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If you're looking for something fun to do with your iPhone while hanging out start taking pictures of everything around you, then upload them to Panoramio.

If you know the source of this image, pls comment.

"It's somewhere between Ariel and Wingdings"

Today has brought a host of application updates that have kept me busy throughout the day.

Apple this morning released Safari 4 beta, the next generation Web browser for Mac OSX. I won't go into the details here, you can read my full review of Safari 4 beta at The Graphic Mac..

Needless to say, it's wicked-fast with the new Nitro Javascript engine. Gmail loads instantly, and every site I visit that uses Javascript seems much faster. The new features and GUI enhancements take some getting used to, but are a nice addition to an already great browser.

Not to be shown-up, Adobe has also released an update for Adobe InDesign CS4, bring the version to 6.0.1. The following is a partial list of bugs fixed with the update:

• Exporting to Digital Editions fails with an error in the Italian and French version.
• InDesign unexpectedly quits when joining two points with the pen tool.
• InDesign unexpectedly quits when Shift-Cmd-double-clicking to override a master page text frame containing text.
• InDesign unexpectedly quits when user clicks in the Links panel.
• InDesign documents with a large number of placed InDesign files may fail to update the links to the placed InDesign files.
• Page turns are incorrect for right-to-left bound documents exported to SWF.
• When exporting a document to .SWF, “mailto:” links have “http://” appended to them making them inoperable.
• InDesign document with very large images with a high effective resolution fails to export to PDF.
• Photoshop clipping paths drop out for certain placed EPS’s unless “Read Embedded OPI Image Links” is chosen in Import options.
• Master Page Items from a placed InDesign document are dropped when exporting to PDF.
• InDesign CS3 documents converted to InDesign CS4 reflow unexpectedly due to hyphenation limits.

Also updated was Adobe InCopy to version 6.0.1. While not a great many designers use the InDesign companion product, I thought it worth mentioning.

If you check your Adobe Updater app in your Utilities folder, you'll also likely find a few more minor updates as well.

This is just horrible. Take a look at this logo re-design over at BrandNew. And this is from Pentagram, no less.

Check back what you accomplished from your last year's list and make your new resolutions. Wish you a successful new year!

Unbelievable. I'm pissed enough at kids with gaming PCs running CorelDraw undercutting me with their prices on logo designs. Now, apparently elephants started painting to make a living. What's next? Ant eaters doing glamor retouching?

I understand we are going through a recession and everybody's trying to make a living. But, we have to stop these elephants! Otherwise we will soon be payed with bananas. I propose we let these beast eat their own dog food, er.. I mean elephant food. Let them realize what they are doing to us designers. Let us all start carrying giant tree logs all day and let's see what they have to say about us taking their job! Who's with me!?

Time for a little end of the year fun. :)