Published on June 28, 2006
The technology of Pixmantec, the company behind RAWShooter, has been purchased by Adobe for use in Lightroom. Finally, RAWShooter comes to Mac, sort of. The free RAWShooter Essentials will remain available until Lightroom is out of beta, and users of RAWShooter Premium will be given product support from Adobe and an upgrade path to Lightroom.
RAWShooter being exclusive to Windows is one of the major things that has kept my main workstation Windows. Now that Lightroom is getting my favorite RAW conversion technology, I may be able to move my photo editing workflow to a Mac.
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Published on June 23, 2006
Pixelgroovy.com is a tutorial listing site for software like Photoshop and Flash. Instead of listing all tutorials and forcing you to rely on luck and search to find the good stuff, Pixelgroovy relies on the Digg model of content promotion based on votes. If a tutorial is useful, you “groove” it, and it is promoted in the ranks. “Grooving” also adds the tutorial to your personal list of voted tutorials, so it serves as a personal bookmark too.
I have flipped through it for a couple days now and have found the content on the front pages to be pretty solid. I hope participation increases and we see the site grow.
If you are in a design profession or use any of this software, I highly recommend signing up for an account.
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Published on June 22, 2006
“Spammers depend on Google BIG time as can be seen with the massive Google ban that just occurred, of over seven BILLION pages.”
I’m SOOO happy to see Google take action against this. Most of my Google searches were starting to return over half of the links to these spam pages. Hopefully they can keep it under control in the future.
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Published on June 14, 2006
Communications companies want to limit where and how fast you can go on the internet based on how much money you can give them. Think of the internet like cable TV. Instead of equal access to public space like we have now, we would have to order premium internet service packages to access certain content at full speed. The worst part is that Congress is detatched enough to let it pass.
This is a huge deal. Google has put together a great page of information and links with ways to contact your representatives in Washington to voice your opinions.
http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html
Take a few moments to write a message to your representatives and keep the internet from falling into the hands of the giant communications corporations.
