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Apple Special Event – October 30, 2018
09.48
And thats it. I like the NY Apple event. Good vibes.
And now songs from Lana del Ray
IOS12.1 is shipping today with group chat
Order today and get it next week
This is cool. The Pencil is magnetic and clips to the top of the iPad and then charges.
USB-C around the house for Apple
Comes with Face ID and cool things at the top
Same size but bigger screen
The NEW iPad Pro
Bring on the iPad
New Apple stores look amazing!
Order today – get it next week
Now for the new Mac Mini
Starts at 99 and you can order today. Available Nov. 7
Nice colors as usual
It’s Purty
Smaller better faster
The New MacBook Air
The Old MacBook Air
100 Million Macs – wow
They will start with the Macs
They love NY
How about them Apples?
Cool apples
21.11
Hi folks. Left a little early form the Hackthon so I wish the rest of the hackers good luck on the competition.
A really great event – well organized. Look forward to the next one.
15.46
Get your audience game on for Ted Talks tips
Workshop: How to Hack a TED Talk, sponsored by TEDxAsburyPark Always wanted to give a TED Talk or just feel more confident with your public speaking skills? Come and learn how with Public Speaking Coach/TEDxAsburyPark Curator and Rehearsal Director, MK Harby and author/TEDx Speaker, Olive Persimmon. You’ll learn tips for finding your message, how to audition, and tools for connecting with your audience.
Do you have an objective? as a speaker? as a person?
Do these things to become Ted:
- Breath
- Eye contact
- Smile
- Strong opening hook
- Tell a story
- Annunciate
- Speech tempo (slow it down)
- Tone
- Make it relatable
- Talk to the audience not the slides
- Sound credible
- Teach them something new
- Be convincing to the audience and yourself
- Trigger curiosity
- Have a call to action
How to become a Ted speaker – Get recruited or audition to become a Ted Talker.
“Rewrite your story” is the story today.
13.28
This was a pirate led presentation.
Cloud AWS Hardware Hacks,
Presented by Jeremy Wallace, Solutions Architect, AWS
This session will be cloudy with a chance of IoT-storms! Join Amazon Web Services for a lesson on the Internet of Things and its design patterns on the cloud. Once we’ve covered the basics, Jeremy will show you how to run an AWS green grass enabled application on a raspberry pi.
12.19
Halloween costumes. 3rd Place baby!
12.03
What hackers eat for lunch. Thanks Livoti’s.
11.40
Workshop: Intro to Chatbots – Peter Hagelund
Come chat about chatbots! This session will serve as an introduction to the major concepts of chatbots, including intents, utterances, slots and prompts and provide a walk-through of what is required to build a bot using Amazon Lex with serverless business logic implemented in Python.
Points of interest:
- Bots
- personal assistants
- support and help
- virtual staff
- Google home and Alexa
- Building the Bot
- AWS Lex – 3 parts
- Transcribe – Lex – Polly
- INTENT what is your intent from the chatbot?
- SLOT what is the variable you want to set?
- UTTERANCE Identify the intent
- PROMPT request of your input
- FULLFILlMENT the users request
- AWS Lex – 3 parts
The order pumpkins bot
- Serverless computing is cloud computing execution – AWS calls it a Lambda code
- Lambdas written in C#, GO, Java, Node.js or Python
- Programming model is JSON in and JSON out
The code:
10.54
VR and Skeletons are on the floor.
10.50
Quick scan of the floor.
10.25
Intro to Agile Workshop
- Incremental and iterative Product Development.
- It’s not just SCRUM.
- Waterfall vs Agile – agile is more fluid.
- Many checkpoints along the way for agile.
- You are building something useful
- Useful code along the way
- Fortnite is built with agile methodology
- They had a GameJam to develop the assets for Fortnite
- Building cross-functional teams is crucial – no delay in communication
- Build, get feedback, and build again
09.33
Today’s Hackathon events and times are below.
09.13
Get in the Costume Contest!
You cant be scarier than this?
09.05
Mike Swift opening the Hackathon.
Back in the day, Mike didn’t even know how to code 🙂
08.55
Ceremony has begun – CFO from ICIMS
It’s about the EDUCATION!
