Mac Games Are the Rage All over
Virtual gaming has become the favourite pastime of teenagers and even young adults all over the world.
Virtual gaming has become the favourite pastime of teenagers and even young adults all over the world. Young kids and teens no longer feel inspired to go outside to play with friends instead they engage in competition and violent games in cyber space via virtual gaming on their desktop or laptop at home. Video games are pass and so is television or outdoor games.
This is the bold new era of computer games. Today it is ridiculous to even imagine a home that does not have a computer be it a state of the art latest model laptop or a rusty and a decade old desktop. Some homes have multiple laptops and PC for both adults and children. Easy access to technology has meant a laptop for very member of the house. No wonder kids prefer the world of virtual gaming to any other pass time.
Virtual gaming is fun and adventure filled without any actual danger or strenuous effort after all. Whether cycling or skate boarding or football every other sports will have its share of bruises but not free games for Mac that you download form the internet. You do not even need to make friends or find like minded people to indulge your passion.
All you really require is an internet connection to download games for Mac form World Wide Web. Teenagers who are often shy and socially inept find it easier to spend time playing virtual games on their favourite Mac laptop over going out and making friends.
Often with both parents working and unable to provide time teens find it easier to interact with imaginary characters in the gaming world rather than very real classmates at school. Moreover, high school can be brutal to the shy kid who is not popular enough to land a huge group of friends.
So you don''t have friends at school, no one''s at home, no one to talk to? Just escape into the fantasy world of virtual gaming. Here you can be anyone you want to be fighting, enjoying and living life vicariously.
There was a time when only books allowed such freedom and escape from the grind of daily life. Just like fairy tales and fantasy stories offered a flight of fancy into an imaginary world in early childhood, so does virtual gaming in teenage and adulthood. There are great simulation games, puzzles, games that are all about war and strategy as well as word games. Take you pick and download them for free.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Monday, May 26, 2014
Snapshots are visual portals to our past
Snapshots are visual portals to our past
Photos are the great memory joggers of our immediate past. A good photo brings back the emotions, smells, sounds and often trivial scraps of information from a long forgotten event.
Photography has come a long way since Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre ushered in the era of modern photography in 1839. Having a photo taken was a cumbersome, time consuming and expensive proposition for many of our ancestors. That's why so many of those rare, treasured portraits from those older members of our family tree have such a stiff, posed look.
By the late 1950s, though, snapshots were well within the reach of youngsters like me. My first camera was a Brownie Starflash, pretty much a box camera with an attached flash. I was a snapping fool, catching Utah's Devil's Slide from a Union Pacific passenger train, the curious Ossified John at the Pike amusement park in Long Beach, California, and an emergency unit racing past our house. Oh yes, and family. And friends.
Of course, today I shoot digital photos. They're relatively easy to shoot, the results look good and processing photos is as inexpensive as its been in my lifetime. But it's just not the same.
Have you been to a wedding where they have those cheap box cameras on the tables? My daughter did that at her wedding and, although she also had a professional photographer record the event, it's the snapshots from those table cameras that really capture the mood and joy of the occasion.
Professional photographer Jonathan Rubin captured my thoughts perfectly when he wrote: "I own the best digital camera gear and computers money can buy, but there still is something magical about how film records an image. It's physical, real. Light hits the emulsion and an image forms! Magic."
If, by any chance, you come across an old camera with some exposed film inside, photo detective Maureen Taylor has some advice on how to reveal what's lurking inside.
And, just for fun, there's a Flickr group that's collecting snapshots in which the photographer's shadow makes an appearance. That's one of them at the top of this post. I'm holding out for one that includes photographers' thumbs.
Larry Lehmer is a personal historian who helps people preserve their family histories. To learn more, visit his web site or send him an e mail.
Flickr photo courtesy of Antique Dog Photos.
Congrats on another great issue of Passing It On. It just the right length to read and get some good ideas and inspiration. But I also want to respond to this blog. I still have my Brownie Starflash! I even have some flash bulbs for it. I cherish the photos I took with it and only wish there were more. I remember dropping the film off at Wyrick Camera Center and going back a week later to pick up the snaps.
A good idea your readers might like is making an Ancester Album. I took all the old family photos grandmas and great aunts gave me, put them in my album and labeled them with birth and death dates and anything I knew about what was going on in the photo. My nieces and nephews love to go thru the album every Thanksgiving.
