Have we side-tracked from the goal of everyman/woman computing?
Note: I have never done this before, but this is a shared post with my amybeachandme.com/blog as it covers information apropos of both blogs. I have edited it a bit for this blog. Studio back together – ready to start creating again! One of the down sides of working with art and technology is that [...]
January 30, 2011
Tags: Amy Beach, Amy Beach and Me, Apple, art and technology, brain and creativity, creativity and technology, future of software, iPad, iPhone, new media writing and technology, Steve Jobs Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary 
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Part 5: . . . and the Flash, iPad and mobile device saga continues: 1 step forward, 2 steps back
In her Insider Comment column in WEB Designer, Issue 173, Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis states: “Long, Long Ago (in web years that is) we built our code to work in the browser that was currently the leader . . . . Life was tough. It was nearly impossible to make everyone happy.” She then refers to [...]
October 10, 2010
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Part 3. . . and the Flash, iPad and mobile device saga continues
Authors who want to turn their books into basic text (and a couple of pictures) ePub eBook or iBook, electronic device deliverable formats don’t need to be concerned about all the browser and device content delivery wars currently taking place. But those of us writing on the cutting edge of new media must pay attention [...]
September 25, 2010
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Part 2: The iPAD iPhone Flash Adobe Apple Controversy – this new media author’s take: A Dangerous Retro Blacktop Paved Hole
Steve Jobs is claiming his iPhone and iPad to be the latest in tech, while intimating that Adobe’s interactive content creator, Flash, is something from the past to be discarded by any hip tech person. The opposite is true. The iPhone and iPad are not strong or fast enough to keep up with Flash. Further, [...]
July 5, 2010
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Part 1: The iPAD iPhone Flash Adobe Apple Controversy – this new media author’s take: A Dangerous Retro Blacktop Paved Hole
Silly me. I had it all wrong. Since the early 1980s, Steve Jobs and Apple have sold their wares under the moniker of “User Friendly,” and I thought they were referring to the fact that everyman (and woman) could make use of a computer to create stuff and to accomplish just about any task – [...]
May 24, 2010
Tags: Adobe, Apple, controversy, democratized creativity, ebook, Flash, iPad, iPhone, new media content, Steve Jobs, user friendly Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary No Comments