PERSONAL WEBSITE OF DESIGNER + DEVELOPER STEVE MCDONALD
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  • Depth of Field
  • Canon XH-A1 video camera
  • Letus on an XH-A1
  • Camera lengths
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  • Rig without camera
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  • 3/4 angle head on
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::Development BLOG

Flash And Compressed Data

zip codeI've had a plan for a while now to create a fun set of tools that allow people with photo editing skills the ability to create fun engaging stories that play music and animate pictures.  The one thing holding me back for a while now was the delivery mechanism.  I have been imagining that I could create the desktop application to author the stories and I could create a player for Android and iPhone tablets so people can e

QR Codes For Print?

Vector QR Codes in CMYK?So there are many reasons to create and use QR Codes. If you don't know what a QR Code is, it is a goofy new kind of barcode that people are scanning with their cell phones to learn more about something ( a piece of realestate, a grocery product, a tv show or commercial, a magazine advert linking to the web site of a product, etc).

Send eMail In Drupal Development

So you want to test out a local drupal workflow/use-case which culminates in the sending of an email… but by default you aren’t running an SMTP service.  Rather than rushing out your dev product to a live host, here is a little write up on how to setup SMTP under OSX while developing under a localhost LAMP stack.

Setting Up Your Environment

Arduino: Development in the Physical World

RadioShack Learning LabsI have spent the better part of the last dozen years hacking my way through a wide array of projects, each one plundered for various lessons on strategy, analytical thinking skills, coding tricks, design aesthetics and life.  I have never c

Google TV Is A Revolution

Sony Google TVA while back I gave my bedroom TV away to a friend.  It was a nice TV I owned for a number of years and he had no TV at all so it seemed like the thing to do. Recently I have been toying with the idea of getting a bedroom TV again.

iPhone: Web Design For A Niche Market

Right now, while the browser wars are slowing to a faint rumble with the acceptance of standards-based XHTML, a new warfront is warming up on mobile devices.

Take the iPhone mobile Safari browser.  While Apple (I am a fan of their products, owning an iPhone, a macbook pro and an iMac) supports newer standards like the ever evolving (and pending) HTML 5 market recommendations, they have also seeded a number of unique non-standard techniques for ensuring a website works best within the paradigm of their proprietary device.

iPhone 4 Open Development

iPadToday I did a little reading about the new iPhone Operating System update coming out this summer (iPhone OS version 4.) Currently, Apple is releasing a software development kit preview for developers.  The idea here is that they want

There's (about to be) An App For That

first android appI have been considering getting into Android smart phone development for a while now.

Apple Steve Jobs Letter Rebuttal

As you may know by now, Steve Jobs wrote a letter about why Apple won't be including Flash in their mobile platform any time soon.  There is so much to say about the content of this letter, that it would take multiple blogs to say it all.

HTML5 Compliance

I recently watched a video where someone was demoing HTML5 websites on an iPad.  The video is an eye-opener.  Steve Jobs wrote a letter claiming that HTML5 is the future, but more importantly it is the answer today if you want to produce sites with the type of interactive content typically found in sites employing Flash.