Creatives all over the world do their best to visualize their ideas when pitching clients, preparing for photo shoots or simply putting their ideas on paper. Apart from sketching with Sketchbook Pro I’ve personally been using Flickr and Google Image Search combined with Photoshop for ages. Lately I’ve added Bing and iStockphoto to the list. It’s a time consuming process but it’s usually getting my message across.
Today however I’ve seen the light. A new web based application(down at the moment due to high traffic) that I found on Mashable let’s you draw your ideas and then it composes an image out of that doodle of yours. It’s made by five Chinese Computer Science and Technology students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore and it’s sick!
Whatever kind of ides you’ve got in your head – it’s now easier than ever to get a matching photo. Draw and you will conquer! Here’s a video explaining what this mind-boggling thing does:
We live in the best of times. It’s all happening now!
That’s more or less the name of this ingenious new iPhone app that let’s you identify a font purely by taking a photo of it. I downloaded it and tried it – it’s a killer app! As often before it’s Miss Swissmiss that delivered the news about the Whatthefont app.
Martin menar att nyhetstjänsterna för en ojämn kamp mot allt annat som släpps på mobilen samt att det inte är nyhetsändningarna som kommer stå först i kön för vad användarna vill ha i sin mobiltelefon i framtiden.
Martin har fel enligt mig. Nyheter är och förblir relevanta. Det handlar snarare om att nyhetstjänsterna inte förstått vad eller hur man ska göra samt att de är fortsatt protektionistiska.
Joost, Aftonbladet och YouTube visar vägen. Men det är långt kvar. I fredags släppte Joost, en internet baserad video tjänst sin nya applikation. Den lär snabbt stiga upp på listan. YouTube och Aftonbladet är redan där (Aftonbladets applikation låg på topplistan länge när den släpptes). När CNN och andra videobaserade nyhetskanaler släpper bättre nyhetsapplikationer, då kommer vi snabbt få se hur topplistan på Top Paid Apps får besök av mer kvalificerat innehåll, även om jag i och för sig tycker just Ocarina är en av de mest kvalificerade. En vanlig flöjt har stått sig i nästan 50000 år.
Hur ska en framtida nyhetsapplikation se ut då?
Min iPhone News App skulle sett ut något åt det här hållet.
I grund och botten är applikationen helt baserad på video och ljud. Text göre sig icke besvär. Dit kan jag surfa ändå om jag vill.
Today I installed the new Joost iPhone app released this friday. I’m amazed beyond explanation. This single app will change mobile TV. It’s the first application for a mobile that lets you watch full length movies. And you get to choose from any of Joosts +46000 videos.
What strikes me is the fact that my iPhone is slowly turning into a wireless remote/tv unit. I have the channels (read apps) YouTube and Swedish Aftonbladet to choose from. And as of today I’ve added Joost. You can be sure that Hulu, Vimeo, Blip and the others will follow. Swedish SVT should have something coming up any day now. If you get the Apple Component AV Cable then soon you won’t need a DVD since everything will be accessible via your iPhone.
This also turn things up side down for the entire hotel industry that makes shit loads of money of in-room entertainment. Bring your cables and you got your full set of personalized entertainment in your pocket.
Another consequence might actually be that TV commercials strikes back. Think of it. iPhone makes it possible to geo position advertising. In other words, TVC’s can be better and more relevant than ever. Since the content is sent via IP then we can also know exactly how many people are really watching the TVC. Finally use the stabilizer in the phone to recognize if people are dropping the phone in any way while the TVC is on and you’ll know if people actually is watching. No room for strange measurements here. If we stand seeing it in our mobile, that’s another questions though.
Right now Joost has disabled 3G or Edge. You need a Wireless internet connection to view the content. The Joost people cannot be that stupid so this will of course be taken away in the next update.
When the iPhone was launched people were judging the new mobile by its content. Well, by now I think most people has understood that what’s in there from start is not the thing, its what creative people will do with the technology that matter. The new application Ocarina, the second iPhone application from Silicon Valley based Smule, has surged to the top spot on the iPhone App store just a little over a week after launching.
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What strikes me is the fact that my iPhone is slowly turning into a wireless remote/tv unit. I have the channels (read apps) 
