Tag: AESTHETICS

Bend is a Windows text editor that is currently under development. It's far from ready (it doesn't really have a proper homepage, and its status is listed as Alpha on CodePlex), but it shows great promise. The whole thing is based on WPF and XAML, which are two hot, new Microsoft technologies that are used for making interfaces look nice. The screenshot shows the basic interface, which is ...

John's Background Switcher is one of my favorite Windows applications; it's a fantastic free wallpaper switcher with excellent multiple monitor support. That's a must, since I enjoy having a different wallpaper on each of my monitors. The application can rotate wallpapers from a number of sources, such as Flickr accounts, the local hard drive, Google Images, ... and as of version 4.2, the ...

There has been a lot of hype around the release of the new Mac note taking app Thoughts by green&slimy software, and it has now been released. We've already got a ton of note taking applications to choose from -- like Evernote and Notational Velocity -- so what does Thoughts bring to the table to set itself apart? As far as I can tell, Thoughts wants to be the pretty girl at the party. They're ...

Professional art critics endlessly debate the merits of various photographs -- heck, that's the entire premise of a photography contest! -- but what if a computer could reliably do the same thing? Researchers at Penn State put together a photo ranking algorithm that you can now test for yourself on the web. It's called Acquine, and it's based on data from large numbers of human ratings that ...