Well, the newly fixed Macbook, after spending a week getting it nearly back to the same state, realizing I’ve lost a lot of music I was working on (some of it was *really* good), and getting a weeks worth of work done, has decided to freak out with the video display…

… strangely enough, it was fine all day; I left for an hour to go shopping and when I returned it was *not* in the same state as I left it. Got it to boot into the OS/desktop *once*; began to do some work, but then it did the weird every other pixel flakeout with the moire pattern…

Apple seems to be really pushing for developers… too bad I’m on the east coast…got this via linkedin:

Apple’s iPad and iPhone Software Engineering division is growing tremendously, so we will be having a job fair at the Apple campus in building 4 on Friday February 5 from 11am to 8pm.

We are currently hiring for:
- Software Engineers from embedded level up to UI (applications, frameworks, firmware)
- Wireless and cellular software development and test
- QA Engineers (black box, white box, test tool developers)
- Software Engineering Project Managers (telephony, multimedia, build, factory)
- Carrier Field Test Engineers
- Software Engineering Management

You can check out all iPhone Software Engineering job opportunities at www.apple.com/jobs/us /corporate.html and click on the iPhone Engineering Division.

Please send your resume to iphonejobs@apple.com and bring copies with you. The attire is business causal. We are growing a lot, so please also tell your friends. Thanks and we look forward to seeing you on Feb 5 to join us in pushing the evolution of mobile communications.

Dan Ryan
iPhone Software Recruiter
408.974.5859
dryan@apple.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/danielryan

Address:
Apple, Inc.
4 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014

Directions:
- 280 to DeAnza Blvd
- Turn left on Mariani Ave
- Turn left onto Infinite Loop
- Drive around to building 4 (4 Infinite Loop, the “back” side of Apple’s campus) and park
- Go in the lobby of building 4 and ask for the iPhone SW Job Fair

Well Adobe did have a few things to say regarding the abscence of Flash Player on the iPad demo — but then again Christopher Cantrell wrote an article detailing how to get the multiple resolution out of the Flash to iPhone export…

Had a bit of a thread with some facebook friends / geeks who are piping out about the iPad’s locked-down, non-flash nature…

I agree that it’s not really a ‘tablet’ and that it’s tied to the appstore; but it DOES have a keyboard and prop stand (how it recharges).

However I don’t see it so much as trying to fit in the netbook/tablet space so much as how it’s going to change the way we deal with the CONTENT so much.

First off I think — though there will ALWAYS be books – books will go the way cds/vinyl has done; I see this fitting in a place specifically for tech, or students; people who have an awful lot of books that they might be needing to access rather than cart around huge tomes at all times. Or the medical profession; one server on an internal network, and all your files can be accessed right there. YES I understand it can be done today; but one app store app to fit in that market and it’s golden.

I also see a space where there will be MUCH more self-published works; if iTunes sets up the same sort of schema for pdf as they have for music, more indie writers will put up pdf and people might be more willing to purchase something for $2 that they can read right there, rather than buy online and ship, or in a bookstore. Just a thought.

Even the pay as you go cellular is great – buy the cellular, never use it until you’re on vacation, pay for that month and .. it’s great.

Past all this, as a musician, I see this multitouch being a new way of working with electronic music/samples etc. On top of that, I think it’ll really bolster gaming and how one would interact with games.

Don’t get me wrong – there are things I think that are wrong with it, and that might change in the future. I don’t know what politically is going on with adobe/apple but lack of Flash is just some kind of gameplay. I can’t see that staying that way if apple really wants to make this the ‘best browsing experience’. Lack of usb ports are another issue… but it’s def more of an extension of a computer than a computer itself — at least for now. Perhaps devices might be made using the dock port… I think apple is also trying to come up with some firewire/usb/dva/rgb standard port.. so…that might come into play here.

Finally – as an artist, I think the multitouch is great for drawing on screen, but if they had only added pressure to some capacity then one wouldn’t have to buy a $3k cintiq wacom. I personally would ask some hardware developer to create a very simple bluetooth pen that would send pressure senstivity from the pen point to the tablet; the tablet itself could handle the tracking, and combined with the bluetooth data in the driver, give an artist a real experience. Any takers?

Really cool 3d interface for those blessed with a Mac, Snow Leopard and the latest Safari – all done via CSS and javascript…

More info can be found here.

Saw this over at TUAW. Some guy named Dennis Liu made this music video for a band called The Bird and the Bee using his mac desktop. Pretty cool; and shows how a little ingenuity can go a long way.

** originally posted on scribemedia

This is also using the fantastically new ScreenFlow which allows you to have two video sources at the same time: youâ??re desktop AND your iSight as input. ScreenFlow also keeps each video source seperate so you can edit it AFTER youâ??ve recorded â?? here I scaled up the iSight track, used a shadow, and added the Apple-influenced reflection on it. Guess you could say this post is a two-fer. I intend to write up a separate post about ScreenFlow, and am going to play more with akaRemote and Live. I fooled around slightly with the accelerometer sending midi control, but it was a bit iffy. I hope that soon my hippie dance will influence the music, just as the music causes me to hippie dance.