Introducing the new iTunes with Ping. Apple is finally entering the social network arena with a niche service all for music, all built-in using iTunes. My first impression:
- Mainly inspired by Zune Network and Last.FM
- Apple dropped a hint on the upcoming iOS 10.7 GUI by making the traffic lights button aligned vertically?
- Muted icons on the left sidebar
- I don’t like the new checkbox input, is this the next version of Aqua?
- Taken cues from the iTunes player in iPad
- Apparently, Ping is only available on few markets as of launch: US, UK, and etc. you’ll get an annoying error (I can’t believe Apple is still showing this machine only error codes!)
With the media event yesterday, Apple did some subtle changes to its website too. You’ll notice that they added a noise texture with gradient effect on the background, and their rounded corners seems to be trimmed down from 7px to 5px radius. Who knows what’s upcoming? One thing is certain though, iTunes GUI is usually related to the next update on OSX, iTunes 9 gave a hint about the GUI in Snow Leopard.
Now, enough. Here’s the direct download link to iTunes 10.
Man this is just entertaining. Haven’t read comics in a while so catching up something web related is sure interesting. So this comic depicts how Reddit invaded Digg all in epic colored comic strips. The funny thing here is that, it somehow predicted the invasion months before the new Digg site is unveiled to the public. Check it out!
BTW found it via Twitter.
In most people’s minds, spending money on luxuries sets off alarms that making investments doesn’t. Luxuries seem self-indulgent. And unless you got the money by inheriting it or winning a lottery, you’ve already been thoroughly trained that self-indulgence leads to trouble.
If you’re like me who likes risk, you should read this entry. In the end, success boils down to our attitude and on how we perceive things.
So I’ve been playing around with Python and the Django Framework and found that the official binaries provided on the PIL site are incompatible with the 64bit editions of Windows. In case you don’t know what PIL is all about:
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. This library supports many file formats, and provides powerful image processing and graphics capabilities.
After a couple of minutes sniffing into StackOverflow I’ve found this custom compiled binary and it just works perfectly! Special thanks to Bill Mummert for providing it.
PS. If the download link doesn’t work, Download it here Directly.
Introducing Google Font.
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers
Now that’s a nice little gift for us Web Designers and Developers. The next time you’re looking for fonts for the web but don’t want to spend a dollar or lurk into technical stuffs, be sure to checkout Google Fonts (They have a sleek preview tool too).
Also worth mentioning, TypeKit and Google recently announced some sort of partnership regarding this matter, you can read it on TypeKit’s official blog entry here.
Photoshop product manager Bryan O’neil Hughes give a sneak peek on “Content Aware Fill” feature for Adobe CS5 (launching this Apr 12) and just like the iPad, CS5 will change our work-flow definitely (and some people are just not happy about it).
Hey its been a while! Here’s some interesting links:
Coffee. No more.
Is exited about Microsoft’s newest bet on the ongoing Browser Wars. HTML5, WinVista+, SVG?, CSS3 Goodness, and etc. Hopefully I could install the developer preview on our test machines and see how it really performs. More info IEBlog or Download the preview
Will do some post about later this week.
Here are some interesting stuffs lately:
