Tag: Apple

Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com “Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem. In 2010, Har­vard’s Grad­u­ate School of Design pub­lished… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, … Continue reading Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

Best LTE providers for iPad

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

4G iPad Mini: Which Carrier Has the Best Deal? Brad Chacos - Laptop Mag, gizmodo.com The iPad mini’s pint-sized frame was made with porta­bil­i­ty in mind, and the arrival of a 4G LTE-equipped model at three of the nation’s top cel­lu­lar providers this morn­ing makes it eas­i­er than ever to keep your tablet con­nect­ed while … Continue reading Best LTE providers for iPad

iPad mini review

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management

Review: The skinny on the iPad mini—it’s not the size that counts Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com For­mer Apple CEO Steve Jobs famous­ly trashed 7” tablets as being “dead in the water” in 2010. Two years later, under the reign of new CEO Tim Cook, Apple has released its own minia­ture tablet—one that has a diag­o­nal screen … Continue reading iPad mini review

Morphie outride action cam for iPhone

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Gift Guide: Mophie Outride Action Camera Case For iPhone 4/4S Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com Short Version Mophie is best known for dou­bling your iPhone’s bat­tery life with the Mophie juice pack, but the com­pa­ny actu­al­ly offers a wide range of iPhone acces­sories includ­ing the Out­ride Wide-Angle Lens iPhone case and mount… http://flpbd.it/sK5Wz Related articles Mophie Outride … Continue reading Morphie outride action cam for iPhone

People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry phones

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry Phones By Colin Lecher, popsci.com Like, an actual itching allergy. But, come on, there are lots of other reasons to dump BlackBerry. Black­Ber­ry has been hav­ing a rough go of it late­ly, slow­ly slid­ing into irrel­e­vance as Android and iPhone cor­ner the mar­ket. Now add one… http://flpbd.it/OS1sT Related articles … Continue reading People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry phones

Quotes from Steve Jobs

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

12 Inspiring Quotes from Steve Jobs That Enrich your Day Zoe B, lifehack.org Steve Jobs was not just a vision­ary genius, but a man with an incred­i­ble pas­sion for inno­va­tion, and a man who changed the world as we knew it. His lust for life was so huge that he used to look at his … Continue reading Quotes from Steve Jobs

Hard cider is rediscovered

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider Nina Keck, npr.org Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider NPR Morning Edition A cou­ple hun­dred years ago. hard apple cider used to be the drink of choice for thirsty Amer­i­cans. It was easy to make and easy to find. But as peo­ple moved into cities, and be… … Continue reading Hard cider is rediscovered

Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates By Peter Sander, fastcodesign.com Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down. [The fol­low­ing is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Any­one to Think Dif­fer­ent­ly and Win by Peter … Continue reading Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

iPod Touch makes point and shoot camera pointless

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

The New iPod Touch Will Further Obliterate The Point-And-Shoot Market Mg Siegler, techcrunch.com It’s easy to for­get that the iPod touch didn’t even include a cam­era until 2010. While such a key fea­ture has been stan­dard on the iPhone since its ini­tial unveil­ing in 2007, Apple appar­ent­ly didn’t think it was one of the must-have … Continue reading iPod Touch makes point and shoot camera pointless

Avado shows healthcare is ready to move past the server huggers

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

Healthcare Finally Moving Past Wang-Like Legacy Systems Dave Chase, techcrunch.com Edi­tor’s note: Dave Chase is the CEO of Avado.com, a patient por­tal and rela­tion­ship man­age­ment com­pa­ny that was a TechCrunch Dis­rupt final­ist. Pre­vi­ous­ly he was a man­age­ment con­sul­tant for Accen­ture’s health­car… http://flpbd.it/O4Y4E Related articles Avado lands $1M to transform healthcare in the same way Mint … Continue reading Avado shows healthcare is ready to move past the server huggers

Twelve south: Put your Mac book at eye level, live longer

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Twelve South introduces HiRise for MacBook stand, shipping now for $70 Darren Murph, engadget.com Hot on the heels of its HiRise for iMac release, the Mac-only acces­so­ry maker known as Twelve South is out­ing a sim­i­lar riser for Mac­Book prod­ucts. Engi­neered to hoist Mac­Books from 11 to 15 inch­es up off of one’s table, the … Continue reading Twelve south: Put your Mac book at eye level, live longer

Samsung patents voice recognition for emotional state

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Samsung patent ties emotional states to virtual faces through voice, shows when we’re cracking up Jon Fingas, engadget.com Voice recog­ni­tion usu­al­ly applies to com­mu­ni­ca­tion only in the most util­i­tar­i­an sense, whether it’s to trans­late on the spot or to keep those hands on the wheel while send­ing a text mes­sage. Sam­sung has just been grant­ed … Continue reading Samsung patents voice recognition for emotional state