Pixelmator 2.0 released with new tools, content-awareness, Lion support
I ditched Photoshop for Pixelmator about a year ago, but there were a few things missing in Pixelmator which caused me to fire up Photoshop once in a while. I also recently bought Aperture in an effort to better organize and retouch photos I sta...
iPod designer Tony Fadell takes on thermostats with Nest Labs
Tony Fadell, Apple's former Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, oversaw iPod and iPhone development between 2001 and 2009. Ten years after his most iconic project first saw the light of day, the "father of the iPod" has a new product: Nest, a...
iPod designer Tony Fadell takes on thermostats with Nest Labs
Tony Fadell, Apple's former Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, oversaw iPod and iPhone development between 2001 and 2009. Ten years after his most iconic project first saw the light of day, the "father of the iPod" has a new product: Nest, a...
US judge: Samsung’s products infringe on Apple design patents
Samsung and Apple were in federal court in California on Thursday to argue over Apple's request for a preliminary injunction barring sales of Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S devices in the US. US District Judge...
Size matters: why the iPhone has a 3.5-inch screen
One of the things Android phone owners love to brag about -- particularly those who have the new Samsung Galaxy S II with its 4.27-inch diagonal screen -- is that the larger screens are much easier to read and watch videos on. Dustin Curtis has ow...
Gradient for Mac Public Beta: Creating Simple CSS Gradients
Gradient, made by JUMPZERO, is a simple yet powerful Mac OS X app that lets you easily create CSS gradients by getting rid of the clumsiness of vendor prefixes. The user interface is beautiful and works wonderfully. Gradient is in open beta for any designer that wants to help test the app out or see what Gradient will...
How the Kindle lost the keys to mimic the iPad
Blogger Nick Bilton at the New York Times Bit Blog noticed something fascinating about the new Amazon Kindle devices the other day, so he talked to a hardware designer who had worked on the original Kindle e-reader in 2007. Sure enough, the design...
YouTube testing new mobile layout
Of course, everyone's got the official YouTube app already installed on the iPhone, and whenever you want to browse the extremely popular video-sharing site, that's probably the best way to do it. But I often see YouTube videos on my phone when fo...
YouTube Testing New Mobile Layout
Following the Cosmic Panda experimental design launched in July, it appears YouTube is now testing an updated mobile layout that borrows some of the color schemes and interface elements of this summer’s refresh for desktop web browsers. The new mobile layout can be enabled at m.youtube.com/new_visual_design, and I’ve noticed this by opening the YouTube website from...
Labeling iOS’ Back Button
Labeling iOS’ Back Button Neven Mrgan shares a solid piece of advice for iOS app designers and developers: A Back button labeled “Back” is never a good option. As he notes, Apple never labels the “Back” button — the left-pointing arrow at the top of most iOS apps — “Back”. They provide context as to how...
Leaked Photos Show “iPhone 4S” Device with A5 Chip, iPhone 4 Design
A photo discovered earlier today by PhoneArena on Chinese microblogging service Weibo seemed to “confirm” that the next-generation iPhone would indeed run a modified version of the A5 CPU first introduced by Apple in the iPad 2 last March. As usual with photo leaks, the image was blurry and the A5 logo on the integrated...
