Lots of lovely pics of the new iOS 5
Click for more …
http://www.engadget.com/wwdc-2011/apple-ios-5-hands-on-preview.
* For US only ;( ,,,
Swap.com, the online trading marketplace, has released a free iPhone app for trding what you have with what you want. You can use the app to scan the barcodes of items you don’t want anymore or items you see in a shop, to find out if anyone else has them available to swap.
As well as scanning items with the phone’s camera to add to your Have and Want lists you can create an account, initiate, accept, or reject swaps, fund your account via Paypal and email shipping labels from the app to print at home.
Swap.com promotes trading in favor of buying lots of new items, as most people have things at home that they no longer want. The website boasts the savings its members have made, estimated currently at $11.9 million, and also a reduced carbon footprint estimate of 10.7 million lbs.
Via. http://www.psfk.com/.
Feb 042011
1984′: As Good as It Gets
A single TV commercial redefined Super Bowl advertising. How was it made?
Jan 30, 2011
Because I’m a writer and “1984” had no dialogue, I actually didn’t go on the shoot. Instead, I covered a shoot with director Adrian Lyne in Los Angeles that did have dialogue.
The “1984” spot nearly died when the client on the shoot refused to sign the estimate for a second day of shooting. O’Neill called me from London again, saying the spot was dead if we couldn’t get two full days of shooting. I had just been promoted to vp at Chiat/Day, therefore becoming an officer of the company. I asked O’Neill if he could proceed on my signature. He said, “Hey, you’re an officer—I can go ahead on your say so. But if it doesn’t work out, you’re fired.” I thought it was a risk well worth taking.
Ironically, the spot that the client was really interested in was a commercial for Lisa, the $10,000 Mac-like business computer that never really got off the ground. Ridley gave us a deal, agreeing to shoot both the Lisa spot and the Macintosh launch spot for a package price of about $600,000. Jay Chiat used to delight in showing the spot the clients cared most about—a nothing bit of braggadocio that dropped from public consciousness like a stone. Thank God.
The “1984” spot nearly died when the client on the shoot refused to sign the estimate for a second day of shooting. O’Neill called me from London again, saying the spot was dead if we couldn’t get two full days of shooting. I had just been promoted to vp at Chiat/Day, therefore becoming an officer of the company. I asked O’Neill if he could proceed on my signature. He said, “Hey, you’re an officer—I can go ahead on your say so. But if it doesn’t work out, you’re fired.” I thought it was a risk well worth taking.
Ironically, the spot that the client was really interested in was a commercial for Lisa, the $10,000 Mac-like business computer that never really got off the ground. Ridley gave us a deal, agreeing to shoot both the Lisa spot and the Macintosh launch spot for a package price of about $600,000. Jay Chiat used to delight in showing the spot the clients cared most about—a nothing bit of braggadocio that dropped from public consciousness like a stone. Thank God.
and some lovely man scanned this in …
In the Fall of 1984 Apple published a 16-page (with fold-out) advertising insert in Newsweek magazine….
Jan 262011
The Apple website was down earlier today and, while some rumours claimed that a white iPhone 4 might finally be about to surface, it appears that the actual reason for the downtime was a rather snazzy, if subtle, HTML5 revamp of the website.
Read More …
Jan 042011
TUAW’s Daily App: Trip Cubby Free by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jan 4th 2011 at 8:00AM I already use David Barnard’s great Gas Cubby app to track all of my gas purchases on my little 2005 Matrix, but since I’m getting ready to drive up to Las Vegas today for the big CES [...]
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