A new level of Bokeh in film/video…nice application of the Canon 5D MkII
When I first started watching this video, my immediate thought on seeing the head shots of the little girl were, ‘what lens is that?!? It looks like the 50mm 1.2 L series on my 5D, only this is video I’m watching!’ (I might be wrong about the lens, but yeah, that is seriously what went through my head) Hannah & Leonard Sure enough, on the right margin of the web page, it says ‘prod

takeaway from MAX: iPhone & Mobile development from Flex and Flash
There were lots of news and sneaks at the Adobe MAX conference this week, and fortunately a lot of it is available in a couple places: a) Adobe MAX Online Site b) most of the sessions are now available on Adobe TV Some items of very specific interest to mobile developers: -Flash Player 10.1 was announced, which has been greatly optimized for running on mobile devices – no more flash lite, we are talking about the full flash player on mobile phones, and quite a few of the leading mobile phone manufacturers have joined

review: Balsamiq Mockups
The short and sweet: Balsamiq Mockups offers a way for folks to quickly throw together wireframes – no experience necessary. You don’t need to be a wizard with Fireworks, for example, to quickly create and edit a wireframe in front of a client. It took me, as a ‘first time ever’ user of Balsamiq, about two hours to complete a wireframe I had sketched up on paper in a few minutes. That’s a plus – I doubt anyone besides myself can read the wireframe I sketched by hand, much less make heads or tails of it, while the one I made with Balsamiq is quite legible, while still lo-res such that it should impress upon the client that this is indeed a mockup not