As frankps sees the world!

Gizmodo has a great article explaining how Yahoo ended up killing Flickr, how Flickr’s developers met with Yahoo’s corporate development team and were forced to defend all of the decisions they had made governing Flickr’s development. In many ways this article sums up how I ended up using 500px as my main social network for photos. Today I mostly use Flickr as an archive—as the place where I store all my photos as a backup and to link them up to blog articles that I […] Continue reading →

This cannot go uncommented! New York Times yesterday posted that Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn A. Britt admitted he is unfamiliar with Apple’s AirPlay technology: Glenn A. Britt, the company’s chief executive, said in a group interview on Friday that the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen. He wasn’t familiar with AirPlay. “I’m not sure I know what AirPlay is,” he said, though he noted that he was […] Continue reading →

It is rare that I get spam in my Gmail inbox, but when I saw that I had gotten an email through iTunes Store I was pretty sure that it had to be spam. But WOW, this one looked real. So I ended up checking its headers: Delivered-To: frankps@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.166.164 with SMTP id zh4csp84257oab; Mon, 14 May 2012 02:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.228.195 with SMTP id sk3mr20938705pbc.20.1336988530538; Mon, 14 May 2012 02:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: […] Continue reading →

After having played with iBooks Author yesterday, I today bought my first iBook. It had to be “The Invisible Wildlife Photographer” by Bence Máté. I’ve visited him a couple of times and I already have the book in its paper version. I wanted to see two things, if he managed to recreate the book in the same great quality digitally, and if so, how good could an iBook become. The 170 pages book has been turned in to a 563,1 MB download that includes 9 high definition video […] Continue reading →

iBooks Author is a WYSIWYG app for creating digital books for the iPAD. It is available free on the Mac App Store. iBooks Author is Apple’s tool to win the battle against Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s Nook, and Apple aim to revolutionise modern textbooks by bringing interactivity to the learning experience. The iBook format is very similar to the ePUB 3 standard, not only can you add images to your pages, the reader can zoom in or out of them. You can insert […] Continue reading →