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Former Color employee talks about Apple's Lala deal

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2013)

Aubrey Johnson is a former employee of Color, the startup recently acquired by Apple and founded by Bill Nguyen, who sold another company to Apple called Lala. Over on his personal blog, Johnson has put up a post that walks right through the story of how Apple picked up Lala, from the reasoning ...

Case Scenario lets you get a jump on the 2013 Pantone Universe Color of the Year

by Steven Sande (Dec 10th, 2012)

All you fans of Pantone 17-5641 (aka "Emerald") should be happy -- that particular color has been selected as the Pantone Universe color of the year for 2013. Case Scenario, an accessory manufacturer, is celebrating with the release of their US$35 2013 Color of the Year Pantone Universe iPhone ...

Former Color Labs employee suing the company and CEO Bill Nguyen

by Mike Wehner (Nov 19th, 2012)

In the wake of social media startup Color's shutdown, a former employee is now suing the exorbitantly funded startup and embattled CEO Bill Nguyen. TechCrunch reports Adam Witherspoon filed a lawsuit alleging "intentional infliction of emotional distress" and is seeking an unspecified figure in ...

Color closeout story shifts; team said to be headed to Apple

by Mike Wehner (Oct 18th, 2012)

It's been a Color-ful 24 hours for anyone following the several contradictory stories surrounding the future of the exorbitantly-funded social media company Color. As the dust settles, it appears that Apple is poised to purchase the heart of Color, just not its name. The saga started when an ...

Daily iPhone App: Visual uses color to keep track of the time

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 13th, 2012)

I don't like to spend a lot of time keeping myself on schedule. When I have a 15-minute block to send off some emails, I want a timer app that's easy to setup and simple to use. One that'll let me see quickly how much time I have left before I have to move on to another task. That's where ...

Dot color explains why colors look so nice on the new iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 23rd, 2012)

Jeff Yurek of Dot Color spent some time exploring the color performance of the new iPad. He, like many others, noticed that the colors on the iPad were richer than the iPad 2 and hypothesized that Apple improved the color filters. After analyzing various spectrum charts, he concludes that ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: iSplash

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 24th, 2011)

It's great to have lots of options of apps, and today's Daily Mac App adds to the plethora of colorization apps. iSplash is a selective color app just like Colorize and ColorWash, which we've covered before. iSplash is probably the simplest of the colorization apps we've played with so far. ...

Facebook prepping a photo-sharing app for the iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 15th, 2011)

Leaked information provided to TechCrunch suggests Facebook is prepping a photo-sharing app for the iPhone. From the description, the app is a mixture of Instagram with some of the location information and social sharing of Path and Color. A few surprises are also supposedly thrown into the ...

Reported Motion 5, Final Cut Pro X screen shots

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 8th, 2011)

Earlier today Twitter user BWilks2001 posted screenshots of what is allegedly Motion 5. Motion is part of the Final Cut Studio suite and while Apple previewed Final Cut Pro X in April, it has not shown off any of the other apps from the suite -- even though Apple has said the next Final Cut ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: ColorWash

by Samuel Gibbs (May 17th, 2011)

Those with an artistic bent have been making color-isolated photos in Photoshop for years, but a recent crop of quick and easy tools for doing just that has allowed novices (like me) to create some of the same beautiful photos in a fraction of the time. ColorWash, currently US$0.99 in the Mac ...

Dear Apple, here's our Final Cut Studio wishlist

by Chris White (Apr 11th, 2011)

Today the NAB exhibit hall opened, and just about everyone in the video world is showing off the hot new stuff they've been waiting to announce to video professionals from around the world. Apple, however, is notably absent again this year, choosing instead to make an announcement tomorrow ...

Dreams, teams and the Color app

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 24th, 2011)

The latest app making a big buzz seems to be one simply called Color. Why the hoopla about what is, at best, a location-based photo sharing app? Because they raised a whopping US$41 million dollars in funding before even launching. Before you say "bubble 2.0," let's take a look at what Color ...

ColorSchemer Studio in the Mac App Store, and TUAW has free licenses!

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 21st, 2011)

ColorSchemer Studio, my favorite Mac app for designing color combinations and palettes, is now available on the Mac App Store. I've mentioned it a few times before, and we've had a few licenses to give away in the past. To celebrate the arrival in the Mac App Store, ColorSchemer has given us three ...

ColorSchemer Touch is out, and we have five copies to give away

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 13th, 2010)

The designers and color lovers among you may be familiar with ColorSchemer, or at least recall it from our coverage of the 2.0 release. Well, great news: ColorSchemer Touch is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch! We have five copies to give away, so be sure to enter for your chance ...

TUAW's Daily App: Tripolar

by Mike Schramm (Oct 13th, 2010)

Tripolar makes a big point of saying that it's not a match-3 game, and though the grid looks similar to that matching genre, it's really not. But it is a puzzle game. The idea is that you have pieces coming in on top of the board, and touching anywhere on the grid will insert that piece and delete ...