FiftyThree gives us a closer look at Zoom, explaining why they chose to use a loupe instead of expanding the entire drawing.

Our team spent many hours with the accessibility zoom, and looked at the best implementations of zoom across a range of apps. One thing that became clear in our testing and observation was that the time spent in zoom while drawing is typically pretty short. You go in and add the eyelashes or write something funny on your character’s t-shirt, and you’re out. In the vast majority of cases, zoom is task specific and tasks are region specific. This discovery supported our idea that zoom is a tool that’s activated on a particular region instead of globally on the canvas.

It seems to me that they also wanted to remain mindful of the idea that there is no infinite canvas and that the pages you’re drawing on have this real finite space. Paper is an app that is carefully restrained, making the point of realizing what the available tools can actually do. Their implementation of Zoom allots just enough freedom to clarify a drawing, but not enough to obsess over the perfect stroke or modify a drawing beyond disbelief. Paper provides an interface that naturally transfers what’s possible with physical tools onto a touchscreen.

I wrote MacStories’ tutorial on how to integrate Gmail with Outlook for Mac 2011 back in 2010. There’s been quite a few updates since then, and Microsoft has fixed many of the issues I mentioned in the original guide. Too, Gmail itself has been visually updated to reflect Google’s latest design trends. Even the screenshots were dated.

Instead of producing a separate article, I thought it would be best to keep the same URL so that people revisiting the tutorial would immediately see what’s new. Most of it has been completely rewritten and updated with the latest information on how to get the most out of Outlook with your Gmail account. I’ve substantially streamlined the article, cutting out filler such as the introduction and extended outro.

The new how-to is divided into two major sections, one of which is completely optional. You can read the updated guide by clicking the link below.

How To Wrangle Outlook 2011 To Work With Gmail

Brett Terpstra:

The initial release of CriticMarkup included a preprocessor for Marked 1.5+, but given the uncertain release date of the next incarnation of Marked, I wanted to make it work with the standard custom processor feature of Marked 1.4. A few adjustments to the existing script and one dependency later it’s good to go.

I use CriticMarkup whenever I need to track changes in a MultiMarkdown document. I launch Marked (from Sublime Text 2) on a daily basis to preview my articles and generate HTML, so it’s good to know the two systems can work together now.

For both Android and iOS, Pebble developers can now add two-way communication to their applications for their watchapps through Pebble’s SDK, PebbleKit. The AppMessage API enables Pebble watches to send and receive data from smartphone apps for remotely controlling internet connected devices, receiving scores from your favorite sports teams, and checking in with apps like Foursquare or Facebook. iOS developers utilizing two-way communication, however, will need to have their apps whitelisted through Pebble as a part of the Made For iPhone program. In the future, Pebble plans on making that part of the process easier for iOS devs.

You can find all the details about Pebble’s developer updates, latest firmware, and new watch colors on Kickstarter.