by Angela West at WedDesginerDepot.com

Photoshop has been a part of every web designer’s life since they picked up their first mouse.

On February 10th, 2010, Photoshop turns twenty. To mark this anniversary, we’ve come up with an article that takes you through the evolution of Photoshop from its modest beginnings as a bundled program sold with scanners to its current version.

For each version and major feature listed, we couldn’t help but think “did Photoshop ever exist without that feature?”.

Some of the minor details are fun too, such as the one-liner Easter Eggs that Photoshop developers hid in some versions and the fact that the most current versions of Adobe Photoshop CS are equipped with anti-counterfeiting measures for multiple world currencies.

Please join us in thanking the Knolls and Adobe for making all of our lives more awesome, every day.

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I came across this today from the band OK Go regarding YouTube and the music biz in 2010. It’s very interesting and worth a read. You can find the original posting on OK Go’s message board:

To the people of the world, from OK Go:

This week we released a new album, and it’s our best yet. We also released a new video – the second for this record – for a song called This Too Shall Pass, and you can watch it here. We hope you’ll like it and comment on it and pass the link along to your friends and do that wonderful thing that that you do when you’re fond of something, share it. We want you to stick it on your web page, post it on your wall, and embed it everywhere you can think of.

Unfortunately, as of now you can’t embed diddlycrap. And depending on where you are in the world, you might not even be able to watch it.

We’ve been flooded with complaints recently because our YouTube videos can’t be embedded on websites, and in certain countries can’t be seen at all. And we want you to know: we hear you, and we’re sorry. We wish there was something we could do. Believe us, we want you to pass our videos around more than you do, but, crazy as it may seem, it’s now far harder for bands to make videos accessible online than it was four years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

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I don’t claim that these are the best songs, but I discovered them this past year and have played each of them about a million times on my iPod. They are all upbeat and make me feel good, and that is what I will choose to remember as this dreadful year draws to a close:

• 1. Muse – “Uprising”
• 2. Passion Pit – “The Reeling”
• 3. MGMT – “Electric Feel”
• 4. Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling”
• 5. Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
• 6. Passion Pit – “Little Secrets”
• 7. Lady Gaga – “Just Dance”
• 8. Animal Collective – “My Girls”
• 9. Empire of the Sun – “We are the People”
• 10. MGMT – “Kids”
• 11. Basement Jaxx – “My Turn”

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This first appeared on the FIRE collective’s blog under the title “Avatar: Condescending Racism or a Story of Transformation and Struggle?”

By Eric Ribellarsi

A debate has recently broken out about the new science fiction film Avatar. A popular review appeared on io9 by Annalee Newitz titled When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like Avatar? I’d like to try to respond to some of the points in that review and give a different view that defends that movie.

I have to strongly disagree with Annalee Newitz’s review.

Annalee Newitz wrote:

“Jake is so enchanted that he gives up on carrying out his mission, which is to persuade the Na’vi to relocate from their “home tree,” where the humans want to mine the unobtanium. Instead, he focuses on becoming a great warrior who rides giant birds and falls in love with the chief’s daughter. When the inevitable happens and the marines arrive to burn down the Na’vi’s home tree, Jake switches sides. With the help of a few human renegades, he maintains a link with his avatar body in order to lead the Na’vi against the human invaders. Not only has he been assimilated into the native people’s culture, but he has become their leader.”

This review misses key aspects of the story, and even distorts the storyline of the movie to make it fit into a rather dogmatic framework. I found the movie to be a nuanced and beautiful film that told the story of an elitist white soldier for imperialism who goes to exploit and oppress an indigenous nation of aliens (the Na’vi), but is instead transformed by them and won to take up armed struggle against imperialism alongside them.

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