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Build your own iOffice: Part 1 Today I'm going to start a series of blogs about using the iPad in and around the workplace. I'll be covering the following topics: Office Suites Tools & Apps for the aspiring iPad pro-user Remote...
iPad at the CUC The iPad at the CUC event on Wednesday evening was a little more formal than we've been used to in Liverpool over the past few months. Sponsored by Vision & Media and organised by Pixel-Lab, the...
myPad I'm sat on my sofa with my feet up typing on this fingerprint smudged A4 sized piece of plastic & glass that came out on Friday - finally living the vision of computing that Steve Jobs has been moving...
Site updates Ack once again I've completely neglected the blog. Rather than promise updates and (likely) not deliver, I've made some infrastructure changes: Delicious daily digests Lifestream weekly digests iDevice...
Thoughts on Dream Director and FACT FACT is really awesome you know. In addition to a bunch of my family working there, they have the best cinema venue in Liverpool, and regular art & digital media exhibitions, of which the quality...
Ignite Liverpool 3 took place at Static on Thursday, 5th August, and I gave a talk on the Systems Failures Approach, notable for my, erm, attire (see right).
The embedded player below isn’t very useful because the notes don’t get attached, so follow the link to view it on slideshare if you like.
Today I’m going to start a series of blogs about using the iPad in and around the workplace. I’ll be covering the following topics:
Our first point of call is the humble, yet ubiquitous office suite. This is going to be a straight review / roundup so if that’s not your thing you might want to wait for part 2.
The iPad at the CUC event on Wednesday evening was a little more formal than we’ve been used to in Liverpool over the past few months. Sponsored by Vision & Media and organised by Pixel-Lab, the format was drinks, presentations in the theatre, panel, then more (free – yay!) drinks / informal discussion. This worked quite well, largely due to the quality of the speakers, but I and a few others felt that the panel session could have gone on longer, as it was cut short just as many people were beginning to put their hands up. Attendance was fairly low, and from the sounds of it the reasons were twofold – it wasn’t very well publicised, and there was another event on that evening. However, this didn’t detract from the presentations or the opportunities for discussion after the main section.
I’m sat on my sofa with my feet up typing on this fingerprint smudged A4 sized piece of plastic & glass that came out on Friday – finally living the vision of computing that Steve Jobs has been moving towards for years, and I first cottoned on to when I watched The Girl From Tomorrow in 1992 and thought a talking watch was the coolest thing I’d ever seen (you heard it here first – Apple’s next product launch will be the iTransducer). I’ve actually had mine since Thursday, when I spent a good deal of the day running out into the street to accost delivery men, who wouldn’t give up the goods because my name isn’t Jennifer. I thought I’d write down my early thoughts on the iPad before the iPad at the C.U.C. conference tomorrow evening, so click past the break.
Ack once again I’ve completely neglected the blog. Rather than promise updates and (likely) not deliver, I’ve made some infrastructure changes:
I will be back after my exam though – have finally got the headskillz to actually say some things people might find interesting – and might or might not post some bits I’ve had drafted for a while before then, we’ll see.
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We’re doing a road trip to America in August, and would like some advice of the internets. Where should we go? What should we do? Check out Michael’s post for details.
Meanwhile, I’ll be back with new blog posts shortly – I have interesting things to talk about.
FACT is really awesome you know. In addition to a bunch of my family working there, they have the best cinema venue in Liverpool, and regular art & digital media exhibitions, of which the quality is steadily improving.
Last weekend I went to Dream Director, which our Michael has already written a nice long piece on. To paraphrase, we slept over at FACT, with a couple of presentations in the evening, and breakfast in the morning. When we were asleep, we got incidental sounds pumped into our sleeping booths based on when sensors detected us to be dreaming. My own thoughts are much the same as my little bro’s, but I’d like to add that the quality of the talks was really high. Luke Jerram is a very lucky man to have had the opportunities to produce some stunning creations and have people view and interact with them outside of traditional gallery / exhibition venues. The ‘Sleep Science’ talk from Chris Alford was even better – I had such a poor grasp of the subject beforehand and learnt a lot about how and why we sleep. An account of sleep paralysis, something I occasionally suffer from, was particularly good – did you know that many cultures think a little demon is sitting on your chest?!?!?
As part of the piece, we had to record our dreams from before (the night before in my case) and the morning after the FACT sleepover. I won’t go into detail about the one before (was a nightmare involving an ex) but the one that I had after being played sounds of open spaces all night was kind of humourous! I was up in the admin section of FACT (where we’d had the presentations) and the artist and I had a row about Dream Director! I kept saying it wasn’t working, and he became incredulous and full of disbelief. Eventually he stormed out. I later discovered that in reality, I had been played more sounds than anyone else that night, but I don’t remember them. How odd.
My presentation from Barcamp Liverpool is up on Slideshare. It was really designed just to open the discussion, so you won’t get the full story of the session from these notes. Thanks to everyone who attended for all your contributions!