The iPhone OS 3.0 presentation that happened on Tuesday really got me thinking. There were a lot of exciting announcements that are being loudly touted by the press: the arrival of a rather elegantly designed Copy and Paste to the OS, Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) support, CalDAV support, new application payment models, and device-to-device interactivity are [...]
Exhibit A: a blog entry of mine from March 2007 titled “Passive Ambient Input” Exhibit B: This Apple patent, dated July 2007. Woo! I get a “geek karma” point for that one.
I saw this video tonight (via @siracusa) and was absolutely blown away. The video is a bit over 20 minutes long, but it blew my mind and I want to share it with you. Watch Mike Rowe on Discovery, Realization and Lamb Castration on Fora.tv I want to be absolutely clear about this: I pay [...]
The other day Steph was going to head down to The Bell Museum of Natural History, and we had this brief conversation. Steph: “Tomorrow I’m going to be at The Bell Museum in the afternoon.” Josh: “Did you say The Dell Museum?” Steph: “No, The Bell Museum of Natural History.” Josh: “Oh! I thought you said [...]
Lately I’ve been entranced by Leopard’s built-in “Mosaic” screensaver. In case you’ve never seen it, I figured I should share it. (And in 490 x 306 glory, no less. Wow!) And if no one cares, at least we’ve got it archived here as an example of a screensaver that was cool back in 2008. What screensaver [...]
I already wrote about the War of the Worlds 2.0 plan made by Kris Kowal (with some minor help from me) and encouraged you all to try it out. I was really happy to see that some of you did! Hundreds of people participated (including @biz, one of the co-founders of Twitter, who participated with one tweet). Most [...]
