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Tag Archives: Adobe
Daily Links for Saturday, September 26, 2009
Adobe In The Crossfire InformationWeek / Thomas Claburn Apple, which competes against Adobe with a number of its professional media applications, has stymied Adobe’s mobile ambitions by refusing to allow Flash on the iPhone. Although Adobe’s CEO has confirmed that … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-02
Adobe to Deliver AIR for Linux “Adobe Systems hopes to make nice with the open-source community and soon deliver a Linux version of its newly released Adobe Integrated Runtime.” (tags: adobe linux air) Wooing women gamers — and game creators … Continue reading
links for 2007-10-02
Adobe buys Web word processor Buzzword | CNET News.com “The company on Monday is expected to announce that it has acquired an 11-person start-up, called Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a free Web word processor called Buzzword.” (tags: adobe Office2.0) … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Music, News, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Adobe, Bruce Springsteen, World of Warcraft
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links for 2007-09-10
Adobe gives peek at online Photoshop | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone “With a new product called Photoshop Express, Adobe Systems is coming through on its promise to deliver a lightweight online version of Photoshop.” (tags: adobe photoshop … Continue reading
Sharing documents, a year later
I happened to go back and look at what I blogged about a year ago, and I was surprised that twelve months had passed since I wrote the piece called “How do you share documents?”. In it, I recommended that … Continue reading
links for 2007-03-01
Mathematics and Architecture In Medieval Architecture, Signs of Advanced Math – New York Times “In the beauty and geometric complexity of tile mosaics on walls of medieval Islamic buildings, scientists have recognized patterns suggesting that the designers had made a … Continue reading
Adobe brings PDF fully to the external open standards process
Duane Nickull of Adobe has just announced that they are bringing PDF fully to the open standards process via AIIM and ISO. This effort will unify all the subprojects around standardizing parts of PDF (like PDF A for archivists) and … Continue reading
links for 2006-12-12
Open Source Has Ubuntu Linux overtaken Mac OS X as Google Trends� runner-up to Windows? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com (tags: apple ubuntu desktop linux) Eclipse Challenges Visual Studio.Net In Europe, Other Regions | InformationWeek “The adoption rate of … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Adobe, Eclipse, Linux, Microsoft, Second Life, Ubuntu
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links for 2006-12-08
The Continuing Open XML Debacle + Some DRM Shebanation: Is Office Open XML A One-Way Standard? Ask Microsoft Must read. I’m stunned, literally. These numbers are amazing. (tags: odf microsoft) PlexNex: Rob Weir on Song “IBM’s Weir has cranked the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Document Formats, News, Standards
Tagged Adobe, Microsoft, Netherlands, Novell, ODF, OOXML, Science Fiction, SVG
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links for 2006-11-08
Open Source Adobe Donates Flash to Open Source Community “Adobe will be working with the Mozilla Foundation to open source its flash player scripting engine, creating a new open standard for interactive Web applications.” (tags: adobe flash opensource) Adobe Makes … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Music, News, Open Source
Tagged Adobe, Eclipse, Microsoft, Novell, ODF
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links for 2006-09-19
PDF Adobe Builds on Acrobat Strengths “eWEEK Labs Review: With Acrobat 8 Professional Beta 1, Adobe makes it even easier for users to create, share and secure documents.” (tags: adobe acrobat pdf) Nuance – PDF Solutions (tags: pdf) OpenOffice conference … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Education, News, Open Source
Tagged Adobe, OpenOffice.org, PDF, South Africa
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links for 2006-06-29
Linux Mandriva Linux 2007: music contest “From June, 21st to August, 20th, produce and submit the workspace session jingles for the next Mandriva Linux 2007 distribution which will be released in next September.” (tags: linux music) Red Hat CEO Says … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Programming
Tagged Adobe, Aperi, Java, Linux, Mandriva, Red Hat, Sun
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Online office apps, continued
Over in his ZDNet blog, David Berlind continues the distributed discussion around online office productivity apps, this time keeping the discussion to presentation software. He picks up the discussion by CNet’s Rafe Needleman that I linked to last Friday. David … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-03
Ubuntu’s Dapper Drake is one impressive Linux distro “Perhaps the most widely anticipated Linux distribution of the year finally arrived on June 1: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Service), aka Dapper Drake.” (tags: linux ubuntu) Microsoft, Adobe squabble over PDF … Continue reading
How do you share documents?
I want to discuss how documents, specifically text documents versus spreadsheets or presentations, are shared. In particular, I think people often make a mistake when they send word processor documents around. Let me explain. In the beginning, people created documents … Continue reading
