While we wait to see if this a temporary craze or soon to become standard in the marketeer’s toolbox, take a look at this 360° projection on a sculpture. My guess is that UV’s are used to achieve full 360° mapping, a technique that is used to texture 3D models in applications such as Maya, Softimage, 3Dsmax and cinema 4D.

Word of the negotiations was exclusively revealed to AppleInsider, and although the offer has yet to be accepted, a source claims that Loewe “has been advised by its financial advisor to accept the offer and a final decision is scheduled to be announced internally before 18 May 2012.”

Loewe makes sleek, minimalist televisions that would seem to fit well with Jony Ive’s product designs. The company also makes speaker systems, including the AirPlay-compatible AirSpeaker, as well as a sleek app that controls the Loewe television set via an iPad.

Loewe’s largest shareholder is Sharp, the same company that has been rumored to be Apple’s choice to work with Foxconn to build a television set. Foxconn and Sharp announced a partnership to work together in March. AppleInsider says a decision on the acquisition will be announced internally by the end of this week.

Find out more and sign up at the Adobe Creative Cloud page

Also available today are the iPad versions of two more Adobe Touch apps: Adobe Proto and Adobe Collage.

Proto enables you to quickly put together interactive wireframes and prototypes for websites and mobile apps, while Collage has us particularly excited; it’s a swish tool that you can use to combine images, drawings and text into inspirational moodboards. Both are out now for £6.99, with special offers for Creative Cloud subscribers.

Client: LEGO | Agency: Me&Him

Together with CS6 Adobe is also launching their new creative cloud service. Basically it’s the whole creative suite, but you’re paying on a monthly basis (£46.88) to use an online version of the applications. That means the cloud version of CS6 will set you back £562.56 a year while the retail version of the whole bundle is £2667.60

Key features:
• Sleek new editing environment + powerful Adobe Mercury Playback Engine (now supports OpenCL on MacBook Pro)
• After Effects CS6 is faster and more responsive. Global Performance Cache = previews are saved and ready to go.
• Adobe® Prelude™ CS6 streamlines logging and ingest workflows in post-production, Adobe SpeedGrade contains finishing tools for film and color grading.
• Audition CS6 accelerates audio post-production: real-time clip stretching, Automatic Speech Alignment introduces a powerful new engine for automated dialogue analysis.
• New 3rd party API for hardware integration – Adobe Mercury Transmit – allows broadcast video monitoring to connect directly into the Mercury Playback Engine via third-party cards from AJA, Blackmagic Design, and Matrox.

Adobe has already started pre-orders for CS6 and they will begin on May 7th.

Client: SpeakIt

Client: Warner Bros | Agency: Lemon Foundation

Client: Phaidon | Agency: Anywhichway

Client: Universal | Agency: Addicted2 TV

Client: RM | Agency: Me&Him

• Dark UI
• UI Consistency
• Properties Panel (Adjustments/Masks/3D)
• Lighting Effects Gallery
• Presets (Migrate Presets and Import/Export)
• Crop (all new and redesigned)
• Patch Tool w/Content-Aware Option
• Content-Aware Move Tool (formerly the Remix Tool)
• Scripted Patterns (Fill/Pattern)
• Contact Sheet II plug-in back in app
• PDF Presentation back in the app
• File Import Image from Device now includes ImageKit scanning and camera acqui- sition support
• Minibridge UI tweaks—Filmstrip Mode
• MENA Support (Middle-East and North African text support)
• Rich Cursor information throughout the app (i.e. Crop, Transform, Move, Vectors, etc.)

GPU/Performance

• GPU Warp Transform
• GPU Puppet Warp Preview
• GPU Liquify—Button for last Liquify used and Cmd + F works
• GPU Oil Paint (Pixel Bender) Artistic Filter
• Adaptive Wide Angle
• Lighting Effects and Blur Galleries
• Background Save, Auto-Save and Auto Recover

Photographers

• ACR 7—Local controls for White Balance and Noise Reduction, new black/white and highlight/shadow controls
• Blur Gallery (Tilt-Shift, Iris and Field Blur)
• Video (No longer limited to Extended)—Video Group Layers
• Adaptive Wide Angle—Includes support for panoramas!
• Face-Aware Mask Generation—Change to Color Range
• Intelligent Auto-Correction

Designers

• Type Styles
• Type Menu (Insert Lorem Ipsum JDI)
• New Dictionaries
• Improved Font Rendering—Gamma setting in Color Settings
• Pixel Accuracy/Snap to Pixels
• New Vector Layers
• Styles on Groups
• Stack of TOP JDI’s specifically for designers
• Layer Search

Painting

• Erodible Tips
• Airbrush Tips
• Brush Rotation for Static Tips
• Oil Paint Filter (Pixel Bender)
• New PRESETS!
• JDI’s specifically for painters
• Painting Performance, CPU and GPU
• Default Tablet Pose Parameters for Mouse

Film Industry

• 10-bitMonitorSupport
• 3D LUTs, color adjustments

Printing

• Completely Redesigned Print Dialog
• Print Selected Area is back and the selection can be adjusted in the Print Dialog.
• “Edit” button added for the description field in the Print Dialog.
• When using Photoshop Manages Colors, the list of profiles is now filtered to hide profiles that are inappropriate for your currently selected printer.
• Users can change the “preview well” background color in the Print Dialog to better suit their needs.

