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This is the worst photoshopped image of all time, courtesy of a South Korean newspaper
In a recent meeting at the White House, President Obama met with South Korean President Park Geun-hye to talk about the recent growing tensions due to North Korea’s threats. They of course shook hands while I assume numerous photographers took pictures of them. So why in the world did Korean [...]
Read More »Adobe discontinuing Creative Suite, replacing it with subscription-based Creative Cloud
Adobe has announced that it’s now going to focus its efforts on the subscription-based Creative Cloud service. However, instead of offering Creative Cloud alongside its traditional (and physical media-based) Creative Suite, it will be replacing it instead.
That means there will be no Creative Suite 7. Professionals that want the [...]
Read More »Here’s how Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe justify significantly higher tech prices in Australia
Last month, tech giants Apple, Microsoft and Adobe were summoned to explain in a hearing the significantly higher prices of tech goods in Australia. Adobe’s CEO even went as far as dodging the questions during pre-interviews, quite expertly I might add.
Now that the hearing has already taken place, we’ve [...]
Read More »Watch Adobe’s CEO completely refuse to answer questions about higher prices in Australia [Video]
If you haven’t heard, Apple, Microsoft and Adobe have been summoned to explain the higher prices of tech goods in Australia.
In a press conference in Sydney, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen was asked by reporters how Adobe can justify charging Australian customers more for their software (up to $1400 more [...]
Read More »Adobe Reader is hit with new zero-day attack, avoid immediately to stay safe
Adobe Reader, Adobe’s popular PDF viewer, has a flaw that is allowing hackers to install malware on users’ computers. The exploit affects the latest version of the program (11.0.1), as well as earlier versions. This appears to be Windows only.
Adobe engineers have tried to make malware attacks harder to [...]
Read More »Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe are summoned to explain higher prices of tech goods in Australia
Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe have all been summoned to appear before a pricing inquiry regarding the higher prices Australian consumers have to pay for tech goods compared to those of other economies. Here’s what the lower house committee had to say in a statement:
“The committee is looking at the
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At $5,000+ per month, interns at Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook probably make more money than you (and me)
A “good salary” in the United States depends on where you live. For example, $40,000 in Kansas might give someone the good life while $80,000 in Manhattan means you are only getting by. (Note: Those aren’t real stats; I’ll pulling it out of my arse to illustrate a point). Of [...]
Read More »Free Adobe Photoshop CS2, Acrobat Pro 8, Creative Studio 2, and more!
Ever think the day would come when you would see Photoshop — and other high-value Adobe products — as freebies? Yeah, well, me neither. In what can only be termed as a strange rarity, Adobe has put up a page on their website that allows everyone to download the following [...]
Read More »Personalities of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and more summarized in one comic [Comic]
![Personalities of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and more summarized in one comic [Comic]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2012/12/tech_company_personalities_comic-290x160.png)
In the past we have seen various criticisms of tech companies, ranging from how Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Facebook, etc. apologize when they make a mistake to how the same tech companies market their products. Today we have a comic to share with you from the same artist, Manu Cornet. [...]
Read More »New Adobe Reader zero-day vulnerability allows hackers to infect your computer with malware
Do you ever feel sorry for Adobe? I mean, yeah, it is hard to feel sorry for a multi-billion dollar corporation that likes to use closed standards and charge us for the privilege. But still, you have to feel for them; two of their products, Flash and Reader, are two [...]
Good lord, we have another one: Adobe is starting rapid release cycle for Flash
Trying to mimic Chrome, last year Mozilla introduced a rapid release cycle for Firefox — Mozilla decided they would release a new major version of Firefox every six weeks or so. This resulted in Firefox, which used to see roughly one major release every year, going from Firefox 4 to [...]
Read More »Flash vulnerability fix for Internet Explorer 10 is on the way, says Microsoft [Windows 8]
The version of Internet Explorer 10 that comes bundled with Windows 8 has a vulnerability that has been traced to it’s integrated specific version of Adobe Flash. At first, Microsoft claimed that they wouldn’t be providing security patches for the bundled software until October; now they’ve changed their tune amid [...]
Read More »Windows 8 users are vulnerable to exploits due to lack of updates to Flash
Google Chrome does something unique with Flash. Instead of relying on Flash as a third-party plugin, Chrome has a built-in version of Flash. Google is the one that manages updates for this built-in version of Flash as opposed to Adobe. While it may sound like this would result in a [...]
Adobe Reader 10.1 for Windows Phone brings the application to new heights
Having come to Android and iOS earlier this year, an Adobe Reader update for Windows Phone is finally on the horizon. As the reviews of the older app show, this is one application that was sorely in need of an update for Windows Phone. My fiancee’s old Windows Phone would [...]
Read More »New Adobe Flash bug allows hackers to take over your computer, update Flash to v11.3.300.271 to be safe
Adobe has released an out of the blue security bulletin stating a bug in Adobe Flash is being exploited by hackers and could potentially allow attackers to take over computers. The attack vector is malicious Microsoft Word documents that exploit the ActiveX version of Flash Player in Internet Explorer on [...]
Read More »Flash for Android dies tomorrow with new installs disabled, R.I.P. we won’t miss you
Google and Adobe announced earlier this year that Flash for Android would no longer be supported in Android 4.1 and beyond. That time has arrived. Tomorrow Adobe will officially kill the app and will no longer allow new Flash installs on Android devices. This was the last stand on mobile [...]
Read More »Facebook’s ‘@facebook.com’ e-mail change results in lost e-mails and corrupted address books
As Ashraf had reported on June 26th, Facebook had changed the e-mail address of all its users to ‘@facebook.com’ from the original primary e-mail address. The move did bring in lots of criticism from all classes of Facebook users and it was also condemned by a large number of dotTechies, [...]
Adobe ending support for Flash for Android, disabling new installs this August
Just two days ago Google announced Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean”, the next and greatest version of Android, hailing its advanced features such as Google Now and its increased smoothness with Project Butter. Alongside that announcement came a quiet announcement from Adobe, saying that Android 4.1 would be the first Android [...]
Popular free image editing suite GIMP updated to version 2.8 with many long-awaited features: here’s what’s new
It’s been a long time coming. Users of the popular GIMP image manipulation program may know what I’m talking about: GIMP 2.8 has been released. It’s three years in the making, and it brings may oft-requested features to the table. Let’s take a look at some of the more important, [...]
Windows software of the day [March 22, 2012]
![Windows software of the day [March 22, 2012]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2012/03/audials-1-290x160.png)
Windows has hundreds of thousands of programs. Because of this great volume and lack of a central store, software discovery (aka finding new and useful programs) is extremely difficult. With our Windows Software of the Day initiative, dotTech aims to change that. Everyday we post three programs, allowing our readers [...]
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