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Low Tech Rules: Stop-Mo Animation all the rage again

January 17, 2009January 25, 2009 Danny X 3 Comments

StopMo animation is enjoying a ranaissance of sorts, it would seem. First there’s the absolutely brilliant MUTO by BLU, then the “Box” ad for Audi. And of course, there’s the ever tasty Robot Chicken. Today, I was introduced to a video that pre-dates any of the above; the video for Sia’s “breathe me”, which can’t be called anything but art. I’m not gonna lie here…I think I might have wept a little bit.* Check out how her lips actually sync to the music. If that’s all in-camera…damn. However, the calibre…

Apple NOT Allowing Alternative Browsers In App Store

January 15, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 8 Comments

In every operating system known to man, an alternative browser is a separate application with it’s own rendering engine. You know, Firefox or IE or Safari etc… Apparently this isn’t true on the iPhone OS. Either that or some otherwise tech savvy people had their reality distorted by some kind of field, and we at rgbFilter aren’t immune. We recently ran an article covering the ‘news’ originating from Macrumors that suddenly, Apple was allowing 4 new alternative WebKit based browsers into the App Store. The story was picked up by…

Apple allowing 3rd party web browsers into App Store. All in all, it’s another brick out of the wall.

January 14, 2009January 25, 2009 Danny X 15 Comments

It seems Apple’s policy of not allowing any application that replicates the functionality of an Apple iPod Touch/iPhone application into the App Store is relenting. Back in November, Apple quietly allowed admission of an app called BdEmailer, an alternative to Apple’s “MAIL” app that supports client SMTP, apparently duplicating (and improving upon) Apple’s client…or so the blogosphere would believe. A quick visit to the app dev’s site shows that BdEmailer is designed for outgoing mail only. Reading incoming mail is not part of its functionality. Now, Apple has opened up…

Adventures in Windows 7

January 13, 2009January 14, 2009 drsquid 32 Comments

Microsoft opened the Beta of Windows 7 up to the public over the weekend. It can be downloaded here. Windows 7 has been misconstrued as a response to Vista’s bad press, even though it has been in development since well before Vista even shipped. However, I am sure the all hype surrounding this very early public preview (it might not even ship in its final form until 2010) is a response. Vista has generated a lot of ill will towards the Redmond giant (most of it unfounded), and Windows 7…

Palm Pre will have its own online catalogue of Apps, cleverly named the “App Catalogue”.

January 12, 2009January 12, 2009 Danny X 57 Comments

Is the Pre the Smartphone for the Rest Of Us?…wait…that’s not right… As if there was ever any doubt, Palm has announced that they will in fact be providing an online application retail outlet for the new WebOS-powered Palm Pre, which they have dubbed the “App Catalogue.” The fact that this was coming was essentially a no-brainer, but the big question is, does Palm intend the Catalogue to be a walled-garden-type store from which all Pre owners must purchase software, or will it be simply an available option, leaving users…

BOOM!: Data supports free online co-release of new miniseries ‘Hexed’

January 10, 2009January 24, 2009 Paul L 5 Comments

When BOOM! Studios published their post-ice-age/book-burning dystopian comic book tale North Wind, at Myspace concurrently with its retail release last January, brick-and-mortar comic shops chafed and some even rebelled, asking for “evidence” that free online simul-publication would not eat their collective lunch. (Funny how the common conventional wisdom that it would, requires no evidence whatsoever.) One year later, alongside last Wednesday’s (January 7th) release of their new miniseries Hexed under the same experimental distribution model as North Wind, BOOM!’s Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid has posted a video statement for retailers saying…

Climatology of a Cultural Ice Age, core sample #1

January 10, 2009January 10, 2009 Paul L 8 Comments

An eBook ‘digital rights management’ provider suddenly decides to ‘manage’ all the books it has ever sold through a popular eBook site into deep freeze, consigning all that distributed literature to the digital dustbin in a single blow. A developer attempts (and fails) a 100-day protest just to get permission to release a game he has been designing for years, on the Nintendo Wii. A physical crafts artist begins firing up a lynch mob to take down and destroy the widely sourced collage art of digital remixers. Apple escalates its…

Palm Pre Announced And Sized Up

January 8, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 44 Comments

Sometimes, a Hail Mary pass works. Palm once ruled the mobile digital roost during the era of the PDA, and remained there for a long time, even in the early days of the smart phone with their Treo devices. Part of the popularity had to do with the “Zen of Palm”, which is a philosophy for user friendliness which the company has held onto since day one. Over the past 3 years or so, they fell off that perch, first with corporate customers when their aging OS couldn’t keep up…

Macworld SCOOP! The new MacBook Wheel!

January 6, 2009January 6, 2009 drsquid 3 Comments

This Is NOT A Top Five Games List

January 5, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 20 Comments

Consider this a “I have some gift cards left over and want to get some games” post. Since GTA4 stormed the charts earlier in the year, I left that of the list, though it’s worth mentioning off the top. This is mainly for the games I’ve been playing lately, and think everyone should try, regardless of what system they’re playing on. It should be noted that I don’t mention any PS3 exclusives, because it’s the only console I haven’t played anything on this past year. I don’t HATE-hate the PS3,…

Cut&Paste Asks Toronto Designers To Do the Fairly Ridiculous

January 2, 2009July 25, 2009 Paul L 4 Comments

That’s how contest founder John Fiorelli himself describes the Digital Design Tournament challenge to take up pen and tablet and create something from scratch in 15 or 20 minutes on stage, in front of a cheering crowd. Begun in New York in 2005, Cut&Paste has dragged its lasso from Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston, over to London, Berlin, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, and now, finally, Toronto — which the press release memorably characterises as ‘kissing Lake Ontario’… um, ptooey? The magic wand-off will take place on March 14,…

Blog@Newsarama to Highlight Webcomics

January 2, 2009January 2, 2009 Paul L 4 Comments

There is an entirely new blogging team at Blog@Newsarama, the old team having quit en masse last month due, as far as I can ascertain, to a surprise redesign and a glitchy comments system. The new bloggers seem, so far, eager to connect with the community, and particularly bullish about webcomics, which would be encouraging if it weren’t for the way they parrot all of the current conventional wisdom about ‘new’ media. That the web is only good for bite-sized information, for example. (Perhaps we should just pat HTML on…