Buddy Toups: A Designer’s Blog

Apollo is a product from Adobe, schedule release date early 2007, which allows web developers to create full blow desktop applications. Applications developed in Adobe Apollo will run on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. The APIs are build from HTML/CSS, JavaScript(ECMAscript), AJAX, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, and Adobe PDF standards. This means that an experience web design could create cross-platform desktop applications. Adobe’s use of Apple’s standard compliant WebKit browser engine will make developers happy.

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”…Search today is still kind of a hunt, where you get all these links, and as we teach software to understand the documents, really read them in the sense a human does, you’ll get answers more directly…”

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Looks Like problems at Redmond. New Vista Incompatible feature for Microsoft SQL Server.

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Mac Rumors: Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Beta

“True to rumors, Adobe has announced a Photoshop CS3 Beta program available to customers with a serial number from either Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Creative Suite® 2, Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio, Adobe Design Bundle, Adobe Web Bundle or Adobe Video Bundle.”

“Adobe says the beta will expire soon after the formal release of Photoshop in Spring 2007. Final pricing is yet to be determined, however Photoshop CS2 currently is offered at $649 (full version, $169 upgrade).”

Imagine that I just got my company to poke out money for CS2 upgrade and know it looks like CS3 is just around the corner.

“AppleInsider adds to its previous report that they are currently expecting a Photoshop beta program to begin this Friday for current CS2 owners. Specifically, the program is said to be announced by Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen during the companys quarterly conference call, and will be limited to the standard edition of Photoshop rather than the entire Adobe Creative Suite.

ThinkSecret has also chimed in on the matter, saying similarly that the beta program would be limited to Photoshop. Also, while reports had said that Photoshop CS3 “simply flies” on Intel-based systems, ThinkSecret claims that much of that speed was attributed to OpenGL zooming, a feature that has been trimmed from the beta and may not even make the final release.”

Mac Rumors: Photoshop CS3 Beta On Friday?

I was just casually surfing around for hacking and optimizing a old iBook G3 I just bought for my wife. It runs surpisingly well for common task though its a 500Hmz G3 with 384MB of RAM but it does slow down on some apps. So I found this app called Speed Freak and its pretty cool it controls the CPU usage per apps you are running. Best of all its free. The developer has some other cool Mac apps you might want to check out. Big Fat Stinking Software - Utilities

I found this article recently that helps web developers run both Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 with separate profiles. This trick is very helpful if you use extensions that are not compatible in both Firefox versions.

Run Firefox 2.0 and 1.5 side by side | Muffin Research Labs by Stuart Colville

The Mono framework is an open source version of Microsoft .NET client and server application framework for Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. The project is sponsored by Novell and has commercial support.

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MurphyMac has posted a video tutorial showing how to customize your dmg disk images for professional looking distribution. A fully customized DMG file offers a sharp presentation so you can really impress the end users. The video goes through each step: first creating the disk image, adding the background image, and saving the result for production and distribution.

Designing With Web Standards

From the Publisher

“You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again.

You can get off the merry-go-round.

It’s time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghetti code, insanely nested table layouts, tags, and other redundancies that double and triple the bandwidth of even the simplest sites. Instead, it’s time for forward compatibility.

Isn’t it high time you started designing with Web standards? …”

This is yet another great reference for standards compliant coders. Also check out A List Apart for more articles