Paper: the next great iPad app

Paper is about what it sounds like, paper. A no frills app that provides creators with a place to sketch and draw. It promises realistic and enjoyable pen, pencil, watercolors and more. The article reads like a clinic on a creating a great app and I think this app will have some huge sales. If for no other reason than insane attention to detail and desire to make something truly great.

It is a bit worrisome that this application yearns for an excellent stylus, and to my knowledge there aren't any available. I've only heard good things about the cosmonaut, from studio neat, and unfortunately that stylus is not known for its precision but for its comfort. Maybe Paper will give rise to the first great stylus for IOS?

Read More: http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/29/2909537/paper-drawing-ipad-app-fiftythree-brains-behind-courier

PUG: Common Answers To Technology Problems

I love efficient acronyms and also dis-arming trolls.

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Sony pulls another game from PlayStation Store after new Vita exploit found

With stories like this one cropping up, it's making me wonder if dedicated portable game devices are even necessary anymore?

Sony's PS Vita has had many issues since launch, not to mention the Sony Online Entertainment hacking last year. Screen problems, hackers, and poor sales, make me really think that this is the last "nail in the coffin" for dedicated portable gaming systems, or at least Sony's efforts.

-Tim Lovall

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/28/sony-psvita-exploit/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

Could also be titled, how to make sure flash dies a horrible death. I see where they're going with this. If they can generate new revenues from the last viable group of developers still using their product, then maybe they can pivot flash into a new type of platform."

I expect that devs affected by this price increase will leave in droves.

Read More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57405606-264/adobe-to-charge-flash-coders-to-use-premium-features/

A Short Lesson in Perspective

Sobering look at a long career in the advertising industry and the realizations one well spoken man had about those years.

" I find myself glazing over but politely listen as they brag about who’s had the least sleep and the most takaway food. “I haven’t seen my wife since January, I can’t feel my legs any more and I think I have scurvy but another three weeks and we’ll be done. It’s got to be done by then The client’s going on holiday. What do I think?”


Sound familiar? It does for me. When I start hearing things like this, I get nervous.
Read More: http://www.thesfegotist.com/editorial/2012/march/14/short-lesson-perspective

Android Apps On Windows

I can't imagine what possessed these Blue Stack folks to want to do this. I doubt this will ever become very popular or profitable, especially not profitable. I do see value in being able to use some of your favorite android apps on windows. Some apps are so good, you wish you could use them on all your devices, but can't.

For instance, Pulse or Path. Two excellent apps with amazing UI's that have no PC counter parts. I can't imagine the experience of using touch optimized apps on a PC will be great though.

Read More: http://allthingsd.com/20120327/bluestacks-android-on-windows-app-hits-beta/
Get the app here: http://bluestacks.com/

A Guide To Recognizing 21st-Century Subcultural Tribes

Some spot on illustrations by the folks over at Your Scene Sucks. I have to say, if your style can be summed up by an illustrator and neatly packaged into a genre, you are not being original. Not that you need to be.

Anyway this is a fun look at several sub-cultures and their interesting clothing choices.

See More: http://www.dobi.nu/yourscenesucks/scenesters.htm

Mike BaBoon Design: Clever Alphabets

This guy is a monster at creating alphabets based on characters from particular universes: Simpsons, Dr. Suess, Sesame Street, and more. He also has many other clever design projects included on his blog.

Find More: http://baboondesign.blogspot.com/

[Infographic] The Hype Versus Reality of HTML5 Deployment

In unsurprising fashion the gold plated unicorn of HTML5 is proving to be highly impractical in the short term, while remaining the industry favorites. I can totally understand why it's the industry favorite, but by the time it's in wide spread use I'm afraid it may be irrelevant.

Also while HTML5 continues to blossom, the divide between hate for flash and underdeveloped HTML5 is strengthening the native app market. Creating a continually steeper hill for HTML5 apps to climb, when that option finally becomes viable.

