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Extensis is sponsoring a free webinar on December 6th at 11am Pacific on new techniques and trends in web font use. You can use their registration, below, to sign up for the webinar. Implementing Web Fonts On Your Websites Learn how to implement web fontson your websites. December 6, 201111:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM EasternDuration: 1 hour, incl. ... read more
Here’s an incredibly beautiful portable work space that just blows us away. It’s the Tetrashed, a tetrahedron that’s been designed to be a “modern garden office.” Scheduled to be available in January of 2012, the Tetrashed can be combined into clusters of up to six modules and was designed to function as a classroom, workspace, popup ... read more
Looking for something for the Leica lover in your life this holiday season? Look no further than the new Leica 2012 calendar, now available on Leica’s German site. The calendar features work from a dozen famous Leica photographers and was produced in partnership with Magnum. Even though the link (above) is in English, you might need ... read more
Jumsoft has just released a collection of high-end clip art, designed to ease the creation of application icons, presentations and more. Illustrative in style, these icons have a really nice design to them—they’re much nicer than some of the clip art sites on the web. At $18.99 for 100 pieces of clip art it’s best to ... read more
We got word today that DFT for Avid is now fully 64-bit, great news for people working on Avid systems with Composite Suite Pro, PhotoCopy, Rays and zMatte. The full release is below. Digital Film Tools Releases 64-bit Plug-ins for AvidDigital Film Tools plug-in product line supports Media Composer v6, Symphony v6 and NewsCutter v10; Free update ... read more
The New York Times has run the eulogy for Steve Jobs delivered by his birth sister, Mona Simpson. It’s the most beautiful eulogy I’ve ever read. You should read this. read more
Apple has released Mac OS 10.7.2, which brings a number of really nice fixes to some little issues in OS X 10.7. The update, which is massive (1.2 GB on our test MacBook Air) is available via Software Udpate. The 10.7.2 update also includes Safari 5.1.1 as well as fixes that:Allow reordering of desktop spaces and ... read more
I’ve been trying really hard to write a impartial, factual story about the passing of Steve Jobs. The truth is that I can’t. When I was seven years I got my first Apple, the Apple ||, and Steve Jobs’s creations have been part of my life every day since then. That’s more than 30 years with ... read more
The Associated Press, via Apple, is reporting that Steve Jobs has died. That’s all we have the emotional ability to write now. Deep sadness.read more
Just got this in the mail from our friends at Nik. News Flash: Updates for HDR Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro 2 Released Nik Software today released minor compatibility and bug-fix updates to two of its popular digitalphotographic filter products, HDR Efex Pro™ and Silver Efex Pro™ 2. These updates are free to currentowners and are ... read more
It looks like CNN is streaming the iPhone announcement on their site—you have to install some plug-in for this. Word is that there’s about a 15 minute delay. Tune in now and you can see Tim Cook go over the iPhone, and lament the lack of Steve’s enthusiasm. (Tim’s a bit, uh, laid back.) http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/cvplive/cvpstream4#/video/cvplive/cvpstream4 read more
We’ve been using FaceTime chats to get cross-country projects working, and have been planning to use them for Podcasts. The main problem is screen recording—usually you have to record the whole Mac’s desktop. IMCapture for FaceTime brings application-recording to Apple’s FaceTime app. The press release is below. FaceTime Recorder – IMCapture for FaceTime – Published on 09/28/11 IMMEDIATE RELEASE IMCapture ... read more
We’ve been working on the beta of Nik’s new Color Efex Pro 4, so are pretty happy to see that they’ve released the software into the wild. The updated Color Efex has 55 total color filters and for the first time thee can be stacked and combined into new filters. There are also new borders and ... read more
Graphic designers needing to measure on-screen distances, judge colors and figure out angles between objects (in other words, every graphic designer) should check out PixelStick 2.2, which has been updated for Lion. PixelStick 2.2* Universal Ruler and Eyedropper Measures Color, Angle and Distance in any Application on Your Mac* Essential app for every Graphic Designer and ... read more
Plum Amazing today released an update to iWatermark Pro (although it’s now at version 1.0). The new version works directly in iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom and can even add QR Codes to watermarks. The program, which is $30, also runs as a stand-alone program. Since Watermarking is one of the weak spots of Aperture, we’re particularly interested ... read more
Thanks to applications on the iPhone like Instagram and Hipstamatic, using digital photography to simulate the “look” of old film stock is more popular than ever. Sadly, it’s easier to make a photo look like a piece of film on your camera than it is on your Mac. DxO addresses this with their new FilmPack 3, ... read more
