iPad key to expanding Apple’s addressable market
If you watched the Apple iPad launch event last month, you may have noticed something new, at least in comparison to past extravaganzas. Steve Jobs as…
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Google Buzz app in Android Market: Crap-and-balls or real-deal?
Someone call Yogi Berra. It’s déjà vu all over again. At least I think. After Google announced Google Buzz yesterday, and indicated an app would…
Filmmaker Alejandro Adams on Cinequest and ‘Babnik’
Alejandro Adams is a Cinequest veteran. His newest film Babnik (Russian slang for “womanizer”), a World Premiere about the Russian sex trade, marks his third feature…
Artist Diaries: Altering the foundation colors of the fountain with some Dioxazine Purple
This week, I warmed up and lightened the colors of the fountain so that it would not look so foreboding. If you recall, last week,…
Google announces Google Buzz, a social add-on for Gmail
Google today, at their Mountain View headquarters, announced Google Buzz. Dubbed a new way to share, communicate within Gmail, “it’s like an entirely new world…
Making the HBO logo, television intro before Adobe After Effects
Wonder how special effects were made before cgi? This video, “A Closer Look: Inside HBO’s City” from the 1980s, documents how the company re-branded itself…
Google Maps navigation on Motorola Droid (and Android) adds night mode
The already superb built-in navigation on the Motorola Droid (and Android 2.0/2.1) just got even better with the addition of night mode. Yes, please get…
Review: Opera San Jose ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ well done and enjoyable, plus a future star discovery!
First, some quotes about jealousy: “Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the…
Super Bowl Party Appetizers: The action that happens off screen with great friends and good food
At any Super Bowl party, you know that only half the action happens on screen.
Super Sunday Espresso: Creative process, Twitter strikes again, Dicky Fox
Good morning espresso lovers, chatters. It’s Super Sunday, and I think I only watched one game the entire season. A playoff game as a matter…