Tag: Cool stuff

  • Experimental animation through pottery

    This is just awesome! Experimental animation meets pottery from Crafts Council on Vimeo.

  • Head in the iCloud

    In all my excitement to get with the iCloud experience I have shifted my contacts into iCloud and have it all syncing between my MacBook Air and my iPhone. Previously I synced my MacBook and my iPhone with Google Contacts through the Exchange integration and it worked most of the time (I often found contacts…

  • Awesome Quirk showreel and a little family mention

    Quirk published an awesome showreel video a couple days ago and we watched it for the first time today. Its an inspiring and really well produced video: I got a medium sized thrill at about 0:30 when I saw my brother, Asher, in the video. He is the guy on the right in this scene:…

  • TrueHDR: an awesome iOS photo app to consider

    I’ve been using TrueHDR on my iPhone, on and off, for a little while now. The app takes HDR photos by taking 3 separate photos and combining them into some really spectacular looking images. I was playing around with the app the other day and noticed that, like Instagram and Camera+ (two photo apps I…

  • 3 different video chat services, 3 interesting approaches

    I was just watching the recent Facebook video calling announcement and the ad for video calling is at the end of the announcement video. It struck me as a little like the Apple ads so I found ads from Facebook, Apple and Google for their video calling services. Aren’t the different tones interesting? Facebook video…

  • Viva the Data Liberation Front, viva!

    From the revolutionaries who brought you Google Takeout, a way to get your +1’s out too …

  • I think I have Google+ access

    Hopefully I can actually play soon … (Thanks to my brother, Asher, for the invite!) Update: So close and yet so far …

  • Better migration from iPhoto to Picasa using Phoshare

    I just came across an app called Phoshare which should enable you to fully migrate from iPhoto to Picasa and other file-based photo management tools. The big challenge migrating from the current version of iPhoto, iPhoto ’11, is that the iPhoto library is no longer represented in Picasa in the same way. Album structures are…