Archive for the 'Tools, Toys, and Geekery' Category

Commentary: Social Media Demystified

"The simple reality is that social media has way more to do with common sense than it does with rocket science."

Posted on Friday, April 2nd, 2010   

ThumbJam

Here's another really cool iPhone instrument app that actually sounds great - ThumbJam.

Posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010   

Grab Your Audience in Two Seconds Flat

This audio editing app demo is particularly effective - it shows you 90% of what you need to know in the first few seconds.

Posted on Sunday, March 28th, 2010   

How-To: Make a seamless video loop

A simple process for making a quick seamless looping video.

Posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010   

Screencast: Routing iTunes’ Visualizer into ProPresenter

In this screencast, we take the awesomeness of the iTunes visualizer and pipe it into ProPresenter with CamTwist. Confused? Trust me, it's awesome.

Posted on Friday, August 28th, 2009   5

How-To: Connect your Mac to a projector (part 2)

Connecting to the projector on-site at your presentation can be the most stressful point in your presentation process. Smooth the way with these tips.

Posted on Friday, May 1st, 2009   

Election Night Event on current_

Current TV leverages Digg and Twitter for election night coverage. And there's a DJ!

Posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008   

What does Allan think about?

I love visualizations. What do you think about? Can I see?

Posted on Friday, June 27th, 2008   4

WWDC!

Apple's World Wide Developers Conference grabs the eyeballs.

Posted on Monday, June 9th, 2008   

On Twitter

On Twitter. When it's working.

Posted on Friday, May 30th, 2008   3

Kristi’s Ultimate Blog?

I'm hoping to rebuild a blog for my wife. What's hot now? What would you like to see?

Posted on Saturday, April 19th, 2008   17

The (Amazing) Assistant Editor

The Assistant Editor: Robots are doing our work now.

Posted on Friday, April 18th, 2008   4

NAB Trip Photos Posted

Nothing too amazing here that you can't see elsewhere in all their machined aluminum glory, but I thought I'd post a few snaps of stuff I thought important.

Posted on Friday, April 18th, 2008   

Portland: The Water Never Tasted So Good

Back from Vegas and the NAB show, I try to process the Matrix itself.

Posted on Thursday, April 17th, 2008   1

Tenets of Web-Standards Design. In Rap.

Finally, someone is speaking my language.

Posted on Saturday, March 29th, 2008   

U Can Haz SDK!

After much cry and hue from developers who wanted to create custom applications for the iPhone, Teh Steve released the iPhone SDK in beta form.

Posted on Thursday, March 6th, 2008   

Live video test with ProPresenter

What has historically taken an entire video truck can now be done on a laptop.

Posted on Friday, February 15th, 2008   1

Alphabet Game For Toddlers

Want to let the toddler in your life bang on the keyboard, without disturbing that spreadsheet? Fire this up. They might learn something.

Posted on Friday, January 11th, 2008   3

Aperture vs. Lightroom: On The Precipice

Looking on the other side of the fence, the grass looks good, but the green could use a saturation +15 adjustment, with some sharpening and split toning.

Posted on Monday, December 31st, 2007   3

Ultimate Control: Remote Buddy For iPhone

An amazing app uses an iPhone to control your Mac.

Posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007   1