Scott structures Mindfire around his three ultimate takeaways: motivation ("gasoline"), leveraging catalysts ("sparks") and building long-term success ("fire").

2012-Jan-18 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Reviews

Some apps really stand out for their usefulness; others are not as helpful and robust. Despite this, I'm really glad to see Adobe stake a claim in the tablet market for creative professional apps.

2011-Dec-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Graphic Design | Illustration | Photoshop | Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

Many changes have happened this year in the computer hardware industry as tablets continue to affect the form factor of our computers. The EliteBook remains a thick and durable piece of hardware.

2011-Dec-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Graphic Design | Reviews | TOP STORIES

The Book of Ruby is a good primer on Ruby for the average beginner but there are some things that keep it from really standing out against all the other Ruby books on the market.

2011-Dec-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

I give kudos to Miran for making what could have been an opaque and difficult subject actually quite interesting and fun.

2011-Dec-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

It's pretty rare to read a photography book that discusses denatured alcohol, emulsions and other hands-on techniques that bring back memories of the darkroom.

2011-Nov-20 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Reviews | TOP STORIES

Fans of the Macintosh, Apple, or the PC industry in general should have a copy of this book, even if they have folklore.org bookmarked on their browser.

2011-Nov-20 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Reviews | TOP STORIES

Welcome to Oz 2.0 is a book for advanced and intermediate readers, and Vincent's tutorials are not simple or quick but constitute a "deep dive" into many features at once and produce great results.

2011-Oct-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Reviews

The book is unique in that it combines a university-level topic like relativity with a storytelling format like manga.

2011-Oct-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Reviews | TOP STORIES

While the content and the delivery is good, I think the production quality of the DVD can be improved.

2011-Oct-20 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Illustration | Reviews

The Inspiration Guide might be a hard sell for illustrators—after all, why buy the book when you can see the work online?

2011-Sep-16 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Illustration | Reviews

I really enjoy the Nomad Brush and would recommend it to anyone painting on the iPad.

2011-Jul-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Reviews | TOP STORIES

There are entire sections of the CSS3 spec that I never really appreciated until I read this book.

2011-Jul-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

If you want to grasp all the basic concepts behind JavaScript and write more eloquent code, try Eloquent JavaScript.

2011-Jul-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

Surprisingly, Vector Basic Training actually has relatively little emphasis on Illustrator or other vector drawing applications. But it's still a good book on illustration.

2011-Jun-23 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Illustration | Reviews | TOP STORIES

There's an ecliptic mix of painters, illustrators and photography pros in this book so styles differ and I like some more than others, but they are all excellent.

2011-Jun-23 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Illustration | Reviews

How much data is floating around on the Internet for you to use in your applications?

2011-Jun-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

A book like Canvas Pocket Reference is important for all web designers to have on their shelf

2011-Jun-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

New prosumers will find the Photoshop/Premiere Elements bundle to be a great buy. The really interesting decision will be in the hands of Mac users.

2011-Apr-09 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

Those who didn't buy the Quadro FX 4800 have even less of an excuse to turn down the Quadro 4000.

2011-Mar-27 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Graphic Design | Photoshop | Reviews | TOP STORIES

This book illuminates one of the most powerful tools the World Wide Web has given us in the last five years. I can't think of a better resource for map scripting and development than this book.

2011-Feb-20 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Cartography | Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

Mining the Social Web is not like other books I've reviewed: it's more for data analysts than developers, though there is a lot of code and development going on in its pages.

2011-Feb-20 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

If you have a bit of time on your hands one weekend, sit down with your iPad and Best iPad Apps and download a bunch of apps to try out.

2011-Feb-20 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Reviews | TOP STORIES

Captivate 5 is ground-breaking if only for the reason that it's on the Mac: many creative pros who have been building eLearning products with Flash or PowerPoint now have another option tailored for the job.

2011-Feb-05 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Reviews | TOP STORIES

David's focus on exotic locations, introspective portraits and quiet moments that unify the material and make the book stand out.

2011-Jan-17 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Reviews | TOP STORIES