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Rhody’s Beach Song

April 24 Comments Off Category: Gadgets, Media, Music, Video

I’ve never written a song in my life until this weekend — and by the standards of my composer and musician friends, I still haven’t. But after getting the $4.99 Garageband app for my iPad 2 yesterday, I wanted to see how hard it would be to record a little ditty using the built-in recording [...]

A Video Expedition to Redwood Regional Park with the iPad 2

April 03 Comments Off Category: Media

It was a perfect Bay Area day today — low 60s and sunny. So I loaded up the Camelbak with icewater and camera gear and Rhody and I headed over to Redwood Regional Park, in the hills above Oakland. I made a video of the hike using the iPad 2 and iMovie. Check out the [...]

The Crazy Mockingbird On My Street [with Audio]

March 20 Comments Off Category: Media

A mockingbird has taken up residence on this corner of Potrero Hill. He (I assume it’s a he) starts singing every night around 3:00 a.m. and keeps going until noon. I’ve seen him perching on telephone poles and satellite dishes, but sometimes he also hides in the trees up on the hillside.
I captured a bit [...]

What’s On My iPad

March 20 Comments Off Category: Gadgets, Media

People often ask me whether I have favorite apps to recommend for the iPad. I’ve written three roundups on this subject: 26 Apps to Drive Your iPad Wild, 10 Fantastic Photo Apps for the iPad, and iStocking Stuffers: The Best Apps for That iPad Under the Tree. But I thought it would be fun and [...]

Mountain Biking Marathon

August 09 0 Comments Category: Gadgets, Media, Photography

I took my mountain bike out on a ride around San Francisco yesterday, and somewhat unintentionally, I think I wound up tracing much of the route of the San Francisco Marathon. I realized this when I got home and saw from the readings on Everytrail—the GPS trip tracking software I’d been running on my iPhone—that [...]

Protected: Roush/Bates Oral History Recordings

January 18 Enter your password to view comments Category: Media

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Nourishing My Inner Architect with Google Building Maker

November 21 1 Comment Category: Media

My fun digital project for this week was learning how to use Google Building Maker, a tool released last month that lets anyone model 3-D buildings using Google’s aerial photographic data, then submit the finished models for inclusion in Google Earth.
Google has already populated the urban cores of many cities in Google Earth with 3-D [...]

Basking in the Glow of Ra Quintet

September 28 1 Comment Category: Media

Larry Hardesty, an old friend and colleague from Technology Review (now with the MIT News Office), has turned me on to a new local jazz-fusion group that I’m really excited about. Ra Quintet is their name; Larry describes them as “Bach meets Bird meets Black Sabbath,” or if you prefer alliterations from a little deeper [...]

Put Yourself On the Map, Build a Virtual House: Seven Projects to Stretch Your Digital Wings, Part Three

September 18 0 Comments Category: Media

When I set out to write “Seven Projects to Stretch Your Digital Wings” two weeks ago, I really meant to put all seven projects into one column. But I’m famous around Xconomy for my inability to say anything briefly. If 800 words are good, then 1,600 words are even better—that’s my motto.
The point being that [...]

Become an Amateur Podcaster, Make a Digital Movie: Seven Projects to Stretch Your Digital Wings, Part Two

September 11 0 Comments Category: Media, Video

Whether the fall is back-to-school season for you or not, there’s always more to learn. In last week’s column I outlined three fun weekend projects involving new technologies for digital self-expression. My suggestions covered art (digital “finger painting” with an iPhone app called Brushes), writing (”lifestreaming” with Posterous and Friendfeed), and photography (building three-dimensional photographic [...]