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Photoshop Newsflash
The Onion | America's Finest News Source: Pretty funny sidebar headline on The Onion: Photoshop Actually Bought Now that would be news. I thinking Photoshop is the most pirated app in the world.
Published: August 24, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Photoshop CS Review
The New Photoshop CS: Review of the new Photoshop CS. Answers the question, why upgrade? ...you may open the program and initially wonder why you upgraded since the user interface, at least on first glance, is quite similar to the Photoshop 7 interface aside from the new splash screen and ...
Published: January 20, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 985
Adobe Requires Photoshop Activation
Adobe Tries Out DRM In Photoshop: They're trying this out in Australia, but it's destined for all copies of Photoshop. You can install one copy on two machines. In an interesting twist, you don't "deactivate" it if you need to install it somewhere else... "A time-based algorithm determines if the ...
Published: July 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 958
Photoshop and Currency Images Revisited
You guys remember the Photoshop controversy from a few months ago where it was discovered that Photoshop wouldn't work with scans of currency? It was designed to protect against counterfeiting. There have been a few developments: There's a Web site now, rulesforuse.org, that details the rules issued by various currency-protecting ...
Published: October 1, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 944
Hillary's Photoshop Warriors
Hillary s ad: debate footage doctored to make Obama blacker: A bunch of bloggers are claiming that Hillary s camp took an image of Obama, darkened it, and squished it vertically, in an attempt to make Obama look..blacker. They present a bunch of Photoshop-ish evidence on this page, which is interesting. And ...
Published: March 6, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 924
Photoshop Protects Currency
Adobe Helped Gov't Fight Counterfeiting: The new version of Photoshop has anti-counterfieting technology built-in...no, not that kind of counterfeiting. We're talking about the real kind. Adobe, the world's leading vendor for graphics software, said the secretive technology "would have minimal impact on honest customers." It generates a warning message when ...
Published: January 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 918
Adobe Systems Incorporated Terms of Use
Adobe Systems Incorporated Terms of Use: When I was writing about the photographer who photoshopped his way out of a job, I remembered something about using Photoshop as a verb. I went back to Adobe s site, got sidetracked by Encore for a second, then found this: The Photoshop trademark must ...
Published: April 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 886
Photoshop Has Competition
Apple - Aperture: Is there a difference -- in terms of software -- between "professional photgraphers" and graphic artists? Do they use the same type of software? Designed from the ground up for professional photographers, Aperture provides everything you need for after the shoot, delivering the first all-in-one post-production tool ...
Published: October 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 867
Detecting Photoshop Hacks
Technology > Circuits > What's Next: For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/technology/circuits/22next.html">For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum: A group of folks out at Dartmouth College are breaking new ground in the art of detecting if images have been altered or ...
Published: July 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 865
Photoshop in a Browser?
Ektron Web Image FX: Ektron, the company behind a pretty good browser-based WYSIWYG editor, has released image editing capability: "Ektron WebImageFX is an imaging application that allows users to edit images directly online. Images can be copied and pasted from a local or network drive as well as a peripheral ...
Published: August 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 855
Photoshop As a Crime Fighting Tool
Cops use photo to pry open sex abuse: Some scumbag sexually abused a girl, then sent pictures around the Net. The police have had the girl Photoshopped out of the picture, and are circulating the resulting images in the hopes of catching a lead. For the first time, Toronto police ...
Published: February 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 823
The GIMP is Loose
The GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program has just released version 2.0, which cleans up the interface a great deal. The GIMP has always been very feature rich, but Photoshop users considered it difficult to use (although many GIMPers would say the same of Photoshop). Started in 1995 by ...
Published: March 24, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 763
Cheap, Illegal Software
OEM software scams on the rise: In a moment of serious self-delusion I almost fell for one of these outfits. Yes, I'll admit it, I wanted Dreamweaver MX for $60. I'm sure you've all got the same spams they're saying that this is the new trend after penis enlargement ...
Published: June 10, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 759
Color Picker
I love IrfanView. It's a fast, lightweight little image viewer that's extremely capable for basic tasks, (that is, anything I don't want to bother starting up Photoshop for). But the one feature it doesn't have is the ability to click a spot on an image and get the HTML color ...
Published: July 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 744
DigiMods
AutoWeek has an article this week about digimods the new trend of building your dream car, or at least a picture of it, digitally. Digimodding (also called chopping) consists of digitally modifying a press photo with a number of different Photoshop techniques. Websites provide links to find stock ...
Published: October 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 743
Freebie Friday
It's raining free apps! Picasa is a pretty terrific photo management software. Google just bought the company, and they're giving Picasa away for free. My father-in-law just got a digital camera for his birthday, so I set him up with Picasa. Now he just plugs in the camera, and up ...
