Category Archives: software

Bizarro iTunes App

By tone | Published: February 18, 2010
Is this the future of syndicated newspaper strips? With dwindling newspaper sales, cartoonists are finding it harder to sell their products. Many wannabe cartoonists with an internet account create free content and bring down the value of strips found in newspapers. Dan Piraro is perhaps one of the oldest original creators from the 80’s [...]
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Ortery Photosimile 5000

By tone | Published: December 29, 2009
The Ortery Photosimile 5000 is a gadget that you might do without if you think a $60.00 camera will do for photo taking images for professional display. The practicality of the Ortery Photosimile for every angle pictures is desirable, but the price of the unit might be out of reach for small scale projects. The [...]
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The Future of Digital Magazines

By tone | Published: December 17, 2009
Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo. Many R&D departments are busy developing new prototypes for new magazine layouts for tablets. We are just on the cusp of new technology and some not so new pushing through and driving away a paper dependent industry for new original content. The magazine as you know it will never be the [...]
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Books Merging With iTouch/iPhones

By tone | Published: December 13, 2009
The synergy between books and the new tablet platforms will only benefit young kids with the hunger to learn. As illustrated by the inserted iPhone into a book is an amazing way to have that well deserved toddler interaction. Could this be a new niche for kid publishers in the future? The new wave of [...]
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Twoddler: Twittering Toddlers

By tone | Published: December 3, 2009
The basic framework of Twitter can now be enjoyed by toddlers with Twoddler. Parents are always looking for that extra advantage. The device is ingenious, it is hooked up a Fisher Price toy to a Twitter account, and the account is updated when the toddler interacts with the newly christened Fisher Price toy as Twoddler. [...]
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I, The Future of Newspapers

By tone | Published: November 20, 2009
The demise of the newspaper in many quarters are in peril and in others such as in Portugal are finding a new Renascence of sorts. I, is a new newspaper that throws away conventional thinking and integrates new ideas of what a newspaper really should be. I is for innovation, the Iberian newspaper is garnishing [...]
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Google to Announce Music Service

By tone | Published: October 21, 2009
Google music, is it possible? Leading tech sites are reporting that Google is ready to launch the equivalent of iTunes in the United States. Google is already in the music business in China since 2008 and are now ready to do the same for the rest of the world. Declining music sales of actual CD [...]
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New PSP GO Must Go

By tone | Published: October 4, 2009
The new PSP Go has so many new bells and whistles, however, electronic merchants are too enthused to learn that the new portal gaming system has a new feature. You can download games and the raison d’être for this system is to bypass the middle guy and sell games online. The Bluetooth enabled device will [...]
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Autodesk’s SketchBook for iPhone

By tone | Published: September 17, 2009
(Above, sketch by D. Guertin created by iPhone -SketchBook Mobile flickr group.) Here is a devil of an idea from the makers Autodesk’s SketchBook Pro, they are taking their program mobile. It seems that people are texting about without a care, why not doodle and sketch some eye grabbing images as you commute on long rides. [...]
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Scribblenauts: The Vocabulary Game

By tone | Published: September 15, 2009
The power of words can shape the world around young impressionable ears. Scribblenauts is the word game that gets kids to use words and use new ones at the same time. The power word building game is a switch from the regular mind numbing games that some kids are subjected to as just eye candy [...]
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