Less than two months after announcing its plans to acquire photo app company Instagram for $1 billion, Facebook has released an iOS app that looks and functions almost identically to Instagram’s. Facebook Camera, which is now available in the App Store for free, sincerely improves upon the photo capabilities offered by Facebook’s primary app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Like Instagram, your friends’ latest photos are displayed in a single scrolling feed. You can also now simultaneously upload multiple photos to Facebook; Facebook’s main app only allows you to upload photos one at a time. And like Instagram, the app allows you to crop, rotate and apply filters to your photos. Interestingly, none of the app’s 15 filters were developed by the Instagram team, ... Continue reading →
Technology licensing company SimpleAir said on Thursday that Apple has licensed the company’s patents, ending a legal dispute between the two companies. SimpleAir said that the agreement was confidential and did not announce terms of the deal. The Marshall, Texas-based company sued Apple back in September 2009. A trial had been set for April, but the two companies reached a tentative deal at the courthouse just before the case began, SimpleAir said. The firm has also sued a number of other companies in the mobile space, including Microsoft, Nokia, Sony Ericsson (now a part of Sony), Samsung, LG, Huawei and HTC. SimpleAir bills itself as “an inventor-owned technology licensing company with interests and intellectual property in the wireless content delivery, mobile application, and push notification ... Continue reading →
After months of chipping away at its lead, Google Chrome has finally overtaken Internet Explorer to become most popular web browser worldwide. Chrome's share of the market rose to 32.8% in the week ending May 20, while Internet Explorer's share of the market dropped to 31.9%, according to new data from StatCounter, via TheNextWeb. This marks the first full week that Chrome has beaten Explorer. Google's browser had previously topped Explorer for a single day back in March. Mozilla's Firefox is the third most popular browser with just more than a 25% of the market. Continue reading →
sgourley 237 photos · 205 followers “Star trek transporter at Microsoft HQ. Best corporate art I've seen for a while” Likes · 1 tinalorayne Continue reading →
Who's John Baldessari? To judge from this wonderfully mischievous video commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Baldessari is a hugely — and I mean hugely — successful conceptual artist, whose work has appeared in hundreds of gallery shows, major museum exhibitions. You name it, he's done it. And yet — in the hands of filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (whose movie, Catfish was about hustling on the Internet), as narrated by Tom Waits, script by Gabriel Nussbaum — there is something of the flimflam man in John Baldessari. His work, says Wikipedia, combines "the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language" — which means — I don't know what. 'I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art' His ... Continue reading →
THE first time I’d ever heard that there were video previews for books was when I was told I had to make one. A few months before my own book was to be released, my publisher advised me that official book trailers were now routinely posted on YouTube as a promotional device. I was skeptical, but remembering how instrumental video was in advancing the career of Men Without Hats, I acquiesced. The first script I submitted was reverse-engineered from a survey of viral videos: it featured a hot girl, my cat, a catchy song and a child being humiliated. It was ix-nayed without much discussion — presumably because it was not remotely SFW — so I dutifully wrote a more conventional version whose only concession ... Continue reading →
