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Entries from July 2007

iPhone 1.1 Software Update Imminent, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 Bug Fixes and Improvements Emerging

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments

iPhone 1.1?According to Apple’s VP of iPod Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, via AppleInsider→, the first free software update for the iPhone should be available shortly.

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Tags: Gadget Review

Reading: “Global Nomads in the Digital Veldt” by Joshua Meyrowitz

July 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Sporting provocative bullet points, this essay may not be new news, but it speaks refreshing truths while standing the test of time.
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This scholarly paper by was originally presented as a talk for the conference Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects, held on April 29-30, 2003 in Budapest, and is collected in Mobile [...]

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Tags: Academic Essay

New ‘Processing’ Handbook Looks Amazing

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Eagerly Awaiting Book Release; Creators Release Substantial Sample Chapters.
For the uninitiated, Processing→ is an open interactive media platform published on free software license via MIT by Casey Reas→ and Ben Fry→. Originally created as a learning tool, it is maturing through a Beta phase currently while winning tremendous support within the academic and design [...]

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Tags: Book Review

Top 5 Tips That Make Living with iPhone 1.0 Just That Much Better

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

iPhone 1.0

5 tips and tricks for living with iPhone 1.0

Instead of pointing out the obvious flaws of a 1.0 release software, we offer 5 simple tips to workaround them while we wait for a software update from Apple. In addition, we’ve compiled a list of the Top 5 iPhone Safari Applications that you simply must bookmark.

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Tags: Gadget Review

Adobe AIR Seminar with Big Spaceship

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

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Adobe Integrated Runtime demonstrated by Big Spaceship.

This afternoon, Joshua Hirsch and Jamie Kosoy from Big Spaceship, here in Brooklyn, presented Building Adobe AIR Applications with Flash CS3 on the Adobe Connect presentation service.

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Tags: Technical