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Showing posts with label tech. Show all posts

Adobe shows us iPad and Photoshop thinkings



Hi Adobe. I know I’ve said some critical things about Flash, and I sure do miss the days when you and Macromedia seemed more focused on creative applications, but I do like this demonstration of a version of Photoshop running on an iPad.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch tool some time to show this new tool to Cnet recently. In the image above he’s mixing paings using the iPad as a palette, the iPad’s attached to a computer running Photoshop. He also showed some advanced Photoshop editing features running on an (cough) Android-powered Galaxy Tab.

“Back in the old days, people used to mix colors on a palette–a physical palette. We’re looking at whether we can bring that same type of experience to a tablet environment,” Lynch said. “What we’re working on is connecting your mobile devices to your personal computer over a network so that they can work in conjunction with each other,” Lynch said.

“As you can see, we’re trying some different design directions, making stand-alone imaging tools for tablets, as well as companions to Creative Suite apps,” writes Adobe’s John Nack on his blog.

Some good looking Nano watches.



Giz likes these iPod Nano watches and we’d have to agree. They are plastic-silicon and you just pop your Nano in and out for charging and what not. $25 is a little bit of gouging but Apple does sell its bumpers for $30 so it is hard to talk.


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Be like Steve: Enjoy all of your TV on your iPad



When Steve Jobs was asked about watching TV on iPad in the future, he said he was doing that right now. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do the same thing?

According to Peter Kafka at Media Memo you can (at least at the moment) right now…if you don’t mind Los Angeles affiliates. A company called FilmOn is re-broadcasting TV from LA in iPad format. The quality is really good and the servers seem to be able to handle a load.

If you want Seattle affiliates, check ivi.TV.

Both companies are being sued by the broadcasters who don’t want their advertisements to reach all of those people on mobile devices so this might not be a permanent thing. I’m looking forward to USC Football on Saturday so don’t crash it until then at least. kthx



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Skype 5 Beta released for Mac

Skype 5 Beta released for Mac


It is nice to see the Mac Version of Skype starting to gain feature parity with the Windows version.  But this looks totally different than any Skype I’ve ever seen.  It is all in one window and has the following new features:
  1. GRoup video calling – which allows you to make video calls with more than two people at a time as long as all participants are on the new Mac beta or Skype for Windows 5.0.
  2. New call control bar — Hang up, mute and more from a mini Skype toolbar that sits on top of any web pages, documents or photos you’ve got open
  3. Search chat content to easily navigate past conversations
  4. Offline IM so that you can send and receive instant messages even if the recipient is offline
  5. Personalise contacts via user profiles
  6. Quickly rejoin calls if your Internet connection fails momentarily
  7. Floating Contacts Monitor to see your online contacts and contact groups