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

What does Allan think about?

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

Posted on Saturday, June 28th, 2008   3

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

Bad Goodness: True

More boolean philosophical questions posed by my software.

Posted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007   4

Five Week Render

Some videos take longer to render than others.

Posted on Monday, September 17th, 2007   

Worship Software: ProPresenter 3

A quick mini-review of ProPresenter 3.

Posted on Saturday, August 25th, 2007   

iPhone: But Does It Blend?

The Horror! Watch it in slo-mo.

Posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007   5

iPhone, Reconsidered

I reconsider some of my objections to the iPhone. Again.

Posted on Wednesday, July 11th, 2007   3

So, Where Is It?

Allan tries to justify *not* getting an iPhone. For now.

Posted on Friday, July 6th, 2007   2

1:09:39

One hour to launch!

Posted on Friday, June 29th, 2007   1

Portland Flash iMob

Find the iPhone mobs in your area!

Posted on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007   

Why iPhone?

Watch the iPhone tour and tell me what you think.

Posted on Sunday, June 24th, 2007   

iPhone NY

The Big Apple loves the iPhone.

Posted on Friday, June 15th, 2007   1

iPhone Dream

The iPhone was in my hands at last... but it was huge!

Posted on Saturday, June 9th, 2007   2

All the Pretty Lights

Apple demos a freaky big 750 terabyte SAN at NAB this week.

Posted on Friday, April 20th, 2007   1

Final Cut Studio 2: Monster

Apple's announced a monster upgrade to their Final Cut Studio video & audio editing suite. It's earthshaking.

Posted on Sunday, April 15th, 2007   

Unread Number of the Beast

My unread news items tend to stack up sometimes. Apparently, if I let mine accumulate too much, I am hastening the apocalypse.

Posted on Thursday, April 5th, 2007   

Cancel or Allow

A new Mac & PC ad from Apple discusses security on Vista.

Posted on Tuesday, February 6th, 2007   

Macworld 2007: Apple Fan FREAK-OUT

Allan freaks out about the Macworld announcements. iPhone, yay!

Posted on Tuesday, January 9th, 2007   11

I remember when YouTube was just a kid…

Blip.tv: Hi, YouTube. You use tags, and you’re uncluttered. Cool.

Posted on Friday, January 5th, 2007   

RAW Image Quality: Aperture vs. Adobe ACR

A discussion of RAW photo conversion in Aperture, compared to Adobe tools.

Posted on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007   

Friday morning at breakfast

A few snapshots, Friday morning, shot with the iSight.

Posted on Friday, December 22nd, 2006