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How Not To Steal User Preferences

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Adobe, Web/Tech

Dear Adobe,
Software is only allowed to display a dialog box like this once:

If you insist on displaying this dialog every single time your software launches, your software is officially “stupid”. Eventually I will want to stop using it. Consider placing a “Don’t show this again” check box at the bottom there, please.
Love,
Jeffrey
Update: Hey, it looks [...]

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AIR Supply

June 11th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Adobe, Web/Tech

Am I just lame or is it not possible to build the “Hello World” example application for the Adobe AIR beta (formerly “Apollo”) on the Macintosh? I followed the walkthrough pretty closely and got stuck on the part where you test the application from the command line (the AIR debug launcher wouldn’t launch).
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Adobe Open-Sourcing Flex

April 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Adobe, Open Source

This is exciting: press release here, developer info here, FAQ here.
When Flex first came out a few years ago, there were mutterings that they’d provide support for languages other than Java — maybe open-sourcing the SDK will open the door to making that a reality (particularly in light of what Miguel said the other day [...]

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Dear Adobe,

March 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Adobe, Web/Tech

Maybe I am missing some subtlety here, but it looks like your upgrade pricing for the recently-announced Creative Suite 3 is tad thick-headed. To whit, the following incomprehensible stipulation buried in your already mind-bogglingly complicated product packaging and upgrade licensing terms:
"Upgrade pricing is available only for products listed above and requires a qualifying previous product [...]

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