Ministry of Sound and iZotope release iDrum: Ministry of Sound Anthems Edition. Based upon the hugely successful and powerful iDrum engine, Ministry of Sound have teamed up with iZotope to create a MoS version of their killer app. This is the first real good example of a brand that is using the iPhone as a good promotional tool, whilst earning money from the App Store. Other brands such as Audi has failed miserably with their attempts at jumping on the iPhone App bandwagon. The app is super fun to use, like iDrum: Club Edition, but it’s actually slightly cooler, because you’ll hear samples that you recognize, which really increases the longevity of the appeal within the App. If you like dance music, you’ve probably already got iDrum, however this $7.99 app is well worth the money for all you dance music lovers out there!

Get it from the App Store

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We received our iStockphoto newsletter about 20 minutes ago, and scrolled down to the iStock TOP 8. You would assume this would be the top selling photos on iStockphoto, or even perhaps the highest rated images. So we clicked on one of the images to see how many images you need to sell to get in to iStock’s ‘TOP 8′…

Well, it would appear you don’t have to sell any. The featured image* (whilst very nice!) has been on iStockphoto for nearly a month, had ZERO sales, only been viewed 21 times, and had 4 reviews. I’m really not sure how this qualifies the shot to be featured in iStock’s Top 8. I mean, if the photo really was a hot shot, I think it would have sold at least one image so far don’t you?

What’s going on iStock…?

*At time of writing this blog post: Dec 3rd, 9:52am

Ed Hardy has successfully gone from being Hollywood’s hottest celebrity label to ending up in the bargain bin of $1 stores. A prime example of how overexposure of a brand can devalue it massively. Sadly, they’ve not done themselves any favours, the actual Ed Hardy Store seems to have adopted the tattoo style EVERYWHERE, and not only is it overpowering, it’s not at all classy. When the product is as bright and bold as Ed Hardy clothes, you hardly want the store to be like that too. Will this be the next label to crash and burn in 2009?

Who wears a watch like this? The new president of the USA! Maybe it’ll catch on!?

Why did no one fix this when the rest of the image was ridiculously over-retouched?

In TOTALLY unrelated news… I’ve got a Mac at work now… so basically my iLife is complete… Hopefully the only Microsoft devices I’ll need to look at now are the digital billboards that are for some reason powered by Windows instead of Mac OS X.

As illustrated below, this is not cool. LOL.

Great user interaction here… and it says so much.

MichaelO wow’s us with this mix of great photography and amazing 3D and photoshop work, we’re so impressed with this artwork today.

Eva Padberg has an amazing online portfolio. We can’t even begin to imagine the Flash Actionscripting that went in to this layout, but it’s really fun to play with and very intuitive. Nice work.