Published: July 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 738
CSS and the Design Litmus Test
I've discovered yet another use for the Web Developer Toolbar; I can perform The Site Design Litmus Test, heretofore known as "Joe's Razor" (named for no one in particular): Open up a site you've done in Firefox, and take a look at it. Now, open up the 'Edit CSS' sidebar ...
Published: August 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 719
Adobe Jumps The Shark, Reader's Classification As Spyware Not Far Behind
I'm not working from a Windows box as much as I used to these days, so maybe I'm a little too blissfully isolated from the sheer volume of crap that most of you put up with from your computer each day. Tonight, though, I was working from my wife's PC ...
Published: March 9, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 718
FauxTo
Fauxto... like photo: I don't want to look too hard into this, lest my head explode like it did with the Tibco thing last year. It's scaled-down Photoshop in a browser, and it's pretty well-done. It rivals WebImageFX, which is the only other thing I've seen on this level.
Published: December 22, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 703
Optimus Keyboard
The keys on an Optimus Keyboard are actually small LED screens. The screens change to display the value of the keys depending on the application you are running. Pretty useful for games and apps like Photoshop. I have a suspicion that this is actually an art piece and not an ...
Published: July 14, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 703
Picasa 2
Entrepreneur lets Google fly with his creation: It gets better, and it's apparently still gonna be free. On Tuesday, Google unveils a major upgrade that could chip away market share from leaders Adobe and Microsoft. Picasa 2 is almost as full-featured as their Photoshop Elements and Digital Image Suite photo-editing-software ...
Published: January 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 700
MS Paint Ninja
The Ultimate MS Paint: It Will Make You Cry: It's more than I could do with Photoshop. This drawing was done entirely in MS Paint with a Logitech laser mouse. I did not use the copy and paste tool, or the text tool. There was no color sampling or pasting ...
Published: February 20, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 695
The Future of Adobe
Forbes.com: The Trojan Document: A great article about where Adobe is headed. "Serving the needs of state bureaucrats has never been Adobe's thing. For 20 years the company has been the digital muse for black-turtleneck-wearing art directors, making a mint off its bestselling publishing and graphics software such as Acrobat, ...
Published: June 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
Kama Sutra Worm
E-mail worm bent only on destruction: How nice. It's like the aliens from Independence Day. The Kama Sutra worm -- also referred to as Nyxem.E and Grew.A -- is unnerving because, unlike other e-mail worms, it appears to be detached from any profit motive. It is designed to destroy all ...
Published: January 31, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 690
Triage: MS Jazzercises Photo Management
Building on it's planned technologies for Longhorn, Microsoft is developing a new technology called 'Triage' to manage digital photos. It appears they're tagging photos with metadata ala Photoshop Album, but check out this ZDNet Video and take a look at how they're presenting the user interface. Very slick looking, but ...
Published: June 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 685
8-Ball
Apparently, there's a new version of Flash in the works, code-named 8-ball, that will include a lot of innovative new features. Live Photoshop-like effects such as drop shadows, glows, and strokes MUCH faster rendering and better processor management on both Macs and PCs A better anti-aliasing engine for text (codenamed ...
Published: November 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 677
How to Make Fake Software Boxes
Box Art: You know all those pictures of boxed software from companies that don't sell anything but downloads? No surprise -- the boxes never existed. Sometimes you need to create a 3D software box, hardcover book, or other box-like object in a pinch. It could be done the long way ...
Published: January 2, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 676
The Windows Hillside
I paved a Windows machine last night, and reloaded Windows XP Home from scratch. That being the case, I spent a lot of time looking at the default Windows desktop background. You know, the grassy hill picture. The file is called "Bliss." Does anyone know where this hillside is? Do ...
Published: April 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 674
New iPods Finally Announced
You can stop speculating. Apple has added two new iPods to their line up. The U2 Special Edition and the iPod Photo. The U2 version is black with a red dial and will feature the signatures of the band members engraved on the back. The iPod Photo will support iPhoto ...
Published: October 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Excel Charting Acrobatics
Recreating the NY Times Cancer Graph: I hope I m not the only person who finds this interesting. The New York Times cancer graph is a beautiful piece of work. I wanted to see if we could reproduce it with everyday tools. The screencast is really interesting. I get the same ...
Published: July 31, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 663
iTunes in Linux
The WINE configuration gurus over at Codeweavers have announced that their next version of Crossover Office will allow iTunes to play nicely on your Linux box. For those unfamiliar with the product, Crossover Office allows MS Office, Photoshop, and many other Windows programs to run quite nicely on your Linux ...
