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My Desk at work on 11/06/2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:44:23 GMT

My Desk at work on 11/06/2009
I'll label it...

不是黑就是白

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:08:33 GMT

不是黑就是白

MacBook Pros

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:45:39 GMT

MacBook Pros
Looks like the old faithful didn't die after all....She's to the left of the young upstart.

The apple of my eyes.

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:15:29 GMT

The apple of my eyes.
My 30" cinema display, of course.

Manual mode, 1/80, f/4 @ ISO400

Strobist:
430EX II at 1/4 power w/ Rosco "Sky Blue" gel zoomed out to 24mm. Hanging about 3ft above the monitor using a gorilla pod.

Triggered using a 580EX II.

There is also a silver reflector lying flat in front of the monitor to throw a little light up and catch in the logo.

Desktop

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:17:42 GMT

Desktop
Things changed since the dual 24"...
www.flickr.com/photos/slackie/2227440896/

Creative working in the kitchen

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:18:12 GMT

Creative working in the kitchen

Social media breakfast

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:39:20 GMT

Social media breakfast
Up early this morning, sifting through Google Reader, marking stuff to follow up on, making notes for client's project and drinking coffee before heading to a client's premises for the day.
Tuesday is the day when I earn 75% of my income for the week.

Repairmans Desk

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:59:14 GMT

Repairmans Desk
Setting up a Netbook for a relative

Windows 7 Wall

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:23:37 GMT

Windows 7 Wall

Grinding through the social media workflows

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:28:30 GMT

Grinding through the social media workflows
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New Setup

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:29:48 GMT

New Setup
I recently picked up a 24" LED Apple Display (you can find them refurbished direct from Apple for $599) and an M-Stand to pair with my MacBook Pro. The image crispness and color on the LED display is UNBELIEVABLE -- hands down the best monitor I've owned.

I've also managed to position it to avoid almost all of the reflective/glare issues in the room.

My new study table

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:06:10 GMT

My new study table
Woke up by Athena in the morning, so decided to flickr since I got nothing much to do. Hand itchy !! So snap a pic of my new desk.

workstation

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:24:12 GMT

workstation
minha mesa de trabalho e dalhe trabalho.

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Working on social media strategies

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:18:25 GMT

Working on social media strategies
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Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea?

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:50:00 GMT

An anonymous reader writes "Remember all those projects to cover cities with Wi-Fi? The BBC wants to know what happened to them. When it comes to underground wireless data access, there are obvious issues regarding implementing a wireless infrastructure in underground stations and tunnels, but above ground the BBC suggests that it may be other advancements, such as Wimax, that have made Wi-Fi a less attractive solution. PCMag, on the other hand, suggests that public Wi-Fi isn't dead at all and will make a comeback due to the increasing popularity of Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones. So, will city-wide Wi-Fi make a real comeback, or have other technologies, such as Wimax or 4G, killed the concept for good?"

Study: Mobile (And Particularly iPhone) Users Not Keen On Clicking Ads

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:41:24 GMT

New research performed by online search advertising company Chitika suggests mobile users are far less likely to click on ads than non-mobile Internet users. In fact, they’re about half as likely, the study shows based on a sample of 92 million impressions.

Could that be true? Wasn’t it the other way around?

First, we should note right off the bat that Chitika is an Internet advertising company that’s decidedly not into mobile advertising according to its own website, so that brings along a large truck carrying bags filled with grains of salt. That said, it’s worth taking a look at how they got to the conclusion, so we can reach our own.

Chitika claims to power advertising for over 55,000 sites, serving ads based on 2 billion monthly impressions. Of the 92 million impressions cited in the study, approximately 1.3 million or 1.5% of the lot came from mobile browsing. The ads that were shown on mobile devices were exactly the same as the ones displayed to non-mobile users, rather than comparing standard online advertising with mobile-oriented ads.

Ad click-through of mobile as a whole pulled only 0.48% according to analysis of the sample, with non-mobile holding steady with a 0.83% clickthrough rate. That would mean mobile commanded just over half of the average.

Of the five major smartphone operating systems – Android, iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and BlackBerry OS – Apple’s iPhone ranked worst for ad click-throughs representing a mere 0.30% rate. The “Other” group, comprised mainly of BlackBerry users and a handful of other operating systems (including Symbian, Nokia, and HTC) saw the highest ad click-through rate.

Personally, I’m a bit hesitant to believe the outcome of the study – much like Chitika’s earlier one about Bing ads’ click-through rate being twice as big as Google ads – considering the self-serving aspect and the apparent desire to come to controversial conclusions in order to draw attention.

