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Testing Traktor for iPad

Thomas — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:22:16 +0000

Finally, Native Instruments released an app for the ipad called "Traktor DJ". Since Traktor is the widest used DJ software and the ipad has so much to offer to manipulate music with its interface the expectations were extremely high. And they didn't fail. The price of 18 EUR is ok for what you get and after reading the first reviews and I instantly had to download and try it.

Auflegen im Schau Fenster

Thomas — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:14:18 +0000

Last week I tested my new digital DJing set Traktor Scratch A6 at Schau Fenster gallery and it was really fantastic. The vinyl feel and controlling abilities combined with the ease of digital storage just kicks it. I won't stop to buy vinyl though, but I feel some new possibilities have just been opened here. Here are some nice pics, shot by Sebastian Glowinski für GOOD GUYS ENTERTAINMENT.

Testing the Quote.fm embed

Thomas — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:17:24 +0000

Nice, now quote.fm which becomes ever more important to me for finding interesting texts gets an embed feature. This will replace the "quote"-Style in blogs and make discussions about texts across platforms easier to collect and follow. Here is a fun one (in German):

Fußball - Bundesligen - Hauptstadt-Freizeittipps für BVB-Fans - Berlin, Berlin, was machen wir in Berlin?

»Ihr werdet schnell merken, Berlin ist gar nicht so cool wie alle immer sagen. Ganz im Gegenteil, Berlin ist ganz schön anstrengend. Wer es nicht glaubt, dem empfehlen wir eine gepflegte Partie »Berlin-Bullshit-Bingo«.«

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360 degree videos and panoramic ball cameras

Thomas — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:16:53 +0000

Ever more often lately, I stumble across 360 degree or panoramic video and photo ideas, tools and gadgets. Now I even have the great pleasure to work on a project with that kind of technology together withe the awesome company called Yellowbird from the Netherlands. They do amazing 360° videos which are embedable and follow [...]

Jamie Lidell on iMaschine

Thomas — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:28:20 +0000

Even if I risk becoming a Native Instruments fanboy here, this is another great showcase of one of their products, presented by the even greater Jamie Lidell. NI released an iPhone app called iMaschine which according to the video is a little all-in-one sequencer, drum machine, synth and recorder to play around with and build [...]

Jambox Test

Thomas — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:51:07 +0000

Die Jambox von Jawbone ist ein kompakter Lautsprecher mit Mikro, der per Bluetooth Sound abspielen und aufnehmen kann. Ans Telefon gekoppelt ist er so eine Boombox für den Park oder ein Telefonkonferenzgerät. Funktioniert auch mit Computern, die Bluetooth können. Ich fand das kleine Teil im Test sehr sympathisch, danke an Vreni von K-MB für das [...]

Testing the Starplayer app

Thomas — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:39:57 +0000

Only two weeks ago, Heineken came out with the Starplayer iPhone app, which lets players estimate situations in Champions league football matches, while watching it on tv. I had the chance to test it from the beginning and I have to say it’s pretty impressive overall. The concept to run a game simultaneously to popular [...]

TV on the iPad: Tizi

Thomas — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:46:35 +0000

I admit, I still love to watch tv. Here is one tool which let’s you carry around the screen: a DVB-T tuner for the ipad. I could test it and it’s definitely approved, it works fine and fast and is very easy to handle. Here is a little foto session to see how it works. [...]

Lost in Val Sinestra Campaign

Thomas — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:48:01 +0000

An interactive trailer which pulls your friends information from Facebook and integrates it in the movie. Technically, it’s not a problem to put individual text and video into a flash movie. Alone, the right idea and the concept is a challenge that Lost in Val Sinestra solves in a very smart way. By connecting your [...]

Interessante Social Media Marken-Kooperationen

Thomas — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:22:11 +0000

Der Online-Fashionshop Haburi hat zwei interessante Aktionen auf seiner Facebookpage: In Kooperation mit Cinemaxx können Fans (man muss Fan sein, um teilnehmen zu können, eine Praktik, die immer mehr zum Standard wird) einen Kinosaal mit Freunden füllen. Wer tatsächlich 199 Freunde zu der Aktion einlädt, kann mit diesen eine Exklusivvorstellung von Sex & the City [...]

Amazing Prezi demonstration

Thomas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:26:06 +0000

If you haven’t seen Prezi in action, this is an awesome illustration. Watch first the video which gives you an impression about how to work with Prezi (speed is 10x) and then the result, a Prezi which sums up a class by Howard Rheingold on Social Media in Stanford last october, done pretty much simultaneously [...]

Continuity Game

Thomas — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:57:30 +0000

This is a great game, small, fast, and easy to get into. Not always easy to solve and not supereasy to understand. You are the little man and need to collect the key to open the door and get top the next level. Zoom in with space and jump and run within the given square. [...]

Trabayo ist vier Wochen online

Thomas — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:25:04 +0000

Trabayo ist mein nicht mehr ganz so neues Internetbaby, das ich hier schon mal erwähnt habe. Es geht darum, zu sagen was man kann, das andere brauchen könnten: Cocktails mixen, Babys sitten, Websiten fixen, Rasen mähen usw. Im ersten Schritt haben wir ein sehr einfaches System entwickelt, mit dem Beschreibungen und Headlines innerhalb von Kategorien [...]

