The somewhat magical feature in Photoshop CS5 is the Content Aware Fill feature, which is best explained in this Adobe demo video.
In about three clicks I was able to mask out the Eiffel Tower.
Eiffel Tower - myriadity (flickr)
Ei-filled Tower
Not perfect, but definitely a good start! I’m sure once I get used to the best way of using it, it’ll become a life saver!
The Adobe Creative Suite 5 demo is available as a 30 day trial, so go and have a play!
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/demo.shtml
Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots).
Probably not the most efficient way to automate tasks, but an interesting one nonetheless, hard to explain what it does, but if you’re interested in computer automation, watch the demos.
Hilite converts your code snippets into pretty-printed HTML format, easily embeddable into blog posts, emails and websites.
Hilite produces html + css for code snippets, a quick (and dirty) way of inserting code samples into web pages. It supports a lot of languages, from ActionScript to YAML!
http://primercss.com/index.php
Primer undercoats your CSS by pulling out all of your classes and id’s and placing them into a starter stylesheet.
Haven’t used this yet, but can see it coming in handy.
A nice visual way of playing around with the fonts in the browser.
have a song: Cut Copy – Out There On The Ice (spotify)
When running iPhone OS 4 beta 1, syncing with iTunes doesn’t backup the iPhone causing the error:
Install the iPhone SDK 4 beta with Xcode 3.2.3 (or later), which will update some files in iTunes and enable the backup to complete successfully.
An iTunes update is likely to be released soon to address this and other issues some users are experiencing with syncing.
Update 25/04/10: Apparently iPhone OS 4 beta 2 backs up in iTunes 9.1 without any issues.
If you want to disable the ‘Cut / Copy / Paste’ invoked by holding down on an element in Safari on the iPhone or iPad use the css:
-webkit-user-select: none;
However, as stressed by Apple, this should only be disabled on a per element basis, and never applied to the whole document.
Apple’s Technical Note TN2262: Preparing Your Web Content for iPad covers this along with using web standards instead of plugins (something that really interests me at the moment).
Site Seeing! A roundup of sites I’ve found interesting..
http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/
I satirical look at the awful inconsistencies within the Adobe Creative Suite..
Wordoid is kind of a dare I say it Web 2.0 name generator but creates natural sounding words, it’s a little slow though as it looks up each results domain availability.
‘Five second tests help you easily identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.’
With each test lasting just ..5 seconds, you upload a screenshot of your webpage which can be either a memory or a click test, it’s a great way of getting some quick feedback.
tip: upload your image at a resolution of 916 x 640 or else it gets cropped.
oh, and here’s a great song: Heart Skipped a Beat – The xx (spotify)