Photos are the great memory joggers of our immediate past. A good photo brings back the emotions, smells, sounds and often trivial scraps of information from a long forgotten event.
Photography has come a long way since Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre ushered in the era of modern photography in 1839. Having a photo taken was a cumbersome, time consuming and expensive proposition for many of our ancestors. That's why so many of those rare, treasured portraits from those older members of our family tree have such a stiff, posed look.
By the late 1950s, though, snapshots were well within the reach of youngsters like me. My first camera was a Brownie Starflash, pretty much a box camera with an attached flash. I was a snapping fool, catching Utah's Devil's Slide from a Union Pacific passenger train, the curious Ossified John at the Pike amusement park in Long Beach, California, and an emergency unit racing past our house. Oh yes, and family. And friends.
Of course, today I shoot digital photos. They're relatively easy to shoot, the results look good and processing photos is as inexpensive as its been in my lifetime. But it's just not the same.
Have you been to a wedding where they have those cheap box cameras on the tables? My daughter did that at her wedding and, although she also had a professional photographer record the event, it's the snapshots from those table cameras that really capture the mood and joy of the occasion.
Professional photographer Jonathan Rubin captured my thoughts perfectly when he wrote: "I own the best digital camera gear and computers money can buy, but there still is something magical about how film records an image. It's physical, real. Light hits the emulsion and an image forms! Magic."
If, by any chance, you come across an old camera with some exposed film inside, photo detective Maureen Taylor has some advice on how to reveal what's lurking inside.
And, just for fun, there's a Flickr group that's collecting snapshots in which the photographer's shadow makes an appearance. That's one of them at the top of this post. I'm holding out for one that includes photographers' thumbs.
Larry Lehmer is a personal historian who helps people preserve their family histories. To learn more, visit his web site or send him an e mail.
Flickr photo courtesy of Antique Dog Photos.
Congrats on another great issue of Passing It On. It just the right length to read and get some good ideas and inspiration. But I also want to respond to this blog. I still have my Brownie Starflash! I even have some flash bulbs for it. I cherish the photos I took with it and only wish there were more. I remember dropping the film off at Wyrick Camera Center and going back a week later to pick up the snaps.
A good idea your readers might like is making an Ancester Album. I took all the old family photos grandmas and great aunts gave me, put them in my album and labeled them with birth and death dates and anything I knew about what was going on in the photo. My nieces and nephews love to go thru the album every Thanksgiving.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Have You Also Bought The Wrong Digital Camera
Have You Also Bought The Wrong Digital Camera
I have noticed in my 'learning digital photography' classes that more than two thirds of the students come back with the camera suggested by the salesman. And believe it or not they soon realize that it is not the correct equipment for them. This can be a very costly mistake. Now the question is how do you know which is the best digital camera for you.
The first thing that you will want to know about the digital camera which the salesman is playing hard to sell to you includes:
The time it takes for the camera to turn on and get ready to click the picture. The range is from 1 5 seconds in the camera consumer market while most of them take around 3 seconds.
The time taken by the camera to focus on the picture, not to click it. Typically cameras take from 1 3 seconds but is it mostly about 1 second.
The time taken by the camera to actually click the picture after the shutter button has been pushed completely?
When we see a cheaper camera, but not the cheapest it takes up to 9 seconds to click a picture from a camera which is switched off. It is possible that you think that you can leave your camera on, which is fine, but there will still be a time lag of around 3 seconds only for clicking the photo. It can be quite frustrating that after buying a new digital camera for about $400 $500 you discover that you just can't capture your child blowing out the birthday candles as the new camera took about 3 seconds to get ready at the vital moment of blowing the candles. This resulted in a picture of your child sitting in front of his cake with smoking candles.
Have you taken your camera with various exposure modes?
When we say exposure modes it means how does the camera infer a light reading? When you have a cheap camera, it does a complete reading which is a very limiting option. When it is a good digital camera it will come with a 'centre weighted', 'spot' and a 'matrix' metering system, which will let you click excellent photos in all kinds of lights.
When you are purchasing a digital camera, keep in mind that it is a regular camera and does not include a video camera. I had a student who showed me her camera which had all the required features which made it very expensive but the thing it couldn't do well was to shoot still photos.