On the flip side, there hasn’t been that much independent research for mobile ad click-through rates yet, and I’m equally keen not to blatantly believe studies that show mobile advertising commands spectacularly high click-through rates compared to web advertising. In my opinion it’s conceivable that click-through rates would be rather similar and largely dependent on context, type of advertising, how well the message fits the medium etc.

In short: more neutral research wanted.

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My desk today

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:17:49 GMT

My desk today
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Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: Fall 2009 [IPhone Apps]

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:30:00 GMT

More than a year after launch, there are 74,031 apps in the iPhone App store. Most of them are crap. Some of them aren't. Here are the 50 iPhone apps you actually need, all in one place.

Well, OK, if you count the overlapping apps—paid and free Twitter clients, neck-and-neck navigation apps, the jailbreakers—it's more like 56, but that's not the point, people: The point is, since the last time we corralled all the best of the best (barring our weekly roundups, of course), the iPhone and App Store have changed immeasurably. In the last nine months we saw the release of the 3GS and iPhone OS 3.0, Apple loosening its grip on what kinds of apps people are allowed to create, and hundreds of fresh developers making genuinely new, genuinely impressive stuff. It was time for an update, and a big one.

So, hit the "iPhone Apps" link on the left sidebar, just above Bestmodo (Note: It's split into two pages, so make sure to click through), or just scroll down—they're all here too. We've got the best games, messaging apps, eBook readers, dictionaries, productivity software and timewasters. We've got apps to keep you up on current events, to keep your daily music intake interesting, to keep you entertained on the train, and to keep you on the right interstate. These are the essential iPhone apps—a list that'll transform that shiny, boring brick you just bought into the device that everyone's always raving about.

What counts as an essential iPhone app changes all the time, and so should our guide: If we've missed anything huge, or you've got a much better suggestion for a particular type of app, let us know, or say so in the comments. We'll be updating this thing pretty frequently, and a million Gizmodo readers can do a better job at sorting through the app mess than a single Gizmodo editor. Enjoy!

Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps

AirSharing: Our favorite file storage app-shoots files to the iPhone's flash memory via Wi-Fi for storage, transport, and easy retrieval.

Amazon: Amazon's usually the first place I look during a fit of impulse buying, which their iPhone app now makes stupidly easy.

AOL Radio: More free radio content than any actual radio could ever have. Tailored radio stations are great, sure, but old-fashioned programmed stations-AOL Radio's specialty-have their charms

BeejiveIM: Expensive? Sure. Totally essential for messaging hounds? Yup.

Bloom: Generative, ambient music by Brian Eno. If I need to say more, it's also a mini-sequencer: Drop your finger on the liquidy pastel screen, play a note, make simple loops. Music For Airports that you can make yourself. In an airport, even.

Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima: A lot of people buy Nintendo DSes for the sole purpose of having those Dr. Kawashima-approved brain-training games at hand. With this app, you get the exact same mind-juicing benefits for a few bucks, on hardware you already carry.

Brushes: If you've ever seen on of those spectacularly detailed "paintings" done on the iPhone, chances are it was created with this. This is fingerpainting in 2009.

CameraBag: Image processing apps tend to be gimmicky, but CameraBag's got enough artistic effects and editing flexibility to make the crappiest iPhone camera photos look interesting at worst, and spectacular at best.

ConvertBot: Plenty of apps can technically deal with unit conversions as well as ConvertBot can, but none of them have its fantastic, super-fast interface.

Epicurious: The only cooking app you really need. With its thousands of recipes, shopping list feature and meal suggestions, Epicurious will make you at least look like a passable cook.

Evernote: Obsessive documenters, take note(s): This is the only scribbling app you need.

Facebook: This was an essential app from the get-go, and it's been steadily evolving-like the site-for the last year. Version 3.0 was a total refresh, and supports nearly every one of Facebook's sprawling features, sometimes better than the site itself.

Fring: Every major instant message protocol, comfortably crowded under one (free!) roof. The addition of push notifications notched this one up from great to, uh, greaterer.

Frotz: Laugh all you want, jocks-us geeks know where it's at: text gaming. Bringing virtually every text-based game you've ever heard of to the iPhone gives the genre a whole new lease on life, and you the most prodigious time-waster imaginable.

Google Mobile: Google Mobile was a solid app (but not particularly essential)-and then came voice search.

Google Earth: The same amazing Earth touring app found on the desktop, now spinnable via multitouch. Honestly if someone told me two years ago I would have a functional Google Earth app on my phone, I wouldn't have believed them. This is now.

i.TV: Once you've used a wonderful, full-featured TV guide app on your iPhone, reading one on paper-or even on your laptop-will feel stupid. iTV is that app. It also works as a remote for some TiVo boxes, with more DVRs to come.

