readily. Unlogo Intro from Jeff Crouse on Vimeo. The CEO faces bit is a bit weird. But recognizing and eliminating corporate logos? Automatically? Wow. Thanks to Boing Boing for blogging this today.

Sept. 28, 2010: Innovative Interactivity blog celebrating its birthday with contest, prizes

The Innovative Interactivity blog — devoted to multimedia journalism and run by UNC grad student Tracy Boyer — celebrates its third birthday this week with all sorts of prizes donated by notable… well, donors. The prizes are pretty cool. A sampling: Passes to a Webinar or Webinar replay at Poynter’s News University. One of these passes will be given away [...]

Aug. 23, 2010: What Photoshop CAN’T do (2)

Both Sharon and Elizabeth are hooked on those forensic cop shows — you know, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: Peoria and so on. I’ll occasionally watch one, if only to laugh loudly whenever the technical experts pull mystery-breaking clues from enhanced scans of photographs. The folks who produce these shows clearly have no clue how to use Photoshop and [...]

Aug. 5, 2010: Essential iPad apps for print designers

A while back, I relayed the gushings of Ernie Smith — of the Washington Post‘s Express tab as well as founder of the Short Form Blog — as he endorsed Getty Images’ iPad interface. That iPad app — and nine more — have been tapped as the ten essential iPad applications for publication designers by Reed Reibstein of the Society [...]