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BOOK REVIEW: Scott Berkun’s Mindfire
Scott structures Mindfire around his three ultimate takeaways: motivation ("gasoline"), leveraging catalysts ("sparks") and building long-term success ("fire").
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Enters Public Beta
I saw a quick demo and what I found most interesting were the new Map and Book modules.
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Adobe Carousel Renamed “Adobe Revel”
Why was Adobe's app renamed after only a few months? And what does the name change suggest for the future of Adobe's photography apps for tablets and mobile devices?
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REVIEW: Adobe’s Touch Apps for Android
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.
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HP’s EliteBook 8460w Still Durable and Tough, Inside and Out
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.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Book of Ruby
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.
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BOOK REVIEW: Learn You A Haskell For Great Good!
I give kudos to Miran for making what could have been an opaque and difficult subject actually quite interesting and fun.
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BOOK REVIEW: Digital Alchemy
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.
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BOOK REVIEW: Andy Hertzfeld’s Revolution in the Valley
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.
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Adobe Releases Touch Apps Tablet Applications For Android
Today Adobe officially released their lineup of Touch Apps for Android tablets, deepening their dive into products for mobile devices
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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.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Manga Guide to Relativity
The book is unique in that it combines a university-level topic like relativity with a storytelling format like manga.
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While the content and the delivery is good, I think the production quality of the DVD can be improved.
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Adobe Announces Carousel For Cross-Device Photo Management
Carousel looks like a fun product to me but the photo management market already has a lot of solutions. Can it find a niche, especially among iOS devices?
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Day 2 Announcements From Adobe MAX: PhoneGap, Flash Player 11, AIR 3 and Unreal Engine 3
Compared to the first day's MAX keynote, the second day's keynote was much more focused on hard-core development.
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Day 1 Announcements From Adobe MAX: TypeKit, PhoneGap, WoodWing and DPS Single Edition
TypeKit, WoodWing and Nitobi customers are all affected by Adobe's announcements today.
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Day 1 Announcements From Adobe MAX: Adobe Creative Cloud And Adobe Touch Apps
After all these announcements, I wasn't sure if life will be easier or harder now for the traditional creative professional.
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The Inspiration Guide might be a hard sell for illustrators—after all, why buy the book when you can see the work online?
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The Nomad Brush Brings Artistry To The iPad
I really enjoy the Nomad Brush and would recommend it to anyone painting on the iPad.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Book of CSS3
There are entire sections of the CSS3 spec that I never really appreciated until I read this book.
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If you want to grasp all the basic concepts behind JavaScript and write more eloquent code, try Eloquent JavaScript.
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BOOK REVIEW: Vector Basic Training Shows The Grunt Work
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.
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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.
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BOOK REVIEW: Mining Twitter and Data Source Handbook
How much data is floating around on the Internet for you to use in your applications?
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A book like Canvas Pocket Reference is important for all web designers to have on their shelf
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