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The beauty of making cranberry relish.

By: ste!!a
26-12-2011
objects of desire

There is an unre­lent­ing beauty to cook­ing. Today when we were cook­ing I took shots of a cou­ple espe­cially beau­ti­ful processes. This is the story of mak­ing cran­berry rel­ish. The color and the shapes are deli­cious. The rel­ish was a per­fect mix of tart, sweet, and peppery.

The pho­tos are taken with my Iphone 4s with Insta­gram so I could share them.

A mar­velous side dish for the left-over ham sandwich.

orange rind

 

wash­ing the cranberries

 

washed

 

cit­rus

 

cook­ing the cran­berry relish.

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Really yellow case for the iPhone

By: ste!!a
12-11-2010
gadgets

On Face­book today I read a post from my cuz that said plainly:

just watched stacey’s iPhone get run over by a pick-up truck on the bypass. .…. Phone is fine. How?.…Otter Box. Enough said.

That’s pretty mean­ing­ful. So I pointed my browser to www.otterbox.com . Some pretty impres­sive prod­ucts if you have the need to pro­tect any of your mobile tech­nol­ogy devices. I think I would want this crazy yel­low case if I wanted to cover up my iPhone or iPod.

I’m into see­ing the beauty of my Apple prod­ucts. This is tempt­ing though.

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Are we square?

By: ste!!a
04-12-2009
technology

square-signature-screen

Sim­ply, Square is a com­pany that will let you make credit or debit card trans­ac­tions from a smart­phone. Square is a new com­pany who has a founder from another inter­est­ing com­pany, twitter.

Credit and debit card trans­ac­tions take all kinds of devices phys­i­cal and tech­ni­cal includ­ing mer­chant accounts that cost you a bun­dle each month whether you make a trans­ac­tion or not. This is dif­fi­cult for small busi­nesses, sole pro­pri­etors, crafts­peo­ple, and artists.

The story is that “In Feb­ru­ary 2009, Jim McK­elvey wasn’t able to sell a piece of his glass art because he couldn’t accept a credit card as pay­ment” and the next day Square was born.

The whole process seems ter­ri­bly slow for a small trans­ac­tion but the advan­tages of mar­ket­ing offers to fre­quent cus­tomers, an iden­tity ver­i­fi­ca­tion sys­tem, text and e-mail receipts, and trans­ac­tions to the cloud make it a player in this ser­vice space.

I know that I’m ready to try it out.

video from TechCrunch:

square-signature-screen

Sim­ply, Square is a com­pany that will let you make credit or debit card trans­ac­tions from a smart­phone. Square is a new com­pany who has a founder from another inter­est­ing com­pany, twitter.

Credit and debit card trans­ac­tions take all kinds of devices phys­i­cal and tech­ni­cal includ­ing mer­chant accounts that cost you a bun­dle each month whether you make a trans­ac­tion or not. This is dif­fi­cult for small busi­nesses, sole pro­pri­etors, crafts­peo­ple, and artists.

The story is that “In Feb­ru­ary 2009, Jim McK­elvey wasn’t able to sell a piece of his glass art because he couldn’t accept a credit card as pay­ment” and the next day Square was born.

The whole process seems ter­ri­bly slow for a small trans­ac­tion but the advan­tages of mar­ket­ing offers to fre­quent cus­tomers, an iden­tity ver­i­fi­ca­tion sys­tem, text and e-mail receipts, and trans­ac­tions to the cloud make it a player in this ser­vice space.

I know that I’m ready to try it out.

video from TechCrunch:

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iPhone app planning : wish list

By: ste!!a
11-08-2009
talking, technology

AppleiPhone

Ok, I don’t have an iPhone yet. Basi­cally because I wasn’t will­ing to be an early adopter this time. Now I’m more inter­ested. Video capa­bil­i­ties and the addi­tion of inter­fac­ing with third party devices is very com­pelling. My almost dead Razr is another.

I have a love/hate rela­tion­ship with my Razr. I love that it is a flip phone. I hate that my con­tacts have a dif­fer­ent entry for each num­ber rather than grouped by per­son. I love that my phone is small and sturdy. I hate that I can’t read the keys in the bright sun. I love that my phone can take being dropped. I hate that I have to lis­ten to a whole mes­sage before I can delete it. I hate that tex­ting is impossible.

I love that it has the Motorolla logo — the bat sig­nal on it. And most of all I love that Jack the Cin­gu­lar logo is still on my phone. I hate ATT.

So, I’m sure I will have the same rela­tion­ship with my iPhone. I’ll love my iPhone but I will still hate ATT.

But, I’ll have lots of apps that I can’t wait to get my hands on.
Koi Pond, Bloom, Spore, Level, Com­pass, Pan­dora, iTunes, Tweetie, Bloom, Shazamm …

That’s a start.

Any­thing I’m missing?

