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Today at Apple’s WWDC event in San Francisco, Apple had a bunch of Cinema Display monitors mounted together on a wall showing what looked to be some sort of pulsating canvas. But a closer look revealed that it was actually a huge collection of icons for many of the apps available in the App Store, arranged by color. Apparently, when someone purchased one, that app’s icon would pulsate, creating the effect.

via Apple’s Cool Matrix-Style App Wall , via Dean.

“The red icon on your iPhone or iPod touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were rich enough to afford this. It’s a work of art with no hidden function at all.”

via wrongdistance.com

Artists and producers work hard in the studio perfecting their sound, but people can’t really hear it with normal headphones. Most headphones can’t handle the bass, the detail, the dynamics. Bottom line: the music doesn’t move you. With Beats, people are going to hear what the artists hear and listen to the music the way they should– the way I do.

Beats by Dr. Dre Headphones

Another image editor for OS X is in town…

Designed from the ground up specifically for Mac users, Iris provides a powerful, intuitive, and easy-to-use solution for all your photo editing needs.

[via Todd Dominey]

Chris Prillio enthusiastically links us to “Secrets” a nice prefpane to get at hidden app settings.

The idea of “my computer as my music library and my iPod is my walkman” was very quickly adopted. Conversely, it’s very interesting to see how slowly people are adopting the same strategy in regards to video. But, I see the shift starting to happen.

Personally, I’ve started ripping my DVDs (just my favorites) to my computer and purchasing more and more movies in pure digital form. I hate the thought of DRM invading my movie files, but the convenience is just too great. Sitting down with some friends on a late Saturday night, I can rent ,on demand, an HD version of almost any movie I want, through my AppleTV – many of these movies I can also purchase. The AppleTV is severely under-appreciated. I think there will be some big moves in store for the AppleTV in the near future.

So what’s holding us back from clearing our shelves of cumbersome DVD cases and praying to the encoding gods? Hard drive speed and capacity. An hour and a half movie takes up about 1.1GB. HD versions take up about three times that. We need faster and larger hard drives and we need them yesterday.

I can’t wait till the day my shelves are clear of DVD cases.

How do you get those fancy hearts, or other unicode characters, without going to the character palette?

Add the Unicode Hex Input via the International System Preference pane and then hold down shift-alt and type in your unicode character code. shift-alt-2665 is the solid black heart.

• What if? – A blog that doesn’t update anymore, sadly.
• Check out the Air Zoo – the most beautiful use of trash bags to date.

• Design Within Reach has some nifty doorbells that would go really well with some Neutra designed numbers.

  

• He writes on his hands and makes klein bottles. This TED video is a hoot.

• Apple Is Sued Over iMac Colors Claim

  The Cupertino-based company touts that ability on its Web site and other marketing material even though it knows iMac monitors can display only 262,144 true colors, according to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

  Users are fooled into seeing many more colors because the monitors use technological tricks that involve showing many similar shades at high speeds to create the illusion of the desired shade, according to the lawsuit.

• Joe explains why sucks is a four letter word.
• Some amazing art by Andy Gillmore [via DDC]