ANDY IHNATKO is one of the biggest Mac advocates. Yet he loves Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
With the Metro user interface, they’ve created a simple and beautiful design language that’s relevant to a broad range of devices and to the ways that people use computers in the second decade of the 21st century. …
Metro is all about reducing the screen to the absolute minimum of visual noise necessary to do the thing the user has chosen to do at a given moment. There’s no overlapping windows and no menus or toolbars. When you launch a Metro-based word processor, your document occupies the whole screen. …
Clear is designed to help you manage your life without adding clutter. It’s a beautifully-designed, gesturally-driven app that we’ve created to improve on a pencil and notepad for flexibly keeping quick, simple todo lists.
Voice Command is cool, but works very inconsistently. I can’t recommend it.
The device comes with a windshield mount. That came loose within the first few days. Dad may need to buy a second Friction Mount, $40 plus tax in Canada.
Despite the problems, Dad likes it.
The user interface is far simplified and improved over the many GPS “fish finders” he’s used in boats over the years.
3D is crude now. But the future is 3 dimensional, I’m certain. Likely transparent holographic mid-air displays, as we’ve seen in many movies.
Here’s another baby step in that direction.
When Minority Report was released nearly a decade ago, it gave a glimpse into a future of participatory media environments and responsive technological infrastructures. We haven’t quite caught up to the yesterday’s future, but you can now simulate much of Tom Cruise’s cybernetic gymnastics at the Live Park 4D Art Factory in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
… the giant indoor theme-park, … opened at the end of January …
• if you MUST edit (and have money) higher end software like Final Cut does import .MTS
… first try using a cable directly to the camera, rather than simply the SD card via a card reader. That sometimes works.
If you’re an Apple person, best not purchase any camera that saves video in the MTS format. Check.
Lastly, I’ve ended up with some SD cards with old video files that cannot be deleted. For those it’s best simply to reformat using Apple Disk Utilities ERASE. The best format in 2012 seems to be exFAT — readable by almost all modern Windoze and Mac devices.
External Hard Drives should be formatted in exFAT, as well.
… In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton—and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama’s partner and America’s face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. …
It’s the definitive account of what happened.
You learn that you’d NEVER want to run for President of the USA. It’s ugly. It’s dirty.
Of the lead characters, John Edwards (in prison, I hope) and his wife Elizabeth (1949-2010) come off worst. A horror show.
Bill Clinton won’t be going to Heaven. I wouldn’t share a beer with him.
Actually, my opinion went UP for John McCain and Hilary. I personally campaigned against McCain in 2008, thinking him spawn of the Devil. He’s not as bad as I thought. I particularly liked how he backed Sarah Palin even after it became obvious that she was an insanely bad choice for VP.
… an upcoming (March 2012) Jay Roach film based on the book of the same name by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. The film will primarily track the actions of the Republican Party during the 2008 Presidential Election.
(about $300 tax included)
Rick McCharles 