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What’s the difference between God and a DP? (more…)

Gems from the Web:

• Adobe - The Creative Mind - “Step inside the Creative Mind. See how designers are using Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 to bring their ideas to life.”
• Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth - “The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer.” Hmm… sounds great, but with MS attached? Let’s see…
• Experimentelle Interfaces WS 06 - A whole amazing list of experimental interfaces.
• Grant Robinson : Montage-a-google - After entering a keyword, Montage-a-google creates a montage of pictures. Cool!
• phylotaxis MiniPlain.swf - Nice, relaxing interactive graphic
• Adopt the blog-zen-titude - “Are you tired of blogging,surfing,replying to comments and mails? Take a break and relax yourself through some blog-zen therapy. Bring yourself a cup of tea and turn the pages of the web zen magazine.”
• Prime Advertising & Design Blog » Participation Wanted & Rewarded - “Start commenting on blogs you read and see what you get in return. It might be a bit of confidence, a new friend, a new idea or just a link back to your blog / website.”
• It’s hammer time - List of, uhm, experiences at the grocery store: “This ever happen to you? You walk INTO a store and the security alarm sensors go off and they want to search your bags — Yeah smart guy I’m bringing back a stack of security tags from all the stuff I stole
• Top 10 design books for designers - Excellent overview over good, inspirational books for designers, and those interested in design

Gems from the Web:

• Checking the back focus - A brief explanation alongside a printable siemens star for easy back focus calibration.
• ISO 12233 Test Chart - Resolution test chart for HD
• Video Resolution Test Patterns - Nice collection of downloadable test patterns for video cameras
• bartek:bargiel : iGTD - Freeware organizer for the Mac
• MacUser: Want to download YouTube videos? Kiss them - Simple way of downloading YouTube videos that are worth keeping
• MacUser: 10.4.9 brings new phone sync compatability - …but my p990i - the so-called top-of-the-line phone from Sony Ericsson - still does not sync.

It’s not often that I come across a successful combinatin of Technology and Art. Sucessful as in adding something new to both. Julius Popp has managed just that. Falling waterdrops show constantly changing images and phrases.

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Gems from the Web:

• SPHERICALROBOTS 2004 - Using plain water to display images. Wow. I would love to find out how much that costs.
• This Guy Can Get 59 MPG in a Plain Old Accord. Beat That, Punk - Changing your driving habits can make your car much more fuel efficient. This guy managed to get it down to 4l per 100km.
• How-To: Make a solid-state A/V switcher - Do you have more boxes than your TV can handle? Grab a soldiering iron, and off you go!
• Free Vector Downloads - Nice collection of free graphic, ahem, inspiration
• My Ipod - A frank iPod modification
• Upgrading iPod Hard Drives - If your music library is bigger than your iPod, you can upgrade rather than buying a new one. Cool
• Tricks For Saving a Dead iPod - Before buying a new one, you might as well try
• The Complete Project Precita - A properly geeky home. Many buttons to push, signs, fun.
• MATTER Pierre Sculptor - Amazing sculptures
• “Pocket” Gramophones from the ’20s - Music was already portable way before the iPod. Hey, way before the Walkman. 1920.
• Avid investors prepped for Apple surprises at NAB - …”the ‘talk on the Street’ is that Apple is planning an event for April 15th at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas”

Gems from the Web:

• Observations on film art - Movies still matter
• davekehr.com - Great film reviews.
• Scanners - What if they didn’t spend millions on Norbit? - “You want glory and money? How often does that happen in Hollywood?”
• The Dilbert Blog: The Best Defects - “I happily wore my pajama top all day. Knowing that I was a fashion accident did not deter my happiness. My pajama top was soft and comfortable and the color was pleasing to the eye. I like me just the way I am.”
• Apple - Ja zum Mac - Werbespots ansehen - Hey, they come in German, too. Is it just me, or do they both sound the same?
• Apple (UK and Ireland) - Get a Mac - Watch The New Ads - I can’t help it, but compared to the US ads, these are just daft.
• Macbook inferno - Waking up to a burning laptop cannot be fun.
• AppleInsider | Apple’s multi-touch technology seen spawning “mega-platform” - Apple Inc. is developing a “mega-platform” based around its recently introduced multi-touch display technology
• AppleInsider | Apple CFO talks Apple TV, iPhone, Leopard and retail [transcript] - Morgan Stanley Systems and PC hardware analyst Katy Huberty query Steve Jobs
• Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress - Lets you change your blogs permalink structure, without losing page ranks or visitors. Cool
• MythTV - Runs on Linux and Mac. Not for windows. Yay.
• Information As Obligation - “As a college freshman I had no email, no mobile phone, no TiVo, no RSS reader, and Newsweek was my sole magazine subscription. I’m a lot better informed about news and the world than I was then, but I also feel a certain pressure to keep up with it all.”
• Mac Office users were Microsoft guinea pigs - Documentary evidence that Microsoft considered abandoning Office for Mac in order to cause “a great deal of harm” to Apple has emerged.
• Wired News: Steve Jobs, Spymaster - Canary traps are widely used to uncover industrial espionage. Apple might be using such techniques.
• 12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert - How many of these do you know?
• Buzz-Kill: Columbia Prof Blasts Influencer Model - Why aren’t influentials as influential as everyone thinks?
• Why Apple’s ‘consumer’ Macs are enterprise-worthy - Not everyone needs a Mac Pro; sometimes a mini might do.
• Hell.com - Guaranteed eye sore