For those of you who have been following my blog, you may have noticed that I occasionally make reference to “CDIA”. CDIA, short for Center for Digital Imaging Arts, which in turn is short for Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts, is an awesome continuing education program offered out of Boston University’s School of Communications. Read the rest of this entry »
Well done! The parody music video of Lady Gaga’s I Was Born This Way (seen below) is just so spot on. Ever since I was very young I loved Weird Al’s renditions of pop culture songs. From Gangsters Paradise, to Eat It and White and Nerdy, even that Achy Breaky Song. Well Weird Al has now turned his sights to the Lady of the hour, Gaga… I should probably start out by saying that I actually like Lady Gaga’s music, it is catchy, fun and makes you want to move, but that is just me. Check out what Weird Al thinks about it. Read the rest of this entry »
Continuing in series of tributary Google Doodles, Google has a real doozie today (check out google). In honor of Les Paul’s birthday (he would be 96 today) Google made today’s Google Doodle. This ultra modern looking interpretation of the word Google (you may need a bit of imagination to see it), rendering the text as a stylized guitar. What is better yet, it is a functional guitar! Move your mouse over the strings to jam out to some celebratory hotness. In case that is not cool enough, you can actually record your jam session (up to 30 seconds) and play it back. Pretty sweet! Oh Google, sigh…
Untypically close to the release of Adobe CS5 (in April 2010), Adobe just opened the registers for sales of CS5.5! This new (and first ever) “mid cycle release” comes tricked out with some pretty sweet new features. At the top of the list are improvements to HTML5 and Flash authoring features, video production and editing innovations, and its digital publishing capabilities. Adobe also is very excited about offering developers a SDK for creating applications that integrate directly into PhotoShop. Pretty neat, and goodness knows that this means that there will be more apps in the tablet market… Read the rest of this entry »
Sure, I may be a bit bias, but Macs rock! Apple rocks! I mean who even wants to dirty their hands with a PC or battle with Win-doze?!? In celebrating the awesomeness of the Mac and OS X, I thought that I would share a few “tips” and “tricks” that I have gathered over the years that just make Macs that much more awesome! Read the rest of this entry »
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