Ableton Launchpad – intuitive hardware controller

Thomas — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:27:41 +0000

And here’s another toy for live electronic musicians: The Ableton – Novation launchpad. Trigger loops, bars, effects and all the other stuff you can do and prepare with Ableton live. Looks awesome in the video, can someone please send over a piece for me to try it out?!! Novation Launchpad – Ableton Live Controller from [...]

eRockit: An electric bike to race cars with

Thomas — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:46:07 +0000

The eRockit is a mixture between bike and electric motorcycle. You still use your legs to get it in motion but merely use your power as a trigger for the electric speed. It goes up to 80km/h so it can even be used on the autobahn. Moreover it looks fantastic and sounds like future (in [...]

Inudge: Create soundloops in a widget

Thomas — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:38:05 +0000

Here is the result of minutes clicking and trying out to build a nice loop with inudge. It’s a great and very intuitive tool, works like a classic drum machine, great to play around with! On the right side, you’ll find six different sound libraries, the drums are at the bottom, next is base and [...]

Online audio editing with Myna

Thomas — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:23:07 +0000

Myna ist ein Audio-Mixing und Bearbeitungs-Tool, das komplett im Browser läuft und auf den ersten Blick ziemlich beeindruckend ist. Garageband-mäßig kann man hier aus einer Bank mit Sounds und Loops auswählen und als Spuren anordnen. Die Clips lassen sich dann mit Effekten belegen, ein- und ausblenden und trimmen, d.h. Anfangs- und Endpunkt bestimmen sowie weiter [...]

Wahlmobilisierungstools im Überblick

Thomas — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:47:16 +0000

Einige Initiativen haben sich ein Beispiel an dem sehr erfolgreichen “Der eine Nichtwähler, der Obama verhindert hat”-Tool genommen und ähnliche Web-Instrumente produziert. Immer geht es dabei um ein Video, das sich mit Name und Bild personalisieren lässt und anschließend an Bekannte als Link verschickt werden kann. Ziel ist es bei allen Tools, Menschen am 27. [...]

A 3D business card

Thomas — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:42:52 +0000

Ok, now here we are with augmented reality, it is starting. We have the tools like webcams and Actionscript and in flow the impressive examples. AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo. You can try it too! Print this and go here and be amazed! It’s done by James Aliban, an artist-developer-scientist who likes [...]

Testing putpat.tv

Thomas — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:20:43 +0000

I have 5 invitations, just comment below if you would like to test putpat too. Putpat is another musicvideosite which aims to make it simple and easy to watch music videos like back in the ol’ days on MTV. A simple, flash based interface lets you skip videos, change channels, and love or ban videos. [...]

Wolfram – Semantic search sneak preview

Thomas — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:56:06 +0000

Die Versprechen des mysteriösen, sich aber immer konkreter abzeichnenden Semantic Web sind groß. Nichts anderes als dass Maschinen tatsächlich verstehen sollen, was man gerade sucht und die Informationen und möglichen Entscheidungen entsprechend aufarbeiten will das semantische Web liefern. Ein Web der Daten, mehr als Daten im Web. Artikel von mir im Trabayo-Blog weiterlesen

European election badge

Thomas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:08:59 +0000

European parliament offers a nice widget on their European Parliament MySpace site which breaks down essential political questions in a very simple way. Here is the widget I did: Too bad it does not show the meaning of the symbols but it goes like this: the cat is for taming financial markets, the sun is [...]

Great movie trailer iPhone app

Thomas — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:25:14 +0000

A friend pointed me to this great film trailer iPhone application which does exactly what you expect: List all available trailers with some context information about the movie, shows the trailers, makes the downloadable to a local archive, select between European countries and thus languages, search for titles or other tags like production company genre [...]

How to refer directly to a tv show with a single URL

Thomas — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:07:44 +0000

I had this idea when I realized how many people twitter about what they are watching on tv right now. Taking a look at my German twitter friends on a sunday night, be sure, almost half of them will comment on the ongoing “Tatort”. But in contrast to stuff from the web, tv shows cannot [...]

Café Solvey

Thomas — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:37:02 +0000

For the most time I have been in my current flat, the little store in the ground floor was filled with a computer store. The guys where nice, even had some hints for me from time to time but obviously they did not suceed with their business and closed last year. Some months later people [...]

Liveblogging from “The BOBS”

Thomas — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:39:06 +0000

Yesterday, I attended the ceremony of Deutsche Welle to award the Best of Blogs (theBOBS) which, according to the jury, are the best blogs in different national categories, as well as in video and audio in 2009. Peter aka thewavingcat blogged live with a very fascinating tool called Coveritlive. It has a very smooth editor [...]

What you can do with Arduino

Thomas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:24:14 +0000

“Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.” Hm, so what does that mean? Basically what you can with the little Arduino board is easily bring lots of input in and turn it into [...]

