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I am only going to get an iPad when there are serious productivity tools available. That day is getting closer with the promotional video of a wireframing app called iMockups. We use wireframes at Salient Drift to understand how content and functionality will flow on a webpage before we start designing. This will definitely come in handy when we need to get work done on the go.

April 12 is a special day for creative professionals worldwide, it’s the launch of Adobe’s newest Creative Suite upgrade. The video demonstrates a new image manipulation feature in Photoshop CS5 -Content Aware Fill.

Each week I write a tech article at The Retrospective.com; this week I wrote about Evernote, a hybrid desktop/website web clipping application. Feel free to read the entire article and leave a comment.

Several years ago I was introduced to a powerful wireframing tool called Axure, it came in handy to build interactive mockups of websites before we started site designs. As good as it was, I had several issues with it; cost and no OS X compatibility. Hotgloo is a new beta web application that while not aimed at the high-end Azure market, is good enough for me to quickly generate site concepts and then share them with co-workers and clients.

One thing I really miss about Axure was its interactive functionality. I could create drop down menus that clients could click on and have it link to the relevant page. Right now I don’t see the equivalent in Hotgloo so I’m using it to display static wireframes. Hotgloo does have one major advantage, its a web application. This means I can work on a project at home and continue where I left off at the office and not have to worry about multiple licenses or saving files.

I’m not sure if I will continue to use Hotgloo, but the outlook is looking good.

How to HotGloo Ad from HotGloo on Vimeo.