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Capturing displays using Photosynth

April 8, 2011 - Technology - By: Chris

Turns out Photosynth is pretty good at recording large displays that are too big to get on one image.

Vimeo on the iPhone – shoot and edit on the move

April 1, 2011 - Technology - By: Chris

Pic: Vimeo timelineI’ve just finished having a play with the new Vimeo iPhone/iPad app. And it’s more than a little bit good.

It does 2 jobs; giving you the ability to administer your Vimeo account on the go, but more importantly, shoot, edit and upload videos just from your mobile. It makes for a great digital storytelling tool.

Nanostudio – creating music on your mobile

October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

Pic: Nanostudio screen dump
At school, I spent more time than was healthy trying to create a synth epic a la Vangelis using the music department’s (at the time quite advanced) Roland D20. Unsuccessfully, as it turned out.
The keyboard had cost over £1200,

Why we bought our daughter an iPod

September 8, 2010 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

Pic: iPod headphonesGetting our eldest daughter an iPod Touch for her 6th birthday is probably one of the least revolutionary things I’ve ever done. Big deal!

All I wanted to do here was record the reasons behind going for this device rather than the Nintendo DSi as it might be interesting to look back in 12 months to see what she’s done with it; has she enjoyed it, does she regret not getting the Nintendo, is she getting things from it we didn’t anticipate.

Really, why am I not using Posterous?

September 7, 2010 - Site of the Week - By: Chris

Pic: posterous logoIn preparation for a workshop I’m running shortly I’ve been looking at blogging platform Posterous. It’s remarkably simple and fun, especially when used with a mobile device.

It throws up 2 tricky questions for me, though…

Chalknote #3

August 6, 2010 - Chalknote - By: Chris

Pic: My Dad on the slopes of Ben Lawers, PerthshireThis week, Google Docs, AR, Affective Context learning, mountains, my Dad and a moan about Spotify.

Augmented Reality – one more thing…

August 4, 2010 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

Following on from last week’s post on augmented reality, watching this video made me realise that AR needs to work differently if it’s going to be realy useful. It’s not enough to be direction and distance aware. The app somehow needs to be able to see the world as humans see it.

Enter the Dragon

July 29, 2010 - Site of the Week - By: Chris

Pic: Dragon logoA quick look at the new Dragon Dictation app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with some thoughts on why its a useful development.

AR – Reality, but better?

July 28, 2010 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

Pic: polaroidI’ve been having my first foray into the world of augmented reality via the iPhone. Although the current generation of apps looks promising I feel we’re still a away from making AR really exciting, accessible and cool.

AudioBoo – It must be love!

May 28, 2010 - Site of the Week - By: Chris

Pic: Wall of soundI’m going all gooey about AudioBoo at the moment. It’s sat around in the perpiphery of my vision for a while now but in the last month or so I’ve started to see it as a really useful addition to my network of tools, especially now I’m a JesusPhone user.

Here’s why I’m gushing…