tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155607002009-02-21T11:46:31.690+01:00This is all about visuals, wether it is design, themes, icons, photography, graffiti or Mac related stuff.Mirkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06093120316397036718noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15560700.post-1135433891406992842005-12-24T15:14:00.000+01:002005-12-24T15:18:11.456+01:00

As you have probably noticed I haven't updated VisualFood in quite a while. This was a fun project that taught me a lot about blogging and I'm sorry to leave it behind but I just don't have the time anymore.All is not lost, as I've started a new project with a friend and we've been very happy with the result. Head over to Non Stop Mac to see it.Thanks for all the insightful comments, e-mails and

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With Macromedia FlashPaper 2 you can instantly generate Flash documents that can be accessed by over half a billion web users, or transform files into secure, compact PDFs for e-mailing, archiving, and printing.The single user license is $79. For a case study of how this can be use check this page.

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Recently I found some very cool software that will be of interest to web developers of all levels of expertise.The Filebrowser is a lightweight open source PHP application that allows you to thumbnail images and view them in a web browser. The download is a mere 47kb.If you need a way to have your images ready for browsing online in a snap and you are not keen on installing complex software this

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CSSVista is a free piece of software web developers on the Windows platform will appreciate. It makes things simpler when tweaking CSS code since it lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously.

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Presentation Zen is running a very insightful article that compares the presentation style of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie. The author makes many good points and it just shows that having the most money doesn't have to make you the best presenter.I would like to note that this is not a post by a person that has something against Microsoft. The author shows examples from which we can all

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Photoblogography published an article with some impressive photographs of Iceland. This is a feast for the eyes, a must see. I can't put my finger on it but there's just something about ice and the ambience of extreme winter that I really love.The author notes that he submitted this article to be published in the "Icelandic Geographic" but they never replied to him. I can only say I'm happy,

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I never would have imagined of putting the terms "graffiti" and "archaeology" together but I guess the time has come. In these modern times the history of some things evolves faster than a few hundred years ago. Having done some graffiti in the past myself and being very interested in the culture, this project caught my eye immediately.Graffiti Archaeology is the study of graffiti-covered walls

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Photoshop Support has published a review of Photo/Graphic Edges, now in version 6. Now you can have stylized photos in just a few easy steps.This is one of those tools that makes you work faster. Sure, all of this can be accomplished with a bit of work in Photoshop but unless you got some Actions recorded that automate similar tasks, Photo/Graphic Edges will save you lots of time. I'm sure we'll

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When Apple released the new line of iMacs recently, one of the features that made news was the Photo Booth application that comes with iSight, now embedded into the iMac by default.MacZealots has an excellent article that guides you through the features of the application.Leaving the casual user and focusing on the professional, I recently wrote about Apple's new software for professional

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This is one of the coolest gadgets I ever stumbled upon. I'm not good at drawing, except maybe for directions, but this looks like fun."I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded

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When a new A List Apart article shows up I always know I'm in for a treat. In this latest article, the author writes: "Like a kid in a candy store, we creatives redesign like it’s the new black. Why do we possess such an insatiable desire to refresh and remake? Why do we thrive on renewal? What tempts us to be seduced by the sway of renaissance?"The author offers his view on the re-design

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Here's something cool for photographers, professionals and enthusiasts alike :)Autostitch is a fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications.For examples of panoramas stitched using Autostitch, please see the Panorama Gallery.

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There's been a whole lot of news surrounding Apple lately because of all the new product releases. This doesn't mean that the good stuff is nowhere to be found now. What I'm linking here are interesting tidbits I think Mac users will find interesting. Thirsty for knowledge? Check out MacBreak Minute, a daily video segment covering various applications, tips and tricks for everyday use on the

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An interesting article came to my attention today. It is what I believe to be the core problem of both print and web media outlets today - spreading hype. This is a word that will have its center point in this post, or I better call it a rant.The example articleLet me just write about this article first and then I'll continue my thoughts on the general subject.In the above mentioned article the

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Today I got my hands on something inspiring - a free art and design magazine called Destructed. The mag is published in PDF format and is released quaterly. Each issue deals with another topic and as the authors put it: "The purpose of the magazine is to enable the interplay of all the participants."Until now a myriad of artists from all over the world contributed to Destructed and the last issue

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Aperture from Apple is the first all-in-one post production tool for photographers. It offers an advanced and fast RAW workflow that makes working with a camera’s RAW images as easy as JPEG. Aperture features powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing, color managed printing and custom Web and book publishing.Unique compare and select tools in Aperture allow photographers

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How many times were you stuck on a machine that had no word processor installed, or at least not one with many options? This happens often, especially if you travel a lot. In any case, there's another tool I discovered that can make your work experience a lot more comfortable and familiar wherever you are.I'm writing about Writely, a web word processor that provides simple and secure document

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As you become a power user you'll want to get things done faster and this is where keyboard shortcuts come into the picture. Here are links to keyboard shortcuts of some of the software titles I use: Mac OS XPhotoshopDreamveaweriTunes Pages I'm sure there are other resources that have many other lists of keyboard shortcuts and I'd love to hear about them so feel free to comment on this

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Here are two interesting free widgets for Mac OS X Tiger I found out this week.VideoSpace calculates the disk space required for a given duration, codec, frame rate and audio setting. The widget works in both directions so you can calculate time to space or space to time as indicated by the direction of the arrow between the two input areas.Checkpoint calculates the brightness- and

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There's been a variety of releases of new digital cameras lately but few have been followed with such interest as the 12.8 MP Canon EOS 5D. Wide lenses stay wide and the viewfinder is bright and open. Subtle tonal gradations are reproduced in shadow, midtone and highlights. A low-pass filter and on-chip circuitry suppress false colours and noise. Low (L:50) and high (H:3200) ISO settings extend

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In my quests to find great icons I stumbled upon Afterglow and I was hooked. Cian Walsh, the designer behind this website and its exceptional icons and interfaces is here at Visual Food.Let's kick it off with a simple question - please introduce yourself. Hello all, I'm Cian Walsh, an icon and interface designer from Ireland. I might be familiar to some people for the Forum Faces range of Avatars

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Damien Stolarz, an inventor with a decade of experience and author of Car PC Hacks, wrote an interesting article over at O'Reilly that shows you how to hack your ride to get a clean audio and video signal into your car.In the living room, red, white, and yellow RCA jacks are the universal standard for input. Wouldn't it be nice if car manufacturers did the same and put these jacks in your car?

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You gotta love Tim Burton. He's one of my favorite filmmakers since he manages to deliver a visual masterpiece every time he steps up to direct a movie.There are many interesting bits that can be learned about his latest piece of work - Corpse Bride: Technologically, this is a movie of many firsts; it’s the first feature-length, stop-motion film edited using Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP),

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As news from the conference start to come about I see more and more reasons I should attend next year. One of the things that caught my eye is the talk that Jason Fried, founder of 37signals, gave at Web 2.0. It's called Less as a competitive advantage: My 10 minutes at Web 2.0 and it brings forward some pretty radical thoughts:Instead of one-upping, try one-downing. Instead of outdoing, try

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Have you ever wondered how the police does all those sketches of criminals that are released to the media? Well, not all of them are done by an artist that listens to a witness and than draws patiently on paper, it would take just too much time, so they use programs with lots of predefined features that can be selected to put together a face.Ultimate Flash Face is a Flash enabled goodie that will

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