It’s exactly 20 years since Adobe unleashed Photoshop 1.0, and we celebrate by asking creative experts about their lives with the all-conquering image behemoth… So to celebrate its 20th birthday we got in touch with some of the top names in our big creative address book and asked them about their relationship with Photoshop.

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Within two hours of its release, my new iPhone app, Feathers, shot into the Top 25 in the Social Networking category in the App Store. Thank you to everyone who helped by tweeting, blogging, and – of course – buying the app.

If you haven't seen the short 1-minute screencast yet, what are you waiting for? Head over to feathersapp.com to watch it!

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Those of you following my tweets may have seen that I was rather frustrated this week at Twitter's oAuth policy with regard to desktop and mobile applications.

In a nutshell, Twitter requires any new applications that use the Twitter API to use oAuth for authorization if they want to display the source parameter in tweets. The source parameter is the little bit of text and the link to your app that appears at the bottom of tweets (e.g., via Tweetie). It constitutes a very important bit of organic marketing for Twitter apps.

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For the past six months or so, I've been mostly working out of the Costa in the Waterstone's in Brighton. It's usually quiet (was even more so before Borders UK shut down, taking the popular Starbucks in its Churchill Square branch with it) and the staff are lovely.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same thing for the staff at the Waterstone's itself.

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The "my fine is" meme asks people to calculate the total fine for various personal indiscretions that they've engaged in and post the aggregate result publicly.

Smoking pot, for example, nets you a $10 fine whereas having sex in church sets you back $25. You add up the various fines for all the offenses you committed to reach the value of your final fine and publish it publicly (e.g., on Facebook or your blog).

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