Read More: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2012/03/infographic-the-hype-versus-re.php

Direct Link to the Graphic: Here

Remix Everything: The Creators Handbook

A video series covering a ton of concepts important to creators. While remix and re-use is a large theme in this series, there is so much more. Anyone who creates anything should get familiar with this series, it has changed the way I think about creating things.



Find the rest of the series here: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/

Marco Arment On The Curators Code

Fantastic write up about why the curators code is stupid, a must read for any blogger. I do have a nit to pick with Marco's argument about the value of discovery. I agree that in general discovery has very little value, and  for the reasons Marco sites in the article.

However, there is a special case were discovery has significant value. When a website is creating real value by investing time, skill, and effort into finding and curating things that are not easily found.

For Instance, the popular blog letters of note spends a great deal of time and effort finding letters scattered throughout the interwebs. They come up with gems buried in historical archives the truly shed light on a historical time, a particular place or culture. While the wares they dish out are not authored by them they present huge value to the internet and the world at large.

In many cases, their hard work is rewarded by complete re-posting ( like this ) of their article with a minuscule attribution somewhere near the end , which of course creates no incentive for the reader to click through to the 'Original' discovery. This is causes enormous damage to these types of discovery sites and in the end could be their demise.


Read More: http://www.marco.org/2012/03/12/not-a-curator

Homeless Hotspots: the best, worst, smartest, dumbest part of SXSW

Laura June over at the verge destroyed the holy living crap out of this topic.

Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/2866786/homeless-hotspots-sxsw-bbh-smartest-dumbest-idea

Pinterest’s Founding Designer Shares His Dead-Simple Design Philosophy

Simply stunning, my good man. No hyperbole,secret tricks, or mega-hacks, just wisdom and good common sense.

"Design is shrinking the gap between what a product does and why it exists."



Read More: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669189/pinterests-founding-designer-shares-his-dead-simple-design-philosophy

$100,000 Fisker Karma Hybrid Breaks Down For Consumer Reports

While it's still early in the life cycle of electric and hybrids cars, problems like these should never exist. To move battery powered technologies forward, in general, these companies need have sterling reputations and get these things bulletproof from the beginning. There will always be problems with cars, electric or not, but these automobile makers need to realize that Luddites and nut-balls are looking for a reason to nay-say. So concentrating your efforts on avoiding catastrophic failures is paramount. At the least a car should never be bricked.

Read More: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/08/10613658-oops-100000-electric-car-flunks-track-test

AMD Completes Exit From Chip Manufacturing Biz

Will this make AMD a contender again? I hate to be a hipster but I remember when AMD was cool. I bought an AMD Athlon Barton 2500 for a hot new gaming rig back in the day.


Read More: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/amd-global-foundries/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru

Ultimate Gaming Machine

The EVGA Classified SR-X Motherboard !!!

EVGA Classified SR-X Motherboard

This is a beast! It boasts the new Intel C606 chipset for Dual Xeon X5-Class processor support, 4-Way SLI, SATA-6G & SAS-3G RAID, up to 96GB DDR3 SDRAM !! Can you imagine playing any game on this?

Yes, for anything less than a server it may be overkill, but who cares, I WANT, I WANT !!!!

-Tim Lovall

This no-budget science fiction short looks better than most movies

What a fantastic sci-fi short, and my favorite kind of sci-fi too. Not just explosions and space opera but a real thinking mans dilemma about science, consciousness, and pushing the boundaries of human achievement. I would love to see this get turned into a full length film.


Read More: http://io9.com/5878139/this-no+budget-science-fiction-short-looks-better-that-most-movies

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SNL Skewers Verizon and Android

It's a concept I've been thinking about for a while, fragmentation. Not just fragmentation of android handsets but fragmentation of concepts, technologies, and just about anything else android gets near. It's a huge problem that's continuing to grow and it's something all technology makers need to be thinking a lot more about.

You know your problem is gigantic when snl is making fun of it, check out this great sketch that sums it nicely.

Insurgent IOS Games Go Open Source

A couple IOS indy game developers find it's easier to make money doing something else, and release their games open source. It's neat to see people doing something for the good of everyone. Hopefully this will create some great new games.

Read More: http://www.insurgentgames.com/open-source/