ShadyURL: Shorten and sketch-out your links!
How do you shorten links for sharing on Twitter, your blog, or elsewhere? Think HootSuite is the bee’s knees? Are you more of a TinyURL traditionalist? A crunchy Bit.ly enthusiast?
If you’re interested in getting “meta” and sardonically teasing your web-friends, give ShadyURL a try.
Would you rather click on:
http://ow.ly/1bjNp
-or-
http://5z8.info/stalin_n1w1g_how-to-skin-a-gerbil
Exactly.
iPad. Whoop-dee-doo.
Steve jobs unveiled apple’s new product the ipad in San Francisco this week. Although apple is calling it “magical” and “revolutionary.” I cant help but think this device looks like an old wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Back in 2007, Apple launched a little game-changer called the iPhone, which offered consumers a touch pad phone and computer all in one tiny package — revolutionary stuff there. It was user friendly, looked cool and soon enough everybody and their mom had one.
Although the iPad does have some cool features like a 10+ hr battery life and an iTunes style bookstore, it also has a lot of flaws. It can’t multitask, so if you want to listen to music and browse the web, you’re out of luck. It also doesn’t have GPS, or a camera.
From what I gather, the iPad is an oversized, stripped down iPhone without the phone. Yeah it has a full size keyboard, but is it really worth $599 for a 32 GB iPad when a 32 GB iPhone is $299?
The iPad is set to hit Apple stores in April. There are already rumors of a more MacBook-like version set to succeed the iPhone-like iPad. Is this another game-changer from Apple? What’s the value of cornering the netbook market — the small, niche netbook market?
13 Things You NEED To Know About The iPad
iPad.
It’s official. Steve Jobs has announced the new Apple iPad.
“It’s so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smartphone,” Steve Jobs said. Follow the Apple event on the LA Times blogs here.
Jobs is saying the iPad is eco-friendly, mercury and arsenic free. More details to come…
UPDATE: From Gizmodo — some tech specs:
-9.7″ screen
-1Ghz “Apple A4″ processor
-Wi-Fi only, no 3G support from AT&T or Verizon
-10-hour battery life
-Can “decode” HD video to play without reducing battery life
-Includes Bluetooth 2.1, microphone, speaker, accelerometer (really?) and compass (really really?)
Finally! Prezi kills the banality of Powerpoint Presentations. Rejoice.
Prezi - Powerpoint killer? *fingers crossed*
For the sake of keeping things relevant, this post is about a presentation website that will make all of your future employers think that you are much more impressive than you will ever deserve. This website/software is called Prezi and uses a type of flash-esque [It's called Javascript, Ben -Ed.] technology to make your business proposals way more creative and ornate than they actually are. If you go to Prezi’s website, you’ll see why it’s so effective. I call it the Michel Gondry effect, where you stare at something seemingly simple, tilt your head, and think “how does that even happen?” It’s awesome.
Okay. Now that that’s established, the REAL reason why I am commenting on this wildly convenient website is because on the homepage of Prezi there is a man who gives a short video presentation of Prezi’s capabilities. Watch it and share my embarrassment for the poor man. As interns, people are going to ask you to do things that you don’t want to do. Sometimes it’s walking in the cold to the FedEx on 5th avenue. Sometimes it’s going to be going to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and getting a quote on doorknobs for the female bathroom.
It should never be humiliating yourself over the internet [I beg to differ -Ed.]. If you can’t read a teleprompter and you don’t know how a green screen works, let your boss know. If they are at all the kind of group of people who you want to eventually work for, they’ll understand.
Don’t make the same mistake that the Prezi man-boy made. Or DO make the same mistake that the Prezi man-boy made, and let us know about it so that I can write about it. Being an intern should be a learning experience. If you can make your mistakes public so that the rest of us can learn from it, we’re all better off. Thanks for the martyrdom Prezi.
Enjoy a Prezi demo from a 9-year-old cos why not?