It is possible to get a lot from your new digital camera and all you need to do is give some time for learning to use it correctly and click good pictures. Keep in mind that nobody wants to look at bad pictures twice!
I have noticed in my 'learning digital photography' classes that more than two thirds of the students come back with the camera suggested by the salesman. And believe it or not they soon realize that it is not the correct equipment for them. This can be a very costly mistake. Now the question is how do you know which is the best digital camera for you.
The first thing that you will want to know about the digital camera which the salesman is playing hard to sell to you includes:
The time it takes for the camera to turn on and get ready to click the picture. The range is from 1 5 seconds in the camera consumer market while most of them take around 3 seconds.
The time taken by the camera to focus on the picture, not to click it. Typically cameras take from 1 3 seconds but is it mostly about 1 second.
The time taken by the camera to actually click the picture after the shutter button has been pushed completely?
When we see a cheaper camera, but not the cheapest it takes up to 9 seconds to click a picture from a camera which is switched off. It is possible that you think that you can leave your camera on, which is fine, but there will still be a time lag of around 3 seconds only for clicking the photo. It can be quite frustrating that after buying a new digital camera for about $400 $500 you discover that you just can't capture your child blowing out the birthday candles as the new camera took about 3 seconds to get ready at the vital moment of blowing the candles. This resulted in a picture of your child sitting in front of his cake with smoking candles.
Have you taken your camera with various exposure modes?
When we say exposure modes it means how does the camera infer a light reading? When you have a cheap camera, it does a complete reading which is a very limiting option. When it is a good digital camera it will come with a 'centre weighted', 'spot' and a 'matrix' metering system, which will let you click excellent photos in all kinds of lights.
When you are purchasing a digital camera, keep in mind that it is a regular camera and does not include a video camera. I had a student who showed me her camera which had all the required features which made it very expensive but the thing it couldn't do well was to shoot still photos.
It is possible to get a lot from your new digital camera and all you need to do is give some time for learning to use it correctly and click good pictures. Keep in mind that nobody wants to look at bad pictures twice!
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
A Digital Camera Under 100 Dollars
A Digital Camera Under 100 Dollars
Your search for the stylish, smooth and compact digital camera under 100 dollars ends here. Nikon High Resolution Coolpix L22 features 12.0 megapixel effective resolution, 3 way VR Image Stabilization System, 3.6x Optical Glass lens, Easy Auto Mode with Scene Auto Selection and EXPEED Image Processing. The Nikon Coolpix delivers high quality shots with crisp colors and accurate sharpness.
Shaky, blurred images will be a thing of the past because Nikon 3 way VR Stabilization System automatically detects subject movement to adjust shutter speed and ISO accordingly. While the Easy Auto Mode with Scene Auto selection, adjusts the camera settings according to the conditions to capture stunning shots. The Smart Portrait system detects faces, fixes red eye, warns against blinking and fires the shutter when the subject smiles.
Images can be captured up to the size of 4,000 x 3,000 pixels, and an alternative 16:9 aspect ratio is available. The images are then stored in the 19 MB built in memory or secure digital cards (SD, SDHC). The wide angled LCD coated with anti glare simplifies the complex process of composing and sharing images. It stops recording video after 29 minutes or until the file size reaches 2GB. Data can be shifted to a computer via High Speed USB or AV out
The camera uses AA size/R6 rechargeable or non chargeable batteries. It captures 240 images with alkaline, 660 images with lithium and 420 images with EN MH2 battery. Available in four dynamic colors: black, blue, red and gray, the camera retails for $95.55.
Because the Coolpix L22 has a low price and easy to use systems, it is suitable for young kids. So, if you are looking for a fun, family digital camera under 100 dollars, Nikon Coolpix L22 fits the bill.
William L Odom is a passionate photographer who enjoys both writing and photography. He writes articles on anything from a review of a digital camera under 100 dollars, to finding out the best digital camera under 200 dollars.
William also looks at digital cameras best buys outside this price range, and reports on those too.
William writes reviews for online photo press. He highlights the camera features and gives his honest opinion of them, enabling the user to make a better qualified decision on their digital camera purchase.
