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Apple is reportedly working on two foldable iPhone models

by Darcy January 5, 2021
written by Darcy

Apple may be late to the foldable phone game, but the company apparently hasn’t given up on the concept. 

According to Taiwanese outlet Economic Daily News (via MacRumors), two different foldable phone prototypes have passed internal durability tests at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China. 

The report claims that one of the devices is a vertically-folding phone, similar to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip. The other is a dual-screen phone with two displays connected by a hinge. 

The idea of Apple making a foldable or a dual-screen device isn’t new; the company was awarded a patent for such a phone back in 2017, and a report in 2018 said Apple might be preparing to launch a foldable phone in 2020. That never happened, but 2020 was a very atypical year, with the Covid-19 pandemic messing up Apple’s phone launch schedule and impacting sales.  

And leaker Jon Prosser spoke about a dual-screen iPhone with display panels connected with a hinge back in June. He said that, while the phone’s displays are separate, they seem “fairly continuous and seamless” when extended. A new patent, awarded to Apple just last week, describes a device with a foldable display, where the “first and second portions of an electronic device housing for the device may be joined using a hinge.”

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LG’s new OLED display goes from flat to curved for gaming

by Darcy January 5, 2021
written by Darcy

LG will showcase a bendable display at this year’s CES, which kicks off on Jan. 11. 

The 48-inch Bendable Cinematic Sound (CSO) OLED display can bend and go back to fully flat as needed. The idea is to flatten the screen when watching TV and turn it into a curved display when gaming for better immersion. 

The display can do more than just bend. LG’s CSO tech also makes the display vibrate and produce sound, meaning it doesn’t require speakers. LG says the film exciter — the part that vibrates the display and produces the sound — has been slimmed down from 9mm to 0.6mm, making the resulting display quite thin. 

Other specs of note include a 40Hz to 120Hz variable refresh rate, and an “infinite” contrast ratio. LG says the display has been optimized for eye comfort as it emits a low level of blue light, which should make it suitable for long gaming sessions. 

LG has been on fire when it comes to display tech lately. In October 2020, the company launched its rollable OLED in Korea, after working on it for more than two years. A few days ago, LG said it would showcase its transparent OLED displays at CES. The company has also launched a series of Mini LED TVs, called  LG QNED Mini LED TVs, positioning them at the top of its LCD TV range.  

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What you want to know about the Adam’s camera

by Darcy January 5, 2021
written by Darcy

Yeah, I get that message a lot. Adam’s camera is set to take GIGANTIC pictures by default and changing the setting requires an advanced degree in engineering, so any product photos I take end up being 1000000000000px by 1000000000000px. Well, something like that. Needless to say, they all need to be resized before uploading to Etsy, or I will get the lovely message shown above. I would also like to keep the original Gihugeous version in case I need to blow them up and make giant posters of them. Or use the high-res shots for portfolio prints, which is more likely.

The easiest photo resizer isn’t really a program, it’s more like a process automator. It’s called Picture Resizer 3.0 (okay, so they didn’t spend a lot of time on the name) and you don’t even need to open a program up to use it. Here are the official instructions from the website:

  • Download “PhotoResize400.exe” and place it on your desktop.
  • Drag and drop JPG files or folders with JPG files on the application icon.
  • The tool will resize JPG images and save them next to the originals. Names of the new pictures will be based on the original names, with a suffix indicating their size. For example, the resized version of MyPhoto.jpg will be called MyPhoto-400.jpg, where the number 400 indicates the size of the picture.

So once the icon is on your desktop you select your pics, drag them over the icon and drop. It automatically resizes and places the new pic beside the old. Done.

If you want to resize to a size other than 400 px just change the name of the file. I changed the name of the icon on my desktop to PhotoResize800 and all my photos were resized to 800 px when I dragged my folder over the icon. There are a bunch of other ways you can tweak the program described on the website, but I just needed a quick and easy photo resize tool and this fits perfectly.

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Organic Music: Once

by Darcy January 5, 2021
written by Darcy

This scene from the movie “Once” is one of the most organic things I have seen all year. The characters have recently met and he is halfway-through showing her a half fleshed-out song he has scribbled down, while she ad-libs some harmony and a beautiful piano accompaniment.

We use the term organic way too much these days to mean non-chemical, not genetically-altered, not mass-produced and the like, but these all focus on what it is NOT. Organic is growing, natural, not forced by a hand or design, free to flow to it’s own form. What happens when you just let it be. By this definition, this scene is entirely organic; hesitant and almost feeble at the start, getting a footing, learning the notes, growing into the tune and finally feeling the piece as they are making it, and I can almost picture a little tree shooting branches in fast forward to visually frame the music that these two people are growing in this scene.

You wouldn’t be making a bad decision if you went out and nabbed the spectacular soundtrack for the movie highlighting Irish-born Glen Hansard of The Frames and Czech singer Markéta Irglová or checked out their collaboration effort, The Swell Season.

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The Wedding Files – Project Guest Favours

by Darcy January 5, 2021
written by Darcy

We’ll start with an easy project, but something you need to get started making early since you have to make so many.

For our wedding favors, we decided to make coasters for each guest to take home – 2 per guest or four per couple so that even people who came without a date would still have a matching set. We were told that if you have good wedding favors you will have none left over after the wedding and we think we did okay because there weren’t any left for us – I had to make some more for ourselves later.

The coasters we made from bathroom tiles from the hardware store. A box of 75 tiles cost about $70, giving us a final price of about $2 per guest. We bought 5 boxes and tried to carry them home ourselves since we only live across the street. Don’t do that. They are damn heavy. We almost died.

The only thing else we needed to buy was a roll of cork lining. Then came the fun task of cutting 1400 cork circles – one for each corner of 350 stone coasters. It wasn’t as hard as you’d think. I had a cork cutter from work, but a 3/4″ punch would work well – or you could cut grids and use square feet for the coasters.

Here’s where hubby-to-be comes in. You can either use the “if you loved me, you’d do this for us” or “you can either do this or sign all the thank you cards by yourself,” but whichever you choose, set him up with the tiles, some epoxy glue (the kind you mix together – or some other glue for tile surfaces) and the 1400 little circles. It’s better if you don’t let him see all the tiles at once, just keep bringing in more little piles, or else he may refuse at the beginning. One cirlce per tile corner and you’re good to go.

Then you can package them in little bundles of two. I printed little tags (using black chancery font – as I used for all the wedding stationery) and cut lengths of 1″ wide velvet burgundy ribbon. I attached them with antiqued brass eyelets and used the eyelets to string thin black ribbon to tie the coasters together and place them on each place setting. Ta-Dah!

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