Friday - April 4, 2008
In a heads-up effort that has resulted in a storm of blame, frustration and sometimes outright anger, Adobe's Senior Product Manager for Photoshop John Nack revealed this week on an official Adobe blog that the next version of the product, Photoshop Creative Suite 4, will be available in a 64-bit version only for Windows. Mac OS X users will likely have to wait for CS5 -- or longer -- to have the chance to move beyond a 32-bit version. Die-hard Mac users, of course, were less than thrilled.
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Wednesday - April 2, 2008
The beta launch of Adobe Systems' latest addition to its Photoshop family of image editing tools offers up the most commonly needed edits on the Web -- for free -- and throws in a solid range of Web 2.0 sharing features. The new online tool is Photoshop Express, and while it won't replace any current customer installations of Photoshop CS3 or Elements, it's certainly a handy tool for mass consumption.
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Tuesday - April 1, 2008
It took a couple of years -- as well as a few months of jealousy -- but the wait for the next version of Adobe Photoshop Elements for the Mac is over: Adobe is now shipping version 6 for the Mac. The last version of Photoshop Elements for the Mac was version 4, which means Adobe completely skipped over the Mac community when it came out with version 5.
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Thursday - March 27, 2008
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what does it cost to edit the picture with Photoshop? As of right now, the only cost is Internet access with a modern Web browser. Adobe Systems has launched an online photo editing tool that's free to anyone who wants to edit, store, sort and show off their digital photos -- up to 2 GB worth.
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Monday - March 24, 2008
The OpenOffice.org Mac Porting team has announced the third development snapshot of its Aqua version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X. The most recent version is still a "snapshot," not yet beta, and has many improvements. However, the release still has some things that do not work correctly, and users are sternly warned that data loss could occur, and Time Machine should be used to recover any lost data.
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Tuesday - March 11, 2008
Guitarists out there know that finding that perfect sound, tone or depth from your electric guitar can be an expensive and painstaking process. With the digital age now in full swing, many manufacturers have tapped into computer emulation as a way to duplicate the sounds of guitar setups and amplifiers through software.
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Tuesday - February 12, 2008
Apple has released the second major version of its professional-grade photo editing and management application, Aperture. The company packed 100 new features in to Aperture 2, including a more streamlined user interface and an entirely new image processing engine. Key enhancements include new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition and RAW fine-tuning.
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Tuesday - February 12, 2008
When purchasing an Apple computer, consumers are often greeted and promised ease of use for a digital lifestyle. Though Apple Computers do greatly increase one's chances of becoming a digital guru, getting that far can often mean to a frustrating journey full of overpriced software and countless visits to Amazon.com looking for The Complete Idiot's Guides to Everything.
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Monday - January 28, 2008
Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really upset, not once but twice, and thought I would share why this week.
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Tuesday - January 15, 2008
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made big news Tuesday, taking advantage of the Macworld keynote spotlight to announce of his company's latest hardware offerings, including a wireless hard drive backup system and an incredibly skinny laptop computer. However, Macworld is much more than Jobs' 90-minute speech.
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Wednesday - January 2, 2008
Apple may or may not be planning to announce a Macintosh tablet computer at the Macworld Conference & Expo later this month, but in the meantime hardware vendor Axiotron announced Monday that it has already begun shipping its own Apple-authorized Mac tablet. Axiotron's Modbook integrates a Wacom digitized pen-sensitive LCD slate-style display with Apple's MacBook.
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