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Adobe Creative Suite 4: A Sinking Feeling

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 12, 2009

Or, How I become afraid of future software releases from Adobe. I recently took a trial spin of Adobe’s CS4 suite and it’s looking like some of my favorite tools are in jeopardy of becoming less polished and annoying. As nice as every Creative Suite upgrade can be, the quality has dropped off of each [...]

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Windows Usability According To Bill Gates (circa 2003)

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 25, 2008

The Seattle PI has a great reprint of one of Bill Gates Windows usability critiques aimed at his employees (via Daring Fireball). This was made available thanks to the antitrust hearings years ago, so it’s the real deal. It’s an interesting read — if you have ever been frustrated by downloading a Windows patch or [...]

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Snow Leopard aka Mac OS X 10.6

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 9, 2008

Though the iPhone 3G is going to be the buzz for a while, Apple’s other WWDC announcement of pausing to do a proper optimization of OS X is great news as well. First, from what I can see this wasn’t being demanded from users and developers, however all software benefits from some cleanup and optimization. [...]

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Most people who don’t care deeply about their computers use…

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 2, 2008

…Windows. An interesting survey regarding how computer users show off their gadgets reveals what Daring Fireball’s Gruber summarizes as: “…most people who don’t care deeply about their computers use Windows”

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Microsoft Bids on Yahoo

By Eric Peacock | Published: February 1, 2008

Link to press release. Not sure I like the thought of Flickr becoming integrated with Live. If this happens there is a good chance Flickr will go down the toilet. Let’s hope not.

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CES 2008 MS Keynote Mini-Blogroll

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 7, 2008

The always great Presentation Zen has good comments on the improved PowerPoint in Bill Gate’s 2008 CES keynote as well as a nice embedded clip of the “Bill Gate’s Last Day” clip with loads of celebrity cameos. The video is fun and reminiscent of the older Bill Clinton last day from years ago. They went [...]

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Leopard First Impressions

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 30, 2007

Yeah, I got Leopard on launch day. I’ve installed it on an old Aluminum Powerbook G4 15″ and my 4 core G5 Powermac tower. Both run I/O and UI operations much faster. It’s especially impressive on the Powerbook given that Leopard is always generating thumbnails or indexing metadata. It’s feeling like a very media-centric OS, [...]

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Logic Studio

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 24, 2007

Even with Apple’s OS X 10.5 Leopard arriving this Friday, I’ve been completely preoccupied with the new Logic Studio which shipped a month or so ago.I only got my copy recently, so I’m still only getting into it. I’m still a Digital Performer user too, but already I’ve explored the various ways to interchange multitrack [...]

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