Published: August 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 662
Google Giveaway
Earlier this week, Google announced they were purchasing Picasa, the excellent photo organization program. Well, now they're giving it away. If you are still looking for a good (and free) way to organize your pile of digital photos go get it. It has a great interface and does most of ...
Published: July 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Your Visitors Don't Care About Your Site
Feature Richness and User Engagement: Nielsen makes a point which we all know is true: on balance, user s don t give a crap about your site, only about what it can do for them. They are not engaged enough with your site to learn how to use it, so higher level ...
Published: August 6, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
The Impact of Text vs. Graphics
Does the graphic content (or lack thereof) of a site contribute to a feeling of dynamism by site visitors? When I visit a site heavy on the graphics and Flash, I get a feeling that the site is stagnant, because, as a Web developer, I know how much inertia is ...
Published: January 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
Can YOUR Browser Do This?
Seen on MacSlash: Safari supports the use of the PDF format for images in HTML pages. This means that if you insert a pdf file in a web page with an 'img' tag it will show up just like a .jpg or .gif in Safari. This makes sense given that ...
Published: March 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
You can put away your cardboard 3D glasses now
A couple of really cool new images from JPL today on their photojournal site. One is a screenshot of a portion of the ground near the rover rendered in a rather stunning image that converts the binocular vision on the rover into a 3D model. This looks like it was ...
Published: January 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
The Gigapixel Camera
Ok, so it is basically a large-format film camera, the image only gets to gigapixel size after the film is developed and scanned, and the thing will probably never see mass production, but Clifford Ross' R1 camera is getting plenty of attention in spite of it's decidedly low-tech construction. And ...
Published: December 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
The Fake Detective
There's a guy named Ed Lake that apparently spends all his time proving that pornographic images of celebrities are not real, and were in fact created in Photoshop. He takes an image, examines it pixel by pixel, proves it's a fake, and often finds the "body" in another picture. It's ...
Published: October 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 636
Documentum Extends Content Management to Print
Documentum Publishing Suite: Documentum has announced integration with a bunch of print publishing applicatons. "Documentum Enterprise Publishing Solution is a bundling of existing components from the 5.2 iteration being re-released with an integration component, called Authoring Integration Services. The 5.3 platform pulls together 'hundreds' of authoring tools like Word, Quark ...
Published: September 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 636
WWDC 2004
Steve Jobs just wrapped up his keynote at this year's World Wide Developer Conference and aside from the 30-inch Cinema HD Display the primary focus of his talk was Tiger, the next generation of OS X due in 2005. Some highlights of Tiger include: Spotlight - A new search utility ...
Published: June 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 626
OSX Isn't Cutting It On This One
I'd like to give a hearty thumbs-up endorsement to the Mac as a productivity tool for developers, but I've found a chink in the 'super-cool-and-usable' armor, and no way to plug it: Subversion integration. Yes, you can absolutely install subversion on a Mac and use it in a terminal. But ...
Published: May 2, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 612
Apple Doesn't Care About Your Giant Checkbox
It seems that there's always some consternation in the web design community regarding the styling of form elements. Usability studies and user observation has taught them that they shouldn't be applying styles to form controls; if you change the look of the control, it's less recognizable for novice users who ...
Published: September 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 606
Varying Degrees of Microsoft Separation
Given that Microsoft products appear to be full of security holes, more and more thought is being given to migrating to other platforms. However, this has problems of its own. Macs are expensive, and Linux isn't quite ready as a desktop platform. This leaves a lot of people in limbo ...
Published: October 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 598
The Utility of Consultants
A friend of mine sent me this joke today. Pretty funny. A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL ...
Published: June 18, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 594
You can change your password, but not your finger
We didn't post anything about the fingerprint deal? Seriously? We're getting slow. Japanese cryptographer Tsutomu Matsumoto has figured out a way to defeat a fingerprint reader about 80% of the time. "Using his crazy super-cryptographer skills!", you say. No, not really. It's all about the Gummi Bears: First Tsutomu Matsumoto ...
Published: May 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 586
Essentials
Essentials : Mark Pilgrim has listed his "essential" software tools for doing his job. I always like to see these the absolute, "can't live without" tools of people who do the same work as me. As the risk of being self-indulgent, here's mine: Email: Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail via ...
Published: May 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 580
Hardware is a Bad Place to Be These Days
Let me play industry analyst for a second and explain why I think computer manufacturers are in deep kimshee: Hardware has vastly out-paced software. Besides gaming, there's no compelling reason to upgrade your computer. I'm still running on a 1GHz/384MB machine I had built for me two years ago. I ...
Published: May 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 564
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