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Carrara 6.2.1 (Mac)

Carrara evolves from nearly a decade of MetaCreations' 3D development experience with products such as Ray Dream and Infini-D. Carrara will provide a comprehensive, high-end feature set coupled with a blazingly fast rendering engine and revolutionary work-flow approach, SmartFlow. Carrara will enable the ultimate creative freedom for 3D artists and...

Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, Animation, Carrara, MetaCreations, SmartFlow

Software downloads 2008-06-11

What would an Apple-Adobe merger mean to Microsoft?

We interrupt our ongoing series of Microsoft reorg posts to speculate on one heck of a speculative post by pundit Robert Cringely. Cringely thinks an Apple-Adobe merger makes sense on a variety of fronts. If it ever did come to pass, it would make for interesting ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Merger, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cringely, SmartFlow, Media Center PCs, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-11

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Microsoft still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist

Maybe MS needs myLife instead of focusing on cloud everything.I've been a Windows user since Windows 1.0 on MS-DOS. I used Multiplan and Word with a mouse before Windows even existed. Over the years I've purchased so many copies of MS Office, OS upgrades, mice, keyboards, joysticks, development environments (MASM,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., photograph, Microsoft Windows Vista, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Microsoft still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist

It's been almost two years since I first got tips about Microsoft "SmartFlow," a product which allegedly was going to be a competitor with Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom post-production software for professional photographers. I had thought that incubation project may have been quietly eliminated somewhere along the way. But it's still...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Lightroom, Twist, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-19

What would you change (first) about Windows' look and feel?

If you were hired by Microsoft to make the Windows experience less annoying, what would be on your to-do list? Mark Hamburg, the Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom guru recently hired by Microsoft, is tasked with figuring out how to improve the way Microsoft's operating system works. ...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., David Vaskevitch, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Lightroom gets another champion

What's Microsoft want with Adobe Photoshop guru Mark Hamburg, who recently joined the Redmond juggernaut? Hamburg a programmer who has been part of the Adobe Photoshop team since version 2.0 and helped lead the Photoshop Lightroom one, is now a Softie, as News.com's Stephen Shankland reported on...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-29