¿Utiliza siempre lápiz y papel para comenzar sus diseños, pero lamenta que su trabajo se quede atascado en el papel hasta que no escanea la imagen? Si es así, Inkling es la herramienta indispensable. Este lápiz digital le permite realizar bocetos sobre cualquier tipo de papel. Mientras dibuja, todos los trazos se registran electrónicamente y, para la posterior edición de los bocetos, se pueden importar a su software de diseño gráfico favorito como imagen bitmap o vectorial. Con un solo clic podrá insertar distintas capas (por ejemplo, para separar el dibujo preparatorio del definitivo) que se conservarán después de la importación.

Mejore su trabajo profesional capturando digitalmente sus bocetos mientras los dibuja con un bolígrafo sobre papel normal

No necesita aprender nada nuevo. Tan solo encienda su Inkling, adjunte el receptor al papel y comience a dibujar donde más le apetezca: libretas, servilletas, folios…

Sólo tiene que situar el receptor de Inkling a un lado y éste captará los movimientos del lápiz Inkling en cualquier tipo de papel de tamaño hasta A4 (21 x 29,7 cm).

Puede estructurar sus bocetos en capas a medida que dibuja, así ya no tendrá que crearlas posteriormente

Dispone de 1.024 niveles de sensibilidad a la presión para trazos del lápiz naturales

Bamboo Stylus duo combina el desempeño del estilete digital de Wacom para iPad® de Apple® y otros dispositivos móviles con punta de lápiz para tinta tradicional. Ahora puede dibujar en su iPad y escribir en papel casi simultáneamente, todo con el mismo estilete.

Bamboo Stylus duo es perfecto para cuando desea llevar solo un instrumento de escritura. El estilete ofrece la misma punta de lápiz refinada y sensible que Bamboo Stylus solo, para obtener la mejor sensación posible del lápiz en pantalla de su dispositivo móvil. Además, agrega la comodidad de una punta de lápiz con tinta tradicional al otro extremo del estilete, para tomar notas en papel común.

Solo debe alternar entre trabajar en la pantalla táctil y el papel común girando el lápiz. El cartucho de tinta usa recargas estándares y, de este modo, ofrece una sensación de escritura similar a los bolígrafos comunes. La tapa del lápiz’se puede colocar en cualquier extremo.

Con su diseño superior sofisticado y su elegante presentación en tonos grises o negros platinados, Bamboo Stylus duo es un instrumento de escritura con clase y ofrece rendimiento y flexibilidad.

The tip of the stylus is 25 percent narrower (6mm vs. 8mm) in diameter than some of the other most popular solutions on the market today. Combining ergonomic comfort and a firmer feel, the Bamboo Stylus offers a premium digital inking experience

for handwriting notes, highlighting text, editing documents, drawing, sketching and much more.

Bamboo Stylus brings a more accurate and precise way to take notes in meetings and classroom settings, or to sketch out rough ideas while on the go. For example, users can improve their input experience with numerous applications developed for iPad, i

ncluding Wacom’s own Bamboo Paper, Penultimate™ for notetaking and Autodesk® SketchBook® Mobile for sketching needs, and other popular applications.

For serious drawing or sketching capabilities on a computer, check out Wacom’s line of Intuos professional pen tablets or the Bamboo line of pen tablets, which have helped Wacom earn the reputation as the global leader in digital pens.

Designed to meet the high performance demands of creative professionals, as well as photo, art, and design enthusiasts, Intuos5 combines Wacom’s finest pen tablet experience with multi-touch input in a single device. Immerse yourself in a natural, intuitive workflow, as you alternate between the use of multi-finger touch to position and navigate your artwork, and the pressure sensitive pen to precisely sketch, paint, retouch, and edit your creative work. Intuos5 features Wacom’s best-in-class 2048 levels of pen pressure and its innovative pen tip sensor, so you can capture even the most subtle nuances of pressure.

Wacom continues to add productivity features, as the time-saving ExpressKeys™ can be customized for your favorite application-specific shortcuts and modifiers. The new, innovative Express View display provides an on screen-reminder of your ExpressKey settings, so that you can keep your eyes on your monitor and on your work. The pen tablet connects to your PC or Mac through a USB connection, or with the optional RF Wireless Accessory Kit (sold separately).

Available in 3 different sizes (small, medium, and large), you can choose the professional pen tablet that is right for your screen size, working style, and desktop space.

The $80 Bamboo Connect, Wacom’s entry-level tablet, is designed for business illustration and simple doodles. Clad in black with a bright green accent, the device features a 5.8-inch-by-3.6-inch work area and 1024 levels of pressure awareness using one of the company’s signature pens with programmable side-buttons. Users can connect the tablet to their laptop or desktop via USB, and have the option of working with it using included software like Autodesk’s Sketchbook Express, digital inking functionality within Microsoft Office, or any other installed illustration application.