Your search for the stylish, smooth and compact digital camera under 100 dollars ends here. Nikon High Resolution Coolpix L22 features 12.0 megapixel effective resolution, 3 way VR Image Stabilization System, 3.6x Optical Glass lens, Easy Auto Mode with Scene Auto Selection and EXPEED Image Processing. The Nikon Coolpix delivers high quality shots with crisp colors and accurate sharpness.
Shaky, blurred images will be a thing of the past because Nikon 3 way VR Stabilization System automatically detects subject movement to adjust shutter speed and ISO accordingly. While the Easy Auto Mode with Scene Auto selection, adjusts the camera settings according to the conditions to capture stunning shots. The Smart Portrait system detects faces, fixes red eye, warns against blinking and fires the shutter when the subject smiles.
Images can be captured up to the size of 4,000 x 3,000 pixels, and an alternative 16:9 aspect ratio is available. The images are then stored in the 19 MB built in memory or secure digital cards (SD, SDHC). The wide angled LCD coated with anti glare simplifies the complex process of composing and sharing images. It stops recording video after 29 minutes or until the file size reaches 2GB. Data can be shifted to a computer via High Speed USB or AV out
The camera uses AA size/R6 rechargeable or non chargeable batteries. It captures 240 images with alkaline, 660 images with lithium and 420 images with EN MH2 battery. Available in four dynamic colors: black, blue, red and gray, the camera retails for $95.55.
Because the Coolpix L22 has a low price and easy to use systems, it is suitable for young kids. So, if you are looking for a fun, family digital camera under 100 dollars, Nikon Coolpix L22 fits the bill.
William L Odom is a passionate photographer who enjoys both writing and photography. He writes articles on anything from a review of a digital camera under 100 dollars, to finding out the best digital camera under 200 dollars.
William also looks at digital cameras best buys outside this price range, and reports on those too.
William writes reviews for online photo press. He highlights the camera features and gives his honest opinion of them, enabling the user to make a better qualified decision on their digital camera purchase.
How to Make your pet happy in Yoville
How to Make your pet happy in Yoville
How to hack Yoville! Yoville cheats, tricks, hacks. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to make your pet happy in Yoville.
Yoville is a game that can be played on Facebook or MySpace. In the words of Yoville's Facebook app, YoVille is a world where you can buy new clothes for your player, purchase items for your apartment, go to work, and meet new friends. Yoville is a city building simulation game.
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How to hack Yoville! Yoville cheats, tricks, hacks. Watch this video tutorial on to learn how to get points fast on Yoville. It the best way to get YoPoints on Yoville.
Yoville is a game that can be played on Facebook or MySpace. In the words of Yoville Facebook app, YoVille is a world where you can buy new clothes for your player, purchase items for your apartment, go to work, and meet new friends. Yoville is a city building simulation game.
How to hack Yoville! Yoville cheats, tricks, hacks. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to do a stuck glitch in Yoville (09/09/09). If you have a Cape Cod house or Gothic home and a chair, you can do this glitch.
Yoville is a game that can be played on Facebook or MySpace. In the words of Yoville Facebook app, YoVille is a world where you can buy new clothes for your player, purchase items for your apartment, go to work, and meet new friends. Yoville is a city building simulation game.
How to hack Yoville! Yoville cheats, tricks, hacks. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to do the invisible avatar glitch in Yoville (09/07/09). This glitch is at the coffee shop and lets your avatar become invisible, but your name will barely show.
Yoville is a game that can be played on Facebook or MySpace. In the words of Yoville Facebook app, YoVille is a world where you can buy new clothes for your player, purchase items for your apartment, go to work, and meet new friends. Yoville is a city building simulation game.
How to hack Yoville! Yoville cheats, tricks, hacks. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to make your pet happy in Yoville.
Yoville is a game that can be played on Facebook or MySpace. In the words of Yoville's Facebook app, YoVille is a world where you can buy new clothes for your player, purchase items for your apartment, go to work, and meet new friends. Yoville is a city building simulation game.
Please enable JavaScript to watch this video.
How to hack Yoville! Yoville cheats, tricks, hacks. Watch this video tutorial on to learn how to get points fast on Yoville. It the best way to get YoPoints on Yoville.
Yoville is a game that can be played on Facebook or MySpace. In the words of Yoville Facebook app, YoVille is a world where you can buy new clothes for your player, purchase items for your apartment, go to work, and meet new friends. Yoville is a city building simulation game.
