Universal Music will try anything to throw a wrench into the well-oiled machine that’s the iTunes music store. They just announced a deal to sell DRM free tracks to 4 other online music stores. After all, it’s not like Apple delivers some $750-$800 million dollars into Universal’s coffers … oh wait, they do. And yet, […]

Andy Hertzfield, 1983 – Designing the Mac interface: “We thought it was important for the user to be able to invoke every menu command directly from the keyboard, so we added a special key to the keyboard to invoke menu commands, just like our predecessor, Lisa. We called it the “Apple key”; when pressed in […]

K-9 Students & Families The newly revamped iMac is certainly a nice home computer at a nice price point – everything a K-9 student & family might need. It comes with iLife and there are dozens of free word processors you can download to use or MS Office Student & Academic version is only $99 […]

Forget the soft drink logos on vending machines in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory or a cpg screen saver seen in SWAT 4, these are not the things that will benefit advertisers and for the most part all you do is piss off gamers. One of the key proponents of in-game advertising, Massive, is plowing forward […]

Just when you thought you have been bombarded just about everywhere by advertising, along comes another new form of advertising ‘vehicle’ just in time for all of you travelers out there…airport security bin advertising! At least in one example, they lined up a great contextual fit: The culprit, er… innovator, of this endeavor is one […]

I spent a few days last week blogging on the behalf of ad:tech for their conference held in Chicago. It was a busy few days and provided me with a great look at how some of the ad industry’s best minds are going about things. One of the sessions that I covered was on publishing. […]

The gPhone may be a lot of things but the last thing it is a threat to the iPhone. First, no one knows exactly what is but let’s take every bit of rumor at face value anyway. USER INTERFACE While the iPhone is not perfect, it is easier to use after 15 minutes than if […]

While we have pretty much uncovered most every detail about the Mattel Pixar CARS diecast lineup, I don’t think anyone has really covered the ‘card backs’ in great detail so let us start that project here. There are now 3 front card designs for individual non-exclusive “blister” CARS: The “desert/classic/original” scene The Flo’s Cafe Night […]

While you are now running full speed on your iPhone now, what about making voicemail and phone calls really visual? What about adding those headshots of friends, loved ones, welcomed calls or the dreaded colleagues so when they call, there is a photograph that instantly recalls their presence in your life? Pretty simple. Fire up […]

The iPhone is one of the nicest camera phones out there. I haven’t had any problems with the green tinting that some people have reported – perhaps a software white-balance issue? But hopefully all your photos have been turning out well – and perhaps you’ve wondered how to actually get them off the camera. Of […]