08.46
Were almost ready to start ceremonies at 8:45
22.38
T-8.5 hrs till the doors open at BellWorks for the ICIMS Hackathon!
Be sure to share moments from the day by using #iCIMSHalloweenHackathon on social media.
21.59
Death Star Pumpkin
21.57
The Live Blog starts Saturday Morning October 27th, 2018
Come back then.
ICIMS Halloween Hackathon Live Blog
09.48
And thats it. I like the NY Apple event. Good vibes.
And now songs from Lana del Ray
IOS12.1 is shipping today with group chat
Order today and get it next week
This is cool. The Pencil is magnetic and clips to the top of the iPad and then charges.
USB-C around the house for Apple
Comes with Face ID and cool things at the top
Same size but bigger screen
The NEW iPad Pro
Bring on the iPad
New Apple stores look amazing!
Order today – get it next week
Now for the new Mac Mini
Starts at 99 and you can order today. Available Nov. 7
Nice colors as usual
It’s Purty
Smaller better faster
The New MacBook Air
The Old MacBook Air
100 Million Macs – wow
They will start with the Macs
They love NY
How about them Apples?
Cool apples
21.11
Hi folks. Left a little early form the Hackthon so I wish the rest of the hackers good luck on the competition.
A really great event – well organized. Look forward to the next one.
15.46
Get your audience game on for Ted Talks tips
Workshop: How to Hack a TED Talk, sponsored by TEDxAsburyPark Always wanted to give a TED Talk or just feel more confident with your public speaking skills? Come and learn how with Public Speaking Coach/TEDxAsburyPark Curator and Rehearsal Director, MK Harby and author/TEDx Speaker, Olive Persimmon. You’ll learn tips for finding your message, how to audition, and tools for connecting with your audience.
Do you have an objective? as a speaker? as a person?
Do these things to become Ted:
- Breath
- Eye contact
- Smile
- Strong opening hook
- Tell a story
- Annunciate
- Speech tempo (slow it down)
- Tone
- Make it relatable
- Talk to the audience not the slides
- Sound credible
- Teach them something new
- Be convincing to the audience and yourself
- Trigger curiosity
- Have a call to action
How to become a Ted speaker – Get recruited or audition to become a Ted Talker.
“Rewrite your story” is the story today.
13.28
This was a pirate led presentation.
Cloud AWS Hardware Hacks,
Presented by Jeremy Wallace, Solutions Architect, AWS
This session will be cloudy with a chance of IoT-storms! Join Amazon Web Services for a lesson on the Internet of Things and its design patterns on the cloud. Once we’ve covered the basics, Jeremy will show you how to run an AWS green grass enabled application on a raspberry pi.
12.19
Halloween costumes. 3rd Place baby!
12.03
What hackers eat for lunch. Thanks Livoti’s.
11.40
Workshop: Intro to Chatbots – Peter Hagelund
Come chat about chatbots! This session will serve as an introduction to the major concepts of chatbots, including intents, utterances, slots and prompts and provide a walk-through of what is required to build a bot using Amazon Lex with serverless business logic implemented in Python.
Points of interest:
- Bots
- personal assistants
- support and help
- virtual staff
- Google home and Alexa
- Building the Bot
- AWS Lex – 3 parts
- Transcribe – Lex – Polly
- INTENT what is your intent from the chatbot?
- SLOT what is the variable you want to set?
- UTTERANCE Identify the intent
- PROMPT request of your input
- FULLFILlMENT the users request
- AWS Lex – 3 parts
The order pumpkins bot
- Serverless computing is cloud computing execution – AWS calls it a Lambda code
- Lambdas written in C#, GO, Java, Node.js or Python
- Programming model is JSON in and JSON out
The code:
10.54
VR and Skeletons are on the floor.
10.50
Quick scan of the floor.
10.25
Intro to Agile Workshop
- Incremental and iterative Product Development.
- It’s not just SCRUM.
- Waterfall vs Agile – agile is more fluid.
- Many checkpoints along the way for agile.
- You are building something useful
- Useful code along the way
- Fortnite is built with agile methodology
- They had a GameJam to develop the assets for Fortnite
- Building cross-functional teams is crucial – no delay in communication
- Build, get feedback, and build again
09.33
Today’s Hackathon events and times are below.
