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TUAW reports that the GIMP team now provides an official DMG installer. To install Gimp on your Mac you no longer need X11. Just download it, open the downloaded DMG and drag "GIMP.app" into your "Applications" folder.

If you're not using FreshBooks for your creative invoicing you're probably missing out. FreshBooks provides simple web based (so called cloud) accounting with many powerful features. My favorites are the custom branding of invoices, automatic billing for clients on a long term contract, time tracking, physical mailing option for those old school clients who still need paper invoices and the online payment option for clients.

A study on the body-object, ephemeral sculptures of the human form. Instant bas reliefs recalling of the classic imagery. Via

Are you missing the colorful sidebar icons in OS X 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion? You can get them back. Just follow the simple steps here.

Samsung Calls BS On Apple's Charges Of Copying on Conan O'Brien's show.

We all probably know that to delete a custom System Preferences Pane from your OS X installation you can CTRL-Clicking on the icon and select the Remove Preference Pane from the pop-up menu.

But what if you don't want to remove it but only hide it. You can do that easily: open System Preferences app, then go to the View menu and select Customize. This will bring up checkboxes next to each Preference Pane. Uncheck those you don't use and don't want to see. You can always bring them back or just select them from the same drop down menu.

A few weeks ago I posted about an idea on my Facebook page about a new Google device idea:

After the hugely positive reception of Google's new wearable device Google Glass rumor says Google is already working on a new revolutionary device called Google Plug.

In order of appearance: Fifth Avenue in New York City, Pudong in Shanghai, Jungfernstieg in Hamburg, ifc mall in Hong Kong, Grand Central Station in New York City, Amsterdam Netherlands, Sanlitun in Beijing, Covent Garden in London, Rosenstraße in Munich, Nanjing East in Shanghai, Opéra in Paris, Sydney Australia, Upper West Side in New York City.

When you connect any external drive to your Mac Spotlight will immediately start indexing it. This makes sense in most cases because you want to be able to search them later on, but in certain situations you may want to exclude drives. Examples for such need may include:

• Drives with private information that you don't want others to see, especially if you're on a shared computer.
• Large drives that are connected only temporarily and you don't want Spotlight to waste CPU and hard drive resources on indexing them.

The Cintiq 24HD touch offers creative professionals the most natural and complete tool for design, video, art and animation. The integration of multi-touch capabilities directly on the Cintiq screen, along with Wacom's most advanced pen technology, give you a truly "hands-on" creative experience as you work digitally.