Download Photoshop 6 Beta here

When your code is called from Edge it is passed an Event object “e” that can be used to learn more about the context in which the handler is being called. Edge Preview Resources: Runtime API v0.1.4 Download.

Given the statistics, realizing how a Facebook business page can change your marketing campaign forever is an opportunity worth exploring.

There are more than 800 million users on Facebook and the number increases each day.

A surefire marketing tool for your campaign is a Facebook company page. Nowadays, social networking websites are surprisingly regarded to as among the biggest and most effective advertising tools to fuel business promotions. In fact,

• 1/3 of the world’s marketers guarantee Facebook as critical and important to their businesses.
• 41% of B2B companies and 7% B2C entities have built strong customer base through Facebook.
• More than 200 million users access Facebook through their phones.
• Facebook users on mobile are twice more active than non-mobile users.
• Over 200 mobile operators deploy and promote Facebook products, including mobile versions of Facebook business page in 60 countries.
• In over 180 countries, more than 1 million developers use Facebook.
• More than 70% Facebook users engage connect with platform applications every month.
• More than 150 million users engage in external websites from Facebook every month.
• Estimates of over 500,000 applications exist on Facebook platform.
• The average user creates 90% content each month.
• The average user connects to 80 groups, events, and community pages.
• More than 900 million pages, groups, events, and community pages people interact with everyday.

So it’s time to find out why big companies thrive with Facebook branded page. For further details give us a call on 01502 676 150 or email us at info@activstudios.com

We have launched our Facebook company page. You can view it here. Don’t forget to click the like button

Got a project to start now? Give us a call on 01502 676 150 or email us at info@activstudios.com for further details.

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I was lucky enough to be asked by my head of department “Do you want a mouse or a tablet?”. I was offered a Wacom A3 tablet with stylus and a mouse with a dual-sided scroll wheel, and was just a joy to use. Wacom are the only tablet developers that have a patent on its stylus pen technology, so that they don’t need batteries to function. This is why Wacom are the best in the industry when it comes to professional tablets, as any alternative tablet on the market will have to use batteries in the stylus.

Wacom have a range of tablets to suit everyone from the web designer, video artist, CAD or architect. Wacoms flagship range Cintiq are the best you can buy for your money and the 24HD is featured in the above video. They also have a mid range series called Intuos, and a level entry range tablet series called Bamboo.

www.wacom.com/en/Products.aspx

Mobile devices are already eclipsing desktops in adoption and internet use — that’s why Foundation was built from the ground up to support any kind of device, any size screen, with any resolution. You can get going quickly by building once for all devices, or you can create a site tailored to a specific experience. Foundation has even included CSS styles to hide and show elements on different device types, so you can easily turn pieces on and off for each experience.

http://foundation.zurb.com/

Animating in the new Adobe Edge app (download it from Labs)
Turning that output into an app using PhoneGap [jump]
Using Flash Professional to export animation as HTML [jump]
Running CSS Shaders in WebKit [jump]
Enabling “liquid layout” from InDesign [jump]

The series of four controllers, Mix, Colour, Transport and Control, have just been given a cosmetic update with a nice black matt finish instead of the original silver. The price for the Euphonix set would be around the same as for the Mackie MCU Pro, and MCU XT Control, so around the £3000 mark. They won’t leave you much change, but worth the price in the hands of a budding user of After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut, Avid, Cubase, Nuendo, ProTools or Logic Studio. Also works with high-end AudoDesk applications Flame, Inferno, Houdini, Flint and Combustion

http://www.avid.com/US/products/family/ArtistSeriesControlSurfaces

The Jot comes in two main flavours, the Jot, and Jot Pro. Both come in a variety of colours and they function the same apart from the Jot Pro has a soft grip, and is magnetic so it can attach to the iPad screen. I have ordered the Jot Pro and will post up a comment on its performance and my thoughts after a weeks trial. It looks the part, but who knows, it could still end up in the back of the draw just like the others!

http://adonit.net/product/jot-pro/

Clicked will be creating a deliciously dark and enticing mix of rich and social media elements, all wrapped up within a concept that’s guaranteed to make viewers tune in. So if you love true crime stories and want to know more about women who kill, you better tune in to Crime & Investigation Network.

Ubisoft identifies the winner simply as Madeline, and you can listen to her performance above. User votes landed Madeline in the top ten, but it was a jury comprised of composers Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, and Simon Landry who made the final decision. Here’s the jury’s official explanation for picking Madeline:

“We chose Madeline because we felt that she had a quality in her voice that inspired and moved us all. This was never going to be a contest about right or wrong, but about the ‘perfect fit’ and we were all deeply impressed with the submissions. The overwhelming response clearly proves that we made the right decision to find a voice among the Assassin’s Creed fan community, and that there is a lot of undiscovered talent out there that deserves to be heard.”

