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Adobe look to ‘Webtop’ software future?

As the web evolves, so do the working practices of those that make their living, or manage their lives there. And so do the ambitions of those ISV’s (Independent Software Vendors) who see the web as the new medium through which their applications will work and hopefully thrive…
Webtop as the new Desktop
Making their intentions known [...]

Microsoft Silverlight no silver bullet

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. That was the mantra. Well, that was then and this is now.
Over the past few months, Microsoft have been busying themselves with their Expression range of creative tools, the idea of which is to bridge the perceived yawning gap between developer and designer.
A good idea, for sure, and all of this ernest [...]

Adobe CS3 uncreative pricing

I’m a web designer and developer. That’s what I do to make money. There are certain aspects of my business that absolutely require certain tools to function and to be compatible with other creatives.
An example of such tools would be Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
By the end of the month, Adobe are due to announce [...]

Apple Mac Tablet for the rest of us, Part 3

To try to please everyone is to please no one. But could an Mac Tablet by Apple do just that? Could Apple please the home, education and creative markets with one device? I’d say they can, and the reason for this thinking is not so much in the device, but in the software.
In the first [...]