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Fashion alert! Pogo Stylus / Pogo Sketch now in hot pink

by Steven Sande (Sep 18th, 2009)

We've discussed Ten One Design's Pogo Stylus and Pogo Sketch before; they're great if you like to sketch and need a finer brush than your finger can provide. Now the company has provided just the thing for the artistic members of our readership, ...

Making the most of Preview.app for image editing

by Sang Tang (Sep 17th, 2009)

Inspired by Bear Grylls's (of Discovery's Man vs. Wild) "make the most out of your situation" scenarios, I present you with a tutorial for making the most out of Preview.app. While not as powerful as graphics editing powerhouse Adobe Photoshop, ...

Inside the new iTunes LP format

by Tim Wasson (Sep 15th, 2009)

With the release of iTunes 9 came iTunes LP. Our own Dave Caolo gave iTunes LP a glowing review, but if you're wondering just how Apple worked their magic with the new format, web developer Jay Robinson has picked it apart thoroughly. As it turns ...

Infectious 'Cut to the Core' design challenge winners

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 10th, 2009)

We reported the Infectious "Cut to the Core" design contest a while back, but the winners have just been announced and their designs are truly gorgeous. I rarely sticker my computers, but the Infectious skins are vinyl and won't leave a mess behind ...

Pixelmator 1.5 Spider update out

by Mike Schramm (Sep 9th, 2009)

The Pixelmator team has released another update to my favorite little photo editor. Pixelmator 1.5 Spider brings a host of web exporting and sharing options, including a new "Save for Web" feature and the option to send a picture straight to Mail ...

The beautifully detailed art of Mac OS X app icons

by Steven Sande (Sep 5th, 2009)

Over at his blog Cult of Mac, writer Leander Kahney published a post this morning featuring full-size 512 x 512 pixel screenshots of Mac icons. As he notes, the highly detailed icons are part of a move to make the OS resolution independent, but ...

Photoshop CS3 and Snow Leopard. Yea or nea?

by Mel Martin (Aug 27th, 2009)

One of the dark spots hanging over the excitement over Snow Leopard is whether or not Photoshop CS3 will work. Adobe caused some real consternation when they announced earlier this week that CS3 would get no support (along with the rest of the older ...

First Look: Watermark your iPhoto pictures with Impression

by Steven Sande (Aug 21st, 2009)

Blue Crowbar Software is a small Belgian Mac development firm that is quickly making a name for itself for its innovative iPhoto and Aperture plugins. We've previously covered iPhoto2Twitter here on TUAW, and now Blue Crowbar has announced a new ...

5 Apps for the art lover

by Steven Sande (Aug 10th, 2009)

I haven't always loved art. During my life, I went through a phase where I think my engineer / logical-brain kicked the artist brain out of the nest. Now my wife and I are avid art collectors, and I'm writing this while on our annual tour of Santa ...

Lineform 1.5.1 is out: TUAW readers can save $30

by Christina Warren (Jul 21st, 2009)

It's been a while since Freeverse's vector application, Lineform, got an update. Lineform 1.5 came out in January 2008, but the Apple Design Award winner has remained unchanged since then. That's not a bad thing; as we've mentioned in the past, ...

Infectious sponsors "Cut to the Core" design contest for new laptop skins

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 14th, 2009)

If you'd like to see your design on a laptop and earn a little extra money to boot, head over to Infectious and check out their Cut to the Core design contest. They are accepting entries for a new run of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptop skins from ...

iPhone artists: paint your way to $500 in the Pogo Stylus art contest

by Steven Sande (Jun 11th, 2009)

The iPhone is designed to work with your fingers, but those stubby appendages aren't the best for doing detailed work. That's why Ten One Design developed the Pogo Stylus (US$14.95), an aluminum stylus with a special tip that allows it to work on the ...

Can you believe it? New Yorker cover done on iPhone app.

by Mel Martin (May 25th, 2009)

Looking at the cover of the June 1 New Yorker Magazine it is pretty hard to believe that it was created with a US$4.99 app on an iPhone. The app is Brushes [App Store] and it allows painting on the iPhone /iPod touch screen using your fingers and ...

TUAW Tip: Saving InDesign CS4 files for InDesign CS2

by Robert Palmer (May 8th, 2009)

Here's a frustrating problem: You have InDesign CS4, and your buddy needs your file, but has InDesign CS2. "Easy!" you think, "just save an InDesign Interchange (INX) file and send it to him." Lo, wonder of wonders: InDesign saves an INX file that's ...

Rob Janoff and how he made the Apple logo

by Mike Schramm (Mar 31st, 2009)

ZLOK has re-posted an article (originally meant for the defunct Sync Magazine) about Rob Janoff, a designer who's credited with coming up with the iconic-as-they-come Apple logo. It's actually a really short piece, but he does talk pretty candidly ...

Just announced: La Cie blue eye pro Monitor Calibrator Proof Edition

by Steven Sande (Mar 24th, 2009)

A lot of us might not care that the color on our screens doesn't precisely match reality, but for most designers color matching is a crucial part of their work. That's why they use monitor calibration systems like the new La Cie blue eye pro Proof ...