Photoshop CS6 beta hits 500,000 downloads

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Adobe’s John Nack:

I’m delighted to see that the Photoshop CS6 beta has been downloaded more than half a million times in less than a week! The response I’ve seen so far has been overwhelmingly positive.

The Talk Show: Pre-Amplified

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Jim Dalrymple is back with Dan Benjamin to talk about journalist responsibility in the wake of Warmgate, international 4G and things Apple didn’t think of, patents and trademarks and how much care Apple gives them when naming products, guitars, domains, and a major announcement.Sponsored by Studio Neat and AppsFire

Shaan Ware’s photographs

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I don’t know much about photography, but I know what I like. I like these, especially “Park.”

DSLR cameras as iPhone docks

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Ilya Birman:

The solution: remove everything from the back side of the camera and make it an iPhone dock.

The iPad for Photographers eBook

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Very nice eBook written by my friend Jeff Carlson: Apple’s popular iPad tablet is an incredibly useful tool for photographers on the go. Instead of hauling a laptop on the road or to a photo shoot, you can tuck the … Continued

I’ll be speaking at the Úll iOS/OS X conference in Ireland this April

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I’m excited to tell you that I have accepted an invitation to speak at the Úll Conference in Dublin, Ireland next month.

Úll is a conference for iOS / OSX / mobile web developers and designers. The three day event will include workshops, keynotes, talks and in-depth presentations on all the aspects of building, designing and marketing your apps.

I’ll be joining a nice line-up of speakers including Michael Lopp, Horace Dediu and Matt Gemmell, among others.

iPhoto + iPad + DSLR

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Abdel Ibrahim: Since Apple’s first iPad came on the scene in 2010, people have wondered if tablets could stand in for computers. Few would argue they’re not up to casual tasks like Web browsing and emailing, but what about the … Continued

Guitar amp fail

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This is just classic. For those that don’t know, the mic is supposed to be on the cabinet on the bottom, not on the amp.

Complaints over iPad 4G marketing in Europe

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Eric Slivka for Mac Rumors:

Concerns over the 4G marketing are now getting the attention of regulators in several European countries as well.

This is starting to snowball.

Úll iOS/OS X conference in Dublin, Ireland

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Úll is a conference for iOS / OSX / mobile web developers and designers. The three day event will include workshops, keynotes, talks and in-depth presentations on all the aspects of building, designing and marketing your apps.

The conference takes place April 27–29, 2012 and there are still tickets available — I’m looking at making the trip myself. They also have a great list of speakers that includes Michael Lopp, Horace Dediu, Matt Gemmell, and others.

Redesigning a Web site with personality

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Aarron Walter:

Redesigning a website can be the seven-layer taco dip of hell. You’ve searched for inspiration on dozens of websites, captured screenshots, jotted down notes, consulted friends and colleagues, maybe even interviewed users. But despite your due diligence, your vision for the new website remains unclear.

Yeah, I’ve been there.

The pull-to-refresh patent

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Twitter now owns this patent. I use pull-to-refresh all the time — I even try to use it on apps that don’t have it, which annoys me.

The Masters of Compositing Series

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Jeff Foster:

Paul Vlahos, son of Petro Vlahos and co-founder of Ultimatte Corp. in 1976 and continues as CEO. Paul founded iMatte Inc. in 2000 and serves as CEO. He has made many inventions over the years have resulted in over twenty patents. Besides the Ultimatte matting devices used in the broadcast industry Paul pioneered the Virtual Studio in 1989.

Not everyone does big-ass magazines

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Craig Grannell:

The net result is that Tap! looks great on the new iPad, largely because it’s using native text rather than rendering to flat images.

Nice.

RIM delays analysts’ meeting

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“We decided to make BlackBerry World more focused on customers, developers and partners,” RIM spokeswoman Tenille Kennedy said on Tuesday. “We will hold a separate session targeted at the interests of the investment community later this year, once BlackBerry 10 is launched.”

Translation: We’re so screwed right now and we want to have something — anything — to show analysts.

Big-ass iPad magazines

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Michael Mulvey:

How about publishers stop making their magazines a big, fucking stack of PNGs and start to use actual text. The kind of text you can select and copy and paste. And look up in in-app dictionaries.

Exactly. Magazine publishers that use giant PNG images just don’t give a shit about their customers.

iOS 5.1 upgrade stats

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David Smith:

The current adoption rate hits a significant milestone. It took iOS just 15 days to get the same percentage of users on the latest OS version as are currently on any single version of Android.

And this is what happens when you don’t screw your users with fragmentation.

Developers losing interest in Android

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Jason Ankeny:

Any discussion what’s hot is inevitably followed by a conversation around what’s not, and that’s Android. Appcelerator reports that 78.6 percent of developers expressed interest in building apps for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) smartphones during the first quarter, down from 83.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 and down from around 87 percent a year ago. Given that Android’s market share has continued to explode over the last 12 months, you can’t blame consumer disinterest for developer apathy in the platform; the culprit is–you guessed it–fragmentation.

Can’t blame them.

David Bray amps

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Scroll down and watch the video. That’s some meaty tone right there. Beautiful sounding amps.

The global, socially conscious consumer

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Around the world, companies have invested time, talent and treasure in social and environmental efforts for a range of complementary reasons. For many companies, cause marketing—the use of social and environmental efforts to build a brand and increase profits—has been a secondary if not primary motivation.

Login and registration form using HTML5 and CSS3

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Stéphanie Walter:

In this tutorial we are going to create two HTML5 forms that will switch between login and registration using the CSS3 pseudo class :target. We will style it using CSS3 and an icon font. The idea behind this demo is to show the user the login form and provide a link to “switch” to the registration form.

I don’t like the login form much, but the transitions and idea to make it easier for the user are appreciated.

Biking

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I’m fascinated with these guys. Lots of talent. […]