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A story for every object RFID

By: ste!!a
16-05-2009
design, technology

iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.

What if every object could tell its own story? Haven’t you wished that you could just google any­thing? Well if you use RFID you can get infor­ma­tion from any object that has an elec­tronic tag. Each object in a way is a smart object.

If you have a reader attached to a device like a smart device, in this case an iPhone. You can come in prox­im­ity of the object and tell you the object’s story. It’s pretty inter­est­ing tech­nol­ogy that can be used say for tour­ing muse­ums. You step up to a paint­ing or sculp­ture and put your iphone next to the label. It rec­og­nizes the paint­ing and allows you to see con­tent about the work. Add links to sources on the net and an expan­tion of infor­ma­tion based on your interests.

This is a nifty video show­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of using RFID. If you want to know more Check out this post: http://www.nearfield.org/2009/04/iphone-rfid-nfc

What if every object could tell its own story? Haven’t you wished that you could just google any­thing? Well if you use RFID you can get infor­ma­tion from any object that has an elec­tronic tag. Each object in a way is a smart object.

If you have a reader attached to a device like a smart device, in this case an iPhone. You can come in prox­im­ity of the object and tell you the object’s story. It’s pretty inter­est­ing tech­nol­ogy that can be used say for tour­ing muse­ums. You step up to a paint­ing or sculp­ture and put your iphone next to the label. It rec­og­nizes the paint­ing and allows you to see con­tent about the work. Add links to sources on the net and an expan­tion of infor­ma­tion based on your interests.

This is a nifty video show­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of using RFID. If you want to know more Check out this post: http://www.nearfield.org/2009/04/iphone-rfid-nfc

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Hulu for the iPhone

By: ste!!a
20-04-2009
news, technology

Hulu -coming for the iPhone

Rumor has it an app is com­ing to the iPhone that Hulu junkies will be thrilled about. I watch a lit­tle hulu here and there. I’m usu­ally unim­pressed. I don’t watch tv and don’t really appre­ci­ate the story for­mat. But, hulu has a ter­rific inter­ac­tion model and with lim­ited titles to view; the selec­tion inter­face remains simple.

I watch much more video than I thought I would on the iPhone. I’m always check­ing out what’s on YouTube and it’s great to have a video for­mat that isn’t an immer­sion at times. Can’t wait to test the iPhone and hulu. Let’s see if the app can be as approach­able as hulu in the browser.

The iPhone plat­form con­tin­ues to grow with each new dis­tri­b­u­tion method that develops.

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a find for the iPhone 3

By: ste!!a
18-11-2008
news

a find at the itunes store

I crawl around the iphone store now and again to add more fod­der to my need for an iPhone. Here is a really cool app that solves one of the prob­lems that dri­ves me crazy from time to time. I use my lap­top for almost every­thing — that means no num­ber keys. I hate the extended key­boards because they just take up too much space on my desk.

{ Do you remem­ber when you could buy a num­ber­pad to attach to your key­board when you needed it? I had one of those clunky beige things that worked by plug­ging it into my key­board… I used it for key­ing in coor­di­nates for objects in my vec­tor files or lay­out appli­ca­tions. Most of all I used it when cre­at­ing sched­ules and I had to put in date fields. }

Well, here’s a sweet lit­tle iPhone app that lets you turn your iPhone into a num­ber keypad.

One caveat it’s Mac only.

Ah, the beauty of the iPhone platform.

Oh, it’s only $1.99

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att and the iphone, forget about it

By: ste!!a
01-07-2008
gadgets, technology

How much more can we stand? I was wait­ing for announce­ment of the iPhone 3G and it hap­pened. Now all I get is email mes­sages about how the iPhone is com­ing, the iPhone is com­ing. You can read : How to hand-down your old iPhone after upgrad­ing to iPhone 3G, Mov­ing to iPhone 3G: a guide for cur­rent and non-current AT&T cus­tomers, New and old AT&T iPhone plans com­pared, cost increases detailed, AT&T announces iPhone 3G plans, 8 a.m. launch time on July 11.

I’m dizzy from “if it’s wednes­day and a full moon and you were pre­vi­ously a friends and fam­ily cus­tomer” you can expect to pay up to 50% more on your ATT bill.

Well, maybe an iPhone just isn’t want I am long­ing for any­more. It’s just not any fun. Who wants to go into the brain­trust they call the ATT store? Who wants to fig­ure it all out? Sorry no SMS mes­sages are included with your plan.

I would have rather payed 500 dol­lars for the iphone and known the ATT couldn’t do this lets screw the cus­tomers again rou­tine. Apple and their exclu­sive deal sucks. I’m out. Too much money. I can open my browser and play my music from my lap­top thank you.

I just say no.

Some­how this reminds me of the new gal­lon milk car­ton that you need instruc­tion to use. I guess that’s another post.

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