Source via Lexus.
Quicksilver Shelf Plugin – My First Screencast
July 3rd, 2009 | Published in Technology | 2 Comments
As I was trying to kill time, I was researching Quicksilver extendability other than just quick-launching apps. Yes, I know Spotlight does it from the get-go.
My search led to a Lifehacker.com article (as usual, with this kind of things) written a while back about Gina Trapani’s Top 10 Quicksilver Plugins (at the time: November 2007). One of the plugins that intrigued me to check out was the Shelf module/plugin.
Dope Music Video by ApSci – “Under Control”
June 10th, 2009 | Published in Music | Comment
I first heard about ApSci[1] through my brother Glen recently. Then dug in to take a look on their site for some tunes, http://apsci.net.
Lo and behold, they’ve been featured on Wired.com’s Underwire section just recently. The article was about their music video for “Under Control”.
The dope part is that it was produced using an “iPhone, a portable printer and a webcam.”
They performed the track in front of the webcam and printed it up into the handheld snapshots that fly by in the globe-hopping video, which hopscotches from Brooklyn to the Grand Canyon, Vegas, Hawaii and Australia at the speed of sound. They took additional shots using the iPhone, then mashed the production nightmare into an eye-tripping visual for their body-rocking song.
In other words, ApSci’s video has no video in it. No post-production either.
Very, very schneaky and creative I must say. Well done. Here’s the video.
- The group is made up of Bronx native Raphael LaMotta and Filipino-Australian Dana Diaz-Tutaan. [↩]
News from Apple WWDC 2009
June 10th, 2009 | Published in Technology | Comment
For those that don’t know, Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2009 was this past Monday morning at Moscone West, San Francisco. It’s primarily for those developing for Apple’s products (OS X, iPhone apps, etc.) but it’s also for the Apple fans out there as the Keynote usually addresses new product releases, etc.
I was tuned in, listening to Ustream’s live stream of the Keynote.[1] Pretty cool as you can multitask versus having to read every new updates on a blog. Though you have to give it up though as the photos on the blog updates are more eye candy.
URL Longer-er
June 8th, 2009 | Published in Technology | Comment
I was just talking to James about the idea of having a URL “longer-er” service/site just for laughs. The idea of it is pretty much a reverse of most of the URL shortening services out there today like tr.im, is.gd, tinyurl.com, etc. Lo and behold, I guess they have one:
Check out URL for this blog using the service:
Nuts! That’s 2008 characters from 20. An increase of about 100 times. =p
