InstaCRT is an iPhone camera filter app unlike any other. From the FAQ:

Q: What’s the difference between InstaCRT and other camera apps such as Hipstamatic or Instagram?

A: Hipstamatic and Instagram and other apps are applying filters to your photos in the software in your camera. InstaCRT is sending your photo to our office in Stockholm where the photo is displayed on a actual physical 1” CRT monitor which is photographed with a digital SLR from which the new photo is sent back to your phone over the internet.

Watch the video to see how the photos taken with the app show up on that miniature monitor in their office. The final results vary based on the time of day and thus the amount of daylight in their office, and the more people are using the app the longer the wait time for your photo to be processed. Here’s some info about how the app and its server-side software were developed.

InstaCRT

I completely forgot about this post on Adobe’s Brand Experience Blog until Stephen Hackett linked to it this morning.

It takes well over a year to design, execute, deliver, and ensure the proper implementation of the roughly 5,000 or so assets it takes to get a CS release out the door (we’re already thinking about CS7). Along the away, there are innumerable institutional, technological, and political hurdles to overcome. It can be daunting, but we do everything we can to get it made with as few design compromises as possible.

Of all the screenshots, design concepts, and other graphics in this article it is this image of their splash screen less-versus-more continuum that grabs my attention. I consider the splash screen design that was used in CS3 and CS4 to be the best one — it was simple, basic, and minimalistic. And yet the Adobe designers consider that design to be far too simple, and they label the “sweet spot” to be mostly “more” with only a little bit of “less”.

Designing the CS6 Desktop Brand

Jim Dalrymple:

Apple today invited media to a keynote kicking off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The keynote will be held at 10:00 am on Monday June 11 at Moscone West.

And if you’ve seen or heard about the rest of the WWDC schedule, as Kevin Hoctor says:

I judge how juicy the WWDC keynote will be based on the count of “Session to be announced” slots on the schedule. Lots of juice this year.

WWDC 2012 Keynote: June 11 at 10:00 am PST

Thomas Brand:

Path Finder feels at home on my Macintosh desktop just like as any application developed by Apple. The only difference is Path Finder was designed with Power Users in mind.

The latest update to Path Finder is remarkable. But there was one thing that I couldn’t get over, and it’s the fact that Path Finder is a separate app.

The most troubling part of adopting Path Finder as your daily file management application is that it can’t replace the Finder for everything. Clicking on the Trash Can in the Dock, or performing a Spotlight search for a file will relaunch the Finder even if it is not running. The task of juggling two file managers breaks some of the enchantment Path Finder brings to file management, but CocoaTech have provides some powerful preferences to keep the Finder out of your way as much as possible.

Another app is TotalFinder. TotalFinder is actually a plugin that brings certain power user features right to the native Finder, which means you don’t have to deal with two Finders. However, TotalFinder doesn’t have as many features as Path Finder does.

Thomas Brand Reviews Path Finder 6

My thanks to JetPens for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. I only ever buy my pens from these guys because the prices are great and they have the best selection of pens you’ll find anywhere.

My hands-down favorite daily writer is the Uni-Ball Signo DX. Though fellow pen nerd John Gruber prefers the Zebra Sarasa.

Also, I recently dipped a toe into the waters of fountain pens with the Platinum Preppy fountain pen. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed using it, so at the recommendation of others I’ve ordered a Lamy Safari.

Also: free shipping on orders over $25.

JetPens

On this week’s episode of The B&B Podcast, which we recorded one day early, Ben and I talk about BBQ and slow-cook smokers, iPhone rumors and how a larger-screen iPhone could survive not being announced at WWDC, and Readlist, the new service from Readability.

Brought to you by Hover.

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Seth Godin:

[T]there’s always one more tweet to make, post to write, words with friends move to complete. There’s one more bit of email, one more lens you can construct, one more comment you can respond to. If you want to, you can be never finished.

This has been an oft-visited topic on Shawn Today over the past month. And Seth is right: “It’s a dance.”

One thing I have done in my dance to find that balance is to set a new standard of what finished looks like for me. And that standard no longer means my inbox is empty, but rather it’s about budgeting my time and attention.

Cameron Moll adds:

Balance is a process, not a final resting state. I’m constantly juggling, shuffling, and re-prioritizing life’s demands. And I’m learning to be okay with that.

Dancing on the Edge of Finished