Posted on November 25, 2008 by Mike Rankin
Peoples, peoples, peoples, if you are the least bit interested seeing what will drive publishing workflows in the very near future, run, don’t walk your mouse over to the Adobe Labs and check out everything you can on Text Layout Framework. Such a dull-sounding name for such a mind-blowing technology. They should have called it [...]
Filed under: Adobe, InDesign, Page Layout, Photoshop, XML | Tagged: Adobe, creative suite, Flash, Flex, InDesign, Photoshop, RIA, virtualization, Web 2.0, XML | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 11, 2008 by Mike Rankin
Sounds like the name of a cheesy ’50s horror flick. But actually, it’s my nickname for the book I just finished, The Big Switch by Nick Carr.
I first mentioned him and the book in a post a couple weekends ago. I like my crazy title because Carr documents some futuristic doomsday scenarios that that are [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2008 by Mike Rankin
Very nice to read over my morning coffee that Adobe has made good on their intentions to revise the Photoshop Express Terms of Service to make them a lot less evil. In my first look at Photoshop Express, I was pretty down on Adobe for writing themselves ownership of your content throught the Universe. I [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by Mike Rankin
Got my first hits from Technorati this weekend. Followed them back just to see what I look like from there. It is strange to see one’s words next to a flashing CapitalOne credit card ad, but such is life. Technorati also tells you where you rank in terms of popularity of the blogs it lists. [...]
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Posted on March 29, 2008 by Mike Rankin
The plan for this evening was to get the kids to bed, pour myself a tasty beverage and check out Photoshop Express. I intended to sign up, upload some pics and report back what I found out.
I am a tad cyncial about some of the “free” stuff companies offer online. So far, I love WordPress, [...]
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