Category Archives: Review

Skitch: an app that makes visual sharing a breeze

Trying to direct someone’s attention to an element of a site, program, or document can be frustrating when they’re not looking over your shoulder. At MediaStyle, we encounter this problem regularly when we’re training clients or sharing notes on designs. We were pretty happy to discover Skitch, an app for Mac recently acquired by Evernote,…
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A file-sharing system that actually works

I’m pretty happy about this new file-sharing service I stumbled upon today called Castle. It looks great, it doesn’t have overbearing ads or scam-y payment options, and it’s about as easy to use as a URL shortening service. You just drag files into your browser and it generates a download URL and social media sharing…
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Extra, extra: major newspaper not afraid of the Internet

Last weekend I saw Page One: Inside The New York Times, the documentary about the influential newspaper. The movie opens with a brief history of print and the sudden decline of print media in the Internet age. Bracing for the Internet fear-mongering that loving portraits of print media usually present, I was surprised by an…
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Cats and cats and Megaman: Let’s check out Canvas

Canvas is the new social network that Christopher Poole (AKA 4Chan founder Moot) recently announced at his SXSW keynote. You can read a breakdown of how Canvas works here and a nice summary of its coverage here. I’ve had my Canvas invite for a couple of weeks now, and I thought I’d share my thoughts….
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Great books make readers think past what’s written on the page

I finished reading one of those “challenging” books this weekend. An extremely well written biography of Samuel Steward called Secret Historian by Justin Spring. Samuel Steward was an author and a renegade – a key source and muse to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a dear friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and let’s just…
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Product review: 1st Video

1st Video is the iPhone audio and video editing software by Vericoder. We thought it would make a great match with the BUBO iPhone camera mount reviewed previously. Though we haven’t had a chance to produce anything in earnest with 1st Video, it has thankfully outshone the BUBO as a practical iPhone addition. Recording 1st…
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Product review: Owle BUBO iPhone camera mount

By Travis BoisvenueCurious about the the the batarang-like iPhone camera mount that the manufacturer claims will maximize the potential of you and your iPhone, Ian ordered the Owle BUBO. With the legion of creators and communicators out there abusing, hacking, and customizing their iPhones into a do-all device, I don’t doubt that the BUBO will be able to…
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