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Posted in Technology on Feb 19th, 2008
I can’t believe it! Adobe just announced that Director 11 is on its way! Wow, I think it has been almost four years since the last version of Director was released. I am now having wonderful flashbacks of my multimedia heydays in the late 90s where I worked with Director over four [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 5th, 2008
So you’ve got a cat who sings when she yawns, or you want to capture Uncle Jimmy crushing beer cans on his fat head – well, the Sony Net Sharing Cam is for you. The YouTube generation, that group of youngsters and the not-so-young who feel the need to record and share absolutely everything with [...]
Posted in Technology on Dec 23rd, 2007
Sort of a cross between anime and South Park, with sketchier animations – that’s Scratch.
Developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy for people like you and me to write fun, interactive products with little programming knowledge.
Originally launched in May, 2007, the [...]
Posted in Technology on Dec 19th, 2007
I was so excited when the One Laptop Per Child offered its Give One Get One program that I ordered one on November 12, 2007, the first day it was available. I checked my email last night around 7:15 PM and I see the email below from OLPC:
From: OLPC Customer Care [mailto:service@laptop.org]
Sent: Tuesday, [...]
Posted in Technology on Dec 10th, 2007
If Santa had really been listening to me a few weeks ago, this would have been under my tree. The Dell XPS M1330 is not just a computer, it is a piece of art – or at least that’s what the marketing types at Dell would lead us to believe. And they’re right!
The M1330 is [...]