| Ulysses III ★ | ulyssesapp.com |
My writing tool of choice has a big update, in a form of third iteration as a new app. With iCloud syncing and built-in integration with Daedalus Touch, their hugely understated iOS writing app, they seem to have found the sweet spot between simplicity and killer feature sets.
The app uses a single library file (versus projects based file in Ulysses 2), so you would have to export your old U2 files and import them to U3.
Hear the angels sing, heard the devils weep // An alien-like outcrop of one Lembongan Beach. © Will Wiriawan.
| Image related tips for Mac OS X ★ | macperformanceguide.com |
Six-part time-saving tips to streamline your photo workflow.
| ‘Like Instagram but on WordPress’ ★ | blog.pressgr.am |
You’ll be able to take an image, much like you do with Instagram, but it’ll be posted on your WordPress blog as a post without having to jump into another application.
A Kickstarter project for now, and it will be a free app if funded.
| The Next Web Magazine’s Photo Issue ★ | thenextweb.com |
TNW has done some great jobs with their iPad magazines. The latest edition put a spotlight on photography.
One could never fathom the beauty of this world, this life, until we catch a glimpse of its true colors at sunrise and sunset each day. © Will Wiriawan
| Nik Collection by Google ★ | niksoftware.com |
Nik was a boutique software house for over 17 years before being acquired by Google, and put some of its products to retirement.
But for now, its primary products — the pro plugins collection — are still in the pipeline, and has just got a huge price cut.
Software should empower you, not distract you. It’s a tool, and like any good tool it should feel like a part of you. Once you know how to use it, the software itself should fade into your subconscious.
| ‘All Story is Manipulation’ ★ | redglasspictures.com |
Ken Burns is the filmmaker who introduces the effect of the same name.
Japanese TV Network NHK, footed the restoration bill for the ceiling restoration in exchange for exclusive film and publication rights until 2019.
This is probably the only time most of us going to see this place without people in it.
In 2004, Museo Vatican announces a partnership with the Japanese TV Network, NHK, whom will be footing the multi-million dollar restoration bill in exchange for exclusive film and publication rights. Besides public domain and the Museum’s own use, no other parties allowed to capture any artwork, both film and print, inside the chapel. Thus the constant policing by the guards: “No photos!”, “Be quiet!”, “Keep walking!”
The Museum authority uses another clever method to outsmart prying cameras: it uses just enough light for human eyes to see, rendering the room simply too dark for even a fast modern DSLR sensor.
For NHK it’s purely a business transaction where every penny of investment yields a multiplied profit, one way or another. The Vatican can sell postcards, books, and mostly, tickets to get funds to run its multi-million dollar facility & operations. It’s a win-win deal.
Than there’s us. The pilgrims, the travelers and admirers of the romanticized art feeding the heavenly with our hard-earned penny.
I wonder if Michaelangelo would be happy or not so, for one, the art is no longer purely his vision.