Adobe Creative Cloud
This is amazing. For around £46 you get access to all of Adobe’s products. Plus seamless integration across devices. Was about to purchase PShop CS6 but going for this now. You can get it all, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects and loads more.
Watch the clip, find out more here. Very, very cool
***Update : if you own CS3 and up you can get a deal here £27.34
Highly addictive – Ski Safari
I write about apps for my iPad or iPhone that I love and use a lot, occasionally a game slips through :
Remember when Angry birds first came out? Every waking moment was spent trying to get through those levels, or worse – get 3 stars on each level. Addictive. Soon we became used to it, a few new levels here and there. Then came Cut the rope and Plants vs Zombies, all addictive. Constantly drawing your attention from the important things, like your job. Along came Temple run and DrawSomething (serious nose dive on the numbers there)Then we became a little used to them too, with the occasional play.
So I waited for the next game that would draw me in and not let me escape its clutches, yes I tried others, but got bored.
Till now…
Spotify on iPad – at last
Finally, no longer having to look at some 2x pixelated version, Spotify has launched on the iPad.
With Airplay too….boya! Stream your tunes straight to your apple TV. Did so this morning, very cool.
If they can allow for apps on this on the next upgrade, job done.
Looks great too, easy Nav, all your friends are there too, playlists neatly arranged. You will need the premium subscription of course.
Wired has a great review here.
Enjoy!
Diary of a startup – Braqes is coming
So…. we just moved braqes onto its new home.
The past few weeks have been a little stressful, but an education at the same time.
Just before moving we realised that the formulas were all wrong, working out AVE’s is a simple formula that pulls in data from the different API’s I have subscribed to. All a user has to do is click “generate’ and they are done. However, at no point did I test them properly, I was more worried about the tech behind the scenes…. was it loading as fast as it should, did it look good when displayed. None of that has any point iof the very data you are displaying is worked out wrong… so check everything… school boy error.
Social networking apps – I can find you anywhere
A few weeks back everyone was talking about Highlight. A great networking tool that seems to have been the most talked about app at SXSW. (More on that later)
I’ve been playing with some Social Networking apps for a while and wanted to give some thoughts and show you some of the stand out ones.
To explain, these are apps that require no checkin for venues yet let you collect information about other users in the area. Your phone will be sending out a signal that will tell other users you are near. (Yes you can turn it off if you want.) they can be used to find people with similar interests, exisiting friends, friends of friends, and in some case specific types such as developers or business leads.
Diary of a Startup – I need a tech-founder
So where are we, according to back and forth emails we should be two weeks out from a soft launch. Although this launch has moved so many times I can’t keep up.
Mostly its because of me remembering things I need, or better ways things should run. This goes against everything the Lean Startup book said I should do – get it out there as soon as. I haven’t.
Having said that… we are making the final fixes and improvements, and are so close.
When clients ask for a viral
One thing that really does my head in during client or agency meetings is that there is alway some genius that asks for a Viral.
I mean really, “Hi, this is our new detergent, can we make a viral?” er… sure I mean that how it works. Charlie biting that kids finger, all planned and scripted. Rebecca Black planned on have everyone take the piss out of her crap song – not her musical abilities. Sure
Thing is Virals are not planned, they are attempted. At that next brainstorm, change the wording to “Lets attempt to create a clip that will go viral” much easier. Think about it, if there was a guaranteed sience to making something go viral, then we wouldn’t have virals. Everything would be clocking 50 million views and nothing would stand out.
Lets do the timeline agaaaain – a cheat sheet
You may have noticed all the posts and blogs regarding the new brand pages on Facebook. I thought I would gather some of the highlights all in one spot.
Yesterday Facebook admins were faced with the message about new timelines coming for brands and that they can start prepping and previewing. These changes are looking good and the new functionalities will make them that much more powerful.
Padded numbers via the Social Media Experts
Read an article on SocialMediaToday. It was written by Pam Moore who had received an email from a “Social media expert” and explained how she can master the art and get massive follower numbers.
Pearls of Wisdom such as :
Thats just the start, when you have finished reading this, head over and read the full article here.
This got me thinking and yet again pissed me off with the various fly by night, snake oil salesmen in social media today. The dipshits that cause damage in agencies and in educating clients