I Love Katamari: Mad genius designer Keita Takahashi left the series years ago, but Katamari is still among my favorite game franchises of all time (and I'm not alone), and it's a natural fit for the iPhone's tilt-controls.

Kindle: There are a pile of eBook readers for the iPhone, but only one connects to Amazon's book store, and more importantly, your Kindle library.

Last.fm: Creates free, effectively endless custom radio stations, streams them over 3G and learns more about your musical tastes with time. There is literally no downside to this app.

MLB At Bat: Live streaming MLB games, every day, over 3G. That is all.

Motion X Poker Quest: Realistic dice physics meets ancient Egyptian gods in one of the more addicting iPhone games you'll see.

Mujik: Mujik is like Bloom in that it lets anyone make amazing music in the space of a few minutes. That's where the similarities end.

Navigon: Hey, so, have you heard your iPhone is also a really, truly good turn-by-turn navigation device? Because with the pricey-but-probably-worth-it Navigon, it is.

Ninjawords: An intelligently pared-down dictionary and thesaurus app, Ninjawords will make you feel and seem slightly less dumb. It works offline, too.

NPR News: Comes with text news, offline reading and an endless (seriously!) supply of calming, androgynous voices, either live or on demand.

Newsstand: One of the only RSS readers that isn't slow, overcomplicated or missing something vital.

Pageonce Personal Assistant: Are you a fancy businessperson, with "accounts" and "subscriptions" and, uh, "dollars?" Personal Assistant sucks your scattered financial, travel and leisure concerns all into one simple, unscary interface.

OpenTable: Actually talking to a maître d' on the phone: Out. Tapping your iPhone a few times to get a dinner reservation at a veritable assload of restaurants: In.

Pandora: Best internet radio app, hands down. Smartly auto-suggests music based on other artists you like. Both on the go and while at home. Streams well over EDGE and 3G. Free. What more could you ask for?

PanoLab: Who knew multitouch is the perfect interface for stitching photos together into panoramas? It is. Plus if the photo you just took doesn't work, toss it out and take another one immediately. A paid version adds even more features.

Prowl: Easily the most useful push app Apple's let through the gates, Prowl lets you forward any Growl notifications from your Mac or PC-everything from Mail to IM to Torrent downloads to Tweets-directly to your phone.

QuickOffice: Gaping void in default iPhone functionality #123: Real document editing. Solution #123: QuickOffice

Remote: One of the first apps we saw, and still among the best in terms of usefulness. If you use iTunes frequently at home and especially if you listen away from your desk via a stereo hookup or Airport Express, you need the Remote.

RjDj: A totally unique music application that processes sound from your environment and replays it according to a set program, creating a trippy, always-evolving soundscape.

Run Pee: An app to tell you when the boring parts of movies are so you can go pee-or if you're feeling daring, more-without missing much. It's a brilliant concept, with unexpectedly good execution.

Shazam: This just doesn't get old: hold your phone to the air to grab the song playing at the supermarket (or being hummed by your friend), and have it identified in a few seconds. We live in a privileged age.

Simplify Media: Stream your home machine's iTunes library and those of up to 30 friends to your phone. This app lives up to its name. Forget worries of filling up 8GB, or even 16.

Skype: On 3G, it's perfect for Skype messaging and long distance texts; on Wi-Fi, it near-magically turns your iPhone into a VoIP handset.

Star Defense: Tower Defense games are one of the few genres that the iPhone excels at, and Star Defense, with an entirely fresh 3D take on the concept, multitouch, varied levels and multiplayer, is about as good as they get.

Slacker Radio: Yet another free, customizable radio app, but one that has a spectacularly huge music library, and that gives you fine control over the songs you hear.

The Sims 3: An amazingly faithful adaptation of the 3D life simulator that you routinely ridicule others for playing, but secretly enjoy yourself, every night, with a bottle of extremely cheap wine.

TomTom: If you're used to TomTom's standalone GPS units, their turn-by-turn navigation app will be a pleasant, familiar surprise. In some ways, it might even be better.

Tweetie: If you spend enough of your day on Twitter to consider paying for an app, Tweetie's multiple account support, uncluttered interface and impressively broad feature set is about as close to a desktop Tweeting experience as you'll get on the iPhone.

TwitterFon: And if you're not willing to pay for a Twitter app-understandable!-TwitterFon isn't too shabby. It's super-fast and stupid-simple, so it'll do well by all but the most obnoxiously obsessed Twitterers.

VLC Remote: One of the first apps we loved was the iTunes Remote-now, the Swiss army knife of media players VLC has one of its very own.

