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Sitting for a portrait with FaceTime on iPhone 4

by Steven Sande (Jul 16th, 2010)

So, you're tired of your Twitter avatar, the photo of your face that you took in Photo Booth. Maybe a nice portrait would be in order... David Lanham, who is probably best known for his work with Iconfactory (he designed Ollie, the Twitteriffic ...

Icons and World Clock created with CSS3 magic, courtesy of Webkit

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 28th, 2010)

Recent versions of Webkit, the browser engine that Safari and Chrome are based on, have allowed for extensive use of CSS3, as well as some proprietary CSS tricks. The result has been some very innovative art created entirely using CSS. Take, for ...

Artist sells iPad art to buy an iPad

by Mike Schramm (Mar 30th, 2010)

This is the kind of thing that's just clever enough to work once. Artist Andrew Fulton really wants an iPad (as do most of us), but he doesn't have the money to get one (likewise). So he's decided to try and sell some iPad-related art to raise money ...

Make a molehill out of a mountain with Tilt Shift Focus

by Mel Martin (Mar 18th, 2010)

Got a desire to mess with some pictures you have by controlling blur or making full-sized objects look like miniatures? I've just played with some software called Tilt-Shift-Focus that mimics the way tilt shift lenses work. By artfully applying ...

Found Footage: Apple designs in 3D

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 3rd, 2010)

Transparent House, a San Fransisco-based 3D design and visualization studio, has created this stunning video that showcases some of Apple's best designs over its 34-year history. Ground-breaking products from the Apple I in 1976 to the iPad in ...

Found Footage: Photoshop v1.0 recreated on iPhone

by Chris Rawson (Feb 23rd, 2010)

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Photoshop, Adobe recently recreated Photoshop 1.0 -- on the iPhone. Porting the venerable application over to the iPhone reportedly took Adobe a mere two weeks of development. The application is not available ...

Macworld 2010: TypeDNA

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 13th, 2010)

On the last day of Macworld, I caught up with the guys from TypeDNA to take a look at what I soon realized was going to be a revolutionary bit of software magic for designers of any ilk. TypeDNA is a series of plugins for Adobe CS4 applications ...

The MacView: An incredibly well-done concept tablet

by Steven Sande (Jan 24th, 2010)

Here at TUAW, we've been treated to so many concept drawings and fake photoshopped tablets over the past several months that we've become somewhat jaded about them. However, Polish designer Patrycjucz Brzezinski's concept for an Apple tablet, named ...

Inklet turns your trackpad into a Wacom-style tablet

by Mike Schramm (Jan 12th, 2010)

Now here's a fascinating app -- Inklet is a new Mac app by Ten One Design that purports to turn your Macbook's trackpad into a tablet-style input. The program uses the multitouch trackpad interface to sense where and when you're touching the pad, ...

Sketches 2 available now for creating even better art on your iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 22nd, 2009)

Our friends at LateNiteSoft sent word that they've updated Sketches, one of the first iPhone apps I ever picked up, to version 2.0. The app has been released [iTunes link] as an entirely new download, so even upgraders from version 1 will have to ...

Become the master of many monitors with NewerTech's USB 2.0 Display Adapter

by Steven Sande (Dec 19th, 2009)

Some Mac users just don't want to be limited to one monitor, but would like two... or three... or more. Having only one display port on your Mac can put a real crimp in your plans to be the master of the monitor universe, so NewerTech has launched ...

Super-panoramic showdown for Mac

by Tim Wasson (Nov 21st, 2009)

There are several photo-stitchers available for Mac (and several for iPhone as well), and most do a stellar job for stitching together 3-4 images into a panoramic image. However, I recently completed a project that required stitching together ...

Nvidia CEO loves Apple, possesses mysterious alien device

by Mike Schramm (Nov 10th, 2009)

Talk about burying the lead -- Shufflegazine did a piece on Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Hwang during a visit to Dubai recently, in which he talks about how much he and his family love their Macs, and Apple's machines add value, and in his house it's just ...

Unboxing... an Apple job offer

by Mike Schramm (Oct 5th, 2009)

This is exactly the kind of thing we love to see here at TUAW (and thanks for sending it along, Danny) -- Glyph of the Twisted project got a job offer from Apple last week, and over on his blog, he posts a set of unboxing pics. Which might sound ...

Mega-super TUAW shootout of the iPhone UI sketchbooks

by Steven Sande (Oct 3rd, 2009)

Part of my work requires me to mock up iPhone apps, often to show developers how I would redesign a user interface to work better than something they've come up with. Over the past few months, a number of paper sketchbooks have appeared on the ...

Pantone offers color libraries for iPhone, mostly

by Robert Palmer (Sep 21st, 2009)

While it's been in the App Store for the last few days, Pantone is officially launching its color discovery and management app for iPhone today, called myPANTONE. The Pantone Matching System, among other Pantone products, is the indispensable color ...