I’ve been poking around a bit with iBooks Author. It’s something I find very interesting. See, I’ve actually been working on a book myself, though maybe not the sort of book you might imagine. It’s not a tech book at all. It’s actually a comic. While I’m nowhere near ready to publish, I’m nevertheless understandably [...]
I’m working on a fairly lengthy post about my Lion impressions. Meantime, here’s a funny I like from Malcontent Comics.
The first release candidate for Firefox 3.5 came out yesterday, and with it a slightly different application icon. The old icon looked like this: And here’s the new icon: Personally, I think it looks swell. It’s a big enough change to be noticeable, but subtle enough to retain the brand identity and not be visually [...]
I recently wrote some criticism of a couple very promising new applications: ScreenFlow and Opacity. Both these apps came out at roughly the same time, and each was of particular interest to me. Each also had some pretty glaring bugs. One of the great things about being a member of the Mac Community is that [...]
It’s 1.0 release week, here at TASB, apparently. It also appears to be crash week. Another useful-looking app has caught my attention: Opacity. It’s a graphics editor designed especially for doing one of my favorite things: icon creation. Opacity, like ScreenFlow, looks like a really nice application built for doing one specific thing. Which makes [...]
When Adobe went all periodic table on our asses with their icons, I wrote a little article about it, just like a lot of people did. At the end of that article I suggested that Adobe start thinking about actual icons — visual symbols — for their applications that could be recognized at a glance, [...]
As everyone is well aware, Adobe recently released a beta of Photoshop CS3, complete with new icons. The new application icon is so stripped down and plain I had initially assumed it was a placeholder for something permanent in the final version — that this was merely a stopgap icon for the beta release. This [...]
Not long ago a fabulous post on doodling appeared at one of the blogs I frequent on a regular basis, Subtraction. Khoi Vihn, the site’s author, posted some absolutely lovely doodles he’d made, and I was instantly transported to my note-taking, doodle-drawing grad school days. It was kind of magical, and I really liked that [...]