Leading designers from around the world reveal the best iPad apps for design, creativity, inspiration and organisation. Unlike the iPhone, Apple's tablet has enough screen space to enable more complex interactions. It's therefore no surprise many within the design industry are using iPads for research, organisational tasks, finding inspiration and even creating work.
When running a web design studio, it’s important to remember that your clients are the heart and soul of your business. The type of clients that you choose to work with says a lot about you (or your studio), and likewise, the fact that they’ve chosen to work with you says a lot about them. Maintaining a great relationship with clients is tricky though – and a lot of it revolves around our ability, as web designers, to educate our clients and set expectations so that both sides end up feeling satisfied at the end of a project.
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Artist Terry Border made these seriously creative pieces. I've never been so terrified of zombie peanuts.
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Asus' original PadFone took an Odyssean twelve months to find its way from announcement (and re-announcement) to a retail release, so it's no surprise to see its successor making a debut so soon after the first units hit store shelves. The PadFone 2 maintains the Android smartphone trend toward bigger and better screens, by stepping up to a 4.7-inch 720p IPS display, and also bumps up the megapixel count on the camera, moving to a 13MP shooter. The backside-illuminated sensor is provided by Sony, making it likely the same one as seen on the Xperia T. The PadFone's processor has also been beefed up in a major way, as there's now a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 with 2GB of RAM at the heart of the new device.
In 2012, however, the beauty of celluloid may well present more problems than it's worth, according to the duo. "It's at a level that you'd really have to think hard about not doing it now going out in digital," says Fricke. "There's a lot of issues shooting film, getting film stock in and out -- we went to 25 countries, there's a big price to pay shooting in film because you have to deal with exposed film / unexposed getting it in, you can't take it with you. Like when we made Baraka 20 years ago, we could carry it with us or check it in, they wouldn't X-ray it, and it just doesn't work like that anymore. So it's very challenging." Magidson adds, simply, "The issues with film are only getting harder, not easier."
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For anyone over 30, it’s a bit of a disappointment to head into any big chain toy store nowadays. Cheaply manufactured gizmos, designed to appeal to the broadest demographic, line the shelves and you have to search high and low for anything unique or special. What happened to the cool toys of our youth? Well, it turns out a lot of them have ended up in Bangkok's Batcat Toy Museum. What began as a hobby for 39-year old Somchay Nitimongkolchai has morphed into an epic display of toys, figurines, costumes, masks, collectibles and life-sized maquettes covering two floors.
Amazing collection.
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a capsule dangling from a balloon at 128,120 feet today, breaking the record for the highest altitude skydive in history. Baumgartner’s top speed was officially Mach 1.24, or 833.9 miles per hour, making him the first human to break the sound barrier outside of an aircraft. Even though Baumgartner detected a problem with a heater designed to keep his visor clear, he leapt from the capsule anyway, parachuting safely to earth
This is a long story. The workings of single-DIGiC cameras are already well understood. We know how to forge FIRs and we can execute code using this method. Our code gets executed without any interruption to the cameras proper function, we can hook into startup code and simply restart the camera or update the bootflag needed for execution of autoexec.bin. Same applies to autoexec.bin if the bootflag is enabled.
In its 36 years in business, Apple has produced hundreds of computer models in a dizzying array of sizes, styles, and capabilities. All along the way, fans and critics alike have lauded Apple for its unique and distinctive design sense—even in the awkward years before Steve Jobs rejoined the company, believe it or not. However, if a company produces hundreds of computer models, chances are that a few might come out looking a little too distinctive, little too unique, or little too weird. Here are the five weirdest Macs ever released by Apple.
Bedrocket Media bills itself as a "next generation media company" backed by New York heavyweights from the world's of internet and television. "The old order – with its big, high-cost studios and gatekeepers – is crumbling, and the future belongs to nimble content creators who can take advantage of the seismic changes happening in the industry. We see a unique opportunity to become 'cable in the cloud,'" said Bedrocket CEO Brain Bedol.
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Some developers say that Apple is slowly getting worse at approving apps for the Mac App Store. Apple, of course, reviews all apps submitted to the store, just as it does with the iOS App Store; developers are thus at the company’s mercy when it comes to getting their apps—or updates to those apps—available to customers through the Mac App Store.
At the Palais de la Decouverte in Paris, they showed me this experiment where a 1kg aluminium plate is levitated above a large coil of wire that is being supplied with 800A of alternating current at 900Hz. This is by far the best demonstration of electromagnetic induction I have ever seen.
It's been a busy, bumpy year for Apple since Steve Jobs passed away last October 5. On the up side, the company won a massive jury award against Samsung for patent infringement, and in April it became arguably the most valuable company in history when its market capitalization passed $600 billion for the first time. At the same time, Apple made some rare U-turns in response to flaps over the EPEAT environmental standard and the mapping software on its newest iPhone.
Funnelbox Production Studios' new website offers a masterclass in how to present video online. We chat to the developer behind it.
For those prone to losing phones just as the battery is dying, a newly redesigned app from mobile security company Lookout allows you to locate a mobile device even when it’s dead.
Have you ever heard the phrase, "We'll fix it in post?" Depending on how you tackle it, that line could be your worst nightmare or your best friend.
This book is not an exhaustive reference on DOM scripting or JavaScript. It may, however, be the most exhaustive book written about DOM scripting without the use of a library/framework. The lack of authorship around this topic is not without good reason. Most technical authors are not willing to wrangle this topic because of the differences that exist among legacy browsers and their implementations of the DOM specifications (or lack thereof).
Marked (Mac App Store link), a standout utility that provides live previews of Markdown-formatted files—in other words, it shows you what such files will look like when converted to HTML or XHTML. (Marked also supports text, HTML, and MultiMarkdown files.