09.13
Get in the Costume Contest!
You cant be scarier than this?
09.05
Mike Swift opening the Hackathon.
Back in the day, Mike didn’t even know how to code 🙂
08.55
Ceremony has begun – CFO from ICIMS
It’s about the EDUCATION!
08.46
Were almost ready to start ceremonies at 8:45
22.38
T-8.5 hrs till the doors open at BellWorks for the ICIMS Hackathon!
Be sure to share moments from the day by using #iCIMSHalloweenHackathon on social media.
21.59
Death Star Pumpkin
21.57
The Live Blog starts Saturday Morning October 27th, 2018
Come back then.
Welcome to the ICIMS Halloween Hackathon!
Get all the hackathon information here.
Get ready to hack on Saturday October 27. Come back then for the live blog.
2018 Google Pixel 3 Announcements
Thats a wrap on the Pixel 3 Event
Here’s the #MadeByGoogle lineup
Finally after months of rumors and leaks, the Pixel 3 event went down today in New York City. Google unveiled its newest flagship Android phone and a few new devices, including the Pixel Slate and Google Home Hub. The company announced its new lineup at the beginning of the presentation which was a surprise. Some products were immediately available for preorder before the event even concluded.
Getting pricey like the rest of them. A Pixel 3 XL with 128mb is $999
Now for the Pixel 3
The price NOT BAD
New keyboard
Looks very cool
Cut the cord – get 3 months free of YouTube TV
Here is the Slate
The Hub is $149 – not bad
11:28 AM
The Hub
Bring on the Smart Home
And here they all are – Thank you very much 🙂
Very interesting how they just announced everything up front.
Intersection of Software and hardware is their mantra
The Google show is almost ready to start
We have started
#MadebyGoogle
Come back on October 9th at 11am ET for Google announcement news.
The Google Home Hub – This I’m excited for
For all the hype, the Google hardware launch this Tuesday is on the light side as far as I’m concerned. Unless there are some surprises, we are talking about a phone that looks the same, a tablet/pixel book, a Google Home Hub, a charging stand, and maybe some earphones – maybe. I think it’s a big miss not having an Android Watch this year. Google wanted to be in the hardware business and they are missing the opportunities. They have great platforms set up and could be running their own streamlined hardware.
The event kicks off October 9 in New York City and the thing I’m most excited to see is the Google Hub. Connecting all the digital toys we are collecting is a smart move. And if done right will give them the ecosystem that rivals Apple and Amazon doesn’t have.
Google Home Hub
The Google Home Hub is the latest addition to the Google Home lineup, and the first Smart Display from Google. Google announced the Smart Displays platform at CES 2018, and now they’re entering the fray themselves with an affordable option that looks a lot like the Google Homes that are already on the market — but with a display. It’s expected to cost $149.
Google Home Hub — Colors
Available in “Chalk” and “Charcoal,” the Google Home Hub will fit right into the Home speaker lineup. Matching the Home Max exactly, these colors are applied to the fabric and the plastic backing of the screen portion.
Google Home Hub — Specs
The touchscreen, it is 7-inches with Google not citing the exact resolution. The top bezel houses an ambient light and color sensor, but no front-facing camera.
On the audio front, Google only notes “full-range speakers for crystal clear sound” for the Home Hub and the standard Far-field microphones. Connectivity, as confirmed by the FCC, includes 802.11b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi in both 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz bands for “high-performance streaming” and Bluetooth support.
The Home Hub is powered by a 15W power adapter that connects via a DC power jack. It weighs 16.9 oz (480g), while dimensions are 7.02-inch (178.5 mm) x 4.55-inch (118 mm) with a 2.65-inch (67.3 mm) depth.
OH – and Other stuff
Pixel Smartphones
The Pixel 3 will reportedly boast a 5.5-inch display, a Snapdragon 845 processor, a 12.2-megapixel camera on the rear, dual front-facing cameras (purportedly for better selfies), 4GB of memory, and will reportedly be available in 64GB and 128GB configurations. Naturally, the device will run Android 9 Pie and feature the same fingerprint sensor on the back.