Our congratulations to Madeline!

Their existing site UX was not up to par, so a restructure of the navigation and menus was planned so the user could easy understand and access the the range of products Embrace has to offer. We gave the site a clean a modern feel, that reflects the modular products the company produces.

EG.1

<script type="text/javascript">
	if ( (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPad') != -1)) {
		document.location = "http://www.yourdomain.com/ipad";
	}
</script>

EG.2

<script type="text/javascript">
	if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPhone') != -1)
                ||(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPod') != -1)) {
		document.location = "http://www.yourdomain.com/iphone";
	}
</script>

Example 1. Detection of an ipad and redirects, Example 2. Detection of an iphone and ipod and redirects. You could have three detections and redirect to three different URLs, or have one detection for all and redirect to one URL.

Site URL will be added soon. watch this space for further details.

As MacRumors reports, the new images surfaced at a Vietnamese forum called TaoViet.tn–and unsurprisingly this Web site is now experiencing problems, probably due to the massive traffic hit it’s currently taking. So the original images and even cached backups may not be currently accessible if you try to look. But there’s certainly a ton of them, showing the phone from all angles in people’s hands and on a desk, including the disassembled body and uncovered chipsets. In other words, this is pretty much confirmed as the genuine article.

How did it get out? We don’t know for sure–TaoViet.tn apparently relates the story that a Vietnamese businessman bought it in the U.S. along with an iPad. This sounds extremely underhanded to us … but who knows? In this age of the controlled leak, has Apple’s veil of secrecy been permanently perforated? What we can say is that there’s a handful of new facts that we now know about this year’s iPhone revamp.

The original Gizmodo find certainly is a very late-run prototype–this more finished version has but a few cosmetic differences.

Those black lines around the sides of the phone body are still there, and weren’t a feature of the prototype nature of the first leaked phone.

The microSIM slot has been repositioned, probably as the internal chips and motherboard were finalized from prototype spec to final spec.

Unibody machining has obviously been tweaked for the production models, and now there’s no need for those “ugly” screws at the bottom of the phone next to the dock connector.

It looks like the camera at the front, and the improved camera at the back have made it through to the production models … unlike what happened to the iPod Touch’s camera last year, which was apparently removed at the last minute.
While Gizmodo’s phone had “XXGB” inscribed on its back, this new one has “16GB” on it. This is a new thing, since it’s the same size as the current entry-level iPhone 3GS, and previously Apple had bumped the entry level iPhone’s storage every new edition. This might be for price point coverage (and we may expect a new 64GB version) or it might be a feature Apple changes right at the last minute before next month’s launch.

This new leaked phone runs, but only seems to have some testbed software dubbed Bonfire aboard. Nobody looks to have peeped at the screen resolution, but Giz’s claims of a higher-res screen may be borne out.
Fearing less retribution than Gizmodo’s Jason Chen did, TaoViet disassembled the phone down to the circuitry level, prizing off the delicate metal EM shields. This apparently revealed that the new phone is running with a dedicated Apple CPU aboard–the large square chip with the label on it in the image below. Though we’d advise waiting to see higher resolution shots, and some analysis of the rest of the board before confirming this as the truth, at a guess this is likely to be another home-brewed ARM unit.

The iPad can also dock with a mac style keyboard, and they come in two flavors.
Wifi 16GB $499, 32GB $599, 64GB $699
WiFi+3G. 16GB $629, 32GB $729, 64GB $829

Your icon needs to be 45×45 pixels. design your icon without any rounded corners or glossy shading. The Phone automatically rounds off the corners and adds a slight glassy reflection on the top half of the icon.

Name your icon as: apple-touch-icon.png and upload this to your websites root directory.

If you can’t add the icon graphic to the root directory of your Web site, or just want to keep things organized in subfolders, you can add a link command to to your html page to specify a different filename or different location for the apple-touch-icon.png file:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/Graphics/iphone-icon.png" />

This year brings forth many new and exciting projects for us. We are currently working with Me&Him design to develop an interactive CDROM for Lego Education Center, and also continuing further development of Meggits interactive online brochure. We are also working closely with Lemon Digital developing banners, emailers and micro-sites for Warner Bros and Disney, so this year looks set to be a busy one!

We are very excited about moving into iPhone application development this year. We believe it is essential to embrace the iphone SDK, and news from Adobe announces CS5 flash professional will ship with iphone exporting. Flash to ipsw is just genius! thank you Adobe!

So that said, and with a new year ahead, we thank everyone for their continued support, and wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Final banners to be displayed on www.warnerbros.co.uk

It has been a grand effort to develop this site, and has taken its toll on all involved, Especialy Matt! This site will be worth the wait, and is a grand effort for involved behind the scenes.
XML Drive flash with backend PHP administration console.