Another reason to ditch Windows…
After a year and a half of fighting Vista on my Toshiba A135-S2276 I gave up. Quite simply I got sick of the problems, errors, lock ups, “security” pop-ups and general sluggishness. So to sort of future proof me, also since I figured it was easier, I bought a new hard [...]
Welcome to Living in the Whine Country. New design going on, so please be patient and let me know on any issues.
And a Photoshop geek I loved this… ad. And yes, I’m obviously a geek in other ways.
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Its not often I use exclamation marks on a title, but this deserves it. It may be the geek designer in me, but the effect they showed at Siggraph was absolutely amazing.
Siggraph 2007 had a presentation of an all new way to automatically resize images. By tracing ’seams’ with the least amount of energy. [...]
Adobe does design very well. And one reason designers love Adobe products is the amount of tools they provide. One free tool they have up is a, for lack of a better term, Color Selector.
Their website Kulor is a web designers friend. With the ability to help you tweak and set [...]
Ok, Apple is backing away from DRM. The public is starting to clamor more against DRM. And here we have a company going, no one wants to use us, so we’re going to sue those companies that spurned us and force them to pay us royalties.
Media Rights Technologies (MRT), developers of technology that [...]
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Chizen (Adobe CEO) was at San Jose State University in front of the engineering school, and discussed the challenges of the competitive software market.
…Chizen was straightforward in his assessment of Microsoft as a bullying tech power – a perspective that’s not surprising given Redmond’s latest moves challenging Adobe’s strongholds in PDF, Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash/Flex. [...]
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In 1993 Adobe published the full specifications for its Portable Document Format, or PDF, granting royalty free license to those who chose to build PDF tools into their applications, and helping PDF to become a de-facto standard for document creation.
Tomorrow they will announce that they are relinquishing control over the PDF format to AIIM, the [...]
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Adobe and Google team up for Toolbar
Starting today, Adobe is offering the Google Toolbar to its customers as a free download — a great way to take Google search with you anywhere on the web. You can access Google search capabilities from any website, block pop-ups, see search suggestions as you type, personalize your toolbar [...]
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Adobe sets us straight: GoLive and Freehand are not going anywhere (yet)
Posted Jun 1st 2006 8:30AM by David Chartier
Remember that post we had yesterday (ok, fine: I wrote it) that Adobe was giving pink slips to GoLive and Freehand? As it turns out, that might not exactly have been true. Macworld [...]
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