Linked List: June 10, 2011

Friday, 10 June 2011

Pixelmator 2.0 Sneak Preview 

My thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed — and, my congratulations, too, for their well-deserved Apple Design Award this week at WWDC.

Pixelmator is a beautiful, easy-to-use image editor for Mac OS X. They’re now previewing the next major release, Pixelmator 2 — slated for release this summer as a free upgrade for anyone who’s purchased Pixelmator via the Mac App Store.

Apple Enters the Fray Against Lodsys, Files Motion to Intervene 

Florian Mueller:

Nine days after Lodsys sued seven little app developers in the Eastern District of Texas, Apple filed a motion to intervene in the proceedings.

Welcome news.

Facebook Acquires Sofa 

This acquisition was the talk of the WWDC Bash last night. A lot of people were surprised — the Sofa guys do great work but don’t seem to do the sort of things Facebook would be interested in. I don’t think this is the last such design talent acquisition they’re going to make. Facebook is building a serious, world-class design group.

More here from MG Siegler.