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Evan Troxel

Letters of Note: Best of 2012

Have you visited Letters of Note lately? It's one of the best. Don't miss their Best of 2012 letters. Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated

✱ Moving from Aperture to Lightroom

Today I'm starting to go through all of my thousands of photos (seriously - around 10,000 photos from this year alone) from 2012 for our annual year-in-review family slideshow video. Unfortunately, this needs to be done by tomorrow! This year also marks the year that I switched

✱ The Top 10 Flickr for iPhone Tips, My Flickr Photos

If you're looking for a great place to share your photos, take a(nother) look at Flickr. I'm going to try using it solely for the forseeable future due to the whole Facebook/Instagram brouhaha. Here's a blog post on the Flickr site regarding

early apple computer and tablet designs

There are some amazing stories coming out of Apple these days, and there are some beautiful early designs (as well as some turds) to see in a new book by Hartmut Esslinger, a past designer at Apple who also founded frog design. It's really interested to see that

Apple has named 'Paper' iPad App of the Year

Apple has named Paper iPad App of the Year. We’re incredibly honored (and a few of us on the team are still scraping our jaws off the floor). We’re lucky to spend our days working on something we love and believe in, and to see creators around the

Apple's Attention to Detail

Dan Pallotta: When you are willing to pay this level attention to detail you can be as great as Apple, and not a moment sooner. When I worked in our local Apple store for two years I soaked as much of this kind of thing up as I could. It

Eddie Van Halen deconstructs his collaboration on 'Beat It'

Add this one to your trivia. Who knew? ∞