VNC Lite: View and fully control my computer from anywhere, as long as I am on the same network. So I can basically be at my computer without actually being at my computer.

WeatherBug: On the desktop, it's excessive. But on the iPhone, WeatherBug gives you much more-and much more useful-info than Apple's default app. And in the paid version, hyperlocal, data-driven weather nerdery abounds.

Wikipanion: Why even carry an iPhone if you can't use it to settle petty arguments about things that don't matter?

Yelp: Yelp is built on the premise that people really, really love to review things, and that this bizarre impulse should be harnessed for good. With a massive database of food/drink/everything else reviews, easy navigation, inbuilt maps, and augmented reality, it's tops.

Jailbreak Apps

Before you dive into these, here's a quick guide for jailbreaking your phone.

Jailbreak: AdBlock: Blacklist obnoxious ads, just like you do on your PC.

Jailbreak: Cycorder: Not everyone can upgrade to an iPhone 3GS. Everyone can, however, record video.

Jailbreak: GV Mobile: Google's official Google Voice app may never see the light of day, so GV Mobile is the only way to get your all-in-one telephony fix on the iPhone.

Jailbreak: WinterBoard: If you've ever seen some guy on the internet proudly demonstrating his garishly skinned or themed iPhone, this is almost definitely what he was using. Note: It can be used for aesthetic good as well as evil.

Jailbreak: Veency: Like every other iPhone VNC app, except totally in reverse: It's a server.

[Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps]

10 Of Your Most Obsessively Nerdy Collections [Collecting]

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Yesterday I asked you to show us your collection, and I can honestly say that I don't know how a person could stand to live with some of you.

Denver8023: Lego.. going on 800 pounds or maybe much more. sorted by part, color. this is about half of it.
AlphaPepper: Classic Arcade Games. 11 and counting. Not really "and counting". Wife says I'm done.
Ian Grams: I collect energy drink cans. I've consumed 210 different energy drinks, and probably close to 300 total.
ducktopian: Rubber ducks. I just moved and my Guinness world record collection finally has its own room. I am still setting it up.
PorkRind: I have a Linotype and have been busy ferreting out fonts of mats for it. I currently have about a hundred different typefaces and about 50 magazines for loading them.
GianinaMyrtilus: Dead batteries. Can't throw them out. I hate it.
gp1138: I collect portable CD and cassette players, along with a few MiniDisc players.
tsarchasm: Hard Rock Cafe shotglasses.
Bat21: [www.flickr.com]
[www.flickr.com] Plus a couple boxes of blanks I haven't used yet.
aupton: Video Games

金剛在台新

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:31:11 GMT

我的『金剛想談戀愛』和『鐵猴子MoMo』正在台新仁愛大樓1樓大廳展出，展期8月31日~10月9日，地址：台北市仁愛路四段118號2樓。
以下是這次展覽的宣傳文字：
金剛，想談戀愛，全身的血液沸騰了起來，連頭上都長出好多春天的花。
近年來創作都與機器人有關的Akibo，在2008年創造了『金剛』這個大朋友。
這一次藝術家捨去慣用的玻璃纖維、鋼架、LED等材料，而改以黑鐵來表現；會採用黑鐵這個媒材，是在一次整理草圖時，偶然發現許多草圖的徒手線條，在隨意任性中竟承載著強韌的生命力，但這個生命力無法以藝術家擅長的3D數位工具完整呈現，於是採用了黑鐵做為創作的媒材。
金剛是以毛筆畫出的速寫，放大切割成鏤空鐵板，再用大型螺絲重疊組合。實體的鐵板與穿透的飛白線條交錯出華麗的能量；厚重的黑鐵與柔軟的線條有著相互對比的趣味。 Akibo用其擅長的動漫美學的手法，建構一個具體而微的虛擬宇宙，同時引領觀者進入故事的情節與遊戲的情境中。『金剛想談戀愛』在優雅同時又帶著爆發力的野獸派式線條中，隱隱流露出藝術家對周遭的感受與思緒。
此次展覽除了金剛，還有數隻不甘寂寞的小猴MoMo，將共同譜寫一齣虛擬的夢幻浪漫劇。

