CS4 looms; my favourite quotes from “dear adobe”

24th of Sep, 2008ce* in: blog, ideas

Recently I found Dear Adobe. It was such a relief to find that there are literally thousands of other disgruntled creatives that work in the print and web industry that have also found this site - posing questions to adobe. Whether Adobe reads and acts upon these requests is another thing. Here are some of the funny gems:

Photoshop

- “Why does Photoshop cost as much as a pre-owned small car? Drop the price please!!”

Dreamweaver

- “Why do you build programs (Dreamweaver) based on JavaScript, which run slower than my grandmother?”

Flash

- “Yes, please support SVG in Flash player - or better yet accept the fact that open standards are the way of the future.”

Illustrator

- “I’ve been sitting here for the last 5 mins looking through all the bitching and that spinning ball of death is still going for no reason in Illustrator. ”

InDesign

- “Why can’t I Hide InDesign? I just wont go away… ”

Bridge

- “Destroy Bridge, it’s completely useless”

My only real request was tabs for all applications, which they are doing! Isometric grids for illustrator would be nice but I really don’t see it happening any time this decade.

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top11 missing mail features for iPhone! *update*

6th of Aug, 2008ce* in: blog, ideas

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iPhone homebrew

13th of Jun, 2008ce* in: blog, ideas

Requirements are fairly simple, you just need to be super interested in making games for the iPhone with ample games programming experience. (more…)

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Japanese text - a guide

9th of Mar, 2008ce* in: ideas, japan

Translating Japanese typography to the web.

Many foreign designers in Japan are faced with the un-easy task of formatting Japanese text for bi-lingual or solely Japanese language based websites. By rule we should already understand such principals before embarking, but the rule in this case is far from the norm.
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evoloution of currency fonts?

25th of Feb, 2008ce* in: ideas

I once read somewhere that all the best design is refined by the end user. Take greengrocers for example, they have to use currency symbols and measurement symbols every day. No computers, keyboards or pda’s. Just a scrap of paper and a pencil.

What ever happened to the double strike on currency symbols?

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Wordpress hax. Authors page & individual post styling.

22nd of Aug, 2007ce* in: ideas

Bonus: limiting post count on pages

Wordpress, however easy it is on the mind for non coders like me, is always going to come up short on the goods when turning a clients idea into reality. This article isn’t for those proficient in PHP to be honest. If you know PHP, you are well equipped to make wordpress do whatever you pretty much damn well like. If you like your full head of hair (and don’t fancy trading your design skills for learning PHP) the following may well help you keep it:
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Blu-Ray Apple

15th of Mar, 2007ce* in: ideas

Long awaited next mac mini, and how it may use blu-ray drives.

Apple TV is dead before it even left the shelf

Apple TV has arrived, but it has a few flaws. These flaws are virtually un-noticable in the current technology market.

The device will only support 720p HD at the maximum, whereas Blu-ray is a true full HD format, supporting upto 1080p. The difference being? 1080p is the highest standard currently available on the consumer market, with prices tumbling on FullHD televisions by the minute, 1080p will soon be the desired format, this is where Blu-ray fits in neatly. A graph showing 1080p and 720p conparisons can be found here.
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NDS homebrew with passcard3 & M3Perfect

20th of Feb, 2007ce* in: diary, ideas

I live out here in Tokyo, and despite what you might imagine, it is very hard to get ahold of homebrew kit out here. There are some dodgy shops here and there, but often they are geeky and un-comunicative about what they sell due to legal reasons.

So, out for a walk trying to find a dreamcast with my friend in Akihabara last weekend, I spotted a shelf full of NDS “stuff”.

I enquired to the geeks behind the counter about what hardware I need but they told me that they cannot give me any information about how it all works! They even told me that even if I do buy any of the kit I can’t take it back or have a receipt!
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moan 2007

15th of Feb, 2007ce* in: ideas

For all the benefits my Mac has brought me, there are still some improvements to be made. Here’s a list of features I have sent to Apple and other companies (Adobe) this year, in some kind of vain and possibly pointless hope that they may fix for the insane month of March. Where 2007 becomes “year of the Mac”:
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Apple & Ikea

19th of Jan, 2007ce* in: ideas

Marriage made in heaven?

Apple sells it’s products from it’s website. Apple sells products from it’s flagship inner-city stores and selected retailers. Is that really enough?
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