How to hack Yoville! Yoville cheats, tricks, hacks. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to do a stuck glitch in Yoville (09/09/09). If you have a Cape Cod house or Gothic home and a chair, you can do this glitch.
Yoville is a game that can be played on Facebook or MySpace. In the words of Yoville Facebook app, YoVille is a world where you can buy new clothes for your player, purchase items for your apartment, go to work, and meet new friends. Yoville is a city building simulation game.
How to hack Yoville! Yoville cheats, tricks, hacks. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to do the invisible avatar glitch in Yoville (09/07/09). This glitch is at the coffee shop and lets your avatar become invisible, but your name will barely show.
Yoville is a game that can be played on Facebook or MySpace. In the words of Yoville Facebook app, YoVille is a world where you can buy new clothes for your player, purchase items for your apartment, go to work, and meet new friends. Yoville is a city building simulation game.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Rebekah Monson
Rebekah Monson
I just finished my last project of the semester, The Game a simulation game about becoming a successful rapper. Creating it has been an incredibly important experience for me as a designer.
See, I set out to make a game about student loan debt. And I quickly realized no one wants to play a game about student loan debt. It a hugely important issue, but it makes for a hugely dull context for a game.
I wanted to take on a serious issue! I wanted people to learn from all the freaking research I did on default rates and average loan burden.
I settled on rap, because I love it, sure, but also because success in the field is so deeply tied to brands and material wealth. I scoured rapgenius for allusions to expensive items. I designed a system of record advances and career impacts that make it very hard to reach Jay Z moguldom. And, it not perfect yet, but it is fun, and it definitely makes people think hard about debt.
Designing The Game has made me wrestle with my brain in the best possible way. I am both a journalist and a designer. One half of me abhors obfuscation and the other thinks abstraction is a perfectly lovely tool to get one point across. I interested in making news games, and the mental olympics in this design challenge were an important test for my assumptions on both sides.
I think journalism can and should leverage play and the deep engagement games produce for more meaningful understanding of complex issues. I think this fits our primary goal of informing, and it an exciting evolution toward informing through choice and experimentation rather than through the act of repeating. But, if news games are going to work, we have to be willing to find the right frame and bend toward fun.
The good news is that it already being done. (After I do a lot more polishing.)
ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this, because it is the key to making art and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the book (or story, or hopelessly long essay) that exists in such brilliant detail on the big screen of my limbic system onto a piece of paper (which, let's face it, was once a towering tree crowned with leaves and a home to birds), I grieve for my own lack of talent and intelligence. Every. Single. Time. Were I smarter, more gifted, I could pin down a closer facsimile of the wonders I see. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
In her beautiful meditation on the writing life, Ann Patchett adds to our ongoing archive of wisdom on writing. Pair with Patchett's advice to graduates on writing and life. (via explore blog)
I told my friendMirandathatI working on a final project for my game design class that takes place in a rap universe. Sheresponded, like Flappy Bird. And I was all, buuuuuuutttttt I checked out a very excellent tutorial from Thomas Palef on making a Flappy Bird clone in HTML5and I made this grossRappyBirdclone in about an hourish. It was good fun, and it made me want to mess around more with the Phaser framework, since IJavascript despite that it all dirty dirty.
Anyway, jokes often prove good teachers for me. Cranking out silly doodads to amuse my friends and myself has taught me a lot about making useful things for the web, so it a time waster that doesn make me feel like a total waste.
Jokes are also the impetus behind some other projects that I have really enjoyed recently, especially the work of Pippin Barr, whom I would love to meet some day:
Since June,Chicas Poderosashas helped more than 1,000 Latin American journalists learn digital skills and use them in their communities. Attendees at the immersive, hands on digital storytelling workshops have researched and prototyped digital projects on water issues, agriculture, crime, elections and demographics in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico. The event is organized by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) with the support of Knight Foundation. Chicas Poderosas was created by ICFJ Knight International Journalism FellowMariana Santosduring her fellowship year.
I spent the weekend working with some awesome journalists, designers and technologists at SNDMakesDesignathonon story forms in Indianapolis. It was a whirlwind of great ideas, cool people and interesting prototypes. As we create more complex stories online, it often becomes difficult for users to understand the particular topics within a story that interest their friends. We want to help surface those ideas to better integrate conversation within storytelling and to further engage users within editorial products.
