less than 1 hour ago by Toby Leftly
With Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 barely a couple of months old, the Photoshop team is already hard at work on new features for CS6.
Here’s a vidoe sneak peak at a new tool: Photobomb.
The video speaks for itself, so check it out, but I’m pretty sure this is something I’ll use on a daily basis.
It’s great to see that some of Adobe’s staff are still lighthearted and able to poke fun at themselves, even while their CEO is busy trying to bury the company by chaining it to a dying technology.
1 hour ago by Toby Leftly
I’m not going to get dragged into the mudslinging over iTunes 10. I’m not. I flat out refuse. Two of my co-Techi’s have written, in some depth and with greater eloquence than I.
Okay, seriously, WTF Apple? iTunes 10 UI changes-for-the-sake-of-changes aside, what is it you’ve actually got here? The ‘Facebook’ of music? The ‘Twitter’ of media? No. At best, you have a crappy, restrictive accounts system that uswers now have the option to make public.
I know some people wanted this system, they see iTunes as Last.fm on steroids, but I really don’t see this as Apple’s advantage.
Apple has typically done well in areas where either genuine innovation is required or where others have made barely adequate inroads. more »
3 hours ago by Toby Leftly
We’re all aware of the SteamPunk phenomenon – time-rich nerd takes high tech device and fancies it up with some Victorian apparel. But sometimes going just a little old school is all that’s required.
The Compass Phone is a device designed by HaYeon Yoo. We’re off to a rocky start, since the device clearly has no actual phone functionality. So.. it’s a compass.
But not just any compass. It’s a compass that instead of pointing north, points to your friend and lets you know their distance and direction.
Through this ingenious collaboration of cutting edge technology and old school, no-nonsense cool stuff, any two people holding these devices can know exactly where each other is at any given time. more »
21 hours ago by Ty Dunitz
More than a few times, Techi readers have called me out in the comments section about my abuse of the word ‘rad’. Indeed, some have even refused to believe my endorsement or recommendation of a service, product or idea unless I say it. Suffice it to say, it seems to be my catchphrase.
But let me tell you about something that isn’t rad. Something that could be rad, but verifiably isn’t. For now. That something is iTunes 10. I literally stayed up all night, moving some new music and fiddling around with the latest version of Apple’s music player, and guys. I have got to say. I’m not impressed.
Now, bear in mind, I was a huge fan of iTunes 9.2. more »
Sep 2 by Navneet Alang
Now that the Internet has ever-so-slightly calmed down after another Apple-induced frenzy, it’s time to step back and think about the significance of Apple’s announcements on Wednesday afternoon.
What did Apple bestow upon us from up high? Well, as you probably know by now, we got new iPods and a revamped Apple TV. The iPod Shuffle got its groove – um, I mean buttons – back; the iPod Nano is now basically all screen; the iPod Touch is, once again, just like an iPhone without a phone; and Apple also announced iOS 4.1, and a product you may have heard one or four-hundred rumors about, the Apple TV.
How did they do? Was this a knock your socks off iPad keynote? more »
Sep 1 by Ty Dunitz
You thought that Retina Display was smooth. You thought pixels 4 times smaller than regular pixels were impressive. Man, have you got something to learn about what smooth be.
Smooth be this: Researchers at the University of Michigan have created a display with a resolution so, so, so, so, so fine, that the pixels used are eight times smaller than those used on the iPhone 4. Now, let’s put this into perspective. To show off the technology, the researchers recreated the U of M logo on a screen 9 microns tall.
A human hair is 100 microns wide.
I know, right?
Created with nanometer-thin sheets of metal, this display is absolutely what smooth be. And you thought your television was HD. You don’t know nothin’. You don’t know nothin’ ’bout HD.
This will be so damn expensive.
Sep 1 by Ty Dunitz
Sometimes, you’re a BSG fan. Sometimes, you find yourself with an old iMac. Sometimes, you add a Larson Scanner kit. Sometimes, you dare look this good on the internet.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
Sep 1 by Ty Dunitz
The worm has turned, gentlemen. A Hawaii man has sued developer NC Interactive over his addiction to the computer game Lineage II. And won. For real. Someone just beat the end-user license agreement.
Craig Smallwood has sunk more than 20,000 hours into Lineage II, compulsively playing when he could have presumably been doing more constructive things. Like going to the pub with friends. Or dressing himself. Or bathing. Or playing a better game than Lineage II.
Smallwood was reportedly hospitalized for extreme emotional distress and depression after he was locked out of his three accounts, and continues to receive therapy three times a week. His lawsuit blasts NC for failing to warn him of how potentially dangerous the game is. more »
Sep 1 by Ty Dunitz
Hey, I don’t suppose you’re the type to buy people gift cards for special occasions, are you? Cuz, like, not to peg you as a lazy douche or anything, but you might be interested to know that Facebook Credits giftcards are soon gonna start showing up at the checkout at your local Target.
The cards will allow your thoughtless self to say ‘I have no idea what you like’ in amounts of $15, $25 and $50, and absolve you completely of any mind or effort required to provide a loved one a truly unique gift. Besides, of course, the effort required to visit your local Target – overlooking the fact that you could just visit Target.com.
Nah, I’m just having a laugh. more »
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