Author: Fuad Kamal

  • Sketch 3 vs Photoshop CC

    Sketch 3 vs Photoshop CC

    There’s been a lot of hype surrounding the vector design tool known as Sketch, which is made exclusively for Mac and leverages Apple frameworks and hardware.  It’s a lean and focused product, while Photoshop is a behemoth with tons of legacy code and feature bloat.

  • Adobe Lightroom Mobile – first impressions

    Adobe Lightroom Mobile – first impressions

    Yesterday Adobe announced the release of Lightroom Mobile.  This has been a while coming…we have been eagerly awaiting it’s release but nobody outside of Adobe had any idea when it would finally hit.  I had to download and take it for a spin right away.

  • “what camera should I buy?”

    “what camera should I buy?”

    I recently forwarded an article about the new Canon M2 to a friend of mine who I know has been shopping around for a camera for quite a while.  He wants a good camera and a limited budget is a strong factor for him.  I previously (and still do) recommended he get a Fujifilm X100s.…

  • what keeps me awake while driving

    what keeps me awake while driving

    Here’s what keeps me awake when I drive.

  • iOS 7 Design Resources

    iOS 7 Design Resources

    A short post on iOS 7 design resources I wrote on the Anaara Blog

  • do what you love

    do what you love

    figure out what you enjoy and do that.  If money is what motivates you start planning for a miserable life. When you start trying to do what you think you enjoy, you are bound to come across many, many barriers.  Some of those will seem insurmountable. The key is, to realize the barriers are actually…

  • Hacking the ProForm Tour de France (part 2)

    Hacking the ProForm Tour de France (part 2)

    So tonight I rode Stage One of the 2012 Tour de France on the ProForm TDF bike.  Here’s a link to my ride on iFit.com.   It was a lot easier than I imagined it would be, as it was mostly flat.  I’m sure it will get a lot harder in the next stages as…

  • Adventures in Objective-C: Categories

    Adventures in Objective-C: Categories

    Every year Apple has been making Objective C and Xcode easier and easier to be picked up by developers like me – coming from a background in high-level OO languages (ActionScript, Java) with little to no experience in C – people for whom terms like “memory management” evoke images of creepy dark things crawling from…

  • go wide

    go wide

    Tires: How Wide is too Wide? A placebo effect is very powerful. I know that when I raced, I loved riding my bike with its superlight wheels and hand-glued tires. How much was the wheels, how much the tires, and how much the fact that I rode the race wheels in races, when I had rested…