Evolution of Photoshop

This was an interesting article on the evolution of Photoshop from its inception to it's current incarnation of CS4. My favorite was the evolution of the toolbars. Also you gotta love that the splash screen for the version 1.0 release (the image to the right) only had 4 people's names on it.

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/evolution-of-photoshop/

iPhone Art

I rather enjoyed these iPhone sketches Jorge Colombo did for the New Yorker:



He used an app called Brushes. There's also a Flickr group devoted to drawings created with the same app.

Good price on SD cards

Buy.com is has a good price on SD HC cards. It's two 4GB cards (8GB total) for only $18.95 with free shipping.

http://www.buy.com/prod/kingston-4gb-sdhc-card-class-4-twin-pack/q/loc/101/210906173.html

Computer Sale

The back-to-school sale is under way at the Computer Connection (the computer store located in the far corner of the Penn Bookstore). If you're in the market for a new computer, you definitely need to check it out. In addition to being discounted a few hundred dollars, the pre-configured Mac and PC systems they sell are generally designed to meet Penn's own hardware recommendations to help guarantee you're getting a computer that will suit your needs.

http://www.business-services.upenn.edu/computerstore/home/computers/index.html

Twitter & Iranian Elections

An interesting read for all you tweeters out there. This is a pretty amazing story when you think about it: Twitter has decided to postpone critical maintenance on its servers in order to eliminate interruption of service in recognition of the important role they are playing in the Iranian political process.

http://tinyurl.com/mdk3l3

Slide Scanner is Back

Our slide scanner is back from the shop, and is now clean, functional, and ready for you to start scanning slides again!

Exciting Software Updates: CS4, iLife 09, iWork 09

Big news! We're finally upgrading to the Adobe CS4 software suite, along with iLife 09 and iWork 09. The software affected includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. We expect to have the new software installed sometime in the coming week or so!

Pas de posters

The poster printer is back online and working again. The poster printer is down today. We have our best people on it, and we hope to have it back up again by the end of the day. In the mean time, we're taking names as usual, along with phone #s so we can call if it comes back up today.