Mar 31
We’d definitely get a heart-powered iPod–but only if it could skip a track every time our hearts skip a beat.
Mar 31
Adobe demonstrates legitimate Photoshop capabilities on iPad, deems it but a concept (video)
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So, here’s a thought. Why, if you were a dutiful Adobe employee, would you waste countless days and weeks creating what could very well be the next big iPad app, only to deem it a concept and never actually promise a real release? Exactly. During the 2011 edition of Photoshop World, a bigwig from the company took the stage in order to showcase what could soon be possible with Photoshop on-the-go, and if you’ve been wowed by the powers of Photoshop Express, you’ll be utterly floored by what Adobe has been able to do here. The wildest part, in our estimation, is the absence of stuttering when manipulating multiple images and applying filters, but then again, they may be working with a pixel-optimized set of shots (versus a full-size RAW, for example) in this particular demo. As we said, no one’s even confirming that this has any hope of breaching reality, but we’re going ahead and making the outlandish assumption that Adobe’s not just wasting our (and its own) time by showcasing this in public. Video’s below, bub.
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Adobe demonstrates legitimate Photoshop capabilities on iPad, deems it but a concept (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mar 31
An onstage demo reveals new maturity for Adobe’s Image editing on the iPad. It’s good timing, given how many new software rivals are bubbling up in the tablet market.
Originally posted at Deep Tech
Mar 31
Video: Adobe Shows Photoshop Concept for iPad
Posted in: adobe, ipad, photoshop, Tablets and E-Readers, Today's Chili, videoYou’d think that after all the bickering between Apple and Adobe about banning Flash from iOS, Adobe would never want to be seen touching an iPad in public. But alas, in the video above, Adobe demonstrates its flagship product, Photoshop, working on an iPad.
The Photoshop app is just a concept, so it’s unclear whether it will become a real product. But it’s refreshing to see how Photoshop might work on a tablet. The image takes over the screen, your fingers replace the mouse pointer, and all those ugly, squint-inducing tool boxes in the desktop version of Photoshop have been replaced with nice bubbly menu icons.
Let’s hope Photoshop eventually does land on tablets, including Android and the iPad. It would be a long-overdue makeover. Talk to any designer and they’ll agree that Photoshop is an atrociously unfriendly interface that has remained fundamentally unchanged for years. Designers and creative types would love Photoshop remade for tablets.
From Photography Bay
Mar 31
Mesmerizing Touch Wood SH-08C ad showcases Japan’s beauty, mankind’s ingenuity (video)
Posted in: ad, advertising, awesome, commercial, Japan, marketing, Sharp, Today's Chili, video
Sharp isn’t apt to sell but 15,000 of its Touch Wood SH-08C handsets, but after watching the ad below, you can bet there will be demand for more. It’s a bit baffling to think of the trouble Drill, Inc. went through in order to assemble the pieces necessary for a wooden ball to trickle down a homegrown marimba, particularly in the midst of Kyushu, Japan’s woodlands. Kenjiro Matsuo was responsible for the creation of the instrument, while Morihiro Harano is being handed credit for the idea itself; in fact, he confirmed to The New York Times that no artificial music was added whatsoever, with only the background levels being adjusted up for effect. You may have never listened to a piece of classical music in your life, but you’re sorely missing out if you ignore Bach’s Cantata 147, “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.” Or, at least the version in that video below.
Mesmerizing Touch Wood SH-08C ad showcases Japan’s beauty, mankind’s ingenuity (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar 31
With the Overdrive Media Console, you can borrow library e-books and audio books, downloading them onto your computer or mobile device.
Mar 31
Handset maker HTC has begun sending out press invitations for an April 12 event. Might the dual-core Pyramid be on the agenda?
Originally posted at Android Atlas
Mar 31
PlayStation Emulator Removed From Android Market – Xperia to Blame
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PlayStation emulator PSX4DROID was pulled from the Android Market recently, and the app’s developer smells something fishy. After all, why would Google target one particular app in a store lousy with console emulators–especially when it doesn’t ship with any ROMS, and therefore doesn’t actually break any of the app store’s rules (namely the first one involving illegal content)?
The emulator’s developer thinks the whole thing stems from the upcoming release of Sony Ericsson’s Android-based gaming device. “Sony’s Xperia Play must be coming soon,” the developer wrote on Twitter yesterday. “Google just suspended all my legal Sony PSX emulator app id’s from Marketplace.” And shortly after, “This isn’t about emulators. This is about Google letting Sony rule their ‘open’ marketplace.”
As Ars Technica is quick to point out, however, other PlayStation emulators still exist in the Market, which seems to take air out of the argument that Sony is working with Google to remove the competition from the store.
Mar 31
HP enables Google Cloud Print on ePrint printers right out of the box
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Man, remember when transferring data to your printer required a big fat cable and physical proximity to your ink spitter? Thankfully, we live in more refined times now and HP and Google have hooked up to deliver the first printers with driverless Cloud Print support, making the whole thing that extra bit easier. HP ePrint printers were already sophisticated enough to receive instructions via email and now they’re casting aside the need for a connected PC to talk to Google’s Cloud Print service as well. All you need is your machine’s @hpeprint.com email address and then you’re away, zipping pictures and text from your smartphone, tablet or laptop to the HP paper decorator. It’s all seamless and wireless and probably feels like the future when you’re doing it. We’d tell you, but we stopped printing stuff in 2004.
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Mar 31
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Natali Morris is letting go of her peanuts and leaving CNET, but she’ll be here until April 29, which means there are only four more Natali Thursdays left! In this edition of The 404, Google is making news with its latest social networking effort, +1; the government is developing a panic button smartphone app; and Reddit users are defending the integrity of the board against link fraud!
The 404 Digest for Episode 789
- Single tires are available for sale on Amazon.com.
- Today is World Data Backup Day–thanks, Reddit!
- 4chan sends us the Anonymous Bad Guy 404 Augmented Reality app.
- Uncle Henry shows us The 404 playing on a white iPad 2.
- Hard Wok Cafe logo mock-ups by Hai Ho and Robin–thanks!
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