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Hands on with Adobe Ink & Slide: New Apple-centric devices and apps for cloud-based drawing

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Launches

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From its packaging and color to its design and presentation, Adobe’s new Ink & Slide cloud connected pen and ruler set fits hand-in-glove into Apple’s ecosystem. These new hardware tools, offered as part of Adobe’s yearly upgrade of its Creative Cloud suite, target and challenge Adobe’s artist constituency, resurrecting hand-eye coordinated drawing as a really cool thing you can still do. Adobe Line and Adobe Sketch, two free iPad apps for conceptual freehand drawing and drafting, also represent a rare breed — software developed as companion apps for hardware. Brushed aluminum tools are lightweight and attractive. Line is a new approach to drawing…

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Hands on with Adobe Ink & Slide: New Apple-centric devices and apps for cloud-based drawing

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Launches

08-Adobe-Ink-feat
From its packaging and color to its design and presentation, Adobe’s new Ink & Slide cloud connected pen and ruler set fits hand-in-glove into Apple’s ecosystem. These new hardware tools, offered as part of Adobe’s yearly upgrade of its Creative Cloud suite, target and challenge Adobe’s artist constituency, resurrecting hand-eye coordinated drawing as a really cool thing you can still do. Adobe Line and Adobe Sketch, two free iPad apps for conceptual freehand drawing and drafting, also represent a rare breed — software developed as companion apps for hardware. Brushed aluminum tools are lightweight and attractive. Line is a new approach to drawing…

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The ultimate guide to bootstrapping hardware startups

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 3:25 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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Adam Benzion founded Entirely, a network for hardware startups. A Microsoft alumni and a hardware entrepreneur, Adam also moderates The Hardware Startup group on LinkedIn. In 2010, I started an exploration project based on a common hardware problem: short battery life in mobile devices. Together with my co-founder, we kicked off a 20 months adventure with two major aspirations: develop smarter charging technology that increases energy efficiency by 30 percent ahead of existing products, as well as research embedded solar technology for energy replenishment. In the midst of it all, we also kicked-off a successful Kickstarter campaign to help us get…

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The ultimate guide to bootstrapping hardware startups

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 3:25 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, How-To's

electric plug
Adam Benzion founded Entirely, a network for hardware startups. A Microsoft alumni and a hardware entrepreneur, Adam also moderates The Hardware Startup group on LinkedIn. In 2010, I started an exploration project based on a common hardware problem: short battery life in mobile devices. Together with my co-founder, we kicked off a 20 months adventure with two major aspirations: develop smarter charging technology that increases energy efficiency by 30 percent ahead of existing products, as well as research embedded solar technology for energy replenishment. In the midst of it all, we also kicked-off a successful Kickstarter campaign to help us get…

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Storehouse, the beautiful visual storytelling iPad app, gets a refresh with emphasis on discovery

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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It’s been a couple of months since Apple’s former user experience evangelist and UI designer Mark Kawano launched Storehouse, a gorgeous iPad app that lets you quickly lay out and publish photos, videos and text as beautiful shareable stories. Recently, the app also snagged an Apple Design Award. Now Storehouse has gotten a refresh with more emphasis on discovery features — including the introduction of two new channels, ‘Explore’ and ‘Story of the Day’. Before this, the app only had a single feed at login for users to browse through content from people they follow, and the stories these followers republish. The ‘Explore’ feed shows you stories…

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