May 30, 2006 | Developers using Adobe tools will be excited to see the sessions scheduled during this week. I must have missed that Flash Platform is now referred to as Engagement Platform. (link) (#)
May 30, 2006 | MT 3.3 will soon be in beta and here's a look at some of the new features. The distilled RSS feed showing all the activity on your entire MT install seems very useful. (link) (#)
May 25, 2006 | I love it, even the stickers they give to visitors have a sense of humor in the form of a Toy Story quote. (link) (#)
May 25, 2006 | NyTimes online design director Khoi Vinh talks with 37 Signals' Jason Fried about his firm's success in transforming from web boutique shop to software development shop and the success of their "less is more" manifesto explained in Getting Real, the "PDF-only" book they self-distributed from their website. (More here on Getting Real's success) (link) (#)
May 25, 2006 | Steven Spielberg's new reality show gives aspiring filmmakers a chance for a $1 million development deal by apparently combining a bit of Project Greenlight and the Apprentice. Each week, the 16 finalists will work as a team to make a short film in a variety of genres with each member taking on a different role every week. (link) (#)
May 24, 2006 | Apple and Nike have teamed up to create a hardware/software solution that combines the iPod Nano and a chip in your running shoe to track and log training runs. Seems fairly well thought out, and of course with Apple and Nike on board the design and marketing is all super slick. (update: more info here on this deal from Business Week) (link) (#)
May 24, 2006 | Trapcode's Particular, an amazing and easy-to-use particle generator plugin for After Effects has been updated to version 1.5. Particular will now render particle shapes with depth-of-field, which has been one of the most asked for features. (link) (#)
May 22, 2006 | Lee Brimelow, of GotoAndLearn and the Flash Blog, is having to learn Microsoft's new Windows Presentation Foundation for his new job at Frog Design, so he started a blog to document what he learns. While still remaining skeptical of WMF, I applaud Lee's open-mindeness. (link) (#)
May 22, 2006 | Brilliant! Kevin Smith is going to record and release a director's commentary that you can take with you on your mp3 player into the theaters and listen to while watching Clerks II. (link) (#)
May 22, 2006 | Todd Dominey, working with Brad Daily, has created a new admin tool to faciliate all the organization and optimization of your xml gallery lists used with SlideShowPro. SSP has really turned into quite a little cottage industry for Todd, congratulations! (link) (#)
May 18, 2006 | The cube opens tomorrow and already people are buzzing about it being the first Apple store to stay open 24 hours.. (link) (#)
May 18, 2006 | The latest from Richard Linklater, man that guy is proflific and varied in his choices... from Bad News Bears remake to A Scanner Darkly to this in just over a year. Interesting to see how they adapt the narrative of the book to film. (link) (#)
May 18, 2006 | Khoi Vinh brainstorms a new app that will give us old-school typewriter functionality and the ability to block out modern day distractions. (link) (#)
May 18, 2006 | Carson Systems, the folks behind Drop Send, are blogging their latest development effort. (link) (#)
May 4, 2006 | Lucasfilm announces they will be releasing new DVDs of the original Star Wars trilogy in their original theatrical presentation. (link) (#)
May 2, 2006 | Sphere seems to be a good complement (or competitor?) to Techorati in the realm of up-to-date blog search tools. Searching for and receiving good search results from blogs, which are updated on a frequent basis, is typically difficult to attain with traditional search tools like Google. (link) (#)
May 2, 2006 | Really funny series of ads from Apple once again enthusing on the benefits of Macs over PCs. PC is played by John Hodgman, a writer and contributor to the Daily Show, while Mac is played by Justin Long. (link) (#)
May 1, 2006 | Many variations on the "Sliding Door" style of CSS tab navigations. (link) (#)
May 1, 2006 | Become a power user of Google Calendar with these tips provided by Stewart Bowman who also worked on the design of Google's latest app. (link) (#)
May 1, 2006 | Since they merged last year, designers for both Adobe and Macromedia have been working to merge the two companies web site presentations. Turns out the new site leans a lot toward the old Macromedia look, which I preferred anyway. (link) (#)
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