Content-Aware: A new feature that will be part of the upcoming Adobe Photoshop CS5.
This tool looks like it will be a real time-saver for designers, particularly those in print and photography. It won’t do 100% of the ‘clean up’ work automatically, but it will probably get you 90-95% of the way there, 90-95% of the time. And when you’re talking about a 3 hour clean up job on a single photo, that’s a big time savings. Nice work, Adobe.
Apis Design has created a new group within LinkedIn: Calgary Web Talent. This group is dedicated to sourcing web talent in Calgary. It’s intent is twofold:
If you are in the web industry in Calgary, we encourage you to join the group and get involved.
A new article from Wired.com highlights the potential repurcussions of Apple’s latest move to remove certain apps from its highly popular App Store. Specifically, apps related to sex or “cookie-cutter” duplication were removed. It begs the question; are we on the path to higher quality or censorship?
About 5,000 apps were removed in February. These included overtly sexual apps, as well as apps made with app-generating services that simply reproduce website content. Apple has always boasted about its quantity of apps, having grown from 800 at launch time in mid-2008 to approximately 150,000 today. Compared with other services, Apple is the front runner by a very wide margin when it comes to the quantity of apps. Android has just over 19,000 and BlackBerry has about 4,700. But the question of quality vs quantity obviously comes into play.
Apple’s new quality standards, while still ambiguous, are viewed by many app developers as a positive. Increasing the required quality will help to trim the fat from the bloated App Store, and force future apps to offer more value. But others may view this as the beginning of a wave of censorship. Today it’s sexy content, but what about tomorrow?
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/app-store-quality
