Jan 11th, 2008
Several months ago, a friend/co-worker suggested that I take a look at Yourminis.com as a possible RSS reader. I had tried several but didn’t really find anything I liked. I’ve used Yourminis ever since. Yourminis is much more than an RSS reader – it is a Widget Server or as some would say, a “webtop“. [...]
Jan 9th, 2008
At the intersection of my two worlds, Adobe and Photography, is a website called Picnik. Picnik allows it’s users to do many common photo editing tasks without installing any software. You basically go to the Picnik.com, point it to your photo and adjust cropping, brightness, contrast, color balance, sharpness, etc. When the site was first [...]
Jan 4th, 2008
Excerpt - “Adobe is the key company to watch in the race toward mastery of RIA/Web 2.0 development. Having acquired Macromedia and assimilated its technologies, Adobe has a strongly positioned client (Flash) on millions of computers, a corps of evolving development tools (Flex, AIR, ColdFusion) and an apparent willingness to embrace open-source approaches.” For me [...]
Nov 14th, 2007
I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) during the past few weeks and am very excited about what I’m seeing. It think this is going to create some unique opportunities for Adobe. If you are interested in a new kind of application, take a look. You can download the player and several [...]