ColoRotate color palette creation site

Over the weekend, I stumbled across an interesting tweet from @asymco regarding a new iPad app called ColoRotate. It allows you to create beautiful palettes of colors either manually or from an image.

Colors that make sense. Fast and intuitive 3D color editing for pros and enthusiasts. The ColoRotate app for iPad is an intersection of art and science. Unleash your creativity for any design project. Create color themes with up to 15 colors. Many ways to share. You can edit colors in 3-D, extract from an image, blend colors together, precisely edit in different color spaces, or generate harmonized color palettes using color theory.

ColoRotate also has a web version of their app which you can try out here.

The best part is your palette can be downloaded as an Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) file which can then be imported into Curio and spread across mind maps. Very cool!

This is also the first time I've seen an ASE file with more than 5 colors which is the usual size of a palette when coming from other popular color sites such as Adobe Kuler and ColourLovers. I've imported palettes from ColoRotate with over a dozen colors and it works perfectly in Curio. Nice!

Distraction-free full screen mode

I forgot to mention this earlier but Curio 8 now supports some new advanced settings specifically for full-screen mode.

By default when entering into full screen mode (via View > Enter Full Screen) Curio leaves auxiliary views such as the inspector, toolbar, Organizer, and Shelf as-is. However, with these new options, Curio can automatically hide any or all these views automatically. Of course, these same views are restored for you when you exit full screen mode.

I personally really love this new feature since I can now have zero distractions and simply lose myself in my brainstorming, planning, and prototyping. This system also works well with one or two detached inspector popovers.

To try them out check out the "Full Screen Auto-Hide Options" in the Curio 8 Advanced Power-User Settings. Have fun!

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Mavericks and modern look

Curio 8.6.2 was released this morning to address all reported issues since May's 8.6.1 rollout. Lots of great fixes in here for better mind map handling, WebView handling, and numerous robustness tweaks.

It also includes fixes required for better Mavericks compatibility. Mavericks changes the way PDF's are rendered which necessitated some changes within Curio.

All the details are documented here in the release notes which I encourage you to check out.

Speaking of Mavericks, after hearing the news coming from the Apple WWDC, I'm very excited about the future of the Mac. It's clear that the Mac is incredibly important to Apple and they see a long future with continued growth and development. This is awesome news.

The new iOS 7 looks amazing and of course I'm excited about its future, as well. As the current Curio Mac popover interface is inspired by iOS 6 I thought it'd be fun to try out an iOS 7-based look. You can enable an advanced setting and Curio 8.6.2 will use the new interface, as shown below. Enjoy!