Category Archives: Art & Design
Apple iCards great for all but awesome for the lazy
I’m sure that a lot of you have probably forgotten about Apple’s iCards app. With all the news coming in this week and the unfortunate passing of Steve Jobs. iCards was announced this week and actually uses something called the Postal Service to send (brace for it) messages and images through a physical sense of e-mail called mail. And despite sounding like something outdated that old people are doing iCards is pretty cool. Apple officially put out details on its … Continue reading
Xume Magnetic Lens Filters Are Brilliantly Simple
Screwing expensive things into tiny threads is tedious—especially when you’re a photographer depending on speed. So why bother screwing filters on when you can employ the mystical powers of magnets? Snap on, snap off—no more screwing, ever. The Xume system does require some labor up front: you need to install a magnetic adapter for each lens, and put each filter you own into its own complimentary magnetic ring. But once you’ve got your gear converted, you can yank your filters … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Design, Photography, Tech
Tagged Filter, Lens, Photography, Ring, Xume
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The Original Homepages of the Social Media sites you love
The old web was like the wild west, you just chopped some wood, threw it together and hoped it stood up. Kind of like what Google, Twitter and Facebook did, they just slapped a logo and some text together and called it a day. Kottke showed off these ridiculous website origins of the multibazilliongillionzillion dollar companies that’ve changed the world. Hard to believe their beginnings were so humble. Twitter, especially, looks like the girl in high school with braces, thick glasses … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Design, Social Media
Tagged Facebook, Google, social media, Twitter, Yahoo
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