… I was tagged!  (by way of @SaraD (blog), who came from @sogrady (blog), and an undoubtedly longer (and more famous) path from there…) So, 7 things you may or may not know about me….  I believe in open communication and transparency… especially when I’m drunk, so it&...

As usual, we’ll kick off the new year by reviewing the predictions we made for the previous year. Here now, our 2008 predictions, in italics, with hindsight in ordinary type. (1) DRM technology will still fail to prevent widespread infringement. In a related development, pigs will still fail to fl...

Fellow ARc90’er Avi and I were chatting up the goodness of physics-based puzzle games like the excellent World of Goo and Crayon Physics and it got me thinking: what’s so universally appealing about these types of games? I think the answer lies in how these games reinforce our hard-wired logic a...

The employment sections of Apple publishes a new job opening for a chief engineer who would be responsible for developing and implementing systems Bender Ball Method for authentication and network security. The team that will lead engineer responsible for developing software for embedded devices (li...

Today's the day that the annual grand conclave of Apple cultists meet for one last time in San Francisco for 25th Macworld Conference & Expo. For those of you who don't own one of Apple's shiny, overpriced gadgets, Macworld's Christmas for geeks. All the major geek blogs cov...

John Gruber says "all Mac-related web sites must publish pre-Macworld Expo predictions regarding what Apple may announce at the show." What I have is not so much predictions as an "I hope they've been thinking along the same lines I have" wishlist. An HD or better laptop. 17" if you must, but I'd l...

According the Reuters, December domestic cars sales were the worst month in years. Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) will cut plants. Reuters reports that Apple's (AAPL) Jobs tried to calm investors about his health. Reuters reports that China is making strategic use of commodity price collapses. Reut...

Tomorrow MacWorld SF will kick off with the annual keynote address where Steve Jobs traditionally showers the loyalists with new products. So sing along... It's the most wonderful time of the year... Along with it comes the speculation, rumors and wish lists for everything from new phones to flying ...

Yesterday, I was with my wife in the L'Occitane store. The shelves were filled with fragrances, soaps, lotions: all sorts of handcrafted beauty products. It occured to me while looking at the labels that I have no idea how these products were made. I am reasonably versed in chemistry, but the proces...

So it's out with 2008, in with 2009 and back to the big, scary rat race. Noupe has an excellent list of free Photoshop tutorials.  Personally, I think you need a masters degree in Photoshop to use it to its fullest.  So I tend to look for plug-ins that will do the work for me.  I know...