Archive for the “Technology” category

The Small Things That Make the Difference

by Iain on November 30, 2010

I’m visiting a mix on SoundCloud (this one if you care). The top of the page looks like this: Then I start playing the mix, and look what happens to my tab: Spot it? If not let me make it (…)

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My Talk at Under The Influence

by Iain on May 2, 2008

Here’s the talk I did at Iris’ excellent Under the Influence day. It’s basically about digital experiences and magic and how the two are interconnected. Hope it’s OK – from my perspective I think it wanders a bit at the (…)

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Google Visualisation Gadgets – Cool

by Iain on April 7, 2008

I discovered the world of visualisation gadgets through this excellent blog: http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/ They’re things that can basically turn a table full of boring data into interactive gadgets that you can publish and share as you like. I thought it looked (…)

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10 Reasons Digital Is Better Than Advertising – Remixed

by Iain on April 5, 2008

This is all going to seem a little strange. Why on earth would anyone want to remix a presentation in such a fashion? Well it’s a funny story you see. I was mucking around with some basic VJing software. It’s (…)

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Boo hoo. I missed Rider Spoke.

by Iain on April 2, 2008

I’m a little gutted. I just got the programme for the Brighton Festival and got all excited when I saw that Blast Theory’s location based cycling thingy Rider Spoke is coming to Brighton for a weekend! Woo hoo! Then I (…)

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Adobe Downloads Cost More Than Boxes – WTF?

by Iain on March 28, 2008

I feel bad posting bad stuff about Adobe being as they’ve just launched 2 really cool things: Buzzword.com is an amazing online word processor (the export functions are dead tight and you could almost survive without MS Word), and Photoshop (…)

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URLs Out – Searches In

by Iain on March 26, 2008

I was watching TV last night and an ad came on for continuing education. It’s one with fingers walking around the place. The ad was OK. I didn’t really pay much attention. But at the end of the ad the (…)

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Is It Broken?

by Iain on March 20, 2008

Brilliantly simple. We’ve all had those moments when a site’s not working. And you wonder, is it down for everyone or just me? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ answers the question for you. You enter a URL and it tells you. Smashing. I did (…)

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My New Invention – Suspense Pregnancy Kits

by Iain on March 11, 2008

Pregnancy tests are a staple of TV drama. You can’t have a soap opera without the cliffhanger moment when someone is waiting in a bathroom staring at a wet little stick to find out if they’re up the duff or (…)

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Absolut Machines

by Iain on March 11, 2008

Dickon from work pointed me at: ABSOLUT MACHINES. It’s so killer it’s not even funny. They’ve got a load of top drawer interactive music machines that you can play with over the internet. And the way they’ve done the queueing (…)

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