Last week I attended the PMA Trade Show in Las Vegas. Strolling the aisles showed all of the latest and greatest products that a professional photographer would need. As usual, my focus was on software. Today I'll talk specifically about what...
Have you always wanted the perfect wood background for something you're designing? How about tile or marble or water? If you can answer yes to any of these and much more, you need to start using the Genetica Viewer. It is a free...
Recently I was going through some old paperwork and I found the notes from a talk I gave in August 2001. Part of that talk were some thoughts I had on how to make online music a profitable business and eliminate piracy. This was in the time when...
Recently there have been a few users in the CorelDRAW newsgroups asking when Corel will release a native version of CorelDRAW X3 for the Mac. In order to fully explore this question, we need to understand the past success or failure of CorelDRAW...
Way back in the early 90s, I got to test the first Windows version of what was known as Fractal Design Painter. Many people probably don't realize that some of the programmers of Fractal Design Painter were also involved with Ventura Publisher....
Microsoft decided to upgrade not only the operating system, but also their Office suite on the same day. I've already weighed in with my thoughts on Vista. Now it is time to tell you my thoughts on Office 2007. This decision is a no-brainer for...
We have all waited for this day for a long time. It has been over five years since Microsoft released a new operating system. Now that Windows Vista is shipping, it is time for users to ask themselves if they want to move to the new operating...
Corel has a habit of bundling a program in the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite for several versions and then it just mysteriously disappears. Such was the case with CorelDREAM 3D. There were a variety of reasons that Dream is no longer part of the box...
If you've ever been to a class, you've definitely seen my screen saver. I love fish. I think I've tried every screensaver I could find that has fish in it. I'm sure part of this is because I love to scuba dive. Since I can't go diving every day,...
We all want to get excellent results with minimal effort. We all know that clients seem to think that all we do is push a button and their artwork magically appears. I hope you know this isn't true. Yet I often get asked questions about software...
I've talked a few times in the blog about Spiral Graphics cool utilities Wood Workshop, Genetica and the Genetica Viewer. If you need tile able bitmap fills, these utilities can do amazing things.When I first got Microsoft's Windows Vista...
I often hear people talking about how something is an industry standard. Unfortunately they don't always do a good job of backing up that statement. I'll provide a few examples and then I hope you'll post your thoughts. For this discussion,...
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