If developed into an actual product, Sluice could also help editorial teams get granular social data on their work and improve taxonomy by dynamically generating tags and topics based on how the story is discussed in social media. Understanding what points truly matter to users can help editorial teams improve future coverage decisions.
Building out Sluice would require some serious work with natural language processing and robust integration with social APIs (aka stuff that we didn have time to do in a weekend hack). Our prototype used only a small dataset and hand selected, rather than programmatic data analysis. (Also, full disclosure, I need to go back and make it responsive.) I think there great potential for a tool that could improve storytelling and the social news environment by closing the feedback loop around ideas within stories.
I had an absolute blast this weekend, and I left smarter and more invigorated about the untapped possibilities of online news design. All of the prototypes that came out of the event were terrific. Check them out:
Backstory: Gives users context on a story.(Blog post from Mike Swartz explaining the project.)
Skim: Helps users skim longform stories on mobile.
VideoSlider: Allows users to scan long form video content. (Works best on desktop.)
PS: My teammateCory wrote a great recap of the weekend and the importance of building community over at the Vox Product blog.
Chicas Poderosas is coming to Miami!
Woo! Chicas Poderosas an organization dedicated to empowering Latin American journalists to excel in visual storytelling, data visualization and interactive media with hands on skills training will hold its first workshop in the United States from April 17 to 20 in Miami.
I been working with Chicas founder Mariana Santos and Miranda Mulligan(two of the most amazing chicas I know) on getting the workshop here since the fall, and I cannot wait for all the awesomeness this will bring to Miami journalists. Hope you join us!
I just finished my last project of the semester, The Game a simulation game about becoming a successful rapper. Creating it has been an incredibly important experience for me as a designer.
See, I set out to make a game about student loan debt. And I quickly realized no one wants to play a game about student loan debt. It a hugely important issue, but it makes for a hugely dull context for a game.
I wanted to take on a serious issue! I wanted people to learn from all the freaking research I did on default rates and average loan burden.
I settled on rap, because I love it, sure, but also because success in the field is so deeply tied to brands and material wealth. I scoured rapgenius for allusions to expensive items. I designed a system of record advances and career impacts that make it very hard to reach Jay Z moguldom. And, it not perfect yet, but it is fun, and it definitely makes people think hard about debt.
Designing The Game has made me wrestle with my brain in the best possible way. I am both a journalist and a designer. One half of me abhors obfuscation and the other thinks abstraction is a perfectly lovely tool to get one point across. I interested in making news games, and the mental olympics in this design challenge were an important test for my assumptions on both sides.
I think journalism can and should leverage play and the deep engagement games produce for more meaningful understanding of complex issues. I think this fits our primary goal of informing, and it an exciting evolution toward informing through choice and experimentation rather than through the act of repeating. But, if news games are going to work, we have to be willing to find the right frame and bend toward fun.
The good news is that it already being done. (After I do a lot more polishing.)
ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this, because it is the key to making art and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the book (or story, or hopelessly long essay) that exists in such brilliant detail on the big screen of my limbic system onto a piece of paper (which, let's face it, was once a towering tree crowned with leaves and a home to birds), I grieve for my own lack of talent and intelligence. Every. Single. Time. Were I smarter, more gifted, I could pin down a closer facsimile of the wonders I see. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
In her beautiful meditation on the writing life, Ann Patchett adds to our ongoing archive of wisdom on writing. Pair with Patchett's advice to graduates on writing and life. (via explore blog)
I told my friendMirandathatI working on a final project for my game design class that takes place in a rap universe. Sheresponded, like Flappy Bird. And I was all, buuuuuuutttttt I checked out a very excellent tutorial from Thomas Palef on making a Flappy Bird clone in HTML5and I made this grossRappyBirdclone in about an hourish. It was good fun, and it made me want to mess around more with the Phaser framework, since IJavascript despite that it all dirty dirty.
Anyway, jokes often prove good teachers for me. Cranking out silly doodads to amuse my friends and myself has taught me a lot about making useful things for the web, so it a time waster that doesn make me feel like a total waste.
