Adobe CS5 Reviewed
I’ve been working with a pre-release version of Adobe CS5 for a couple of months now and share my experience in the May 2010 edition of Print Action Magazine which should be arriving in your mailbox any day now. What? You say you don’t have a subscription? I realize all these new-fangled eReaders promise to [...]
Photoshop CS5: Content Aware Fill
I’ve been working on a review of Adobe Creative Suite 5 this past week for the upcoming issue of Print Action magazine – which is why I’ve been slack on the blog! Sorry about that, but now that I’ve wrapped the review, I’ll be posting some of the cool (and a few not-so-cool) things I’ve [...]
Safari stumbles on Flash
Click the picture… it’s cool… I’m a Mac, and like all good Macs I embraced Apple’s Safari when it was first released during MacWorld 2003. I was at the Keynote during the announcement and had it running on my G4 PowerBook before I left the hall. Since that fateful day, Safari has been my browser [...]
Free plug-ins for Photoshop™
Click on this screen capture for a close-up view of the onOne Software PhotoFrame 4.5 interface. This is an excellent tool for adding artsy borders to images. Seems like plug-ins come and go with each new version of Creative Suite. Extensis (the makers of Suitcase font management utilities) used to produce some of my favourites, [...]
Breaking News: Adobe announces CS5
April 12, 2010! I’d like to say I was caught off guard by this, but I can’t! I am writing a review of CS5 for an upcoming issue of Print Action Magazine and will be posting my first impressions of Adobe’s new Creative Suite on Softcircus April 12, 2010 12:01am E.T. In the meantime, click [...]
Online resources for designers
Creativity on demand is a tough regime day after day! Even the very best designer can sometimes need a little inspiration to get those concepts kick started, or some fresh ideas for that next Photoshop project. Macworld magazine’s website has an excellent little piece highlighting five essential websites for designers. Additionally, both Quark and Adobe have their own online design [...]
Happy 20th Birthday Photoshop!
It’s rare when one single software product literally redefines both the photographic and graphic arts industries. Adobe Photoshop is one such product! I can still vividly remember sitting down at a Mac II FX fully loaded with a (very expensive) 256mb of RAM and firing up Adobe Photoshop for the first time – that was [...]
Several species of small furry animals…
… gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict! Or so the Roger Waters song went from the landmark 1969 Pink Floyd album, Ummagumma. Of course, that really doesn’t have anything to do with my magazine article, except that it does nicely parallel the theme. The article is about the decline of the Quark-o-don and the [...]
When Design-a-saurs roamed the Earth
When dinosaurs ruled the earth, life was pretty good – for the dinosaurs at least. Food was plentiful, gobs of primordial ooze to wallow in and if anything got in your way, well, you just walked through it as though it wasn’t there. A good climate and ample food meant that dinosaurs were free to [...]
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- Drift into a peaceful slumber with Panasonic's self-rocking Relax Chair Yasumi September 4, 2010Paul Miller not included.Drift into a peaceful slumber with Panasonic's self-rocking Relax Chair Yasumi originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments […]
- Klipsch Image S5i Rugged in-ear headphones earn our respect (video) September 4, 2010"Rugged" is one of those terms thrown around pretty loosely by the consumer electronics industry. So when Klipsch, a name that's not exactly synonymous with husky men in the saddle, rolled out a rugged version of its S4i in-ear speakers under the Image S5i Rugged moniker, well, we just had to put them to the test. But first we had to give thes […]
- iriver Story Touch Edition preview September 4, 2010Remember that iriver Story Touch Edition e-reader we spied last month? Well, iriver is showing it off at IFA this week, with plans to release the little 6-inch touchscreen device in Europe and Korea in the next week or so. We played around with it a bit, and while the 800 x 600 E Ink screen resolution is a little disappointing, and the resistive touchscreen […]
- Samsung's new Wireless USB chipset enables HD streaming with less power September 4, 2010It's a beautiful combination, really -- lower power consumption, and support for high bandwidth applications. That marriage is evident in Samsung's newest Wireless USB chipset, which was built around Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology and designed to enable high-def streaming between a mobile host device and a tethered device for viewing. According t […]
- LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 prototype flicks photos to TVs, launches October September 4, 2010We were a bit surprised to find LG's prototype Windows Phone 7 device for developers, soon to be unveiled officially as the Optimus 7 when released in its production form, hanging out in the wilds of IFA. Nevertheless, there it was, streaming DLNA content to a WiFi enabled TV. LG worked with Microsoft to develop a custom DLNA media sharing capability fo […]
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- Surfing Earth's Magnetic Field With a Giant Space Ribbon [Space] September 4, 2010A Japanese rocket unfurled a 300-metre-long ribbon in space on Monday, testing technology that could one day allow spacecraft to navigate by surfing Earth's magnetic field. More » […]
- Nintendo's Virtual Boy Gets Torn Apart [Teardowns] September 4, 2010Nintendo's Virtual Boy was among the first game consoles to display "true 3D graphics" and a cherished part of many childhoods. It's also the "coolest device" the iFixIt crew has ever taken apart and it's easy to see why. More » […]
- Google Wave Lives On (in a Box) [Google Wave] September 4, 2010Google has announced that despite Wave's demise as a Google App, its open source code will continue to be developed into a fully-functional application available to anyone with the desire to host it. More » […]
- iOS 4.1 Released On September 8th [Apple] September 4, 2010If you go over to Apple's UK site, you're sure of a big surprise: they're listing the iOS 4.1 software update as being released September 8th. The US site still says "coming soon." [Apple UK] More » […]
- Check if Your Bus is On Time Via QR Codes at DC Bus Stops [Augmented Reality] September 4, 2010Starting today, DC area bus stops are being treated with a bit of augmented reality. Smartphone users can get up-to-the-minute status reports and traffic updates for the bus they're waiting for by using a QR reading app. Convenient! [ReadWriteWeb] More » […]
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