Who needs a DSLR?

This past weekend I decided to go to Banff without lugging a DSLR or a camcorder. I just brought my iPhone 4S and a Panasonic Lumix waterproof pocket camera. The photograph here is from a panorama shot on the iPhone 4S, stitched in Pano.app.

Changeover

I finally got my new iPhone 4S activated. The iPhone 3G in this photo served me faithfully for 3 years, and it still works, although it slowed down quite a bit after I installed iOS4 on it. The 4S is significantly faster, of course.

Birthplace of the Web

The computer Tim Berners-Lee used to invent the World Wide Web, photo by Robert Scoble.

The web's inventor offers a few words in tribute to Steve Jobs, whose company NeXT created the platform on which the web was invented.

Steve Jobs: The Crazy Ones

Does this ring true for you?

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Perceptive Pixel demos 82" multi-touch display

Vancouver Cleanup: Post-Riots

Vancouver Cleanup: Post-Riots, a set by Maurice Li on Flickr.

A much nicer side to a great city.

Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two

The Future of Collaborative Visual Communications

They Got it Right

Japan Earthquake Swarm Google Earth Animation

The World Has Changed...Just a Bit

Doing the Unlikely

Image source: Apple

Apple has managed to do something everyone else so far has failed at: make UNIX usable for non-geeks. In fact, Apple has turned UNIX into a mass-market consumer operating system. How? iOS, which powers the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, is UNIX at its core. The typical iOS device user doesn't need to know this, and frankly, they don't care so long as their devices work properly. iOS shares core code with MacOS X, so there's a non-trivial degree of reusability between codebases, and lessons learned on iOS are transferred to MacOS X and vice versa. This is only to be expected, since both iOS and MacOS X trace their ancestry to NeXTSTEP, the platform on which Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1990. So UNIX is alive and well...and thanks to Apple, popular. Not bad for an OS first developed in 1969. For historical context, scroll through the UNIX timeline.

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