Just use this Photoshop tutorial in the (Unofficial) Photoshop Weblog's How-To's Day:  Photoshop Edition to build your own iPod in Photoshop. Printed out on good cardstock from an inkjet or color laser printer, the 2D faux iPod can be slipped into your MP3 player case to create the illusion that you're cool.

Note:  It has been suggested that this tutorial may also be useful to the minority of people who might actually want to gain some creative utility from having an image of an iPod-for example:  advertising, signage, POS display, web design, and other such frivolous uses.

TUAWBuild Your Own iPod (In Photoshop) originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

After giving InDesign CS rave reviews all year, including a statement in a February 2004 article that "InDesign CS is the program that will relegate QuarkXPress to PageMaker's status of a decade ago," and, in the same article, "XPress's unique strengths have dwindled to a few little-used functions," Macworld editors still named QuarkXPress 6.5 the Most Improved Page-Layout Program.

Similarly, despite winning in several categories last year, Adobe's Photoshop and After Effects, best-of-class standards among numerous professional creative industries, were passed over for Eddy Awards this time out.

Macworld's editors "went back over the products they'd seen and reviewed over the past year-those released between November 1, 2003, and November 1, 2004-and they nominated their favorites." The Quark VS InDesign .com article intimates that the editors' favorites may have been motivated more by Apple's recent aggressive competition to Adobe in certain markets than by the merits of the programs being judged.

"I think Macworld was actually honest, if you read carefully," says Mark W. in a response to the Quark VS InDesign.com article. "In the 2003 Eddys Macworld ';looked at nearly every new Mac product on the market between Nov. 1, 2002 to Nov. 1, 2003, evaluating their overall quality as well as their utility, innovation, and elegance.' This time they just ';nominated their favorites.'"

TUAWMacworld Biased Against Adobe? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Tuff-Stuff

High-impact housings and extra-durable shielding for the earbud cord for industrial environments. A beefy black and construction yellow housing in anti-slip high-impact plastic would certainly help ground and low-height construction workers who want to listen to music while driving 500 ton mega-haulers. One side of the case would have a magnetic strip for convenient placement of nails, screws, or Skol cans.

Continue reading Extreme iPod: New iPod & iPod Mini Housings for Extreme Environments

TUAWExtreme iPod: New iPod & iPod Mini Housings for Extreme Environments originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:16:43 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

In Before & After magazine's quiz of the week you're asked the semi-musical question:  Can you identify the iPod typeface?

TUAWName The iPod Typeface originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:17:12 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Acrobat 7 is not the complete overhaul that was Acrobat 6, but it builds upon the steady three-legged foundation poured by Acrobat 6. With critical press and prepress features for creative pros, streamlined business features, and by opening the door to the enterprise's total adoption of electronic documents with the new power given to the ubiquitous and free Adobe Reader, Acrobat 7 kicks over the last stubborn hurdles to total epaper conversion for every document-based workflow. Acrobat is all grown up.

TUAWDesign Weblog Breaks the Silence, Shares What Adobe Does In Vegas originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:19:13 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Last week Macromedia settled with Forgent over JPEG patent infringement issue. Today Forgent creates "enhanced intellectual property" site to provide "information on Forgent's intellectual property program and the litigation." Tomorrow, Forgent may go after TiVo and MP3 players.

On 23 April 2004 The Design Weblog first reported on Austin, Texas-based Forgent Networks, Inc.'s claim of infringement on its  U.S. Patent #4698672, which covers the compression algorithm in JPEG images, and the lawsuit filed by Forgent against software makers whose products read or wrote JPEG files.

Among those named in the suit were: Adobe Systems Inc., Agfa Corp., Axis Communications Inc., Canon USA, Concord Camera Corp., Creative Labs Inc., Dell Inc., Eastman Kodak Co., Fuji Photo Film Co. U.S.A., Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Gateway Inc., HP, IBM, JASC Software, JVC Americas Corp., Kyocera Wireless Corp., Macromedia Inc., Matsushita Electric Corp. of America, Oce' North America Inc., Onkyo Corp., PalmOne Inc., Panasonic Communications Corp. of America, Panasonic Mobile Communications Development Corp. of USA, Ricoh Corp., Riverdeep Inc., Savin Corp., Thomson S.A., Toshiba Corp. and Xerox Corp.

In the intervening time, several companies have settled with Forgent and been removed from that list. Most notable are Adobe Systems, Inc., who settled for an undisclosed amount in early July, and now Macromedia, Inc. Last week San Francisco-based Macromedia, maker of web mainstay, JPEG-making products, Freehand, Flash, and Fireworks, settled out of court with Forgent for an unspecified amount.

Continue reading Forgent Settles with Macromedia Over JPEG Infringement, Sets Sights On TiVo and MP3 Players

TUAWForgent Settles with Macromedia Over JPEG Infringement, Sets Sights On TiVo and MP3 Players originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 08 Sep 2004 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Continue reading Microsoft Earns Best Corporate Reputation in the Media, According to Delahaye Index

TUAWMicrosoft Earns Best Corporate Reputation in the Media, According to Delahaye Index originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:23:52 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

"We don't think people have a burning desire to watch video on tiny little screens," Apple's Steve Jobs, a longtime Gates nemesis, was quoted as saying earlier. Gates retorted that his kids "want to watch Finding Nemo," which of course was made by Jobs' [Pixar] Animation Studios (NASDAQ: PIXR).

