Even if you don’t watch the show normally, you should see this episode for the video work. It is beautiful. There are shots all over the episode with razor-thin depths of field that were simply stunning. I would love to see more of this.
Greg Yaitanes, the show’s director answered some questions about shooting with just a DSLR on Twitter a while back, and they have been compiled over at PetaPixel.
For pros who just want to get work done, Aperture 3’s improved interface, flawless curve adjustment, multiple maskable edits, and 64-bit update are more than enough reason to upgrade. Add the metadata improvements and the high-ISO RAW conversion, and you have an essential upgrade. If Apple can rein in the glitches, give pros a toggle for the gooey effects, and polish the masking tools, then the rest is just gravy.
I spent the whole day playing with a stack of Apple ][+, //e, and Enhanced //e machines, testing a stack of 80-column cards and memory expansions and fifteen Disk ][ drives and an Applied Engineering Music Synthesizer card, and the whole time I was using and/or abusing that old Apple hardware (several times I had to pull out the old “Programmer’s Reference” and call stuff from the Monitor ROM because I wasn’t sure what I was doing) I had one thought: “Apple would never allow me to do any of this anymore, if they had their way.”
This little bookmark will scan your Facebook account for possible security issues. It’s a neat tool — Facebook should include something like this for all users.
Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps:
The iPad creates a use case for a device that doesn’t do everything your laptop does, targeted at a consumer that uses devices more for consumption than production. The iPad ushers in a new era of personal computing that we call “Curated Computing”—a mode of computing where choice is constrained to deliver less complex, more relevant experiences. Let me repeat that, because it’s the essence of the Curated Computing experience: less choice; more relevance.
Valleywag editor Ryan Tate, irked by an iPad ad, drunkmailed Apple CEO Steve Jobs just after 9:30 last night. To Tate’s shock and delight, Jobs argued back and forth with him until 2:20 AM in four rounds of messages, reproduced below.
Hit the link to read the emails. They’re pretty great. Once again, a Gawker employee looks like a total ass.
CNET:
Brian Hogan, a 21-year-old Redwood City, Calif., resident, found the phone in a bar. But the affidavit prepared by detective Matthew Broad in the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office reveals that an important tip came when Hogan’s roommate, Katherine Martinson, called Apple on April 21 to let them know that he had examined it and sent photographs to back up her claim.
Hogan told her that Gizmodo had offered him $10,000 for the phone, and showed her a camera box containing $5,000 in $100 bills, according to the affidavit. It says: “Martinson said Hogan also told her that he will receive a cash bonus from Gizmodo.com in July, if and when Apple makes an official product announcement regarding the new iPhone.”
See, Apple loves Adobe, too. Right? Right…?
Mac Observer points out that this Saturday is the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh XL/Lisa project being scrapped:
Apple officially discontinued the Macintosh XL, née Lisa, on April 29, 1985, and the last Lisa rolled off the assembly line at the Carrollton, Texas, factory on May 15. Despite its lack of market acceptance during its initial availability, the Lisa now enjoys strong demand among vintage computer collectors on eBay who recognize its importance as the forerunner to the Macintosh.
Apple started airing a new iPad ad tonight called “What is iPad?”. The Ad seems to be a departure from their recent ads with a bit of a gruff narrator walking through what the iPad is. However, it struck me as strangely familiar and I realized that Apple had reincarnated one of the original Apple Newton ads called “What is Newton?” from almost 20 years ago.
It’s eerie.
Today we’re introducing the beta of an all new MobileMe Mail web application, and we’re asking you to try it and let us know what you think. You can sign up at me.com by just logging in to MobileMe Mail and clicking “Request an invitation.” You will receive an email notification when you have been added to the beta and can start using it.
Betas are an unusual thing for Apple. The changes outlined in that blog post look fantastic, though. MobileMe’s webapps are already pretty good, but lack some of the features of other services — mainly Gmail.
These ads have popped up today all over the place, along with these letters from Adobe’s founders.
Obvisouly, this whole Adobe/Apple thing isn’t over yet.