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Improving the Scrolling Experience in Lion

admin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:34:43 +0000

I read the Ars review of Mac OS X Lion the other day (and yes, I am one of those guys that reads the whole thing and have ever since Siracusa started writing them), and then listened to episode 27 of the Hypercritical podcast. All this got me thinking about scrolling in the new Mac [...]

More Than a Checklist

Your Host — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:55:08 +0000

It's been almost three years since I wrote Image Is Everything, and while that page still gets hits, it sure is outdated. In the intervening years the apps I profiled have undergone a lot of changes. DrawIt has focused on becoming a vector-based raster image creator, instead of an all purpose editor. Acorn has gone from version 1 into version 2 and Pixelmator has just reached version 1.6.

So here's a new take on the two key apps, Pixelmator 1.6. and Acorn 2.5.1.

Thoughts on Adobe

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:06:36 +0000

Update I stand corrected on my claim that Adobe Flash is the only authoring tool for Flash content. Please see Flash Magazine Open Source and free Development Tools for Flash I am still correct in that Flash Player is still controlled by Adobe. This is less crucial than the tool from a creation point-of-view, but [...]

How Green Is My Library?

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:40:13 +0000

An item I saw circulating on Twitter the day of its publication, just landed in my email. I enjoy receiving email from my former colleagues and my friends in libraries about what’s going on because I think libraries are important, but in crisis. What was particularly interesting about this email was that those who had [...]

Laying It All Out

Your Host — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:07:20 +0000

Introduction NOTE: Many spelling and grammatical errors have been corrected. Thanks to the considerate and generous Adrian Nier and his awesome list. Thanks, Andy Baird for holding me to your reasonable and expectations. Some images blow-out the layout and I will be fixing these later this evening (Done 22:33PST -jw). – Your Host (17:40 PST [...]

My boots. Your benefit.

Your Host — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:55:48 +0000

Well I wish I wasn’t some sort of moron. If I had been smart and able to see into the future, I would have taken a photo of my boots before. But I didn’t. You’re going to have to trust me about all the stuff I am going to tell you now. My boots (pictured [...]

Drawing Conclusions

Your Host — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:19:10 +0000

Introduction Adobe Illustrator was the first advanced program I learned to use. Coming from an architectural drafting experience, I found that Illustrator was a far better match for my brain, skill and disposition than image editors like Photoshop. Illustrator’s age and feature set, as well as it’s integration with graphic Adobe’s Creative Suite have made [...]

The Viability of the Information Institution

Your Host — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:46:07 +0000

I have been mulling this over for some time now and thanks to a recent conversation with my friend Ross and another with my friend Kevin, I think I have this gelled: Where information is understood to be, or treated as, a commodity, the perceived value of information institutions like libraries is diminished or dissolved. [...]

Sometimes, I’m right.

admin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:30:04 +0000

Yeah, DrawIt and Acorn and Pixelmator and have all updated since I published Image Is Everything. They’re all getting better. Some are getting rotate tools and fixing bugs and others are inventing whole new ways of making pictures. Like this: DrawIt 3.3 Sneak Preview Did you see that? I love that. This DrawIt app is [...]

Framed – a FrameAway mini-review

Your Host — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:18:03 +0000

I mentioned in Image is Everything that one of things I frequently do is crop photographs and artwork. For me this is a regular task because I need to find ways of keeping old and over-used photos as fresh as possible. Yes, I know there are limits to this, and my team is on track [...]