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Excellente amélioration de l’interface de navigation virtuelle des rues d’une ville (google streetview/bing streetside) par l’affichage des facades en panoramas. La construction mentale d’une rue ou d’un quartier deviens plus juste et plus mémorable. L’utilisation sur iPhone est encore plus convaincante. •
Bldgblog style, Rob Holmes walks through the network of landscapes related far and wide to the use of an iPhone. From the mines of Zinc in Alaska, the smelting facility in BC, the assembly factories in Shenzhen, the data farms in Oregon, to the cell towers in Brooklyn: all coming together for you to find the your closest caffeine joint. (via kottke)
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Great roundup from the New Yorker on the current state of the publishing business and how it’s adapting [or not] to the electronic formats and distribution with the Kindle, the iPad and the likes:
Publishing exists in a continual state of forecasting its own demise; at one major house, there is a running joke that the second book published on the Gutenberg press was about the death of the publishing business.
It’s not that bad, but the publishers don’t seem enthusiastic to change the business model.
•Yay, Aperture 3 is finally out. I’m crossing my fingers for improved image adjustments capabilities. It’s been great for organizing and going-through thousands [and thousands] of pictures, but I always end up doing most of the post image adjustments in good ol’ photoshop. •
Circa 1997: Apple Newton Getting Started Video. Slightly ahead of its time, the Newton was nevertheless quite well thought out: the type-correction interface is marvelous, still many smartphones don’t have something as well designed today. And the beam function just sounds trippy. (Pis oui, c’est juste pour vous mettre dans le mood avant la sortie d’une tablette [sic] quelconque le 27 janvier.) •
After reading Nicholson Baker’s review of the Kindle 2 for the New Yorker, I’m kind of joining the bandwagon for some kind of Apple tablet anytime soon. The iPhone seems to be so close of something better than a Kindle, notwithstanding its size. Feels like Kindle is only good as it can be, being pretty much the only one out there. •
Vanou: If your iTunes library is a mess, missing album names, artists spelled 3 different ways, missing cover-art, irrelevant genres (Paul Simon lists as “Adult Contemporary” in my library: wtf), all that makes organizing nitpicks go crazy, you might want to check Tune-Up, it fixes everything for you in a few clicks. Automagically™. Its 20 bucks for more than a hundred songs though. •