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Dolphins!, originally uploaded by HaniAlYousif.

We had a great time in Portugal and the girls also saw some wild dolphins! More photos in my Flickr stream.

I haven’t been posting a lot of late but I have been adding links to my Delicious account regularly (which is in the sidebar under Elsewhere). It occurred to me that I should highlight the links a bit more just to add something new to the blog. So please excuse the incoming deluge!

This made me smile. The new Chromeo video directed by Keith Schofield.

Brilliant vintage posters for Facebook, Youtube & Skype.

Mark Grambau’s elegant Superhero silhouette posters. I’d buy these!

Directed by Will Hoffman & Daniel Mercandante for NPR & Radiolab, Words is a delight.

First of all, apologies for the long quiet spell. I’ve been busy at work and having lots of fun with my iPad and iPhone 4 as well.

The screen on the iPhone 4 is just absolutely, incredibly, indescribably beautiful. It’s compulsive viewing, well once you change the horrible default water drops wallpaper! I tried lots of minimalist graphics and wasn’t satisfied until I settled on The Grid.

Nice, no? The image above is 50% of the actual iPhone 4 resolution. Click on it to see the graphics at 100%.

For my iPad I’ve been cycling through a lot of wallpaper from 50ft shadows. Currently here are my lock and home screens.

As for my iMac I set my Desktop preferences to choose at random some of my favourites from 50ft shadows including this one.

Enjoy!

Photo credit: mkniebes

My brother Mahmood was right. When I asked him to describe the iPad he bought 6 weeks ago he replied by saying that it’s the computer we’ve all been waiting for. Conceptually, I understood what he meant yet practically I didn’t have a clue. Until My iPad arrived. Barely a day after its arrival it’s the last thing put down at night and the first thing picked up in the morning.

I half-heartedly put my MacBook Pro up for sale a couple of weeks ago. It’s a beautiful, fast and powerful laptop and the best portable computer I had ever owned and yet it feels like a dinosaur the more I use the iPad. Yes yes I know, there’s no Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, Nuke, Shake or Smoke apps but I honestly don’t care. I have access to all of those applications and more at work and my new iPad is just so… joyous to use. I haven’t been so excited, enthused and enthralled with a new piece of tech since the iPhone appeared.

Speaking of which, the iPhone feels so cramped and claustrophobic to use now! The spacing between the apps! Constantly scrolling around! I never thought I would say this about the iPhone but the iPad makes it look inferior.

These are my impressions and it was interesting to see how others responded to the iPad at work. The reactions varied from WOW I WANT ONE to a bewildered “but this netbook does more than your expansive toy” refrain. Strangely reminiscent of the Mac-Windows war, which strikes me as completely irrelevant now.

Welcome to the future.

A friendly smiling UPS man rang our doorbell this morning with two very special packages. I just managed to switch Gillian’s iPad on and sync it with her iTunes but oh my God is it breathtaking! Can’t wait to get home tonight and dive right in!