Intriguing story from the BBC. At first it sounds like it could be the plot from a Bond movie, although in most cases the explanations are far more mundane.
Fix the Sandbox
This is one from a few days ago, but it’s worth reading anyway. Daniel Jalkut discusses the problems with the Mac App Store’s soon to be obligatory sandbox.
iOS ’86
Another one from a few days ago, but I felt it was worth posting. A very clever concept from Anton Repponen
Adobe Icons From an Alternate Universe
Beautifully designed alternatives to Adobe’s rather bland creative suite icons.
The Miraculous NASA Breakthrough That Could Save Millions of Lives
Fascinating article from Gizmodo on a subcutaneous medical device developed by Nasa. Worth a read.
7 professional editors share their FCPX experiences
Interesting and balanced article on FCPX from Philip Bloom with reports from professional editors who are actually using FCPX to get work done.
Adobe Creative Cloud to be priced at $49.99 monthly, includes Creative Suite 6 and Lightroom 4
The Verge breaks the story on Adobe’s “Creative Cloud” subscription push with CS6. It’s an interesting Idea, although I’m not sure if I would prefer to just pay outright for the suite. Then again, if that includes all CS6 Apps then that’s a pretty good deal.
Scientists Produce Transparent Aluminium: Scotty Was Right!
This will be of interest to those who have seen Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Another piece of science foretold in Star Trek that is now becoming a reality.
New York in the 1950s
Beautiful set of photographs of 1950′s New York City by photographer Frank Oscar Larson.
Apple Clarifies iBooks Author EULA
I suspect that that this was the intention all along, it was just not articulated particularly well in the original version.




