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The future of television remotes

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Nintendo Wii Remote As a video game designer and a television user interface designer, I’ve been paying close attention to the Nintendo ~~Revolution~~ Wii with baited breath. And now that Nintendo has shown what they’ve got, I am confident that within the next five to 10 years Nintendo’s controller concept will spill out of the video game arena and become the desired input style for TV-based UIs like televisions and set top boxes. Read the rest of this entry

Tags: video games, consoles, design, User Interface, DVR, Wii

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Photoshop CS2 Update: first thoughts

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

I just got the Photoshop CS2 update installed (9.0.1) and so far it seems better than the original. I’m still not decided though because I’ve not really used it on a project yet, but I will soon! I’m now able to catch up with the rest of the civilized world who have been using Photoshop CS2 for over a year now. The original CS2 had an incompatibility with my video card that made the screen refresh unacceptablly slow. I’m glad to see Adobe patch it. but … Read the rest of this entry

Tags: Misc.

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Photoshop CS2 Update released

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

I’ve owned Photoshop CS2 since it was first available, but I’ve only used it about a dozen times becuase it was too slow. I had emailed Adobe about it but never got a straight answer. It’s been about a year.

But today I found out that Adobe has just released a dot-release for Photoshop CS2. I’ve not installed CS2 yet, but it sounds promising. Check out John Nack’s blog for the details:

John Nack -- Photoshop CS2 update 9.0.1 now available

Tags: Photoshop, Macromedia, Adobe

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