The mid-level consumer offering, the $100 Bamboo Capture, offers the same surface area as the Connect; with this silver-and-black tablet, however, users will get the ability to use multitouch gestures (up to 16 discrete touch points, and full support for gestures in Mac OS X Lion); and optional wireless connectivity (using a $39 accessory). By including a full version of Photoshop Elements in addition to Sketchbook Express, it looks like Wacom hopes to market the Capture toward photographers, though budding illustrators should also enjoy the device’s capabilities.

On the high end of the spectrum, the $200 Bambo Create is solidly an artist’s tool: The tablet provides a full 8.5 inches by 5.4 inches of pressure-sensitive pen and multitouch workspace (in comparison to the Connect and Capture’s 5.8 inches by 3.6 inches), adds a pressure-sensitive eraser to the end of the stylus, and ships with Corel’s Painter Essentials along with Photoshop Elements and Sketchbook Express. And, like the Capture, users can enable wireless connectivity using Wacom’s $39 Plug-n-Play Wireless module. With the features it offers, the Create looks like it could fill a crucial niche for artists-in-training who can’t yet shell out $399 for a wireless Intuos4 tablet.

You can pick up one of the tablets from Wacom’s website, or from one of the company’s authorized resellers. All three tablets support both Mac and Windows operating systems; users can download the correct driver from Wacom’s website.

Read more:
http://www.macworld.com/article/162530/2011/09/wacom_releases_updated_bamboo_tablet_line.html

At Tuesday’s event, Apple presented awards in four categories: Student, iPhone, Mac, and iPad. In the Student category, Apple recognized Grades 2 by Tapity, Pennant by Vargatron, and Pulse News Reader by Alphonso Labs.

Awards in the iPhone category went to Chillingo for Cut the Rope, Shotzoom for Golfscape GPS Rangefinder, and Chair Entertainment for Infinity Blade.

The three iPad apps recognized were Osmos by Hemisphere Games, Our Choice by Push Pop Press, and Djay by Algoriddim.

To qualify for an ADA, Mac software had to be sold through the Mac App Store; Mac software sold elsewhere wasn’t eligible this year. The three Mac App Store titles recognized this year were Capo by SumerMegaUltraGroovy, Pixelmator by Pixelmator Team, and Anomaly: Warzone Earth by 11 Bit Studios.

Read More:

http://www.macworld.com/article/160388/2011/06/apple_design_awards_2011.html

Fatigue and stuffiness led to an inappropriately Deep Thought. And so I was struck by the fact that all of us has a bond that is unstated, obvious, and yet incredibly relevant: We’re all alive right now. We’re the people who lived through the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st. Not just the people in the conference room, but every single one of us. Despite all our differences, we share one huge bond: we are the people who are alive right now, right this very moment. We weren’t in the past, and we won’t be at some indeterminate point in the future, but right now we are all living in the world.
I walked back upstairs after the meeting and almost immediately got the news that Steve Jobs was gone from that world.
When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, ‘Get it away!’ and I shipped all that s—- off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you’ll be crushed. You have to look forward.
—Steve Jobs, 2009
I didn’t know Steve Jobs. Most of us didn’t. I interacted with him a few times, asking a few press-conference questions, interviewing him on the phone once. But like the rest of you, I felt some sort of strange connection with him. He was the face of the company I’ve covered for coming up on 20 years. His return to Apple saved it from oblivion. And then we got the world-changing products: Not just the Mac, which had redefined what a “personal computer” was in the ’80s, but the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad.
Steve Jobs didn’t invent those products singlehandedly in his garage, legends be damned. There are hundreds of brilliant people at Apple who deserve the credit for making the company’s incredibly popular products. But Steve Jobs was the guy who created the environment those products were built in. He’s the one who prodded the people at Apple to make their prototypes better. He made Apple what it is. What the company does from here on out, it does because of him.
Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.
—John Gruber, 2011

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http://www.macworld.com/article/162827/2011/10/steve_jobs_making_a_dent_in_the_universe.html

Y es que precisamente los animales, se despiertan con los ciclos de luz(solares) y no con molestos despertadores, como hacemos nosotros. Lógicamente no todo el mundo tiene la suerte de contar con una gran ventana donde ver el sol cada mañana pero si cuentas con un Mac en tu habitación puedes imitar dicho efecto.

Wake Up Light es un despertador para tu ordenador que imita ese ciclo de luz natural y que en lugar de despertarte con intensos y molestos ruidos, lo hace imitando un amanecer en la pantalla de tu ordenador.

La idea es francamente buena y si dichos estudios están en lo cierto, igual podemos decir adiós de una vez por todas a esos días en los cuales parece que todo sale mal precisamente porqué nos hemos levantado con mala pata. La aplicación es de pago y tiene un precio de 1,59 euros en la Mac App Store.