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Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone provides users a simple way to view photos with full-screen previews and edit images with gesture-based editing. You can transform your photos with basic editing tools like crop, rotate and flip; as well as adjust color with saturation and tint tools, enhance exposure and vibrancy and convert images to black and white.

You can read more about it here.

While I can't say that there's a huge desire by any designer to do photo editing for client work on their iPhone or iPod Touch, it's nice to see even basic editing arrive on our favorite Apple pocket device!

Download here: http://mobile.photoshop.com/iphone/

Safari and Firefox is the most known browsers for Mac, but there are many more out there. Give them a try and feel free to add more if I missed something?

Safari

Comes with OS X. Currently at version 4 it's one of the fastest browsers out there, which can tackle almost anything you throw at it. It syncs with your iPhone unlike other browsers.

If you want to save on typing you can use Snow Leopard's built in Symbol and Text Substitution engine. Open System Preferences / Language & Text. Select the Text tab. Click the plus icon to add a new short code and the full text. This only works in the most common applications for typing, such as Mail, iChat and TextEdit unfortunately. If you need more extensive features check out this post on Textexpander.

Prizmo is an application that allows you to extract the photos and text from your digital pictures. It's highly useful if you want to document an exhibition or make a quick copy of many pages from a book.

You can achieve the same results with a scanner, Photoshop and an OCR application if you have the skills, but Prizmo provides speed, simplicity and a better experience.

Adapted from Photoshop CS4: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks (Wiley Publishing)
By Lynette Kent
Dateline: August 17, 2009
Version: Adobe Photoshop CS4

You can paste one image onto another and blend the pasted image into the Background layer by changing the blend mode. The layer blending modes control how the colors in the top image combine with the pixels in the underlying image. They do not affect the texture of either image. To make the top image blend into the texture of the base image and make the final image appear more realistic, you can use the Distort filter and a special file called a displacement map.

Scrolling down when reading a page in iPhone's Safari is bearable but scrolling back is a pain.

There is an easy way to jump to the top of the page, so you can access site navigation or the url and search fields.

Just tap at the top of the screen where the time is displayed.

Isn't it annoying that you have to get out of bed to put your Mac to sleep after watching a long movie?

Well, if you have the remote at hand you can simply press and hold the play button to put your Mac to sleep.

Unfortunately you can't wake your Mac the same way.

This is an introductory post about Twitter, for newbies and beginners, but I hope seasoned Twitterers will also find some interesting points.

Why Twitter?

Twitter is the typical service which you think is useless until you start using it. Only then will you discover the true potential. It's hard to explain why Twitter is cool, but I'll try. In a few words it's condensed and instant communication, which is increasingly more valuable as we get closer to singularity.

If you're just out of school or have a few work years behind and need a new gig, the most important thing for you to do is to put a good book together. Here are a few tips that will hopefully help you:

1. Plan in advance and be consistent in keeping archives of your good work. This will help you tremendously when you need to collect your work quickly.
2. Don't put any cliches in your book, such as condom or wonderbra ads. Creative Directors, not to mention clients hate those.
3. Don't put more than 7-12 good ideas or designs in your book. CD's and clients don't have time and they don't want to look at your work history. They want to be sure you can do good stuff and a few good ideas are enough to prove that.
4. Have at least a 3-4 of those works made for FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods, such as toothpaste, detergent or soft drinks) products. Important agencies and design studios have these clients and they want to make sure you can do such work as well.
5. Show a range of different jobs. Have a 360 degree campaign, but also have a logo design. Include ambient, online and other unconventional media ideas as well. Variety is important, unless you specialize in a narrow field.
6. You may want to include at the end stuff that's not directly work, but shows your skills that are related to the job. Poetry, drawings, product ideas, etc.
7. Make your book as simple as possible. It's all about the content. Not about the cover.

You can have both an off-line and an on-line version of your book. Good free online portfolios can be built on coroflot and behance.

If you have any other suggestions, please do share!

Several of my friends own many domain names. These assets are usually sitting unused in their domain registrar accounts. If you also have such domains or planning to register a few for future use read on.

With relatively little time you can start making a bit of money from these domains. Get a Google Adsense account, make up a fake page with some relevant text full of valuable keywords and put up a large google ad. Make sure you provide a contact email on the page in case somebody wants to offer to buy the domain.

If you have no time, another way to make use of these unused domains is to park them. Parking companies like sedo allow you to do two things: they display ads that you profit from and provide potential buyers with an escrow system in case somebody wants to buy your domains. You can set the prices and you pay 10% for the transaction. If the domain is popular enough, you can easily make up the price of the yearly registration or even more with the ads even if your domain doesn't get sold.

Another advantage of using a parking service is that parked domains show up as available to buy in domain registrar searches.

Here is how one of my parked domains look like: Theme Fair.