Zooboing Review: July 2010

Friday, July 30, 2010

797 - Ancient Greece Vase - Pattern

797 - Ancient Greece Vase - Pattern
Originally uploaded by Patrick Hoesly

This artwork composition / seamless texture was created by myself, Patrick Hoesly, and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. You may download and use this texture as you like. All I ask, is you please give credit to myself and a link back to this Flickr page.

If you like this image, please leave a comment and mark this as a favorite. Thank You.

High Resolution Version of this Texture:
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TurboSquid Image Number: 548410

Shameless Plug about Me:
Patrick Hoesly is the owner and lead illustrator of ZooBoing Illustrations, a company specializing in graphic design, architectural illustrations, marketing material, and website design. Our goal is to be the people who help you dream it, design it and draw it. Learn more about how we can help you over at www.zooboing.com/

798 - Stars and Moon Pattern

798 - Stars and Moon Pattern
Originally uploaded by Patrick Hoesly

Metallic stars and moons set onto black fabric. Download a high resolution image at the link below.

This artwork composition / seamless texture was created by myself, Patrick Hoesly, and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. You may download and use this texture as you like. All I ask, is you please give credit to myself and a link back to this Flickr page.

If you like this image, please leave a comment and mark this as a favorite. Thank You.

High Resolution Version of this Texture:
I have partnered with TurboSquid to host a high resolution version of this texture. This texture is available for immediate downloading at a very fair price.
High Resolution: www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/548181?referr...
TurboSquid Image Number: 548181

Shameless Plug about Me:
Patrick Hoesly is the owner and lead illustrator of ZooBoing Illustrations, a company specializing in graphic design, architectural illustrations, marketing material, and website design. Our goal is to be the people who help you dream it, design it and draw it. Learn more about how we can help you over at www.zooboing.com/

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Flower Warfare

Robo-Butterfly

Yes, but does it comply with the 3 laws of robotics?

ChouChou Electric Butterfly, which might even have a few people reaching to free it from its jar. Unfortunately, it's the jar that keeps the butterfly "alive" -- it has some AA batteries in its lid that apparently allow the butterfly to respond to vibrations and flutter about.
--- Engadget

Friday, July 16, 2010

iPhone iOS 4.0.1 - Fixed Nothing

Like many of you may already know, I own an iphone 4. I'm very happy with it mostly, however fundamentally, it is a phone, and it does not work. Yesterday, Apple released iPhone 4.0.1 which seemed to only fix how the bars are represented. Before the download I had 4-5 bars, after the download, I have 3 bars. WHOOP-te-do.

I still can drop a call by holding the phone like most people hold a phone.
The proximity sensor still is buggy. It is still easy to cheek dial with the phone.
The camera app still takes 20 seconds to load.

In short, Apple claims their stuff 'just works'. But in reality, they dropped the ball. Hopefully they will soon be fixing it, and going back to making stuff work. As for now... Apple just doesn't work.