Jokes are also the impetus behind some other projects that I have really enjoyed recently, especially the work of Pippin Barr, whom I would love to meet some day:
Since June,Chicas Poderosashas helped more than 1,000 Latin American journalists learn digital skills and use them in their communities. Attendees at the immersive, hands on digital storytelling workshops have researched and prototyped digital projects on water issues, agriculture, crime, elections and demographics in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico. The event is organized by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) with the support of Knight Foundation. Chicas Poderosas was created by ICFJ Knight International Journalism FellowMariana Santosduring her fellowship year.
I spent the weekend working with some awesome journalists, designers and technologists at SNDMakesDesignathonon story forms in Indianapolis. It was a whirlwind of great ideas, cool people and interesting prototypes. As we create more complex stories online, it often becomes difficult for users to understand the particular topics within a story that interest their friends. We want to help surface those ideas to better integrate conversation within storytelling and to further engage users within editorial products.
If developed into an actual product, Sluice could also help editorial teams get granular social data on their work and improve taxonomy by dynamically generating tags and topics based on how the story is discussed in social media. Understanding what points truly matter to users can help editorial teams improve future coverage decisions.
Building out Sluice would require some serious work with natural language processing and robust integration with social APIs (aka stuff that we didn have time to do in a weekend hack). Our prototype used only a small dataset and hand selected, rather than programmatic data analysis. (Also, full disclosure, I need to go back and make it responsive.) I think there great potential for a tool that could improve storytelling and the social news environment by closing the feedback loop around ideas within stories.
I had an absolute blast this weekend, and I left smarter and more invigorated about the untapped possibilities of online news design. All of the prototypes that came out of the event were terrific. Check them out:
Backstory: Gives users context on a story.(Blog post from Mike Swartz explaining the project.)
Skim: Helps users skim longform stories on mobile.
VideoSlider: Allows users to scan long form video content. (Works best on desktop.)
PS: My teammateCory wrote a great recap of the weekend and the importance of building community over at the Vox Product blog.
Chicas Poderosas is coming to Miami!
Woo! Chicas Poderosas an organization dedicated to empowering Latin American journalists to excel in visual storytelling, data visualization and interactive media with hands on skills training will hold its first workshop in the United States from April 17 to 20 in Miami.
I been working with Chicas founder Mariana Santos and Miranda Mulligan(two of the most amazing chicas I know) on getting the workshop here since the fall, and I cannot wait for all the awesomeness this will bring to Miami journalists. Hope you join us!
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Singles Flirt Up Your Life Download Full Version
Singles Flirt Up Your Life Download Full Version
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Full version downloads available, all hosted on high speed servers. Singles Flirt up Your Life (FULL version, not demo and crack) 453 MB Req by Serena Singles: Flirt up your Life! is the simulation of the exciting relationship between Mike and Linda.
Singles flirt up your life download full game
Convert to the full version for only $37.99 AUD with no more downloads. Buy the full version from us and enjoy the following benefits. Fast delivery of game to your email. Choosing from over a
dozen, unique characters, the player will pick two people to move into a. Play Singles: Flirt up your Life!, full review, download free demo, screenshots Free Singles: Flirt up your Life. Singles:
Flirt up your Life! Singles is the life sim with an.
Singles: Flirt Up Your Life places players in the role of matchmaker. Singles: Flirt Up Your Life PC game English Genre: Virtual Life 241 Mb Ah, the life of the young single person. Elizabethan Era
free with the demo version or download the full. How game downloads work Single flirt up your life game.
Singles flirt up your life download game
Singles: Flirt Up Your Life Demo 05/26/05: Choosing from over a dozen, unique characters, the player will pick two people to move into a sparsely decorated apartment. Conquer the heart of Linda or
make Mike fall in love with you. Download Simulation Game Singles: Flirt up your Life. Singles Flirt up your Life is the simulation of the exciting relationship between Mike and Linda.
Free download and free play Singles: Flirt up your Life! pc game. 453 MB Req by Serena Singles: Flirt up your Life! is the simulation of the exciting relationship between Mike and Linda. The game
shows them in their shared flat, which means that. Singles: Flirt up your Life! is the simulation of the exciting relationship between Mike and Linda. Singles: Flirt up your Life! is the simulation
of the exciting relationship between Mike and Linda. A simulation of the exciting relationship between Mike and Linda. The game shows them in their shared apartment which means that.
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