Posts Tagged aea

Phone for Direction

Eric Meyer Go to the source

At one point during An Event Apart Boston —for which I finally uploaded my few pictures , to add to the much larger pool —I observed that Boston, like parts of New York City and most European cities, is a place where maintaining a relation to the cardinal compass points is almost impossible. Thanks to its centuries-long Organic Growth Syndrome, finding one’s way can be next to impossible, even when you have Google Maps giving you directions on your iPhone. (Not my iPhone; I don’t have one yet, which makes my posting of the perfect ringtone deliciously ironic. But certainly on whoever around you has an iPhone, which is put-near ever’body, these days.) Of course, the soon-to-be-released 3G iPhone will have true GPS capabilities, I said, and that’s when it hit me: someone should take the iPhone SDK and an insanely high-resolution copy of the Safari logo and put them together to create a 3G iPhone compass. Hold it level and watch the needle find true north! Genius. … Read the rest here

Caught In The Camera Eye

Eric Meyer Go to the source

Just when you thought the whole embedded-video thing couldn’t get any worse, here I come with videos featuring, well, me. The most recent is a short clip from one of my presentations at An Event Apart back in April, debug / reboot , where I comment at my usual pace on the suppression of quotation marks in my reset styles and why I think relying on browser-generated quotation marks is a bad idea. You also get to see my hair before it got to be the length it is now, which is even longer. There’s a complete transcription on that page, by the way, courtesy Mr. Z . Then there’s the vaguely silly one , in which I attempt to debug my clothing while sitting in my living room. … Read the rest here