These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 07 January 2011 through 09 February 2011:
- Type History: What a Difference a Century Makes | CreativePro.com – A few months back, I took a stroll down memory lane to revisit some popular faces from the 1980s that have been neglected recently and deserve a better fate. But now I’m reaching a bit farther back–a century back, in fact, to 1909–to see what Section 6, Part 2, of my revered Volume 204 of the International Correspondence School Reference Library calls “the best advertising, catalog, booklet, and folder types.” Even if I had revivals in mind, I’d be out of luck; most of these faces never made the transition from metal to digital.
- Microsoft is Imagining a NUI future – The Official Microsoft Blog – News and Perspectives from Microsoft – Site Home – TechNet Blogs – Natural and intuitive technology like Kinect can be more than just a great platform for gaming and entertainment – it opens up enormous opportunities to address societal problems such as healthcare, education, and providing greater access for persons with disabilities.
- Record or Videotape Police in Chicago, Massachusetts, Oregon? Go to Jail – spending the next decade and a half on a prison cot, many in other states face similar situations. Massachusetts and Oregon both make it illegal to digitally record (i.e. “eavesdrop”) on an officer. And a number of states are considering similar legislation.
- Microsoft Tests the iPhone App Waters With OneNote Mobile – Microsoft has released its first iPhone app with ties to its Office application suite, OneNote Mobile for iPhone. The app, which Microsoft says is free “for a limited time,” lets users access, edit and create notes from the iPhone. These notes can are then synced over the cloud with the OneNote web app or OneNote for Office 2010.
OneNote is similar to note-sharing services like Evernote; the difference is OneNote is tied tightly to the Office ecosystem and its focus has largely been on the desktop rather than the cloud or on mobile devices.
- iPhone 5, iPad 2 to focus on social networking | Benzinga.com – Another recent Apple patent shows the company is developing an iPhone location-based social networking app call iGroups. The new feature is apparently inspired by the location-based social network start up Foursquare, which has a popular iPhone app. iGroups will likely work with Apple’s cloud-based MobileMe service, which will be enhanced with GPS features.
- Twitter Sued For Connecting Celebrities Online – Twitter is being slapped with a lawsuit that involves Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, and all of the other star-studded tweeters using the microblogging service.
VS Technologies is suing Twitter for infringing on a patent patent, filed in 2000, for a “Method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people.”
- Free For All: Adobe Illustrator Grab Bag | CreativePro.com – Attention, vector virtuosos! This month’s Free for All is a grab bag of cool Adobe Illustrator freebies. There are scripts galore, templates, brushes, a brush cheat sheet, application icons, and a whole lot more!
- – It’s a grand day for comic book movie fans!
Columbia Pictures has released the first official photograph of Andrew Garfield in the Spidey costume for their upcoming Spider-Man reimagining.
And tomorrow’s Entertainment Weekly offers the first look of Chris Evans in the complete Captain America costume (that means with a mask, folks).
- Make Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign Get Along | CreativePro.com – Death, taxes, and importing Word files into InDesign: They’re all inevitable. I can’t help with the first two, but here’s how to make the best of the third.
- Just got these myself, auto-loaded from a Website | Case Study: New Malware Hiding in Task Scheduler – This may have been a once off or this may be becoming a new trend to hide malware. So all your computer techies out there, be sure to look in the Task Scheduler for malware!