PIZZA CUT FIVE X 十八銅人新潮流

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:17:17 GMT

傳統製藥十八銅人 X 最強潮牌PIZZA CUT FIVE 新舊創意激盪 ，推出聯名系列商品！邀請十位知名藝術家全新演繹十八幅巨型畫作喚醒不死金身 八月十八日至九月一日，在紐約紐約六樓展演廳舉辦的「十八銅人X PIZZA CUT FIVE聯名藝術展」，PIZZA CUT FIVE邀請到黃熙文、可樂王、林政德、阿推、凱西、AKIBO 李明道、JAHAN LOH、PHALANX、PIZZA CUT FIVE、Justina Zun-Zun Chang等十位來自漫畫、插畫、動畫、潮流界的藝術家，以十八銅人為核心概念打造全新形象。
十八銅人在我小時候就赫赫有名，給人一種武藝高強天下無雙的感覺。受邀為這個經典品牌創作新作品，我派出兩位戰鬥型的機器人BL1和POPPY；將他們重新做金銅色的塗裝。想像未來的十八銅人將會是機器人，不變的是一樣武藝高強天下無雙！ 

藝術家合照轉載自PIZZA CUT FIVE網站

playing with camera apps.

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:25:49 GMT

playing with camera apps.

Need a 2nd brain!

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:43:25 GMT

Need a 2nd brain!

「筆尖會刺人」央圖悍趕母子？館方澄清 (NOWnews)

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:05:01 GMT

Desk Mess.

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:54:35 GMT

Desk Mess.
The young farm worker living in this room has been a ambitious young man. Reading books about running his own farm, dairying and keeping accounts shows, he did not plan staying here for all of his life.

2009高雄世運開幕秀

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:21:07 GMT

2009 高雄世運開幕秀是一個龐大的工程。核心團隊、演出人員、義工將近八千人，在有限的預算、資源、時間與場館、天候的限制之下前後工作十個月。拼戰到最後一刻，雖然不盡完美，還是瑕不掩瑜完成使命。核心團隊以國立台北藝術大學為主體：總導演朱宗慶；開幕製作人平珩、陳錦誠、導演李小平、助理導演王嘉明、德國創意顧問Tobias Stupeler、視覺統籌曲德益、視覺設計李明道、服裝設計林璟如、音樂統籌劉慧謹、音樂設計錢南章、鍾耀光、黃儼、櫻井弘二、洪千惠；舞蹈統籌王雲幼、技術總監林家文、燈光設計車克謙、舞台總監汪慶璋；還有我的專案助理Terri每個成員都超級專業、全力奉獻。
其中我負責的視覺部分也是千頭萬緒重重挑戰，所有視覺的元素包括投影、道具、服裝、燈光還有公共電視的轉播都是一再的開會、來回整合。投影是一個創舉，動用十台投影機如何在八十米乘五十米的場地完全密合，就要經過精密的計畫與計算。投影內容也經過長時間的製作，再排出播放時間表，經過變形校正後到現場與演出彩排配合再作最後的調整。十台投影機需要製作特製的吊籠，懸吊於場館頂棚；昨天晚上校正好，曬了一個白天的太陽冷縮熱脹，晚上就得重來一次。十米的道具推上場館像一個五十元硬幣那麼小，但是經費與草皮承重限制又不可以無限擴張，取捨是道具的大功課。服裝數量也是有史以來最多，每個想法或設計都要考慮驚人預算數字，現場服裝管理也是空前的困難。燈光的數量與難度也是破紀錄，現場工作幾乎是跟時間賽跑，每天天黑工作到天亮。環形場地燈光避免不了會打到某些區域觀眾的眼睛，燈光團隊花很多時間讓影響縮到最小。團隊每週的例會都在想辦法解決這些難題，週間大家就全台灣到處去取材、尋求協力、執行每個項目的製作，把高鐵當捷運搭。
開幕秀的美術在第一次簡報時我提出一個方向：要讓台灣的觀眾看完演出有回家的感覺，讓國外的朋友可以因此認識台灣而愛上台灣。於是所有的素材都必須是來自我們身邊；如果自己都不熟悉不感動那如何去感動別人。非常感動的是只要我們提出要求，對方聽到是要用於2009高雄世運開幕，每個人都當做是自己家裡的事一樣，毫無保留甚至加倍的提供協助與內容。國家太空中心提供我們來自福爾摩沙衛星傳回的影像，第一段由李彩娥老師花球為中心四散延伸的河流就是取自我們台灣的重要河川描圖組合而成的。這些衛星影像也用於第三段林義傑跑步的段落。中央研究院民族研究所也協助我們找到排灣婦女手掌刺青、達悟的文字，奇美部落的太陽圖騰我們重製成同心圓排列，用於原住民段落。霹靂布袋戲有一大段的演出；他們不計成本製作兩百尊戲偶，團長、夫人跟我們一起發想、討論，無條件提供我很多設計的靈感與技術協助。第二段詮譯台灣傳統民俗，我選用已故素人畫家洪通的作品，用於投影、華蓋、大旗。洪通之子洪士寶先生、夫人非常幫忙；我們帶攝影師到永康拜訪，他們不但提供所有畫作供我們挑選，其間還不斷送來水果、飲料。整個過程也讓我有回家的感覺！
十六日當天演出結束那一刻，團隊成員在控制台互相重重的擁抱。大家都很感動，經過長時間的辛苦、克服重重的困難終於有代價；演出時出現象徵台灣的內容、圖像全場觀眾都齊聲叫好、用力搖旗、鼓掌，很多人掉下了眼淚。我想我們每個人都該給這個開幕秀背後的大主角『台灣』一個用力的擁抱。

