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The pros and cons of subscription vs perpetual licenses

By tim, on May 7th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has caused a stir with its announcement that Creative Suite will no longer be available under a perpetual license, for versions beyond the current Creative Suite 6.

Given this, the CC applications will be available only as part of Creative Cloud. We will continue to sell and support Adobe Creative Suite® 6 applications, and

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Creative Pros prefer iOS says Adobe, explaining lack of Android support in new apps

By tim, on May 7th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has shown a new touch app for Kuler, its web application for creating and choosing colour themes, which will be available in June.

I asked Scott Morris, Senior Marketing Director of Creative Cloud, about Android and whether apps like this will also be supported there.

“That is coming out to begin with at

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Adobe announces next Creative Suite, now called Creative Cloud

By tim, on May 6th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced the next version of its all-conquering Creative Suite, now renamed (or subsumed into) Creative Cloud.

Availability is set for June 2013. There will not be any perpetual licenses for the updated applications:

Can I purchase a perpetual license for the new Creative Cloud (CC) desktop applications that were announced in

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Intel fights back against iOS with free tools for HTML5 cross-platform mobile development

By tim, on April 16th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Today at its Software Conference in Paris Intel presented its HTML5 development tools.

There are several components, starting with the XDK, a cross-platform development kit based on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript designed to be packaged as mobile apps using Cordova, the open source variant of PhoneGap.

There is an intriguing comment here:

The XDK

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Google forks WebKit into Blink: what are the implications?

By tim, on April 4th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Google announced that it is forking WebKit to create Blink, a new rendering engine to be used in its Chrome browser:

Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down

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Android up, Apple down, Microsoft so near, so far: 2012 in review

By tim, on December 31st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

What happened in 2012?

Windows 8

Whether you regard it as the beginning of the end for Windows, or a moment of rebirth, for me it was the year of Windows 8. Microsoft’s new Windows is fascinating on several levels: as a bold strategic move to make a desktop operating system into a tablet operating

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Microsoft scraps Expression Web and Design, blends Blend with Visual Studio

By tim, on December 21st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft is giving up its long effort to compete with Adobe in the design tools space. The Expression range of products is being discontinued, in favour of enhanced design capabilities in its developer-focused Visual Studio. Blend for Visual Studio continues, as a design tool for Windows Store apps and Windows Phone apps. A future edition

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Adobe launches Game Developer Tools including Scout profiler

By tim, on December 5th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is reminding developers that Flash is still around as a game development platform, with the release of a Game Developer Tools package including a Gaming SDK, the Flash C++ Compiler which translates C++ to ActionScript, Flash Professional CS6 and Flash Builder 4.7.

The new thing here is the Scout profiler, previewed as Monocle, which

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Windows 8 Flash Player hassles: Windows update integration means IE users get an old version

By tim, on December 5th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 features a new approach to Adobe Flash Player updates. These are now delivered via Microsoft’s Windows Update, so you get security updates without having to suffer Adobe’s separate updater.

That seems a good thing, and for security it probably is, but it seems that the price of this convenience

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Adobe AIR for Metro promised for first half of 2013

By tim, on November 15th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe Game Developer Evangelist Lee Brimelow has stated on Twitter that AIR for Metro is coming next year.

we’re working on Air for Metro. It should be available first half of next year.

AIR is a way of compiling Flash applications to run outside the browser.

[Microsoft no longer uses the term Metro. We

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