October 26, 2006 | Apollo, a follow-up of sorts to Macromedia's Central, is being touted as the next revolution in media delivery. (link) (#)
October 26, 2006 | It's available now as a beta from Adobe Labs. Photoshop product manager John Nack says this product is built in the spirit of Sound Edit, a simple tool that doesn't compete with their high-end Audition editing tool. Soundbooth PM Hart Shafer has more to say on the target demographic of this new tool. (link) (#)
October 23, 2006 | Still just rumors at this point, but it concerns me a bit as I'm currently running Win XP on my iMac under Parallels Desktop for Mac. Although, it's doubtful that I will actually be upgrading to Vista anytime soon. Microsoft has to release the darn thing first. (link) (#)
October 20, 2006 | For a while I was checking designinmotion.com on a daily basis to see new examples of motion graphics work. But then they stopped posting nice Quicktimes and basically just turned into a depot of press releases from design shops announcing completed projects. Motionographer.com has a great, really eclectic collection of work from around the world. (link) (#)
October 20, 2006 | The instructor here, Andew Kramer, is a great instructor has some nice tutorials available on his site, as well as a good DVD for sale, all showcasing a lot of great AE tips. (link) (#)
October 20, 2006 | I've only seen the Shaun White commercial for HP, but the others look cool. Great visual ideas. (link) (#)
October 17, 2006 | This is a bit old news, and it was blogged all over the place, but I figured it still was worthy of noting here before I lost the link. These "universal man" type symbols and pictographs are just ripe for use in a short animation of some kind. (link) (#)
October 16, 2006 | Amazing. Typical work from Google... easy to use, quick and simple. At first glance seems fairly simple while giving me that same "access it from anywhere on any terminal" feel that I get from using a good webmail program. Like Gmail for instance. (link) (#)
October 13, 2006 | Wow, I really didn't realize how difficult his condition was. I wish him a speedy recovery. (link) (#)
October 13, 2006 | $10 from every red iPod sold will be dontated to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. (link) (#)
October 12, 2006 | I've had this link open on my Firefox tabs for a while and I've been meaning to post it here just so I don't loose track of it. There are some great little tricks here to out of creative ruts. (link) (#)
October 12, 2006 | The documentary The World According to Sesame Street details the efforts and challenges that go into producing the show in some parts of the world that are ravaged by various political and economic situations. According the pbs.org calendar for my city, this show will air on October the 24th. Check your local listings. (link) (#)
October 11, 2006 | Great reference material and great for walking down memory lane. (link) (#)
October 10, 2006 | The free dev edition of FMS can now be used in commercial applications. Granted, there is a 10 user cap on concurrent connections, but this is a great way for Adobe to encourge adoption of the platform. (link) (#)
October 10, 2006 | Mac-centric development is alive and well at google with several key projects (Google Earth!) ported to Mac as well some nice widgets found here. (link) (#)
October 9, 2006 | This is great little tool that works well when you need to create a working palette designed around a specific image. Here's a sample generated by one of my lightbox images. (link) (#)
October 4, 2006 | This was just announced today and I've not had a chance to play with this feature, but this will certainly make things interesting when designing applications to deliver video. One note, according to the docs, you need to add the AllowFullScreen param to your HTML wrapper for this to work. I've been using SWFobject a lot lately, and it's easy to add whatever param tags you need as shown here.
UPDATE: Some examples here. Also, to see this feature in action, be sure to download the FP 9 update from Labs, not from the standard Adobe download page. (link) (#)
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