Dang! Upgrade your flash plugin buddy.

Google earth is absolutely amazing. The interface needs work but the functionality blows me away.

Here’s a good transparent png solution to IE windows. (via RemoteSynthesis)

Apple has a great article on how to make a dashboard widget, as you expect them to do.

This is great, Comic Life is an application that will take your photos and some of your creative writing and create a comic strip! great idea, so good it won the Best Product New to Mac OS X in this years Apple Design Awards.

Microsoft is in the process of developing an application called Acrylic. It is being touted as Microsofts answer to photoshop. I am not sure why it is because it is nothing like it and isnt even in the same arena as photoshop. If I was to compare it with something it would be a cross between Freehand and a very early version of Fireworks, but that’s being very generous and probably detrimental to Macromedia.

The first feel is like Freehand/Illustrator because of the blank A4 page layout in front of you. When you import a bitmap, you can double click on it to go into a bitmap editing mode in a different window, this is where the reference to early fireworks comes in. Macromedia dropped this to go to a completely integrated bitmap editing environment which works much better in my opinion.

The panel sets are totally different to all the other apps out there, why? it makes it counter intuitive, they should just stick with the tried and true. It supports all the latest graphic hoo haa like transparent alpha gradients, etc, I dont know how well it imports files like illustrator, eps, etc.

I doubt it will compete with the big boys, but might be good for the Microsoft centric home user.

Download Beta here.

My 2c.

I have been working on a little flash toy that will let you play/preview a podcast on your page, kind of like a try before you buy. You can download it here, and preview it here.