上面有演出、彩排、道具的照片、設計圖。部分照片引用自公共電視、玉山週報、路透社。

INTERVIEW

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:59:07 GMT

各雜誌關於adidas original 六十週年的報導

La Vie 2009 二月號，報導我的設計風格

GRAPHIC! DESIGN for... DPI雜誌，介紹nike AF1等作品

milk 09 一月號，報導機器人大戰原住民

動畫創意現場大雁出版社介紹草莓奶昔、LuLubo動畫

interior 2009 六月號，關於公共藝術獎最佳創意獎 HoHosan 的報導

The Workspace.

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:13:26 GMT

The Workspace.
My Desk with 20" Alu iMac, iPhone 3G, Logitech diNovo, Logitech MX Revolution, 1 TB WD My Book & last but not least - a fresh Coke :D

Hope you like it!

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Ultimate Puzzle Desk

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:02:54 GMT

Barnes and Noble Announces "World's Largest eBookstore", Upcoming eReader [Ebooks]

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Rumors about Barnes & Noble's plans to develop an eReader have been confirmed in a company statement that launches a new eBookstore and outlines a partnership with Plastic Logic to develop an eReader for an early 2010 launch.

B&N also notes that they will offer eBooks on devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch and Blackberry as well as PCs and Macs in addition to their Plastic Logic device. It may also be available on other eReaders down the line (opening up is something Amazon also strives for) The new eBookstore includes 700,000 launch titles, public domain books and hundreds of bestsellers priced at $9.99. Pricing and details on the hardware have not been released thus far, but it is clear that the battle is shaping up to be more about where customers will choose to get their content, not the hardware they will get their content on.

BARNES & NOBLE LAUNCHES WORLD'S LARGEST eBOOKSTORE

Introduces "Every Device" Strategy

Upgrades eReader Application

Free Downloads

Announces Strategic Partnership with Plastic Logic

New York, New York – July 20, 2009 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced today the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks), the world's largest eBookstore, on Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), enabling customers to buy eBooks and read them on a wide range of platforms, including the iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry® smartphones, the forthcoming new eReader device by Plastic Logic, as well as most Windows® and Mac® laptops or full-sized desktop computers.

Barnes & Noble's launch encompasses:

· Barnes & Noble's eBookstore offering its customers seamless access to more than 700,000 titles, including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $9.99, making it the world's largest selection of eBooks available in one place. The company expects that its selection will increase to well over one million titles within the next year, inclusive of every available eBook from every book publisher and every available eBook original, which is a fast growing marketplace.

· More than a half-million public domain books from Google, which can be downloaded for free. Readers can discover and explore this rich treasure trove, including everything from classic works by well-known writers to long-forgotten and obscure titles that are historically much harder to access.

· An upgraded version of its eReader application, which was part of the company's Fictionwise acquisition earlier this year. This device-agnostic eBook application supports both wireless and wired access to the new Barnes & Noble eBookstore. Millions of internet-enabled devices are currently supported by eReader, including the nation's two leading smartphone device families from Apple and BlackBerry®, as well as most Windows® and Mac® laptops or full-sized computers.

· First-time users of the eReader will have the opportunity to download free eBooks, including titles such as Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary, Sense and Sensibility, Little Women, Last of the Mohicans, Pride and Prejudice, and Dracula. See site for further details.

· A strategic commerce and content partnership with Plastic Logic, whose eReader device is especially designed for business professionals. Barnes & Noble plans to power the eBookstore for the Plastic Logic Reader. The ultra thin 8.5 x 11 inch wireless eReader is slated to debut in early 2010.

· The free, full-featured B&N Bookstore app for iPhone and iPod touch users, which is now the #1 downloaded book app in Apple's App Store. In addition to enabling customers to easily place orders for books, movies, and CDs, the app also lets users search millions of products simply by snapping a photo. Using the iPhone's camera, customers can snap a photo of the front cover and within seconds get product details, editorial reviews, and customer ratings – even find and reserve a copy in the nearest store. The app also includes a store locator, bestseller lists, book recommendations, and a store events calendar.

