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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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Adobe results: 200,000 Creative Cloud subscribers and an impressive transition

By tim, on September 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has released its quarterly figures for its third financial quarter 2012. The figures show the success of Creative Cloud, Adobe’s subscription-based model for purchasing the Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and Flash. Total revenue is fractionally up on the same period in 2011, from $1013.2M to $1080.6M.

Adobe reports over 200,000

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Book Review: Smashing UX Design (a great read for developers too)

By tim, on July 10th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

That the abbreviation UX can appear in a book title without expansion says a lot about the extent to which user-focused design is now embedded in the web development industry. The theory behind it is that User Experience is primary when designing a web site. The word "experience" suggests that this is not just about

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Adobe turns to OpenCL rather than NVIDIA CUDA for Mercury Graphics Engine in Creative Suite 6

By tim, on April 23rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has just announced Creative Suite 6. CS 5.5 used the Mercury Playback Engine in Premiere Pro, which takes advantage of NVIDIA’s CUDA library in order to accelerate processing when an NVIDIA GPU is present. Just to be clear, this is not just graphics acceleration, but programming the GPU to take advantage of its many

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Adobe: why the big business shift when financial results look so good?

By tim, on December 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe released its quarterly and full year results last week; I am catching up with this now after a week in China.

The company is doing well. Revenue is up by 11% year on year and it generated $1.5 billion in cash. It is buying back shares, usually a sign that a company has more

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Adobe announces strong results though much of the business looks flat

By tim, on June 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced its financial results for its second quarter. Revenue is up 9% year on year, and profits are up too, so it looks like a strong quarter. However, the success is really limited to a couple of business segments.

Here is the comparison with the equivalent quarter last year:

Q2 2010

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RESTful and modernised: making sense of Adobe’s new Enterprise platform

By tim, on June 20th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced its Digital Enterprise Platform for Customer Experience Management. My tip to Adobe: that is too many words with too many syllables for busy IT people who are trying to get their work done. What on earth is it? The same old stuff repackaged, or something genuinely new?

The answer is a bit

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JetBrains WebStorm 2.0 and PHPStorm 2.0 First Look

By tim, on March 2nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I respect JetBrains, an IDE company which survives despite intense competition from free tools such as Eclipse and NetBeans. It does so because developers like the products, especially the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE. The tools are focused on coding; there are few visual designers but lots of coding help, such as code completion, refactoring, find

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Review: Web Design for Developers by Brian Hogan

By tim, on June 3rd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The title of this book struck a chord with me. I’m comfortable with code but I don’t find design easy. Design is not magic though, and design skills can be learned. Maybe a typical developer will never be a great designer, but the ability to create web pages that look professional and attractive should be

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Designers, Designers, Designers

By tim, on September 22nd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

The last in my little series on design matters.

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