Design Jam

Posted by wolfgang on 7. March 2011

Superidee: eine Art Barcamp für UX/UI-Designer. Relativ frisch das Ganze (seit November 2010) und aus London. Aber lokale Treffen sind erwünscht. Mal sehen, ob nicht in Frankfurt am Main so etwas auch möglich wäre …

http://www.designjams.org/wiki/Main_Page

New Mac OS X Lion GUI

Posted by wolfgang on 25. February 2011

Desktop publishing the open way

Posted by wolfgang on 16. February 2011

One of my favorite apps at the moment is a free and open source desktop publishing tool: Scribus.

You can create template pages and even measured drawings of e.g. a floor plan. Only caveat: the GUI isn’t very Mac-like (it is based on the “Qt” framework) and even worth the behavior is sometimes a bit wired: selected text (looks like selected text) isn’t selected. But: it’s for free and maybe there will be an update soon (version I use: 1.3.9).

View and comment PDF files

Posted by wolfgang on 16. February 2011

A great tool to view and comment PDF files is SKIM.

One of my favorite little features is the dynamic scaling: hold option and mouse-scroll. Awesome and missing in Apple Preview. And sure there are more “real” and powerful features …

see conference #6

Posted by wolfgang on 16. February 2011

Maybe we’ll meet at the see #6?
9. April 2011 in Wiesbaden, Germany

http://see-conference.com/

Best diary and notes iPhone app

Posted by wolfgang on 16. February 2011

Meemo: a good and free app for taking notes in categories and with a diary function. All notes are stamped by a date and time. Special feature is the backup function: the SQLite database can be converted to a CSV file using the Mac tool “SQL-” and thus be edited and analysed in more detail afterwards.

It is also a good tool to get some ideas sorted.

http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/meemo-note-diary-alarm/id386598059?mt=8