I recently ran across an article that I thought was interesting in regards to different media and the “consumption device” through which we see it. This was the analogy that caught my attention: CONSUMPTION DEVICE: MEDIUM 1. WEB BROWSER : WEB PAGE (a) telephone : phone call (b) smart phone : app (c) printed book [...]
Each year around this time, my wannabe "inner fashionista" frantically scavenges style blogs and websites to stay constantly updated on the latest spring trends – unfortunately for me, it's taken the Fashion world a hot minute & a half to cozy up with the budding technologies of our digital world. Thankfully, within this past year [...]
In a previous post, I wrote about the nightmarish future envisioned by Corning where every surface is made of glass and is capable of assaulting you with social media and advertising while also acting as a video monitor and camera. While this may make me sound like a Luddite, I'm happy to report that I [...]
I learned about a gadget recently that seems to make point-of-sale transactions easier than ever. It’s called Square, a credit card reader for iPhone, iPad and Android. I discovered it, of all places, at a craft bazaar. Every year I join my Grandmother at a local show as she sells her sewing crafts. This year [...]
I'm sure I'm one of the millions who hate grocery shopping. I dread going and there always seems to be something else I'd rather do. I wait until I am completely out of everything to go. Apparently, even people continents away share my mutual hatred of grocery shopping. In South Korea, an advertising agency's client [...]
Does it bother you when you go to a website on your phone and there is no mobile friendly version? Since mobile browsing is only increasing having a site that adapts to the small screen is becoming imperative. I found a website dedicated to calling people out on their terrible (or great, but less often [...]
In a little over a decade the camera has made a century’s worth of headway – we went from film, to digital, to mobile, and for the most part photography has benefitted. During the London subway bombings in 2005, cell phone cameras brought in a new era of community journalism, allowing civilians to quickly capture [...]
‘Retina display's pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels.’ - Apple Inc. With the advent of high pixel density displays, i.e. the iPhone 4 ‘Retina Display’ and many more sure to follow the pixel itself is now a relative unit. I always thought of a pixel as on dot [...]
Oh no! Not the death bell for Flash ... again. Adobe announced that it is going to stop pursuing and enhancing the Flash Player for mobile browsers. They'll concentrate on HTML5 authoring tools for mobile browsers (Webkit, Opera, etc). This has of course fired up the anti-Flash bandwagon ranting all over the web. Of course, [...]
We're an app making machine! In the past 8 weeks the Geek Suite, and of course CurrentMarketing as a whole, has produced 2 mobile sites, 2 iPhone / Android apps, and 1 iPad app for a single client. Start to finish, concept to execution, in 8 weeks. How's that for productivity? They've been a joy [...]
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