Owl on March 2nd, 2009

Talking of drawing and painting on an iPhone or Ipod Touch…  Come to think of it, I wasn’t. Never mind. Not so long ago I promised to reveal the results of the great Iphone and Ipod Chicken Drawing Project. Brought to you by Purple Owl Research (no less) this endeavour attempts to discover which painting [...]

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Owl on February 8th, 2009

Iphone or ipod. Oh dear. How do you choose which to use for doodling, drawing or painting? Both iPhone and Ipod Touch can give artists and simple scribblers a simply magical sketchbook. Both put artistic expression literally at your finger tips. Even when the Iphone App Store first opened its doors there were five or [...]

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Owl on October 18th, 2008

Can your camera phone take videos as well as stills? These days most camera phones can. The iPhone can’t. Is that a glaring omission? Are stills really out of date? A huge amount is packed into the iPhone. Perhaps there’s no room for a movie camera. Hmm. Other phone camera makers cheerfully stuff in more [...]

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Owl on September 28th, 2008

You will be pleased to learn that I have been busy wasting my time, teaching myself finger drawing on my iPhone. Okay, okay. You haven’t got an iPhone. You haven’t even got an iPod. In which case the following slice of knowledge will be even more useless to you than it would be if you [...]

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Owl on September 12th, 2008

    There’s no doubt leading an uninteresting life has its advantages. I’m all for it if it avoids my falling down a ravine, perishing just short of the North Pole, dying of an overdose, being shot by an assassin, eaten by a shark or otherwise disposed of. I have to admit, though, that when it [...]

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