Content Aware Fill & Adobe Photoshop CS5

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Some of the new interesting features for Adobe Photoshop CS5 includes showing off effects even developers did not intend. One such feature is Content Aware Fill as written about on …

Google’s Prediction API

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Google has announced new or improved APIs at I/O 2011: Prediction – predicting new results from historic data, Fusion Tables – sharing and visualizing data online, and Books – accessing …

Fitt’s law and the new Office 2007 interface

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I came across a really interesting blog post by Jensen Harris, on Fitt’s law and new Microsoft Office “Ribbon” user interface. Fitts’ law is a model of human movement, predicting …

JPEG rendering has security flaw

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Microsoft has added a security patch for JPEG Processing (GDI+). The patch is quite interesting because it fixes a flaw in the rendering of a JPEG image by software code …

The redesign of the BBEdit 8 icon

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The recent update of the OS X software by Barebones, BBEdit, has caused some interesting reactions from users, most disliking the program more by the redesign of its trademark icon. …

Trust and accuracy of collaborative software

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Orante has commented on the credibility, trust and accuracy of Wikipedia and other collaborative editing software and websites such as wiki’s. Slash dot has also added to the discussion with …

The Apple Software Design guidelines

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Apple has published a series of guidelines to help developers or anyone who wants to develop for the OS X platform. The guidelines are intended to help through obstacles that …

An intro review of Windows Media Centre Edition

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Anandtech have posted a really interesting and thorough introduction to the new set-top Personal Video Recorders (PVR). In particular the review, looks at Microsoft’s XP Media Center Edition (MCE), hardware …