"Today marks the first phase of our digital strategy, which is rooted in the belief that readers should have access to the books in their digital library from any device, from anywhere, at any time," said William J. Lynch, President of BN.com. "As America's #1 bookstore and newsstand, our goal at Barnes & Noble is to build a service that revolves around the customer, enabling them to have access to hundreds of thousands of titles and read on their smartphone, PC, and many other existing and future devices. We want to make eBooks simple, accessible, affordable and convenient for everyone."

More About the eReader Application

Designed with the reader in mind, Barnes & Noble eReader client software provides an easy-to- use interface to access the Barnes & Noble eBookstore and to manage their personal eBook libraries. It features powerful tools to optimize the reading experience, including the ability to modify type size and font and annotate and bookmark text, as well as an innovative auto-scroll feature enabling users hands free reading. In addition, users will have the added convenience afforded by true eBook portability, allowing them to access their eBooks from any of their eBook software-equipped devices, so that, for example, they can shift from reading their ebook from a smartphone while commuting to a notebook PC or eReader device at bedtime.

{B&N eBooks]

After

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:57:45 GMT

After

The Before

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:55:58 GMT

The Before

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Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:59:21 GMT

When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men [Gizmodo 79]

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:20:00 GMT

Anyone who knows tech knows certain names—Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer—but before they became legends, they were busy doing, well, some curious stuff. Here's a glance at their lives circa 1979:

Steve Jobs

Now: Just returning to daily work at Apple after a prolonged health scare, he's still one of the most powerful—and recognizable—names in the industry.

Then: This was the year Steve started work on the Lisa, but also the year he became kind of a square. This happened in stages: he bought his first house; began his lifelong Mercedes habit; trimmed his hippie mop; bought some suits; and became a father—at least as far as the courts were concerned—to his daughter, Lisa Nicole. Sellout. [Source]

Bill Gates

Now: Having stepped back from a day-to-day role at Microsoft, Bill now dedicates most of his time to his giant philanthropic foundation. For many, he's still the voice of Microsoft—a perception he seems to appreciate.

Then: Still in his mid 20s, Bill Gates the businessman was busy rebranding his company from Micro-Soft to Microsoft, and moving operations from Albuquerque to the state of Washington, where they would stay from there on out. Bill Gates the nerd, on the other hand, was solving the so-called "Pancake Problem," publishing a paper on it—his only academic work. Apparently, n being the number of pancakes in a stack, (5n + 5)/3 flips will always be enough to sort them into a desired order. Why? I have no idea, but it's probably got something to do with me not being a genius billionaire. [Science News]

Steve Wozniak

Now: Sometimes he's Segging, sometime's he's dancing, sometimes he's even Giz-ing. In any case since distancing himself from Apple, he's been doing whatever the hell he wants.

Then: He had begun work on the Lisa, which would later be passed to other engineers. But outside of work, he was diversifying his portfolio. Before he was a voluntary spokesperson for Dean Kamen's Segway, he was a paid spokesperson for Datsun, featuring in a TV commercial for the 1979 280zx in which he drops such memorable elocutions as "I prefer the Z!" and "IT. IS. AWESOME." It is, Steve. It is.

Steve Ballmer

Now: At Microsoft, he's the dude. He basically runs the show, filling Billy G's old shoes, as it were. In any case, he's at his peak.

Then: Fresh out of college, Steve hadn't even joined Microsoft yet. It wasn't until 1980 that he even pitched the company, who later gave him a job, then a few more jobs, then THE job. A distinguished student at Harvard, he had lofty dreams, which led him to LA, where he tried to make it in Hollywood. (Behind the scenes, of course.) His bid for fame, or at least, profit made from others' fame, didn't pan out, so he went back to school at Stanford. In an alternate universe, Ari Gold's character in Entourage is based on Steve. [Seattle Times]

Michael Dell

Now: Michael Dell helms the second largest PC manufacturer in the world, and is currently trying to navigate a difficult economy and a precipitous drop in some of his core businesses.

Then: Baby Dell has was just getting a taste of his two lifelong passions: computing and cash. He got his first machine, an Apple II of all things, in 1979 at the age of 14, and promptly tore it apart. Soon after, he tried his hand at entrepreneurship, hawking newspaper subscriptions to newlyweds, whose information he scrounged from public records. This quickly made him a thousandaire. [Source]

Sir Howard Stringer

Now: Currently serving as the Emperor of all things Sony, Stringer is hoping to overhaul the company's lumbering, inefficient structure into something a little more streamlined, a little more manageable, and a lot more profitable.