The Pixel 3 XL will reportedly sport a 6.7-inch display with a 1440×2960 resolution, a glass back with a matte finish, and support for wireless charging. Of particular interest is that Pixel 3 XL leaks have shown a device with a notch design, a’la the iPhone X. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that Google has precise guidelines for how Android P should support notch design. Incidentally, the design will still have a “chin” and will not be as edgeless as the iPhone X. Camera wise, the Pixel 3 XL will reportedly be no different than the Pixel 3.
Google Pixel Slate
Word is that the Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS tablet hybrid–. The device will reportedly include a fingerprint sensor and a leaked marketing image (allegedly) can be seen below. Additionally, rumor has it that the device will boast the same resolution as the Google Pixelbook, will include one USB-C port, and will have memory configurations of 8GB and 16GB. Details regarding the Pixel Slate’s release date and pricing have yet to leak, so we’ll likely have to wait until the official Google event to learn more.
The Apple Watch 4 is making me Drool
The new Apple Watch 4 is making me drool. I work on Apple platforms, but I also work on a Android phone and use Google for all my productivity needs. I wont change my Google preference, but I may convert to the Apple Watch 4. Here’s why – the watch just looks cool. And it holds an incredible amount of technology in its small form.
The Apple Watch 4 comes running watchOS 5 software out of the box and those with Apple Watch 3’s will be able to upgrade to it later in September, so you’ll soon have the latest version of the software no matter what watch you opt for.
The Apple Watch 4 has a faster processor than the Watch 3 called the S4 which the company claims will be twice as fast as the last generation. Whether you’ll notice that performance bump in real-life usage is unclear, but if you want the fastest Apple Watch, you’ll need the newer version.
The speaker on the newer watch is also 50% louder than the Apple Watch 3, which the company says is better for the new Walkie-Talkie feature as well as phone calls from your wrist.
Overall the Apple Watch 4 was the best announcement this year. The Verge said,
“This year’s Apple Watch is incredibly good. If you use it just for notifications and step counting, it’s probably overkill, but it’s able to handle more advanced features better than any other smartwatch I’ve tested. Mapping, music, workouts, calls, texting, podcasts… most of the stuff I could imagine wanting from a smartwatch works better than ever before.”
Apple Watch Health
The optical heart sensor has been part of Apple Watch from the beginning, allowing you to quickly check your heart rate. Thanks to a new electrical heart sensor (made up of an electrode in the Digital Crown and electrodes on the back crystal), you can use the ECG app to generate an ECG, or electrocardiogram, at any time to share with your doctor.
Electrodes built into the Digital Crown and the back crystal work together with the ECG app to read your heart’s electrical signals. Simply touch the Digital Crown to generate an ECG waveform in just 30 seconds. The ECG app can indicate whether your heart rhythm shows signs of atrial fibrillation — a serious form of irregular heart rhythm — or sinus rhythm, which means your heart is beating in a normal pattern
Buy Apple Watch
The Apple Watch 4 is available in four variants: 40mm and 44mm sizes, and with or without LTE. In terms of the Apple Watch 4 release date, you can buy it now – it came out on September 21 – so you can now get this onto your wrist. H
- The GPS-only version starts at $399 / £399 / AU$599 for the smallest version, and $429 / £429 / AU$649 for the larger one 44mm one.
- The cellular option starts at $499 / £499 / AU$749 for the 40mm and $529 / £529 / AU$799 for the larger watch.
This version from Hermes is very cool, and very expensive.
The Nike sport edition is a cool look as well.
And the standard versions are still exquisite looking.
Here are the some exciting and useful things you can do with the Apple Watch 4
- Answer Calls
- Use the Apple Watch as a Walkie Talkie
- Listen to Podcasts on the Apple Watch
- Use the Apple Watch as a Flashlight
- Use the Apple Watch in Water
- Monitor Your Heart Rate
- Track Your Fitness
- Send Apple Watch Emoji
- Share Your Heartbeat
- Pay with Apple Pay
- Get Directions On Your Apple Watch
- Send Drawings from the Apple Watch
- Use Siri on the Apple Watch
- Look at Photos on Your Apple Watch
- Connect to Your Car
- Send Facebook Messages
- Listen to Music on Your Apple Watch
- Share Your Location
- Check Your Email
- Control Your Apple TV & Music