Archive for the 'Computers' Category

A Piece of Photoshop History

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Here’s one of the earliest color icons for the graphics application Photoshop:

PhotoShop 0.67 Icon

This image was pulled from The Abyss: Special Edition, which was one of the first major uses of the application developed by Thomas Knoll, and his brother John Knoll, a visual wizard at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic. Photoshop 1.0 was released for the Apple Macintosh exclusively.

More on the history of Photoshop at Wikipedia.

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Computer Operating System Music

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Some nifty tunes made by others utilizing computer operating system sounds:

Mac OS X:

You can download the original GarageBand file and .m4a file at The Cleverist.

via swissmiss.

Windows 98/XP:

Despite being a ‘Mac’ guy, I actually like the tune composed using the Microsoft Windows sounds. There’s a little more depth to the tune. As a note of interest: Brian Eno composed the ubiquitous Windows 95 startup sound.

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