Arcade Fire: The Wilderness Downtown
For their song, "We Used To Wait," Arcade Fire decided to forgo the traditional video and create an interactive, data-driven Chrome Experiment using HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.
Facetime Adoption
Marco Arment wrote an interesting post about the adoption of FaceTime by iOS users over time:
We, the long-time iPhone owners, won’t be the first ones to use FaceTime regularly.
But the next generation of iPhone owners will.
FaceTime is the sort of technology that we “old” people will promptly forget that we can do, and then be shocked when we learn that young people are doing it en masse.
MS Office for Mac 2011 Shipping in October
Microsoft announced today that Office 2011 for Mac would ship in October of this year. The release of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 will be simultaneous across 100 countries at the end of October. Two versions will be available, Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011.
Starting today, if customers purchase Office 2008 for Mac, they will be able to upgrade to Office 2011 when it is available at no additional cost through the Microsoft Office for Mac Technology Guarantee Program.
The following editions will be available.
- Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 includes Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac and Messenger for Mac, and it will retail starting at $119.
- Available in two editions — a single install for $119 (U.S. ERP) and a Family Pack for $149 (U.S. ERP) with three installs for families with more than one Mac in their household.
- Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 includes Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac, Outlook for Mac and Messenger for Mac, and it will retail starting at $199 (U.S. ERP).
- It also will be available in two editions — a single install for $199 (U.S. ERP) and a Multi-Pack for $279 (U.S. ERP) with two installs for a user with two machines.
- Microsoft Office for Mac Academic 2011 includes Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac, Outlook for Mac and Messenger for Mac, and it will retail at authorized academic stores and Microsoft for $99 (U.S. ERP).
Dueling Carls
Talking Carl is an iPhone app that records snippets of audio and then plays it back at a higher pitch. If you put two Talking Carls next to each other, this is what you get:
Artist Paints Portrait Using 'Brushes' for iPad
Someone also forgot to tell David Kassan that the iPad wasn't a content creation device:
"Apple of My Eye", a Short Film Created on iPhone 4 with iMovie for iOS
Someone forgot to tell Michael Koerbel that the iPhone 4 wasn't a content creation device:
iOS Icons Made In Pure CSS
Louis Harboe has made a bunch of Apple default apps using pure CSS. No images used, what-so-ever. An incredibly amazing effort on his part.
Tweetie 2.0 is now Twitter 3.0 (free suckage included!)
Why did Twitter feel the need to change the icon Twitter for iPhone, previously known as Tweetie 2, from the beautiful icon as seen on the left, to the craptastic abomination as seen on the right? Anyone? Bueller?