Netdiver Mag

‘Being great at what you do is the cost of entry at Teehan+Lax, what tends to get people hired is fit. When talented people fit well together they produce some pretty impressive stuff.’

Opening for a seriously talented Sr. Digital Product Designer who is passionate about creating great digital products and services.

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via: Derek Kinsman

In the past couple of months I have been experimenting w/ photo apps and am now considering buy an iPad to take photo editing further. Nevermindus shooting w/ an iPad – but syncing w/ my iPhone library – would enhance tenfold w/ the larger view port – to export back to workstation in a digital pictureshow project I’m currently working on.

The only down side? Hate the inscreen keyboard. So a couple of weeks ago found the NoteBookCase for iPad 2 (3 to be released mid-May – but only available in Japan). Was pretty excited by the product until I saw this one. Ooooh!

Brydge a full-sized aerospace-grade aluminum keyboard with optional stereo speakers, connects to your iPad using a patent-pending hinge. You can pre-order on Kickstarter.

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Shake Test is selling me.

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via: Taxi

Blowing me away right now. Introducing Uppleva by Ikea. Supra smart and cool presentation of their new product range that integrates smart TV and sound system with furniture. Watch the video – you’ll get it.

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Furniture become technology???

Like / hate?

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via: Khoi Vinh review post on Subtraction.

My <3 iPhone 3Gs crashed 2x times in 5 days. Diagnostic? Expiring after almost 4 yrs of hard / intense useage. Had no choice but to get 2 new 4Gs (one for JF / me). Currently in iTunes sync hell trying to get 2 new phones to be restored w/ apps and configs.. forget about the music library.. ditched. One of my last pix taken.

It’s Spring. Time for new..

All your bases belong to me. Facebook buys Instagram.

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Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion by Emily Price

Facebook snapped up the hugely popular photo-sharing app Instagram Monday, for roughly $1 billion in a combination of cash and stock.

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Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion, Turns Budding Rival Into Its Standalone Photo App by Josh Constine and Kim-Mai Cutler

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Facebook snaps up Instagram for $1B by AP

On the surface, that’s a huge sum for a tiny startup that has a handful of employees and no way to make money. But the lack of a business model rarely dampens excitement about hot tech upshots these days. As Facebook has shown, itself without ads or revenue in its early days, money goes where the users are.

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Insta-growth: Instagram for Android hits 5M downloads in 6 days by Sean Ludwig

“This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote yesterday.

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Instagram Android / Apple

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The Facebook-Instagram Deal Could Be Sad News For Amazon by Julie Bort

In his blog announcing the acquisition, he said, "We will try to help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook’s strong engineering team and infrastructure."

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Instagram illustrations by: Cole Rise

Adobe Creative Cloud will be available at just 49,99$ / month this Spring. And that is.. if you think it affordable.

Well when it rains it pours. Everyone is hopping on Cloud 9 wishful thinking it seems. Nothing irks me more than a megapoly deciding to shove yet another ‘update’ down our studio throats because – there’s no other option left in the market.

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The vision of Adobe Creative Cloud is to turn previously difficult, disparate workflows into one intuitive, natural experience, allowing you to create freely and deliver ideas on any desktop, tablet, or handheld device.

Really? Difficult, disparate? Beautiful admission – best way to push a new product – is to canibalize existing ones.

Well why not fix it?

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While traditional licenses of CS software will still be offered, a membership to Creative Cloud provides more benefits than simply owning desktop software.

What? Traditional licenses. You saying that I am traditional for owning multi-workstations licenses.. Insulting. Working as a living as a ‘creative’ means I’m everything but traditional.

So what do you think? Step forwards or?

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via: Typekit

Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case like his first circuit album (1-Bit Music 2004-05).

Watch the video.

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1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.

The album is available from Cantaloupe Music.