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According to an article published on Daily Tech, Microsoft’s Director of Developer Platform Marketing, Brian Goldfarb, and Adobe’s Director of Technology Strategy, Anup Murarka, recently participated in an interview together about their competing rich web formats and what the future holds. Currently, Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash both are well entrenched, with a legion of [...]

Panic noticed that something interesting was happening with PDF files created by Adobe Illustrator. Like many developers, Panic uses Adobe Illustrator to create icons and other image resources for their applications. The resulting PDF files, which were relatively “big-boned” (a politically-correct way of saying “fat”), would magically shrink in size when they were run through [...]

New adjustment tools
Aperture now has a curves adjustment  tool in professional digital photography. It can punch up colors, put contrast in the right places, and add pop to even the most stubborn of shots. Better yet, Apple’s implementation of it here is brilliant, with the ability to focus in on the shadow part of the [...]

Apple has released ProKit 5.1 for Leopard and Snow Leopard via their Software Update utility and website. This update fixes issues with user interface software resources that are shared by Apple’s professional applications. The issues addressed include:

Corrected an issue with improper scrolling behavior.
Resolved memory leaks for improved performance.
Addressed layout of interface elements [...]

Parallels recently released Parallels Server 4.0 for Mac Bare Metal Edition is the first Parallels solution that can be installed and used on bare Apple hardware. Simple to install and simple to administer, Parallels Server 4.0 for Mac Bare Metal Edition is a cost-effective, fully supported server virtualization solution that is certified to run on [...]