On Google In General

May 15, 2013

Watched the Google I/O 2013 live stream over at The Verge this morning. Nothing truly earth-shattering or even personally that interesting was announced. But the music subscription service (clumsily named “Google Play Music All Access”) was notable – mostly because Apple has been rumored to have such a service (less clumsy “iRadio”) in the works for years now with no announcement.

Movie Notes: The Social Network

May 12, 2013

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Synopsis

Antisocial, selfish college student Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) creates the social networking website Facebook.

Bill Gates Says iPad Users Are “Frustrated”

May 6, 2013

Bill claims iPad users are “frustrated” because they can’t type and create documents on an iPad. “They don’t have Office there.”

On Adobe CC And Fireworks

May 6, 2013

Adobe just announced they’re going all-in behind “Creative Cloud” and abandoning Creative Suite. The latest versions of Photoshop / Illustrator etc. will no longer be stand-alone installs, replaced by a month-by-month subscription service. And along the way, Fireworks is done.

On 4K

May 5, 2013

No, not 5K, 10K in terms of running… reading more about upcoming 4K resolution screens which are supposed to leave the current level of HD in the dust. The 4K term comes from nearly 4,000 pixels in the horizontal direction.