Posted on April 20, 2010 by Mike Rankin
I continue to be enthralled and amused by the Apple-Adobe contretemps. In recent weeks, the drama has ratcheted up several notches, with the shipping of the iPad, and on the eve of Adobe shipping Creative Suite 5, Apple’s change in terms, blocking developers from packaging Flash apps for iThings. It was as if the Voice [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2010 by Mike Rankin
The most fascinating and entertaining thing in my online universe right now is the Apple vs. Adobe war-by-proxy raging on the internets. Sparked by Apple’s refusal to support Flash on the iPhone OS, this conflict has gone nuclear with the announcement of the iPad. Steve Job’s demo of the iPad’s “ultimate browsing experience” revealed “blue [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2010 by Mike Rankin
Hello Cleveland! And Austin! And Detroit, Minneapolis, and Secaucus, NJ! These cities are the first announced stops on the InDesignSecretsLIVE! 2010 tour. Click the image to go to InDesignSecretsLIVE for details. Also on InDesignSecretsLIVE, you’ll find information about the single biggest, coolest, most awesome InDesign event of the year: The InDesign Print and ePublishing Conference. [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2009 by Mike Rankin
This weeks links from the world of Publishing Technology: Adobe, Apple, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Kindle, Nook, and one very lonely Parisien balloon boy.
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Posted on September 25, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Man, I am sick of being sick. Like half of Boston, I’ve been coughing for two weeks straight, day and night. I’ve been more concerned with breathing than blogging. I think I have a touch of the ol’ H1N1. Or perhaps the 0C0M0Y100K Plague. I keep thinking it’s got to go away soon. Though I have [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2009 by Mike Rankin
And we’re back. Sometime Monday the domain mapping that transforms mild-mannered “pubtech.wordpress.com” to it’s super hero identity “publicious.net” expired. Silly me, forgot to pay the bill. For about 48 hours, I was thinking I had offended some very important bots in Internetland. All the incoming links to Publicious disappeared and traffic was down more than 90%. [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by Mike Rankin
3 o’clock – roadblock Hey Mr. Cop, ain’t got no (what you say down there) Ain’t got no birth surfer ticket on me now -Bob Marley, Rebel Music In recent weeks, a growing mob of “birthers” has besieged Publicious World Headquarters, demanding to see my paperwork. They claim certain irregularities in my published documents call [...]
Filed under: Flash, Flex, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, RIA, Web 2.0, cats, graphic design | Tagged: AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, FXG, InDesign, Photoshop, RIA | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 23, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Had a “whoa” moment a little while ago. Whilst taking a deep dive into Adobe history and technology, I came across an article on the math behind Bézier curves. If you’ve ever used any of the Creative Suite apps, you know what these are. They’re the edges of objects you shape by pulling little control [...]
Filed under: Adobe, Books, CMS, Flash, Fonts, Google, Illustrator, InDesign, Mark Logic, Photoshop, RIA, XML, graphic design | Tagged: Adobe, AIR, Drupal, Flash, Google, Illustrator, InDesign, iPhone, Photoshop, typography, XML | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 10, 2009 by Mike Rankin
You probably know that Microsoft has released its own search engine to try and topple Skynet, er, Google. A few days ago, in the WordPress stats I started seeing referrals from Bing.com. Literally, Bing hits. Heh. So I searched for “Publicious” on Bing, and we got 9 out of the top 10 spots. Righteous. If [...]
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