Category: travel
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FaceTime from the Michigan Avenue Apple Store
Today during a fun visit to the Apple Store in Chicago on Michigan Avenue, my wife, son and I talked to our family back in Oklahoma over a FaceTime videoconference. We used my wife’s phone for the videoconference, and I snapped the following photo using my iPhone. At times like these, it feels a bit…
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Window Washer on a Chicago Skyscraper
Before going up to the top of the Willis (Sears) Tower today in Chicago, I saw the following window washer rappelling down a nearby building. Now that’s a risky job! – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location:N Kingsbury St,Chicago,United States
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Inspired to Dream BIG @NorthwesternU
It’s never too early to start talking with kids about college, and you can’t put a price on inspiration. These were some of the ideas reinforced by our “partial” family’s visit today to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, about thirty minutes north of downtown Chicago right on the western shore of Lake Michigan. I’m here…
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Spectacular Scenes of Controlled Burning on the Kansas Prairie
Today driving up for a Storychasers‘”Celebrate Kansas Voices” digital storytelling workshop in Manhattan, I witnessed some dramatic scenes of controlled burning on the prairie just south of Junction City along US 77. I don’t think these images do the landscape justice. In addition to photos taken with the default camera app of my iPhone4, I…
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Descending into the clouds at sunset (video)
On March 9th, I posted some photos of an amazing sunset over a beautiful cloud deck over Memphis, Tennessee, in the post, “Sunset over a sea of clouds.” Today I shared (on Flickr) a 44 second video of our plane descending just below the cloud layer from that same evening. It’s easy, as a regular…
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Microsoft Copying Apple Store Experience
The clearest message communicated by the Microsoft Store in Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego seems to be: Redmond wants to offer shopping experiences like Cupertino. Remember days in the not-so-distant past when Windows-based laptops for sale by franchises like Office Depot and Best Buy were not connected to the Internet? That’s not the case…
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Sunset over a sea of clouds
This evening was a magnificent time to have a window seat on my flight into Memphis, enroute to Montgomery. I don’t think these images can adequately render the spectacular scene I witnessed on our descent into a sea of interlaced clouds, as the red sun set in the west. I took a short video as…
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Fotopedia Heritage for iPad #edapps
Touch tablet computers like the iPad excel at showing off stunning photographs, and the free Fotopedia Heritage app provides a great demonstration of this capability. By clicking the “i” icon for more info on a photo, users can view a description of official UNESCO World Heritage sites as well as Wikipedia info for locations. Click…
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Good Memories from Denton and UNT
I’m in the midst of uploading a slew of new photos to my Flickr account, which have accumulated on my iPhone since early December, as well as a few videos to YouTube. These are two favorite photos from my time in Denton, Texas, last semester teaching at UNT. This is a photo of Kelly and…
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Free iPhone Turn by Turn Driving Directions with Waze
Thanks to James Deaton, this past week I learned about the free mobile app, Waze. Waze is “Real-time maps and traffic information based on the wisdom of the crowd.” The website explains: Waze is a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road. 100% powered by users, the more you drive, the better…