ste!!a gassaway: unpredictable thoughts

No need to say anything more.

ps Apple showed this at their press conference today.

This vid is bouncing around on tumblr. It’s a look at how interaction can be so intuitive, and feel so real that other beings interact and experience something very real. Watching this “smart cat” play with an iPad just like it would with a string or a keyboard tells us how far our interfaces have come. How rich a good touch interface can be is very exciting.

Enjoy.

Sales visulization of app store sales. Sometimes we all know that data can be quite beautiful. This is one of those moments. I would love to have a wall of these monitors for displaying information spaces.
Each time one of more than 50,000 apps is sold the icon pulses.

Mesmerizing.

youtube vid below.

MobileMe Update

We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day extension. This is in addition to the one month extension most subscribers have already received. We are working very hard to make MobileMe a great service we can all be proud of. We know that MobileMe’s launch has not been our finest hour, and we truly appreciate your patience as we turn this around. Read this article for more details.

The MobileMe Team

No this hasn’t been Apple’s finest hour.
I still haven’t purchased my iphone.

I will when its right.

I don’t get my voice mail from ATT now I just can imagine what life will be at the premium price they want for their swiss cheese service they call 3G.

Tags: apple, iphone, mobileme, technology

We were heading to Pittsburgh to meet with heavybubble agent #1 Matthew Naftzger. Margaret got the Redcap at 30th Street Station and I drove off to park the car. By the time I walked from the garage at 17th and Chancellor back to 30th Street our bags were on a dolly and our Redcap was waiting for me to arrive.

We took the elevator down to the platform and boarded our waiting train. It was dark and most of the passengers were napping recovering from their earlier start I guessed. We tossed our luggage overhead and then settled into our seats with a couple bottles of water and I put on my bright pink travel Crocs.

I put some of my small technology — camera, ipod, and earbuds, in the elastic fishnet pocket on the back of the seat in front of me. Settling in to watch the train departure from Philadelphia to points west.

As we pulled out from under the station to the surface of west philadelphia I began to look up at the passing neighborhoods. I was engrossed in the view of passing rooftops. Time passed and we meandered through the suburbs and then burst through to the farm land of Lancaster. I reached for my camera to catch an image of a four horse team working an Amish farm. Turned the camera on and nothing happened! All kinds of things went through my head, “Crap, did I drop it?” … Then it came to me like a water balloon on my head — I had left the battery in the charger, plugged into the wall receptacle in the studio. I could see it in my minds eye.

No photos on the outbound trip. Maybe I could get a battery and charger in Pittsburgh. I have my laptop, I’ll google for a store. Wait, I HAVE MY LAPTOP. Lucky me. My Macbook Pro could act as my camera. I opened ‘er up and launched Apple’s PhotoBooth app. My little built in camera turned on. Yippie!

The image capture experience became more fun. I even took a couple short test movies to play with and here’s one for you to take a look at. This clip is all about rhythm. The patter of light, the familiar sound of the rails, the change in sound and light when one car ends and another begins.

Tags: trains, rails, photobooth, apple, macbook pro, images, rhythm

I just want to reiterate how much I want this job. Another amazing storefront.  Thanks to everyone at infoapplestore.com for posting these images and documenting the creation of buzz and energy by a terrific design team. The store is pretty amazing when they took the cover off.

Hmm, what city is next?

Thanks to Simon Tsang, Bradley and Cameron for these photos.
original story and images : www.ifoapplestore.com

Tags: apple, design, graphics, sydney

Ok, I just want to be able to design the construction facades for Apple stores. What a great gig. Here’s a shot of the new Apple store in Boston. Remind you a little of Fenway Park? Thanks to SmallDog for the post.

Barkings!: Boston’s NEW Green Monster

Today was geek day. My new drive from Other World Computing came 200 gigs or 7200 rpm goodness, yummy. I took out my drive and all the tools I needed (so I thought) and began by formatting and installing OSX. That wasn’t too painful. Then I began to take apart the case of my Macbook Pro. Tiny screw by tiny screw. Damn this thing has lots of teeny tiny screws. Twenty seven in total. The whole case was apart and now I removed the hard drive.

Now I am taking apart the screws on the hard drive itself with the little rubber bumpers… geeze where is my torx 6? I can’t find my torx 6. 9:45 pm — Everything is closed.

This is what it looked like.

I can figure this out. I get a small hex driver and I can get three of the screws out. I can’t get the fourth and I don’t want to strip the screw. Emergency geek friend call. Driving to George’s house at 10 pm. I get the torx 6 and buy an extra hard drive case he happened to have around. Got the screw out and heading back downtown.

The rest of the story… I’m writing this post on my machine with my new hard drive.

Tags: macbookpro, birthday, apple, memory, DIY