I’ve long been fascinated with immersive photography such as 360° panoramas, videos, virtual reality and photo spheres. I backed the Dot project on Kickstarter back in 2011, and they actually created a cool accessory for the iPhone 4 (at the time, the latest-and-greatest) that recorded 360° video. Now, it’s pretty easy to create immersive photo spheres […]
Gadgets
Mirroring iPad 2 Video to Your TV
When I got my iPad last October, I was astounded that there was no way to mirror your display to a larger screen. This seems like a no-brainer — for training or even demo purposes, you would think that Apple would have some way to mirror the display to an external monitor or LCD screen. […]
Favorite iPhone Apps for Photography
I’ve always loved photography. When I was younger, I used a Konica SLR (even lugging that heavy thing over 200 miles on the John Muir Trail back in 1980). When digital cameras appeared on the scene, I quickly dove in. The ability to shoot… and shoot… and shoot as many photos as I wanted without […]
Cutting the Cable: Nine Months Later
Last year I got fed up with my cable TV bill. I was paying about $120/month for cable TV alone! I don’t watch that much TV, yet somehow I had put up with paying for two premium channels and a package that included at least a hundred channels that I would never watch. Just about […]
Upgrading the iPad
Last week, Apple announced the iPad 2. It’s not a revolutionary upgrade, but a natural evolution of an already great product. I shared my thoughts on the iPad 2 over at BigBlueBall. I’ve had my iPad since last October, and love it. Now that the iPad 2 is out, the natural question is whether to […]
LunaTik & TikTok Unboxed
LunaTik and TikTok are a pair of wrist bands specifically designed to turn your iPod Nano into a multi-touch wrist watch. These beautiful watch straps were designed by Scott Wilson, former creative director at Nike Watches and founder of the Minimal design studio. They are beautifully designed and perfectly matched to the Nano. The best […]
Vimeo Comes to the Big Screen
Yesterday I turned on my Samsung Blueray player to tune into Pandora (which sounds amazing cranked through my A/V system). I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve used my Blueray player to watch a disc, but I’m constantly using the various web apps: Netflix, Hulu Plus, and especially Pandora. As the […]