Gijsvanzon's blog

Who says you need to work with the latest versions of software on the market. Some people probably work faster in an older version, then a new one. A good example of this is Bob Staake. This guy makes art completely in Photoshop 3.0.

As Steve Jobs said at D8. “If we succeed, they’ll buy them! If we don’t, we won’t sell any. And I have to say, people seem to be liking the iPad!” This reference to a conversation involving flash on the iPhone and iPad. Apple is a company which is known for it’s axing of popular pieces such as the 3 1/2 floppy, the serial and parallel ports and the optical drives. Next up is Flash. Personally I  support their effort and I think HTML 5 and CSS3 has the future. What do you think?

The people behind Sofa just launched a new product called Kaleidoscope. It’s a program that lets you spot the difference in files and compare them to one another. With full integration of SVN, Mercurial and Git it’s a great tool to extend your comparison. There are a lot of programs that let you do this, but the best thing of Kaleidoscope is that it let’s you do this with images. Combine this with the fact that it’s made by the people who gave us Subversions and you’ll know that it’s a product that you have to have.

Just now i stumbled upon Smokescreen. It’s a HTML5/javascript based script for your browser, which rewrites flash into an animated SVG image. In other words, it makes viewing flash on an iPhone/ iPad or iPod possible. The code is still in development only showing a few demos from the developer himself, but the outcome looks promising. Now there’s just the question of, how much CPU power and battery is this thing requiring.