Archive for February, 2010

ease of use

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Our show has slowly gained momentum thanks to many nice bloggers and webmasters who shared it. Ok now we got that topic out of the way let’s talk serious.

The web is slowly dividing between a google found, self made brochures (barely interactive) and the facebookalistic social revolutions on any scale. Did you know that there’s a fairly large (and growing) group that thinks facebook IS the whole internet? scary?

In a social media frenzy the regular sites will go aside for a while but they’ll be back, since terminator2 was better than #4. And while online we might want to be alone from time to time, right?

All the perspectives and prospects of the social cannot ibviously be underestimated – this is an important part of the upcomin web 4.0

Let’s just hope for some competition (buzz? orkut? myspace?) or there will only be facebook to compete. ;)

Creation Machine Show – Episode 1 online!

Monday, February 15th, 2010


It’s on ! :)

Pixelmator 1.5.1 released!

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

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The guys from “Pixelmator team” are back! And after the long wait they present the next, 1.5.1 version of this supercool raster design software. This is a small update as it only fixes most bugs and adds some nice little features. But finally you can organize your brushes and the way this is done shows, that they don’t want to copy others, instead creating very usable workflows on their own. There’s also the announcement of the next, 1.6 version called Nucleus that they have started working on and that just adds to the overall excitement! Only three more functions (a proper text tool, layer styles and groups) and I’m dumping photoshop forever :)

You can check the software out (Mac only!) at pixelmator.com

Photoshop, pixelmator, Flash, Illustrator, Vector Designer and many more

Friday, February 12th, 2010

We have started a main category for our tutorial section. At the start there are only 6 of them, but there will be more added in time. Both small, tweaky things that can redefine routine tasks, little tips and tricks and bigger, more complex stuff. Stay tuned to our channel to see all the new, exciting tutorials and how to’s being added. Cheeri’o!

Rotate and duplicate photoshop tutorial

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

A quick little tutorial for photoshop this time (sorry, doesn’t work in pixelmator yet, but let’s hope they add this function in some time as well).
Here’s what we’re gonna do with just one shape, without manually rotating and positioning them.
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Read more to find out how we do it!
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Let’s think outside of the box

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

We are bound to repeat something someone else did before one day or another. Actually it’s more often than we think. Sometimes we do it knowingly, and that’s called being inspired (or stealing, the line is thin) and sometimes we simply think of something very, very similar to someone else’s work without knowing the person or the work. Maybe there’s an universal mind somewhere up there that’s sending in ideas and has mixups from time to time. But even aside from all that, it’s important to try and rethink how we can do things that CAN be done creatively. Some things are supposed to be just useful and standard, so the end user won’t get lost in them. But sometimes we can run wild and unleash all our ideas on the world. So which type of projects should we do? I believe doing a bit of both balances both the worlds and keeps the wit sharp. Soon we will post some new textures, tutorials and insights into the web 3.0.

Iphone music app development

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

keyboard
We’re starting to work on a little project for the iphone – a simple 5 octave keyboard with combining two synth patches playing at once + an optional drum pattern underneath. You can see the first version of the GUI here.

Podcast episode 0 goes Live!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

The first episode is still not entirely defined but the next ones will rock your socks off for sure. Stay tuned for more and watch the first, introductory episode of the podcast called :

Episode 0 – Let’s get this party started

the really, really last iPad spoof

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

The one before was supposed to be the last one, but we couldn’t help it ;)

iPad : how to make one

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

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Tonight we’ll post a short video on how to make yourself an iPad ahead of the original shipping date. And it’s gonna be much cheaper + the multitasking works pretty well too.
Here’s the video :