New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Gruber just linked to this -- incredible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs

that is some star trek shiz

I'm floored. That is way too futuristic for 2010

yeah - is this actually for real?

eh u guys srsly are impressed

Tbh with the high end pro apps I assume that most publishers look the other way wrt piracy because most of the people pirating are college students and the like who are the future ~creative professionals~, thus ensuring their future market share.

― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Friday, December 17, 2010 12:47 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

basically how it works is everyone pirates this shit except companies w/like $3m+ revenue . speaking as a curent and past creative pro, hopefully not future, that is all

I wouldn't be surprised if even that changed, especially if the developers/publishers see it as a way to greatly reduce piracy. Not holding my breath though.

It isn't that though, not like on iPhone. There's no drm on the app files -- the store rules say users have to be able to copy the files anywhere on any machine and still be able to run them. You're not allowed your own drm either.

The best you can do is a weak, insanely easy to crack, check to a system call to see if the guy running the app is the one who bought it. Pirate's dream.

all software is basically a pirates dream, if pirates dreamt of software

I have heard photoshop cs5 for mac sucks massively, can anybody else confirm?

I have heard (from Mac fans) that the Mac version of Photoshop has been worse, performance-wise, than the PC version for a long time, that the code is more of a mess on the Mac side, and that you can see the difference by running the Windows version through Boot Camp.

only hitler would do that

what is up with this myth then of all creative dudes using apples

stet: I see all that and agree, but many people resort to privacy for a reason, whether it's cheaper or easier or circumvents unfair restrictions. If it's easy to buy something on the app store, fewer people will bother jailbreaking/pirating. $2,000 apps, yes, absolutely, piracy will always be rife.

what is up with this myth then of all creative dudes using apples

Well, partly it's a historically ingrained preference and partly ... being creative involves more than having the fastest running version of Photoshop.

fuck *throws photoshop into the trash*

creatives who used apples

http://marketingabstraction.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/logo_think_different_plakat.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/rmansfield/thislamp/files/Image-Poster.thinkdifferent.jpg
http://www.adswatcher.com/files/images/applethink-picasso.jpg

Adobe's relationship with Apple has sucked since right before the OS X days. I'd say it goes back to around PS 5 or so, if I remember correctly. Mac OS development became stagnant, Adobe started putting in more resources to get Photoshop on Windows going as a strong alternative, and a handful of shops here and there switched. There was a short stretch where Windows versions of PS were demonstrably faster than the Mac version on different tasks, and the UI seemed more back-ported from Windows in some aspects.

To Adobe's credit, Flash was Macromedia's, but Macromedia followed a similar path and completely dropped the ball on getting Flash running up to speed on MacOS for years. Part of it was due to Apple's shifting APIs and the question of how many people had adopted different OS X versions, but it would flat-out run better on Windows.

Now we've reached a point where Adobe's not able to work smoothly with Apple, Apple doesn't really give a shit because they're tired of mediocre Flash performance hobbling their perceived web browser performance, and it's just a clusterfuck because of past grudges.

Yes, that's about it. When Chizen took over Adobe he focused on Windows because of the smell of death hanging over the Mac and also because it was Windows and obviously the winner in everything for everyone. Apple had been fucking them about over the OS X transition anyway -- first insisting they've have to rewrite for Cocoa (YellowBox as was), then recanting and announcing Carbon. It's continued like that ever since -- they killed 64-bit Carbon at the last minute too, which is why CS4 Photoshop wasn't 64-bit on Mac but was on Windows.

It was just unfortunate for Adobe that the gamble on letting the Mac stagnate bit them hard when the iPhone took off and they couldn't get Flash in any sort of order for it. They've only just started making progress there, four years on.

So this Word Lens thing is real:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374474,00.asp

yeah dude i installed it this morning

kinda janky though

if you point it at spanish ppls' mouths does it live translate

xpost -- Well I figure you have to start somewhere with such a thing. Now that it can happen, what's next?

an app that steals the moon

Despicable gbx

haha busted

I like the idea of you being surrounded by a slew of tiny yellow goons, who I assume you term 'cheeseheads' while making them do manual labor so they can reward themselves with trips to Green Bay each Sunday.

Re: Word Lens

They need to make a "They Live" in-app translation pack, where every sign gets translated to "Consume" or "Don't Question Authority."

yes!

Word Lens isn't working worth shit on my 3gs

you are not one of the elect, sorry

nah it doesn't work that well on mine either. good proof of concept, i'll check out a version that works in a year or so

I was wrong, I was holding the phone sideways and it only works in vertical orientation. It works pretty ok

I know I mentioned it in the other thread but the Pleco app does live OCR with trad and simp Chinese characters, so a bit like Word Lens but no on-the-fly photoshopping. Pleco is already fantastic but that little module makes it indispensable.

I thought my MBP caps lock was broken but just found this. Seriously impressed.

which other thread? you use pleco too? neat!

I know, right? Easily top five of all apps. It's incredible and 100% necessary for learners.

btw it's this thread: iPhone apps S/D

xp oops

I splurged and got the whole package (with edu discount) - works a treat on iPad, too. haven't plunked the $15 for the OCR though, although I will definitely do so before my trip to beijing next week.

btw you probably have this already but

http://perapera.wordpress.com/perapera-kun/

is an awesome awesome firefox plug-in

I mean, if I could just surgically remove myself from ILX I bet I would be learning all this Chinese. :/.

ahaha yes. I'm doing a formal certification next year so I'll be forced to keep it up.

The OCR package is well worth the money, mainly because it saves you having to write a dozen chars if you just want to quickly read a sign or book cover. I bought the basic Pleco pack because I didn't need 500 extra dictionaries.

Cheers for Perapera-kun btw, I used it for a while but at some point it went haywire and I had to remove it.

Test-driving an iPad this Christmas holiday. What should I be using this for? I'm ten minutes in - browsing ilx at the airport and I have to say its a bit awkward!

It gets easier.

Web browse like crazy, install Instapaper, Flipboard, Twitter, Netflix, Carcassonne, Reeder, Cloudreaders, iA Writer, and maybe a few other games.

why is it awkward v? (I don't have one)

it's awkward because you can't type with your hands (too small) and you can type with your thumbs (too big) so I just end up awkwardly stabbing at it with one finger. i guess it's not the best for creating content?

I want one for tertiary ed next year (best available software/interface for what I'm doing) but am not quite sure if I want to spend that much, and I really dislike the low-res screen.

Will wait until the next iPad is released regardless, 'sif I'm buying something with 256 Mb memory (my PHONE has twice that ffs).

no, it's primarily a content consumption device xp

I was surprised how easy it was to go from touch-typing on a reg. keyboard to modified 2-finger/4-finger typing on the ipad. But yeah, it's not good if you have to do a lot of keyboarding.

If you want to make an Apple fanboy REALLY angry, assert that it's not a content creation device. They get soooo wound up.

'But look at THIS artist making finger paintings and look at THIS musician using the on-screen piano etc etc'

those apple fanboys!!

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