Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Adobe launched Photoshop Express beta today. It’s a very “flashy” web-based consumer-oriented photo editing product. It integrates it’s own album sharing feature, and links directly to Photobucket, Facebook, and Picasa. The features are pretty basic - certainly not what I’d call a slimmed-down Photoshop. The flash interface is terrific. Simply rolling over editing options automatically [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Yesterday was the launch day for Pixelmator a Mac OS X graphic application which meets my Photoshop needs. Yes, I really will be giving up on Adobe Photoshop for Pixelmator. In fact, I think Pixelmator surpasses Photoshop with its User Interface elegance. These are my initial impressions after using the application for [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Adobe is about to attempt to compete with Microsoft’s Word by investing in BuzzWord an online word processor made by Virtual Ubiquity.
If you’re from Ottawa you’ve probably heard of Corel, the makers of CorelDraw and the current home of WordPerfect. I have not been a fan of Corel since they took my beloved Fractal [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
I’ve been holding out on buying Adobe CS3 for my new iMac for weeks now. I’m still using my old machine to do my Photoshop work and it’s a pain. I’ve tried just about every alternative freeware / shareware product that’s currently available and let me tell you, there’s not much that can [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
A while back, we wrote about ColourLovers - a cool if somewhat odd social networking site that allows users to create and share colour palettes. It seems that Adobe thought it was a good idea too. So big cash-cow buys tiny web 2.0 startup?? Nope. According to [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
The news this week from Adobe about their release of Adobe Labs’ Apollo alpha was very exciting. I quickly downloaded the runtime engine and some sample apps. Unfortunately, nothing worked on my PC, but my PC was running an old OS. Take two, I tried again with my Mac and success! How fun, it worked!
Apollo [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
We were very surprised by the instant response we received here at the site over a post Baxter wrote for us on his frustrations with the Adobe website.. His mission was to buy Dreamweaver in Canadian dollars on the Adobe website. Unfortunately, he failed and continues to fail his attempts even today.
The response from Adobe [...]
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