Good things come in small packages.  I have found this to be the case especially in the iTunes App Store.

There are lots of iPhone To-Do apps out there.  In fact, there are three of them that all have the same logo.  However, I went into the App Store with just one thing on my mind; I wanted a To-Do list app that did only two things - display a badge on the app icon showing me how many tasks are left, and when it’s complete, let me tap it, which ticks the box.

I have found that application.

To Do’s by AustinBull Software

This FREE little application is the killer app on my iPhone 3G.  No kidding.  It’s simple enough to do exactly what I want.  None of this stuff about syncing to the web, making an account…. NO.  I don’t like that.  I just want to be able to make a checklist.

Here is a screenshot taken from the applications page in the iTunes App Store:

[Via secretmrx's blog The Apple Daily Times]

This October 20th brings a new release of boxee this version has a great user interface of the social media center to control all of your downloaded media, and adds the great streaming content from CBS, Comedy Channel and Hulu! When your friends watch a TV show or movie that is on any one of these (and more) streaming sites, boxee will automatically connect you to the full movie or featured clips, so you can watch along with your friends, for free!

What can I say, I still remember the upcoming of CS2 to our computer as well as CS3 not long ago. CS3 had the bad taste of beeing just a simple update with very little new features comapred to the grandma CS2.
Now, looking on the new flagship from Adobe today, it’s hard to make a first judgment after all.

Some really amazing stuff was added, like the content aware scaling possibilities. Just make a landscape picture and scale it into header needed format with ease, really stunnign if you do it the first time.  But also a few things seem to have changed to worse. I.e. do you remmber the cool extraction filter which was genius from getting background in hair removed? It is simply gone, alonge with the pattern generator. But why? so far, it is kinda hard to find any information on the death of this feature yet, maybe it will be explained somwhere later by adobe themself, I would be really intrested.

Other than that, with tabbing, working with PS CS4 on the Mac became much more comfortable than with older versions. The tab feature was unified with all CS4 applications and makes working quite a lot more enjoyable and the new and clean look of the menus now visulaize that the creative suie now finally (!!!) arrived in the leopard age (for those who don’t know CS3 offically is not compatible to Leopard at all).

Under the bottom line, it’s a nice update with some stunning features (with very little practical usage), but for the average user, much too expensive. The new features I seen so far don’t change much on the usale graphican’s office workflow which would justify the price of multiple hundred dollar (or thousend even for big collections) unless you are in the business of header creation . For the price every revision has, I would expect bugs and cleanups to be made within a single cycle, not selling the customers bugfixes and little facelift as a newing which is worth that much money at all.

I will give more reivews on other parts or the whole CS4 later after I tried out everything new in this damn expensive Design Premium package. Stay tuned.