Archive for the ‘Intertubes’ Category

The Adobe Updates Saga (a.k.a Adobe Sucks Saga)

November 19th, 2007

Not wanting to be tagged as a Photoshop lover or an Adobe shill (I’m referring to my previous post), here is a recount of me trying to be kept up to date with the latest Adobe wares.
As you probably already know, last Friday (11/16) Adobe issued some updates to Camera Raw and Photoshop Lightroom programs. [...]

Blogger Templates are teh suck

November 6th, 2007

I’ve seen many pieces of over-engineered and under-delivering stuff on my time (Java Swing comes to mind), but nothing compares to the templating system for the “new” Blogger. Even more so, since templating is something that is supposed to be easy and within the reach of non-technical users.
What we have instead? A mess of XML [...]

On the curious persistence of certain names such as Amiga and Napster…

November 2nd, 2007

Apparently there is an Amiga scene, awaiting patiently the next release of the Amiga OS, new Amiga machines and what have you.
There is also a company called Napster, that sells music subcriptions. It has more than 100 customers, I’m told.
WTF?
Amiga was a now obsolete brand of home computers, used around 1986-1995 that has [...]

Flickr invites are teh suck

October 22nd, 2007

You are an aspiring (or accomplished) photographer. You study the masters of your art. You treasure the tools of your trade, from the lowly compact camera to your esteemed Leica. You spend your days on photographic field trips or in your personal studio. Finally, you capture a true moment of photographic beauty. Something worthy of [...]

.Mac 2.0 - Turning dot mac to a successful online community

October 20th, 2007

Apple’s online service, .Mac, has to be one of the most disappointing Apple products. It’s like Apple never shows some serious love to it. Sure, the webmail application got updated a few months ago and they offer some more storage space than they used to, but the offerings are simply not enough for a paid [...]