What’s the size of an iPhone App icon?
What’s the border radius of an iPad App icon?
These are questions I hear a lot. Let’s face it, between the iPhone, the iPhone with retina display, the iPad, the iPod touch and the iTunes App artwork, it’s hard to remember all the sizes and particularly the border radius of each one.
So without any further ado, here’s a Photoshop file I put together with all the mentioned icons. Grab it, it’s FREE and I hope it will make your life a little easier.

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In case you’re wandering, these are the size and radius border for each icon:

iPhone: 57×57 – radius 9
iPhone & iPod Retina: 114×114 – radius 18
iPad: 72×72 – radius 11
iTunes: 512×512 – radius 80

This is very useful in case you’re planning on designing an icon where the artwork follows the rounded corners, but as you know, you need to export each icon as a square, the device will automatically crop out the corners.
Same goes for the glossy effect, you can enable or disable it, but definitely don’t include it in your icon artwork.

Old school breakfast: original italian espresso coffee, sunny side up eggs, toast and milk. I’ve shot this with my Canon 550D and edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. The beautiful soundtrack you hear is “Guilty” by Al Bowlly.

The GEOMETRY Font is based on a specific grid. The grid is made of vertical, horizontal, diagonal lines and circles. Every single letter, number and symbol fits perfectly in the grid, no exception!

The GEOMETRY Font includes uppercase, lowercase, numbers and punctuation symbols.

The free version contains only uppercase letters.
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The full version (containing all lowercase characters, symbols, numbers, etc.) is available on MyFonts.com
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Grab these free patterns, all inspired by fabrics.

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Simple and Clean User Interface elements for you to use in your design. If you use several elements from this file, please add a link to my blog.

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Photoshoot of Dubai’s residential are JBR (Jumeirah Beach Residence) in a spring afternoon.

Camera: Canon 550D. Lenses: 10-20mm

This is a beautiful video shot by the master Philip Bloom. Shot on a Canon Rebel T2i (550D). I just got the same camera, so… looking forward to achieve a similar masterpiece. I’ll be posting my first video tests soon.

If the Photoshop file containing multiple grid systems I shared previously is not enough for you, here is a plugin for Photoshop that enables you to create and customize any sort of grid system for your layouts.

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There are plenty of iPhone docks and stands out there, some very cool, but mostly expensive.

Let’s face it, you can make an iPhone or iPod stand out of anything, but this one is quite useful, if you’re a smoker you’re all set. All you need is a pack of cigarettes, and even more interesting: no alterations required, when you’re done with the stand your pack of cigarettes is back to normal. Take a look at the photos to see how.

Dear Steve Jobs,

we all love the Mac, the iMac, the Macbook Pro and the whole family. The iPad is also very successful, but I’m not getting one.
Instead I’m getting a MacPad, the new product you’re lunching next year. Because you are, aren’t you?

The problem:

With an iPad you run around the house or the office and you have your emails, web and music with you. But you don’t have OS X with Photoshop and GarageBand. Which is OK because you’re not going to use them while walking around anyway.
Now you need to work on Photoshop and other professional applications; you go and sit at your desk and use your Macbook Pro, or iMac. What about the iPad? It’s gonna sit there. Useless.

The solution:

Combine the iPad with the Mac.

Here’s the idea:
You’re sitting at your desk, working on your Macbook Pro. You’re using Photoshop, GarageBand and more on OS X. The OS X, Hard Drive, RAM and everything is in the bottom part, where the keyboard is (just as it is now).
Suddenly you have to run out of the office for a meeting.
Simply detach the screen from the rest and go. That screen you just grabbed is actually more than a screen, it’s an iPad. It functions as a simple screen when it’s attached to its body, but when on the go, it uses iOS, its own hard drive, RAM etc. So you can keep checking your emails or the web on the run and bring with you that Keynote that you have to present to your client at the meeting. Your photos, documents or videos will be synchronized… of course.

Because Apple is a “mobile” company!

So what’s it gonna be? $1299?

One hundred professional artists based in the U.A.E. were invited to take part in this unique exhibition to design and customize their very own MEGA.

The event brought together one of the greatest artistic collaborations in the U.A.E. and showcased a new take on the urban art scene in the Middle East.

Check out the official website

A privileged young Emirati male at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street friend.
A disillusioned Indian taxi driver who bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous Bollywood star.
A former Romanian ballet dancer now working as a flight attendant and searching for love and companionship.
Dubai will bring them together and their lives are about to change. In a city where ambition, growth and opportunity are all that matter, dreams can still come true. “City of Life” is an urban drama that tracks the various intersections of a multi-ethnic cast, examining how random interactions and their consequences can irrevocably impact another’s life.
A revelation for the region, “City of Life” is the first movie to be filmed in Dubai, analyzing the real life of an emerging multi-cultural society’s race, ethnicity and class divide.

Alexandra Maria Lara
Sonu Sood
Saoud Al Kaabi
Yassin Alsalman
Jason Flemyng
Natalie Dormer
Ahmed Ahmed
Habib Ghuloom
Jaaved Jaaferi

Directed by Ali F. Mostafa

This file contains 21 grid systems for your webdesigns, all 960 pixels wide with different columns number, gutter width and columns width.

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If you want to go wild with 960 pixels wide grids, check this online grid calculator