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#PEMartopia: The Future of our Creative Economy – Live Feeds!
Thursday, March 21st, 2013 /

Get all of tonight’s LIVE FEEDS right here in one place!

Step into the future of the region’s arts scene with an evening of cutting-edge creativity. Creative economy initiative and coworking space, Creative Salem will celebrate its first year with dynamic future-focused events by their members and friends.  Br1ght Pr1mate plays “danceable electro-pop” on hacked videogame components, and local performance artists light the night with LED in motion. Get drop-in coaching on managing your online “Artprint” from social media experts, and pose for a futuristic portrait in the Blacklight Photobooth. From Boston, artists Alison Kotin and Risa Horn collaborate on an interactive work exploring how the audience can become the creators of the art of the future through digital technology and physical interaction. Also, welcome a new generation of local artists. The Studio Art program at Beverly High School hosts a pop-up exhibition of photographs, paintings, sculptures, and multimedia inspired by recent exhibitions at PEM, while students from the ArtLink program share the new Salem Public Art walking tour they’ve developed and lead an interactive mosaic project.  Cash bar. Refreshments available for purchase in the Atrium Café.

I will be attending this event tonight on behalf of Young Entrepreneurs of the North Shore.  I plan on live streaming the event via ustream which you can watch here and below tonight starting at 7pm.


Video streaming by Ustream

You can also follow the live feed here:


And follow all the photo action happening on Instagram!

Event Partners
YENS, NSTC, Social Palates

Media Partners
92.5 The River and North Shore Art Throb

Print Partner
Scarlet Letter Press & Gallery LLC

Members and Salem residents (with ID) free, nonmembers $10

RSVP here

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Not Your Average Droid Review: Simplify Your Life & Get Social!
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 /

article originally posted on Pomeganda.com

As Pomegranate’s resident Social Media expert, it was high time I got my hands on a smart phone.  I had been contemplating the iPhone for some time, with little motivation to move forward.  Born and raised on a PC, I never really jumped on the Apple train, having been quite loyal to my Microsoft-based products for a good portion of my natural-born life.  Some would see this as a curse.  I might have to agree.

As a loyal Verizon customer since 1999, I began the search for a new phone.  I owned an LG Voyager for about a year but wasn’t feeling satisfied with its performance; it was time to break-up and move on.  I started casually dating the LG EnV touch, but that relationship was short lived, leaving me with a bitter taste in my mouth and a jaded outlook towards media-based phones.  I was determined to put myself back out there and meet the love of life; a phone that was, by definition, perfectly seamless for all my social networking and data management needs.  Blackberry?  Droid?  Eris by HTC?  As a supporter of Google services for years, I decided it was time for an Android-based phone with Google integration.  It was safe to say I was fully in love with Google and was desperately wanting to take our relationship to the next level.

What is it about a Google phone that makes it stand apart from the rest, you ask? Most importantly, Android is an open-source, Apache-licensed operating system that Google makes available free of charge to device manufacturers who can add their own application genius for download in the marketplace. Basically, there’s no single, unified Android platform like there is for the iPhone which means you get a much greater amount of diversity, hardware and software, than the iPhone. You get Android 2.0 with Google’s proprietary push Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Voice, YouTube, and Google Maps Navigation with live street view rolled in. And because of the nature of open source software, the Apps Marketplace is a veritable smorgasbord of delicious and (very often) free applications that are sure to enhance your mobile experience. If you’re heavily invested in Google and all its glory, then you’ll have absolutely no problem making the switch.

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Firefox Extension Offers Professional HTML Signatures in Gmail
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 /

Anyone that uses Gmail for multiple email accounts will appreciate the beauty and convenience of the newest Firefox extension from the guys at Blank Canvas.  Blank Canvas is a convenient signature manager that automatically inserts HTML signatures into your Gmail messages based on which email address you’re sending from.

The Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux) extension supports up to four unique signatures for each address you’ve designated. Signatures are automatically inserted in both new messages and in replies and forwards.

According to the Blank Canvas website, here are some of the features:

•    Works for Compose Mail, Reply, and Forward

•    Support for single or multiple email addresses

•    Create a different signature for each email address you use in your Gmail account

•    Supports up to four signatures per address

•    Real-time signature preview while editing signature HTML

•    Signature automatically inserted into message above (or optionally below) quoted text

•    Support for special characters

•    Easy setup and configuration interface

Do you use the Gmail Signatures extension?  If so, we’d love to hear your feedback!

(article originally posted on Pomeganda.com)

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A Creative Voyage Photo Journey: Mobile Phone Edition
Tuesday, September 08th, 2009 /

Here is where I take my appreciation of technology and my love of photography and mix them together for a whimsical voyage of visual fun. I recently upgraded my phone from the LG Voyager to the LG EnV Touch. The EnV Touch is modeled after the Voyager with many wonderfully delicious features, including it’s ever-fantastic digital camera feature. The phone has a 3.2 megapixel lense with automatic focus and… (drum roll please) … a flash! It’s a bright flash too, sufficient for 10-15 foot object distances with little to no effort.

You can take pictures in six different resolutions (2,048×1,536, 1,600×1,200, 1,280×960, 640×480, and 320×240 pixels), five white balance presets, and five color effects. It also has three focusing modes: autofocus, macro mode, or manual mode, the last of which lets you pick one of seven points on the screen to focus in on. You can toggle the flash on or off, adjust a self timer if you want, or select one of three shutter sounds (there’s also a silent option).

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