Somehow, I managed to overlook the fact that Wacom have released a new driver for older Intuos tablets like mine. I’m pleased to see that they have finally ditched the clunky old OS 9 style control panel for a swanky Aqua Preference Pane (about time too). The release notes (PDF) list several other changes to [...]

Yesterday I had confirmation from Adobe that my copy of Creative Suite 2 is now on it’s way via UPS. For some reason though, Adobe sent the confirmation e-mail in PDF format, with no clickable links for the order tracking or support page URL’s. So I had to open up the PDF in Preview, then [...]

Woot! I’ve had my dispatch notification from Apple. Tiger is on it’s way! With a major OS release like this, I have a tried and tested strategy for upgrading: I maintain two partitions on my “main” hard-drive (I have another physical hard-drive that I use for all my work files). One partition (called “Boot”) holds [...]

Mac pundit John Gruber makes some very disparaging comments about Adobe on his Daring Fireball site, in an article titled The Fish Rots From the Head. In it he condemns what he sees as Adobes recent focus on sales, rather than on creating great and innovative software: Rather than expand into untapped creative markets, Adobe [...]

Adobe has announced their acquisition of Macromedia, makers of (among other things) Flash and Dreamweaver. Flash is enormously popular and enormously powerful, but (in my opinion) has never had the GUI polish of Adobe’s products. Hopefully this deal will see some of Adobe’s UI know-how rubbing off on Flash, and better integration with their vector [...]

A few days ago I pre-ordered a copy of Tiger, due out on 29 April, and last night I took the plunge and pre-ordered Adobe Creative Suite 2. I’ve ordered the Standard addition, as I have no need for GoLive and Acrobat (included in the Premium Suite). I’m looking forward to the new tools in [...]