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CaffeineCoder on Google Currents

April 22, 2012 – 3:59 pm

If you haven’t heard of Google Currents then you are missing out. Currents is a fantastic new digital magazine style app/service provided by well… Google obviously. It has been out in the states for a few months already and has gotten a very decent following out there. More recently Google did the right thing and released the app to the rest of the world making people like me very happy indeed. There are already a few free publications available for subscription within the app including the Guardian and BoingBoing among many others. The choice is bound to grow as people ass their editions into the mix. The app is available on multiple platforms including Android and iOS

I published CaffeineCoder just last week and you can subscribe to the feed following this link: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowrqHhAQ/caffeinecoder

Publishing is a pretty straightforward affair too. go to http://google.com/producer to start publishing your edition it will take about 30 minutes and will need you to upload an html file to your web server to confirm that you own the site but once that’s all done its a simple matter of hitting the publish button and you are rocking. initially you won’t get immediate coverage in the app itself. Google urge you to share your unique link as much as possible to get people to subscribe, and keep your content fresh as possible. once you hit 200 subscribers you get a link direct inside the app.

 

So, what are you waiting for? go publish yourself;f ;0)  Oh and don’t forget to subscribe to Caffeine coder using the link above :0)

 
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The Future of Photography – An Oomska Series

January 25, 2012 – 9:00 am

Future of PhotographyTake one Irishman with a passion for photography, throw in a healthy talent for writing, add a sprinkling of questions and apply gently to several of todays best photographers and what you get after baking gently on a medium heat for a few months is perhaps the best photography interview series you’ll ever read.

Oomska is a fantastic online arts & pop culture magazine which has recently undergone a facelift for 2012 and came out fighting right from the off with the Future of Photography series. Included so far are: Ed Swinden, George Plemper, Steve Gullick, Derek Ridgers, Phillip Greenspun and Carlein van der Beek.

Each offers their unique and occasionally controversial view on The Future of Photography. Oomska has put together an excellent series of questions including “How and when did you first become interested in photography? What was the trigger which led you to take a serious interest? How different would that trigger be now, with all the changes – technological and otherwise – in photography during the intervening years?“ and “Are there some qualities or aspects of film photography which digital will never be able to replicate or replace? If so, will these aspects of photography die with film?” The answers aren’t always what you’d expect which is what makes this series probably the best you’ll ever read.

Get yourself over to Oomska now and get reading, you won’t be disappointed.

The Future of Photography? by Oomska. It’s the best Photography interview series you’ll ever read.

 
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Technology Illusion

September 17, 2011 – 9:35 am

Another fantastic TED talk, this time by Marko Tempest. Some clever use of iPod technology.

 
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Gaming can make a better world

September 17, 2011 – 8:49 am

Fantastic talk by Jane McGonigal at TED in 2010.  Some very thought inspiring ideas.






								
 


											

						

						

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Virtual Fancy Dress…

				
March 21, 2011 – 2:40 pm

									
						

					
So, Augmented Reality (AR) is becoming pretty big, there are many applications in the realms of mobile apps.  Layar has done a pretty good job with their AR browser for example and there are many other apps out there that use AR to good effect too.  The Mozilla team have put together a neat set of demos in preparation for Firefox4 and one of those is an AR video showcase.  It’s pretty neat but you will need one of the latest HTML 5 capable browsers to check it out (IE9, FireFox 4, or Chrome will do)


Apparently something like this is used by some companies to allow easy product placement in TV / Film.   So you have a blank box with a marker on it and using some fancy post production software you stick whatever you like to fill in the space, cornflakes for the UK and cheerio’s for the states maybe?


This got me wondering, how long before we have augmented reality fancy dress parties where we all wear AR glasses and a full body suit with the marker of choice imprinted on it.  That marker becomes your costume in that wonderful AR party-space.  You might even take it further and have a selection of ‘costumes’ printed up from your own design, allowing you to create your own alien or superhero.  no more hunting round at the last minute trying to figure out if you are going as the flash or as a pirate because you’ve forgotten to rent a costume and all you have lying around is a scarf and a pair of shorts.  Just pop to the cupboard and pull your AR suit off the hangar… presto!  Of course if you turn up at the party and no-one has an AR suit or glasses you might be screwed, or you might be going as AR man/woman ;0)



								
 


											

						

						

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