Knight Lab Timeline JS test

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A little test of Timeline JS from Knight Lab on some Apple products.

Simple to use and quite good result.

Texts are from Wikipedia and photos from Flickr (see captions for credits)

"Big plans" for Apple in 2014

Tim Cook, Apple COO, in january 2009, after Macworld Expo keynote. Picture by Valery Marchive (LeMagIT) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Big plans" for Apple in 2014

Paroles, paroles, paroles... So far, Tim Cook has been very generous in announcements, but far less in concrete innovations.

This may be a crucial year for the post-Jobs era for Apple.

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Big brother may be your phone company

 

Big Brother Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Big brother may be your phone company

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Not available for this christmas, but appealing anyway

Revolution in Photography

Panono : Not available for this christmas, but appealing anyway

Some 30 years ago...

I remember my family looking up at a projection screen a whole bunch of flat slides in the dark. It was a bit long sometimes, but always a great moment shared together.

We all were discussing about travels, family celebrations and so on and our own memories were feeding this shared moment.

..then came the digital era

The projection screen was then replaced by a little computer screen, on which we looked down. We then had the same discussions, same memories and same shared moments.

The computer screen finally has been replaced by TV screen on which we look forward.

And what about tomorrow?

I imagine my family gathered in the same room, all wearing some Google glasses and having the same 360 degrees picture projected in it. We all move and share this moment physically, looking up, forward and down, pointing some particular details.

Will it be better? Who knows. But it seems that technology is not very far from this.

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Un procureur demande à Apple d'activer son Activation Lock par défaut

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240"] lock (Photo credit: Digiart2001 | jason.kuffer)[/caption]

http://www.igen.fr/iphone/un-procureur-demande-apple-d-activer-son-activation-lock-par-defaut-109388

Do I like Apple products? Yes I do. Do I like Apple? I don't give a damn

I have got an iPad, an iPhone, an iPod touch, and two MacBook. Am I an Apple addict? I do not think so. I just observe that I prefer the MacBook I write this blog on than the DELL PC I work on. On the same way, I just used a Galaxy Tab II to test some mobile application in my job. Sorry, but here again, I prefer my old 1st gen iPad.

So, what is so appealing for me in Apple products? I had a recent visit in MoMA some days ago and what is clear is that these products are very close to pop art. By essence, they have something to do with design in its primary essence and I like it. This is not something rational, as art is not. This may be expensive, as art may be. But this something I feel beautiful as some art forms do.

On the other side, the DELL PC I use at work is so black, so sad, so close to any other computer and so far from beauty... The Samsung tablet I use is so complicated, so an engineer product with so much settings and at the end, just another tablet...

Let's admit it, innovation is not on Apple side (at least for a while I foresee). But they anyway still have design with them. And I like design. This is not rational. This is just a matter of nature.

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