I saw this demoed at Adobe Max and was blown away. The experience they’re creating in AIR makes you want to read the newspaper. After seeing the demo I wanted to run out and subscribe. But some time has passed and the newness/hotness/gotta-have-it-ness of the application has worn off a bit and I’m left wondering,…
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November 22, 2008
Holy Mother of Recap
When going to a trade-show it’s natural to feel hyped about the products on display. Every car show I go to I leave convinced that now is the right time to buy that 2-seater I’ve always wanted – but it never is – it’s just the hype. Trade shows have been honing the craft of…
October 2, 2008
Anyone Going?
MAX 2008 North America
San Francisco, California — November 16 – 19, 2008
June 3, 2008
Adobe Connect
The functionality and promise of Adobe Connect is mouth-watering. The idea of what this thing could be isn’t an application, its a revolution. Collaborative screen-sharing, web-conferencing with integrated audio, video and text chat, file-sharing, the cure for blindness and cold-fusion. Great where do I sign up? Oh – its FREE?! We’re saved.
Then you load the…
April 12, 2008
Adobe TV
My first impression playing with Adobe’s TV/Media player has left me with two overwhelming reactions:
First is that if the Adobe TV content channel for professionals keeps growing there may be an enormous opportunity to carve out a niche for researchers, professionals, DIYers and just about anyone else looking to learn or spread knowledge. I just…
March 27, 2008
Photoshop Express (Px)
A lot is being written about this today so I’ll just offer two thoughts…
OK so clearly Adobe can pull off a fantastic RIA with tons of functionality – but not tons more than some competitors like Picnik. And what’s with the limited online-photo-sharing-site integration? Px currently offers integration with Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa… What about…
January 21, 2008
BuzzWord
Buzzword is a web-based document editor owned by Adobe. Now that Microsoft Office 2008 is out in Universal Binary for Mactels, users are realizing that there are many many alternative options to the shackles of Word/Office. I’ve been a iWork user (+ Sun’s Open Office for spreadsheets) because of the dismal performance of Office 2004…