Then: Our Howard, not yet a Sir, was killing network news. In 1979 he was working for CBS, and in 1980 presided over wide staff cuts at the network, mainly in the news department. Apparently, this gutted the network, dragging it down in the ratings races to this day. Not an auspicious start as far as restructurings go, but Sony's a totally different animal, I guess. Right? [NYT]

Bill Hewlett and David Packard

Now: Passed away, so R.I.P.. But, when they were less dead, they founded what would become the largest PC manufacturer in the world, and drove innovation in personal computing, printing and computer science for years.

Then: As loads of exciting innovations were swirling around them, courtesy of people who were more or less children, Bill and David were in the twilight of their respective careers. David had returned to HP after a stint in Richard Nixon's Defense Department, where he became an expert in weapons procurement. Half-employed by HP and still advising the government from time to time, he could be seen wandering the halls of the company, doing odd jobs and making new employees kind of sad. By this time, Bill Hewlett had stepped down as CEO, though he and David still featured in some seriously rad company literature from time to time. [HP, Ralph Sanders, Image from BusinessWeek]

The Google Guys

Now: Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page run the internet, to put it bluntly. Google's got the most popular search engine, a wide range of successful web services, and a lion's share of the online advertising market. They might have even made the OS on your phone.

Then: This is where Silicon Valley exec age disparities start to get funny. In 1979, Eric Schmidt was on his way to becoming a respectable adult, heading into a PhD program at Berkeley. Meanwhile, Sergey was emigrating from the Soviet Union. With his parents, of course, since he was only six. While Schmidt was churning out a dissertation over in Oakland, Sergey and Larry were building block castles at Montessori schools. Tech-savvy PhD candidates take note: Those kids at the Waldorf Academy down the street? They might be your bosses someday. I mean, don't worry, you'll be filthy rich. But still. [NNDB, The JC]

Dean Kamen

Now: Though he hasn't birthed truly high profile invention since the Segway, Kamen is still doing some really cool stuff, be it designing water purification systems, bionic arms for vets, or rock-climbing wheelchairs. Or hanging out on his own private island.

Then: In 1979, Dean was running from the tax man! Sort of. Having failed to graduate from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dean had jumped headfirst into a new project called the "Auto-Syringe," which would later be known as the first insulin pump. After his project gained traction, he moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire for tax reasons, and promptly got rich. [Wired]

Gizmodo '79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the digital, and most of our favorite toys were just being born.

My new desk almost almost done

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:28:22 GMT

My new desk almost almost done

"The DC Micro Joes" rock the house with a new line-up.

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:40:48 GMT

"The DC Micro Joes" rock the house with a new line-up.
We now have Arctic Snake-Eyes on guitar and Bazooka working security. Supes is over in a corner doing Tai Chi (must have gottten into the shrooms again).

home desk (07-09)

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:35:07 GMT

home desk (07-09)
Samsung T240HD

My desk

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:04:30 GMT

My desk
My new place is smaller the home theater and the home office has to share the same room now

home desk (07-09)

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:47:44 GMT

home desk (07-09)
Sony Vaio VGN-FZ31M with JBL Speaker System, Samsung T240HD, Sony PS3 and iPhone 3G 16GB

home desk (07-09)

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:01:43 GMT

home desk (07-09)
Sony Vaio VGN-FZ31M with JBL Speaker System, Samsung T240HD and iPhone 3G 16GB

tuna.to 1.1

My Desk at work on 11/06/2009

不是黑就是白

MacBook Pros

The apple of my eyes.

Desktop

Creative working in the kitchen

Social media breakfast

Repairmans Desk

Windows 7 Wall

Grinding through the social media workflows

New Setup

My new study table

workstation

Working on social media strategies

Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea?

Study: Mobile (And Particularly iPhone) Users Not Keen On Clicking Ads

My desk today

Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: Fall 2009 [IPhone Apps]

Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps

Jailbreak Apps

10 Of Your Most Obsessively Nerdy Collections [Collecting]

金剛在台新

PIZZA CUT FIVE X 十八銅人 新潮流

playing with camera apps.

Need a 2nd brain!

「筆尖會刺人」央圖悍趕母子？館方澄清 (NOWnews)

Desk Mess.

2009高雄世運開幕秀

INTERVIEW

The Workspace.

Ultimate Puzzle Desk

Barnes and Noble Announces "World's Largest eBookstore", Upcoming eReader [Ebooks]

After

The Before

(Image)

When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men [Gizmodo 79]

My new desk almost almost done

"The DC Micro Joes" rock the house with a new line-up.

home desk (07-09)

My desk

home desk (07-09)

home desk (07-09)

PIZZA CUT FIVE X 十八銅人新潮流