Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web analyzes the new AIR software development system from Adobe that merges conventional applications with the internet to give users access to programs and files from anywhere. Go here for more info from Adobe.
Check out an early competitor, Aviary, that’s managed to create a usable suite of web-based apps that include image, video, and music programs.
Not much context, but stunning visions of a “new city” created entirely in a digital environment by Imaginary Forces for the MOMA show: “Design and the Elastic Mind”. Check out the show review here as well as a slide show here. While we’re at it, check out this interesting video by another firm included in the show, Front Design.
Interesting NYT article on an innovate word processing program:
“… our redeemer is Scrivener, the independently produced word-processing program of the aspiring novelist Keith Blount, a Londoner who taught himself code and graphic design and marketing, just to create a software that jibes with the way writers think.”
Yikes. As if analog childhood weren’t tricky enough. Here’s a NYT article on the rush to develop online worlds for kids.
5 minutes installing WordPress
23 minutes making header images
15 minutes futzing with the wrong CSS file
130 minutes futzing with the right CSS file
20 minutes writing and rewriting this post
… and absolutely nothing to say