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Digital Publishing for the iPad

June 27, 2011 // 0 Comments

Compared  to the likes of Wired and Martha Stewart Living, we are a small publisher (100K viewers/month, <2000 downloads/iPad issue). When we heard that Adobe was [...]

iPhone4 Camera Skins

June 14, 2011 // 0 Comments

The interns got the idea for this iPhone4 DIY project from an item they saw on Etsy: a skin for the iPhone4 that gives it the appearance of Leica camera. They thought it [...]

Clear iPhone4 Cases

June 13, 2011 // 0 Comments

The interns got inspired by an interesting iPhone4 DIY project they saw a while back, which we’ll discuss tomorrow. The DIY project had a drawback which the interns [...]

Gardening and Software Development

June 1, 2011 // 0 Comments

Gardening  has a lot of similarity with software development. There are a lot of ways to go about it and some of it works better than others. Take planting perennials vs [...]

iPhone Microscope

May 10, 2011 // 0 Comments

We came across a DIY article on the Crabfu Artworks website last September on how to turn the iPhone into a portable digital microscope. We thought the idea was ingenious. [...]

Thousand Character Reference

May 4, 2011 // 0 Comments

The  idea of using Adobe’s DMP tools to convert a project we did about eight years ago into a reference text for the iPad came to us in a roundabout fashion. It [...]

Adobe DMP Tools: Fast & Furious

May 3, 2011 // 0 Comments

Adobe recently announced that the beta period for their Digital Magazine Publishing tools will end in June. This means that the free tools we used to create the 2010 Gift [...]

Hand-Gesture Apps

April 19, 2011 // 0 Comments

A  few years ago, Jeff Han gave a demo of a low-cost way to create large multi-touch surfaces using the FTIR technique. The talk generated a lot of excitement and a [...]

Spring iPad Issue Approved

April 18, 2011 // 0 Comments

It is Patriot’s Day here in New England. We know that some (many) of you don’t have this day off, but we do. So we are out cheering the runners of the Boston [...]

Spring iPad Issue

April 15, 2011 // 0 Comments

Last  Friday we submitted the first iPad issue of RainyDayMagazine to Apple for approval. The issue was constructed using a beta version of Adobe’s DMP tools. Future [...]
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