"I don't know who made that, but it's a really neat movie," Gates was said to have quipped.

The asides were made in conjunction with Microsoft's launch of the company's new portable video players, made for it by Samsung and others. The device will also allow its users to purchase and manage music with its Windows Media Player.

Continue reading Gates Worries That Jobs' Kids Won't Be Able to Watch Finding Nemo On Road Trips

TUAWGates Worries That Jobs' Kids Won't Be Able to Watch Finding Nemo On Road Trips originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:33:46 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

QuarkDispatch Server Certified to Run on Xserve G5

PARIS-(THE DESIGN WEBLOG)-Aug. 31, 2004-Quark Inc. today announced the release of Quark Publishing System 3 Classic Edition (QPS Classic 3), the next step in the development of the industry-leading software for professional publishing and editorial workflows. QPS Classic 3 provides full support for QuarkXPress 6 and Mac OS X, along with other performance enhancements. Used by more than 50,000 people at publishing sites worldwide, QPS Classic is one of the leading publishing systems in the industry.

Continue reading QPS Arrives for QuarkXPress 6 and Mac OS X

TUAWQPS Arrives for QuarkXPress 6 and Mac OS X originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:58:20 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

TUAWApple vs. PC Rivalry A Sham originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:16:53 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

With You Control:Fonts, you get a single font menu that is consistent across all of your favorite applications. Rather than modifying the font menu that belongs to an application, the You Control:Fonts menu resides in the Mac OS X menu bar next to your default system menu items. Users of You Control have the option to integrate You Control:Fonts into You Control as a module allowing for a wide range of options for where the font menu can be accessed.

You Control:Fonts is the first font menu utility that supports both the new Cocoa-style applications as well as Carbon-based applications like Adobe Photoshop. You Control:Fonts supports the following applications:

• Adobe Photoshop CS
• Adobe Illustrator CS
• Adobe InDesign CS
• QuarkXPress 6.0
• Macromedia Freehand 10
• Macromedia Freehand MX
• Macromedia Flash MX
• Macromedia Fireworks MX
• Microsoft Word v.X
• Microsoft Word 2004
• Microsoft Excel 2004
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2004
• Keynote
• Mail.app
• TextEdit

"Today we are introducing a WYSIWYG font menu designed to work seamlessly across Mac OS X and all of the major applications creative professionals use every day," said Craig Barnes, CEO of You Software. "Moving forward we will expand the convenience of one stop menu control by tightly integrating our technology with the leading font management software applications including Suitcase, Font Reserve and Font Book."

TUAWYou Software Ships New WYSIWYG Font Menu for Mac OS X - You Control:Fonts originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:26:06 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The entire DTP Types library is available in hfont format, and DTP Types even offers to generate hfonts from other type foundries' fonts-if the license allows or specific permission is granted by the foundry.

A free trial hfont is available for download from the DTP Types website.

[via Typophile Forums posting]

Pariah Burke writes the Design Weblog and Magazine Design Weblog for Weblogs, Inc., and is a contributing writer to the Nanopublishing Weblog.

TUAWNew OS X Font Format HFONT Seeks To End Font Problems In Quark originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:40:48 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

In addition to writing on everything from OS X to design, David Blatner is the author of more than a dozen books running the gamut from The Joy of PI, Judaism For Dummies, The Flying Book:  Everything You've Ever Wondered About Flying On Airplanes, and Silicon Mirage:  The Art and Science of Virtual Reality. He is best known, however, for his incredibly successful series of books related to graphic design and industry standard design tools, including as author or co-author of:  Real World:  Photoshop, Real World:  QuarkXPress, Real World:  InDesign, Real World:  Scanning and Halftoning, Desktop Publisher's Survival Kit, and InDesign For QuarkXPress Users.

TUAWThe Design Weblog Interviews David Blatner originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:08:35 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

• Entourage 2004 will have a much more robust database structure, limited in size only by the user's harddrive space.
• In Entourage 2004 Mac users will finally have the Microsoft-authored project management features for which they've been clamoring.
• As a result of the Entourage project management features, Microsoft is exploring the possibility of porting that technology to Windows, thus creating a scaled down version of Project.
• Office Assistants will be turned off by default [I was going to include a link to the Kill Clippy game, but Microsoft has taken it offline].
• PowerPoint 2004, while still holding many features over KeyNote, won't rise to meet KeyNote's text rendering.
• Since Microsoft is not developing IE for the Mac any longer, the entire IE for Mac Team has been dismantled.
• MSN Messenger 4 for Mac is indeed a reality, and it will probably be pretty cool.
• Office 2004 will have Unicode support.

TUAWMicrosoft for Mac: Office 2004, PowerPoint, Entourage, MSN Messenger 4, more originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:31:48 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.