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The Ad Generator

I stumbled across this website the other day. It's a part of an MFA thesis project, built with flash, that generates random (and often hilarious) advertisements. Here's the author's description: The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating ...

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A late-night inspiration yesterday led me to the idea of grabbing lists of song/book/movie titles from various online retailers and mashing them up into a list of possible charades challenges. So now, I present to you the EverythingDigital Charades Generator. The charades generator pulls in the Netflix Top 100, iTunes top songs chart, and LibriVox New Releases feed, all of which are updated frequently and therefore constantly provide a new stream of titles. It is most certainly still in be ...

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Lately I've been hearing quite a bit about Twitter, the Web 2.0 equivalent of the IM status message. I was finally compelled to register an account (everythingdigital), and so far have had a mixed experience with the service. I think the idea behind Twitter is excellent, and some of the third party apps that are being developed for it are really looking great (I use Twitterrific). The public timeline is very interesting to watch, especially during major events such as sports games or the M ...

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Lately I have been experimenting with Apple's Quartz Composer software, and have found it to be really limitless in its possibilities. I'm still working on getting it to recognize enclosures properly in RSS feeds that it downloads, but everything else has been quite easy and intuitive. Here is a sample of one of the experiments I have been working on that uses microphone input to change the size of a particle generator: .qtz file, .mov file If you're on a Mac, you should be able to downloa ...

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Upon seeing my previous post about experimenting with Quartz Composer, Eric Rice asked if it might be possible to put a Quartz Composer file on an object's surface in Second Life. Because SL allows you to put QuickTime movies on objects through video streaming, plugging in the URL of a quartz file exported to .mov format worked perfectly. In various tests, it appears that almost any Quartz Composer file that can be exported to .mov and retain its functionality will work in the SL environm ...

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Upon seeing my previous post about experimenting with Quartz Composer, Eric Rice asked if it might be possible to put a Quartz Composer file on an object's surface in Second Life. Because SL allows you to put QuickTime movies on objects through video streaming, plugging in the URL of a quartz file exported to .mov format worked perfectly. In various tests, it appears that almost any Quartz Composer file that can be exported to .mov and retain its functionality will work in the SL environm ...

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You may have noticed the recent banner redesign and mild re-branding to "EverythingDigital Podcast Productions." This comesas a result of a side project that I have been working on, the HistoryPod podcast. I will be recording the fourth episode of the HistoryPod soon, and it has so far become remarkably established on the iTunes charts, recently reaching as high as #4 in the history category. Now that EverythingDigital incorporates multiple podcasts, I am shifting to the more open model of ...

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Well, the technology world has gone nuts these past few days in anticipation of the iPhone's debut today. I stopped by my local Apple Store today to see what the line was like and I was astounded. I would guess there were about three or four hundred people waiting in line (and this is at the smaller of the two San Diego Apple Stores). What amazed me the most about the line waiters was that they were far from the typical Apple fan crowd that can usually be seen lining up outside Apple Store ...

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A few hours after getting my iPhone, I was hit with a sudden idea for an iPhone-optimized web app. The result of this idea and the subsequent quick bit of coding that I did to get it ready is iPhone Trivia, an iPhone app that asks multiple-choice trivia questions and keeps track of your score. I am hosting the app here: http://everythingdigital.org/itrivia The trivia questions come from an RSS feed that I put together here, and I will be adding new questions frequently. If you want to sub ...

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In case you haven't noticed, it's July 17 today. This means that today, for a full twenty-four hours, the iCal dock icon on your Mac will be correct. That's right, while the iPhone's calendar icon may update to show the current date, the desktop iCal application's icon stays frozen on the 17th of July as a tribute to the day that iCal was released: July 17th, 2002. So happy iCal day everyone, and I hope you are enjoying seeing an accurate iCal icon in your dock.

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I will be attending Comic-Con 2007 this Friday and Saturday here in San Diego, and I am planning to upload photos from the convention live from my iPhone to Flickr. If you can't get to Comic-Con yourself, but want to get an almost-live glimpse at what is going on there, stay tuned to my Flickr photostream at http://flickr.com/photos/everythingdigital. I will be using the tag comiccon07 to designate photos from this year's con.

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Edmodo is a project that a friend of mine, Jeff O'Hara, has been working on for a while. He just recently released a teaser screenshot of the UI and it looks like it's coming along really nicely. I know Jeff's been working for some time to simplify education-related communication, a field that could certainly use some fresh ideas. It looks like they're getting close to an alpha release, so it should be fun to keep an eye on.

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A quick catch-up cast with a description of my recent vacation and a review of my new Canon PowerShot A510.

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The Skype WiFi Phone, Microsoft's hacker conference, a Ford and Sirius alliance, Apple's Mighty Mouse, Flickr's interestingness feature, Yahoo's plans to syndicate tv news, and IE7's CSS shortcomings.

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The beta 1 release of Windows Vista, new iBooks and Mac minis, HP's discontinuation of iPod sales, the standardization of digital projection in theaters, and a little music from the great podsafe music artist Jonathan Coulton.

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Rumors (some of them confirmed) about a video iPod coming in September, the internal testing of Skype Video, an increase in legal music downloads, AMD's Solar Challenge, some Sony PS3 and PSP developments, and the new Google Moon service.

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IBM's dual-core and low-power PowerPC chips, the recent free Skype Out day, Blu-ray's dominance over HD DVD, a couple pieces of iTunes-related discussion, and a review of the Panasonic DMR-ES10. SHOW NOTES:HTML|OPML|TEXT

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Google Earth, the merging of the iPod and iPod Photo lines, pics of the iTunes Phone revealed, the Deep Impact mission, a flaw in Adobe Reader, and LG's plans to use Palm OS. SHOW NOTES:HTML|OPML|TEXT

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News and opinions about the new iTunes version 4.9 and iPodderX for Windows, as well as Google Video's new features, Cingular's consideration of the Motorola iTunes phone, search engines playing Trivial Pursuit, and my newly-built $14 video camera stabilizer. SHOW NOTES:HTML|OPML|TEXT

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