Tag Archives: review

App Review: Google Goggles

Jorrit Schaap | 10 October 2011, 10:43 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , ,

I have to admit that I do not own the app I’m about to review. In fact, I have never used it. But I want to discuss this app here because I feel that in the long run it may have a huge impact on the way we think about search, data and data sharing. Meet Google Goggles.

Prey – an open source anti theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones [Review]

Clément Adam | 10 October 2011, 1:01 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

Prey is a program that should help you feel more relaxed when using your brand new macbook pro in public. It lets you keep track of your phone or laptop if it is lost or stolen. For the Masters of Media blog, I have tested the application Prey 0.5.3 on Mac Osx Lion10.7.1.

App review: TomTom Places (iPhone)

Floris Spronk | 10 October 2011, 10:06 am | tags: , , , , ,

What makes a good app? Does it have to be groundbreaking and revolutionary, extremely useful, addictive or just nice and decent? For the last few days I’ve been testing an app that might not be very revolutionary but is definitely very useful and decent.

The app is called TomTom Places, launched last august and available in five languages.…

Crowdflow: pretty pictures with our iPhone localisation data

Ave Tampere | 10 October 2011, 12:05 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Smartphones have changed the way we think about pretty much all aspects of communication. We’re used to having internet access in our pockets, GPS, barcode readers – you name it. There are thousands of applications to make our lives easier and fun, to make us more connected and better informed. I personally only got into the world of smartphones very…

Mobile Application Review: Grindr. It’s a guy thing.

Luana Pascu | 09 October 2011, 12:16 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Since Facebook has gained such worldwide success, it was long overdue for gay people to have their own social network. Joel Simkhai made their wish come true and created Grindr. I have to admit, I first found out about it from my best friend, who is a dedicated user of this platform, but most of the information I will…

App review: Repudo

Joep Hegger | 08 October 2011, 11:27 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Repudo, the fysical location bound message service, explained and reviewed. The app proves to be easy to use, original and playful, but still comes with some minor issues such as limited compatibility.

Book review:Taking Care of Youth and the Generations by Bernard Stiegler

Mzia Kupunia | 20 September 2011, 1:02 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Marketing technologies pose great threat to the future generations – this is the main thesis of French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler’s book Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. In a work published in English language in 2010, Stiegler begins with discussing the issue of lack of responsibility among the adults in the contemporary society. He reviews a then…

Book Review: The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading. Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine by Peter Lunenfeld

Luana Pascu | 18 September 2011, 10:06 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading. Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine is a brilliant piece written by UCLA professor and digital media theorist Peter Lunenfeld, in which he sets out to explain his envisioning of the 21st century by analyzing the growth and fall of the dominant media and answering one, apparently easy, question:

“Who is

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Book review: Check in / check uit – Christian van ‘t Hof, Rinie van Est, Floortje Daemen

Annet Bos | 18 September 2011, 8:41 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Check in / Check uit

The BeBook Blues

Fei An Tjan | 18 October 2010, 12:18 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Last years have been devout to digital publishing and the e-readers. The media made it seem that it was the new big thing and even my mother was considering an iPad. Because I was always annoyed by the enormous spillage of paper during my studies, I too thought it might be time for some digitization of my personal life:…