Cosmo Catalano

greenfog:

peterkay:instantjoy:

Happy 20th Birthday Photoshop!

Photoshop 1.0 (Mac only) version came out on February 19, 1990

Adobe and Apple were such a cute couple. What a sad divorce.

natashavc:

This is a mug I got in Moscow. It has a picture of V.I. Lenin with the words “FUCKING REVOLUTION” on it. These were everywhere. Moscow is full of really jarring contradictions and a strange relationship to Bolsheviks.

I was stopped twice and asked for my papers because I look Georgian and this was when Russia got into in that military dust up with ‘em (read: minor invasion).

Moscow is a really vulgar city.

I love how the backwards R is really frontwards because Photo Booth flips the image.

Bonus: command-shift-F (or Edit>Auto-Flip New Photos) will make it so your images are not being mirrored.

No idea how Tumblr’s Flash-based “I-can’t-figure-out-my-web-cam” feature works with this.

bestrooftalkever:

webkitbits:

Anthony Calzadilla has recreated an animated Star Wars AT-AT Walker purely with CSS3. Hopefully we’ll start to see things like this being integrated into games that run purely in the browser.

I can’t figure out if I’m excited for new technologies like HTML5 video and CSS3, or worried that a company like Apple can just decide what we are (and aren’t) going to be using in the future by incorporating (or not incorporating) elements into their new products. It seems an awful lot like their personal beef with companies like Adobe is unjustifiably informing their strategies. Jobs says the flash is buggy. Does anyone else actually think so? Flash may bug out from time to time, but I would say I relaunch Finder more times than I restart my browser due to a flash crash.

As someone who makes my living working on powerful, customizable machines (especially Apples), their new direction of Apple and the iPad induces some serious worry for me.

BRB, creating a Final Cut Pro that will run on Linux.

Companies like Apple have always held sway over what we will and won’t be using. The recent Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war is a pretty good example of how technological merits often play no role in determining what tech gets adopted.

As for this “new direction of Apple”, I think you’d be hard-pressed to name another company that’s placed more emphasis on vertically integrating its product lines since 1998.

And yes, Flash is indeed a buggy, resource-chomping mess. I think if you spent more time in the browser and less time doing heavy lifting in FCP, your Flash-crash/Finder relaunch ratio would be about 10:1.

That said, I don’t think Flash is going anywhere just because Apple and Adobe have had such an acrimonious divorce. Flash is just too good as a pacifier.

The agony of making a stand on Web Standards.

Still better than a blue Lego, I suppose. At least this goes away after a minute or two.

Look, Adobe, as much as I hate Apple’s middle-school-on-lockdown approach to 3rd party development, Flash Player ain’t exactly an open, reliable, platform-friendly bit of programming.

Reason number one billion not to use Flash: right click.

Let’s say I wanted to open this in a new tab. It’s not a stretch, seeing as it’s a fricking landing page on a fricking news site. Alas, this is the menu I receive. As a user, I am pwnt.

New window? Pwnt.

Copy address? Pwnt.

Save the source? Pwnt.

Maybe if you’re an unscrupulous stathead who likes brag to your inept superiors about increased click-throughs and non-unique page veiws in your analytics package, Flash is indeed the right move for you.

But slashing usability for temporarily increased numbers is kind of like overinflating a soccer ball so you can bounce it higher—it doesn’t do anything to improve the quality of your game, and eventually, it’s going to blow up in your face.

ohryankelley:

Flash Arriving by Year-End on Every Smartphone… Except iPhones

This is fine. Flash is resource heavy garbage—an ugly, buggy processor tax on users being too dumb to install their own plugins.