A message from Steve Jobs about Flash. From what I’ve read on this topic, Adobe really dropped the ball with mobile Flash because of bad management chasing the bottom line.

This Alice in Wonderland App for the iPad looks like so much fun for kids to interact with. Pop up books for the digital age.

The photographer behind the iPad Home Screen image, Richard Misrach.

Weird name to say but nice concept for browsing fonts.

I’m all for reading printed matter, magazines, books and newspapers on portable devices, I’m just not sure if the old ways of flipping pages or a direct translation of the printed matter into digital form really cuts it. So the one thing that I really want is that if I’m buying a digital copy of a magazine, it has to be more that a direct translation of the printed version, it has to feel more immersive than reading a website version of an article.

There’s going to be a new skill set for designers to fill, that of creating/translating print content over to digital and for software companies to create the tools that let the designers do this without having to learn a programming language.

The Wired Table and Mag+ concept are two of the most promising digital magazines so far. Woodwing’s Content Station looks okay, but feels very clunky and cheesy, like early WYSIWYG html editors for making web pages. I’m not sure if these Sports Illustrated – Time Inc Tablet demos where created using Content Station.

Photoshop is 20, this post sums it all up. Creative review post. iPhone Photoshop 1.0 simulation. Get the Photoshop.com Mobile iPhone App.

NASA’s very cool and free Lunar Electric Rover Simulator app.

Ever wanted to know about those awesome glass staircase’s at the Apple Store?

The Wired Tablet, this is one good reason why Flash should be added to the iPad… who needs battery life. The Guggenheim’s Contemplating The Void, I love the mesh concept. Architect Daily’s Building of the Year 2009, this is my fav. Overcome Creative/Design block, some good advice from the pros. Massive re-brand job for the BBC, Global Visual Language 2.0.

WPTouch, a neat Plug-In to instantly turn your WordPress blog into a mobile theme.

Its been a week since the launch of the Apple iPad, I actually got up at 5am to follow the keynote presentation online. There was no surprise because the rumors and speculation that went on for months beforehand killed it. I agree, the name is a bad choice. There’s been a lot of talk about what the iPad doesn’t have, like a forward facing camera, alot of it from people who haven’t even laid their hands on one and looking at it from the wrong perspective.. The iPad fills a gap between your smart phone and your desktop, if you are expecting something more, then this is probably not for you. But you know, corporations are good at selling to us what we don’t need.

I think I’m the iPad’s target market. I use my iPhone for exactly what the iPad is made to do all day, light web surfing, YouTube, email, games, reading news/blogs, looking at photos etc… It’s the perfect in-between device for around the house usage, I can see us looking up recipes in the kitchen, checking reviews for a movie on the couch or even using it as a gps in the car. I’m thinking of getting the low end model to do all of the above when it arrives in Australia. The main feature I am keen on is the iBook and using it to view newspapers and magazines.

I’m not keen on Flash on the iPad, Flash is better suited to a larger screen when its done well. I can see why Apple is not supporting it though, Flash applications would kill the App Store control and structure, Flash based games and media applications would rival what the App Store have. So now there is a four way shit fight between Apple, Adobe (Flash), Amazon (Kindle, ebooks) and Google (Nexus One, Apps, Voice etc…).

I really like the Google Tablet concept. Mad TV – iPad. iPad rips off the bookshelf. iPad PDA-Engine-Bra.

This is genius!

My DAYTUM. Only my recent bike ride distances so far.
I’m interested in tracking and graphing data, I’ve been keeping, for about 8 years now, a pen & paper and more recently an excel sheet of my spending. Wondering how all this would look graphically, what kind of spending trends come of it.

Sixth Sense, awesome!

I love making lists and reading lists, here’s a bunch:

Brand New’s Beast & Worst 2008
Time’s Top 10 of Everything of 2008
20 signs you don’t want that web design project
Obama 08 logos