P3000 Blogpost Widget from Sproutbuilder

Thomas — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:33:28 +0000

Greenhouse.sproutbuilder.com is an absolute blast. It’s a flash based widget builder which works entirely in your browser window and has a lot of editing features. Build sites with text, video, pictures, slideshows, maps, charts or insert RSS. Define size, fonts, colors, background, effects. Here are the most recent updates from the PANORAMA3000 blog in a [...]

Wordle – Beautiful word clouds

Thomas — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:59:21 +0000

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like..” I discovered [...]

Iphone wordpress app test

Thomas — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:01:12 +0000

Just a test of the iPhone wordpress app – still iphone word recommendation is really a pain but that’s not the (the=thw- wtf?!) fault of the app.. Took a picture but I guess it means work to adjust it nicely to the design. We’ll see.. Next task: Disable this autocorrect thing.

IFA-Links

Thomas — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:38:08 +0000

Sony hall on IFA by HolgerEI went to IFA last week and apart from the vacuum cleaning robot (cute!), the 3DTV screens by LG and Samsung (no link found) and the vast Sony hall, I especially liked the science part of the trade fair. I talked to two scientists from DFKI Saarbrücken and tried the [...]

This weekend: Videoakt, Substance, Mediaspree

Thomas — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:50:19 +0000

This weekend in Berlin will see art, music, politics and overall a mashup of all: Friday night will see Substance, the biggest Dubstep party on the European continent so far, at Berghain, there is the big art festival Videoakt on friday and saturday where Stylewalker’s going to spin, and on sunday people living in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg [...]

Melt! – here we go again

Thomas — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:34:29 +0000

There’s less than a month to wait for Melt! festival taking off again. I’m looking forward to working there again, you can read about my experiences at this beautiful and excessive festival in several articles on stylewalker.net! I don’t know which artists I am going to take care of this time, I’ll post it as [...]

Fassadendrucker

Thomas — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:12:56 +0000

Just checked on a comment and found this: A facade printer. Crazy. [via Big City of Dreams]

What’s missing on the iphone

Thomas — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:00:17 +0000

So, it’s not all gold that’s iPhone and with all the hysteria about this product, many flaws should not be forgotten.- So here is my ultimate list of what’s missing or not good or what actually sucks on the iPhone, even after hacking or unbreaking or simunlocking it with Ziphone. If I should be mistaken [...]

Snake Reloaded

Thomas — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:46:16 +0000

Wow, I was mad for that game, I even dreamt about the snakes! It was also the first program where I took a look at the code (in MS Basic) Volkswagen NL has relaunched Snake as a flash game. You move the car with the arrows, for every balloon collected you get a fan more [...]

Watch selected re:publica panels on Hobnox

Thomas — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:29:35 +0000

Yes the guys made it! It must have been an effort and I am really impressed. Despite still being at beta state, Hobnox offers selected panels from the just finished Re:publica 08 to watch in impressive quality and discuss the outcomes.

Drop.io

Thomas — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:28:12 +0000

Supertool: Drop.io. Files hochladen, Passwort schützen oder nicht, Unique URL vergeben, Laufzeit angeben, keine Registrierung. Eigenen “Drop” (sowas wie ein Korb im Internet wo Leute was reinschmeißen können) kreieren, Adminpasswort vergeben, Widget kreieren und im Blog einbauen. So wie hier. Wer will, kann mir z.B. Musik reinschmeißen oder Bilder von der letzten Party. Yay!

Robert Lippok erklärt das Yamaha Tenori On

Thomas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:05:15 +0000

Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot, Mouse on Mars) explains the new music gadget by Yamaha: The Tenori On. Again, a very intuitive way for creating music with intelligent electronic devices. Via Debug and Netzpolitik’s Twitter. Check out my articles about multitouch displays and the Monome Midi Controller.

Conversational Design Patterns

Thomas — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:52:36 +0000

Very nice presentation by Kosmar about “Conversational design patterns”. Many screens and pictures about how to foster different interaction patterns on the web from login to comment to ratings. No revolution but a good collection and categorization. | View | Upload your own

Mite

Thomas — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:33:52 +0000

Hochgeschwindigkeitstool zur Zeiterfassung: Mite. Schnell, schick und praktisch: Zeit stoppen, Projekten zuordnen. Man sollte sich nicht übercontrollen, aber so etwas diszipliniert ungemein. Meistens hat man ja sowieso schon vorher gesagt, was es kostet. Aber immerhin weiß man nachher ziemlich genau, wo man sich verschätzt hat. Oder wie benutzt ihr Mite?

Snoop Dogg Yo!

Thomas — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:04:59 +0000

The shizl to the izl – Snoop is back, gangster, disco, oldschool – everything he likes blends into his new album Egotrippin. Take a listen and a look at what the self disputed master of the gangster party has for the heads, street and cheesy alike and take a quiz (in German) to find out [...]

Uniqlock: Japan’s stylishest and viralest screensaver

Thomas — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:37:37 +0000

I’m loving this screensaver and its blog widgets! According to Netxtweb, it’s one of Japan’s most successful online campaigns ever. And the music’s really OK, you can turn it on, if you like. When downloaded, it automatically adopts to your time zone, so the whole thing is really simple (video plus displayed time), together with [...]