NicolaArmellini

So, Frank DeLoupe, our new tiny app, is now available on the Mac App Store.

How many times did you have to import an image or a screenshot in Photoshop because you weren't able to accurately pick colors outside of the app window? Same here. Countless times.

Frank was born to solve this problem. It's a loupe that throws the picked colors right back to Photoshop with no further copy-paste-memorize-fail-swear-loud workflow. All via Remote Connections, a fantastic feature available from Photoshop CS5 (12.0.4) on. It also does color-code picking, but it's really just a utility feature. It sure will come in handy when you're a developer in a hurry though.

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It's been growing on me for a few days so I finally decided the place where all started deserved much better than what I left it with.

I promised many times great things would happen here, but embarrassingly enough, I never actually kept up to those promises. I reactivated my membership, while I prepare some new stuff.

It is time.

Day #6. I'm now sure it's just a matter of deciding wether I want to keep up with it or not. There's no addiction whatsoever driving me nuts. I'm anxious for tomorrow though, I can't help it. Back to the day job with loads of troubles to face at the same time. And heating to be fixed at my temporary house in Daverio forcing me to sleep in the cold tonight.

We'll see...

Day #2 of quitting bad habits. I don't know if I really want to though.

Last year I was too busy focusing on getting my relationship to a higher level to waste time gathering a few ideas and use them as new year's resolutions. And not to be forgotten, I felt I was already too busy with work to propose myself anything else. I realized I was damn wrong. 2009 has brought me so down I reacted in a violent way to further pushing. The 21st Century Breakdown BJ and the guys have been talking about in one of the most anticipated albums in my entire collection. Not to talk about their awesome concert... If you've never been to a Green Day show, well, you're really missing the best ROCK show EVER. Buy tickets and go now!

This said, I wanted to start with one of the resolutions I made for this year. Make good music.
Last year Yari and myself started playing, writing and recording our own songs after unsuccessful attempts with old-seasoned band mates leading to even more frustration and waste of time. We have a solid workflow now and getting from the idea to a well-rounded arrangement of the song takes about 10 to 12 hours (vocals excluded). By the end of the year I want to have a complete album ready (say 13/14 songs?).

I'd like to think about it this way: right NOW I have a timetable that will prevent me from seriously putting my efforts into writing more than one night per week (resulting in extremely sleepy day-after). I want this to change. SOON.