Mobile phones, eh? Wow! First of all, you could make a phonecall while you were walking around town. Then you could send abusive text messages to people who were late to meet you for coffee. Then you could surf the web while you were bored [...]
iPad
04.07.11
07.07.11
This makes me both childishly excited and a little bit sad. It's an iPad app that lets you create some authentic looking letterpress artwork, albeit digitally. On the one hand, it's fun to play with. And on the other hand, well, you can't beat the [...]
12.07.11
From what I can find out, this is somewhere between an interactive, animated film and a storybook. It looks to me like the bedtime story has moved up a few notches since my mum used to read The Giant Jam Sandwich to me - and [...]
15.07.11
When I was at school, music lessons consisted mainly of a class of 30 unmotivated, disinterested individuals sharing one Casio keyboard between two. One of you would undertake the job of repeatedly jabbing of the 'Demo' button. Which usually culminated in 15 different demo modes [...]
01.09.11
Visual Editions, a publisher in London, is doing some interesting stuff with books. They believe that the books should be as visually interesting as the stories they tell. This has lead to their fist iPad app being born for a novel by Marc Saporta called [...]
20.09.11
Papercut is, as the developers say, "An enhanced reading experience for iPad. Transforming simple prose into an interactive, multi-sensory reading experience." The video above tells you more than I could sum up here and, if it whets your appetite, you can download it for your [...]
20.10.11
I guess the next stage is that we develop a right hand that has one über thumb suitable for texting, one extended digit suitable for tapping, and the remaining fingers will be fused to allow for simple swiping. What seems 'new' technology to us oldies, [...]
03.11.11
With the steady world take over that touchscreen devices are waging, there is one casualty that has probably been given little thought, until now. Our humble friend the Cursor. It's been with us for years, guiding us around our screens, freezing on us when our [...]
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