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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 [...]

iPad Microscope

April 14, 2011 // 0 Comments

Yesterday we mentioned that the Flip camcorder was taken off the market by Cisco. One of the reasons for the Flip’s demise may be the ubiquity of camera and video [...]

fab@home

March 23, 2011 // 0 Comments

Love making stuff? Need a special part? Want it NOW? These are just a few of the reasons why Fab@Home is the gathering place for DIY-ers the world over. What began as a [...]

DIY iPad Brush

March 9, 2011 // 0 Comments

A few review requests have come across our desks recently regarding iPad styli. We have ignored them, mostly because the whole idea of a stylus is pretty silly when the [...]

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