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Microsoft is well known for making campy, silly, sophomoric videos for internal use only. Once in a while, those “internal” videos is leaked outside of Redmond.
Recently, I came across a humorous look at why Google is in the eMail business – as produced by Microsoft. Although it hasn’t been authenticated, there are several clues that should lead you to believe it came from Microsoft. See if you can find those clues… [Read more...]
Remember when you used to have to use a modem and dial-up the Internet?
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Ever wonder what Apple software engineers do in their spare time? Me neither. But that’s ok – this is still pretty cool.
Whatever it is that you failed to accomplish yesterday, take heart and try again today. If you’ve fallen, get up. Watch this video and then tell me how many times you had to fall before you accomplished your goal.
Fascinating documentary on the process of creating. As you can probably tell, the narrator suggests that humans create very little “out of whole cloth” but instead create based on a series of iterations and recombination. Intended as a 4-part series, only the first three parts have been produced.
For the exercise fan, a new free app is out for iPad. It helps you find fitness classes in all sorts of different categories and areas. The app is free but the classes cost between $1 and $4 each.
Google is hosting its annual show this week they call Google I/O. Big keynote yesterday about Chromebooks coming out on June 15th. They are like laptops that don’t have programs – everything is on the web. You might call it a CloudBook.
Google announced Music Beta by Google recently. It looks pretty good – possibly better than Amazon’s attempt. But I still have to upload everything I own – which of course will take forever. Why can’t I just tell Google what I own and let them link to it in the cloud? Also, the only device other than your computer you can use this on is Android 2.2 (nope, not on Android 3).
AppleInsider | Adobe releases Photoshop companion apps for Apple’s iPad: “Adobe’s three Photoshop CS5 companion applications for iPad — Adobe Ezel, Nav and Color Lava — are now available for purchase on the App Store. “
And they look pretty good. I won’t review or recommend them because I’m not a heavy photoshop user (I can draw stick figures and thats about the extent of my talent) but I think they are important. Apple has a good visual creative partner in Adobe. They don’t really have one in the music niche, which is why Apple makes Garageband itself.
Adobe’s 3 new Photoshop apps are:
Your iPad is the canvas, your fingertip is the brush. Create beautiful paintings and instantly access them in Photoshop CS5. With Adobe Eazel, you can now use your iPad and your fingertips to create beautiful paintings.
Dab. Swirl. Mix. Create custom colors and color themes to use in Adobe Photoshop CS5. With Adobe Color Lava, you can now use your iPad and your fingertips to mix colors and create custom swatches and five-swatch color themes. Immediately access those color creations within Photoshop CS5.
Enjoy a whole new way to interact with Photoshop CS5. Tap and swipe your iPad screen to activate Photoshop tools, and browse open documents in Photoshop CS5. With Adobe Nav, you can now use your iPad to activate Photoshop tools and browse and select open Photoshop documents. Browse, reorder, view, and zoom in on up to 200 open Photoshop documents on your iPad.
Footnote: IMHO, For a creative company, Adobe has terrible icons.
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