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9th April 2005

Photoshop CS2 Preview

“Once again we experience a long awaited new update of Photoshop. This is a brief overview on some of the features that are new in Photoshop CS2 (aka PS9). All observations are based on a current beta version of PS CS2.”

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9th April 2005

When the Web Was New

“When I wrote this article, I had just finished graduate school at MIT and was a struggling neophyte in technology journalism. I knew that there was something important about this Web stuff; a lot of MIT students were already building their own pages, some faculty were posting their course notes, and you could even order flowers online. But virtually none of the technologies that make the Web so powerful today had yet been conceived.”

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9th April 2005

COLOURlovers

“COLOURlovers: a place to view, rate and review some lovely colours & palettes. the idea is to create a place of color inspiration where a designer of any sort can see new and lovely colours… find out what colors are hot, what work well in other uses… and simply make some love with colour.”

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9th April 2005

Who owns culture? A chat with Lessig and Jeff Tweedy.

“Just got back from seeing Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Larry Lessig, and Steven Johnson talk about ‘Who owns culture?’ at the New York Public Library. They webcast the event, so if you’ve never seen Lessig wield his formidable PowerPoint clicker, you may be able to catch it archived there at some point. I’m not going to try to weave this into something narrative, so here are a few random thoughts/observations…”

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