IT Director for a non-profit in Washington, DC. Man About Internet.
Interviews with the talented sound team including Re-recording mixers Stuart Hilliker and Mike Dowson, Supervising Music Editor Gerard McCann, Supervising Sound Editor James Mather, and Sound Designer Dom Gibbs who discuss how they recorded and produced the sound effects for the final Harry Potter movie.
This kid is awesome.
Apple:
This update contains improvements and other bug fixes including: - Fixes bugs affecting battery life - Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad - Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud - Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation Macworld has more details. I've been running the Beta 1 and Beta 2 versions of this update for several weeks. All of the battery life issues folks have been experiencing on iOS 5 is fixed by this update. The difference is night & day. You can update using the old method of connecting to iTunes, or you use the new delta update method, over the air, by going to Settings -> General - Software Updates. This second method is what I recommend as it is much quicker and doesn't involve a long restore of your iPhone after the update finishes.
A new Simon's Cat is out. Love these.
Chris Rawson, writing for TUAW:
Mac OS X Hints has discovered that Macs running OS X Lion and registered with iCloud have a hidden "drop box" in the user's Library folder that allows for easy document and file syncing between Macs. A folder within ~/Library (which Lion hides by default) called "Mobile Documents" contains iWork documents synced with iOS devices via iCloud. I saw this article a few weeks back and have been to busy to post it. This gives me a lot of optimism that perhaps, one day, iCloud can replace Dropbox for me. Hopefully within the next year, even.
A few times a month I run across a video that fascinates me and makes me smile. This is one of those.
What “future of” tech/design videos need is a little less Minority Report and a little more Alien. Director Ridley Scott famously told his production designers to make Alien’s spaceship and costumes look roughed-up, slightly messy, and above all, lived in. Otherwise, it just isn’t believable enough to see yourself in — which is a design problem that both horror movies and corporate promos need to solve. Microsoft’s film is probably going viral as we speak, but imagine how much more reach it would have if it dared to depict a guy stuck in a meeting that sucked, or using his smartphone in an airport that was full of noisy assholes and long lines, or searching his touchscreen-enabled smart refrigerator for a quick meal because his kids are bouncing off the walls and he’s bone-tired from a long day at work?
