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Tips from influential iPhone photographers 11 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
Check out the blog post “9 Tips from the World’s Most Influential iPhoneographers,” including a tip (about light painting) from yours truly. Emil Pakarklis of the iPhone Photography School website con...
Stop-motion tribute to Steve Jobs (via the Foldify app) 27 Jun 2013 | 10:02 pm
Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford, from 2005, has been quoted again and again. But here, with an app called Foldify, is a new take on it. The 14-year-old filmmaker produced this with stop-mo...
Happiness, photography, and gratitude 28 May 2013 | 08:05 pm
I stumbled on this inspiring video from a post at the Greater Good website (“the science of a meaningful life”). I love the idea: You take a photo a day as a way to express (and feel) your gratitude f...
Do you want Facebook to take over your phone? 4 Apr 2013 | 10:55 pm
Today’s smartphones essentially have software from Google (Android) and Apple (iOS) at the forefront. Which means, when you look at your phone, you’re looking at a bunch of apps. Facebook’s Mark Zucke...
Amazing creativity in a stop-motion video 4 Apr 2013 | 07:47 pm
I’ve been a fan of stop-motion videos since I was a kid, and lately I’ve been wowed by the ways still photographers have been creating stop-motion videos out of thousands of frames. As photographer Jo...
Apple’s iCloud: It just doesn’t work 26 Mar 2013 | 11:44 pm
A year ago, I wrote a column with a simple premise: Apple’s iCloud, its big-time foray into cloud computing, was a failure. “To give you a taste of what was promised,” I wrote in my column, “here are ...
A new era for home stereos 21 Mar 2013 | 07:06 pm
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a column about stylish, wireless home stereos. Now I’ve taken the next logical step: I bought one. As I wrote in my column: Today’s home stereos look nothing like the angul...
Google forgets customers (again) and shuts down Reader 14 Mar 2013 | 06:04 pm
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a column outlining what I viewed as Google’s confusing and chaotic mix of products, including ones it introduced, developed, and then discarded — without much thou...
On publishing a Kindle book: 8 quasi-random observations 2 Mar 2013 | 02:49 am
Here it goes, in no particular order—some observations about publishing a Kindle book (my short story, “Out There”): Publishing on Kindle can be very, very easy. And that’s both thrilling and scary. T...
Printstagram’s Tinybook is really tiny 2 Mar 2013 | 12:38 am
So my three Prinstagram Tinybooks arrived, and they’re pretty adorable. And tiny. I knew they were just 1.7 by 1.5 inches, but until they arrived, I didn’t realize how small that would be. One very co...
