Drovak speculates:
Adobe could port its Creative Suite...to Linux as a shot across Redmond's bow. Then the company should embrace Linux in-house and develop a complete, optimized Linux OS designed to run a high-performance version of its Creative Suite on Linux optimized for Adobe products, to be sold as a bootable bundle for multicore-workstation hardware.

The idea is to produce a near-dedicated Adobe computer designed to use all the power of the newest chips to run the Adobe software under Linux. Having complete control of a high-powered OS would make all of the performance-demanding Adobe software run rings around any other implementation, if engineered correctly. It would become the viable desktop alternative to both the PC and the Mac.

This is a similar strategy that Apple did to create a good Unix based platform (OS X) to run the Apple iLife and the pro-apps. So, it's a tried and working concept. I think Adobe should certainly go for it. I would even go a step further and suggest they should drop Windows support eventually and concentrate on their Unix based Adobe apps only to streamline their operations.

America Is F*cked.......(Graphically at least) from Jess Gibson on Vimeo.

And this applies to most parts of Europe and the Middle East and Asia as far as I can tell. What can we do!?

Mac fans will soon have access to Mac-native versions of OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, two free alternatives to Microsoft Office. Both are based on the same code base, though StarOffice isn't licensed as open source.

Both StarOffice 9 and OpenOffice.org 3 will offer an office suite of tools compatible with Microsoft Latest Microsoft Office. Both are based on the same code base, and both will be native on the Mac, no longer requiring X11. Sun's Louis Suarez-Potts explained the key differences to TMO and what the customer should know before selecting one or the other.

The first thing we should know, according to Suarez-Potts, the Community Manager for OpenOffice.org at Sun Microsystems, is that both products are based on the same code base, slight differences are close to zero, and one can use each product on the Mac interchangeably. The key differences are in the branding, packaging and support.

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If you use Gmail regularly the 6+GB space Google offers may not be enough and you may be running out of space, which will make your account stop working. To avoid this problem you may want to free up some space with these tips.

If you're still struggling to make enough space, you can use this ultimate and simple solution:

1. Set-up you Gmail as an IMAP account in your Mail.app using these instructions.
2. Allow it a lot of time to download all your emails. Be careful not to download too much data at any 24 hour interval, as Google has a tendency to block the accounts with excessive traffic. Do it over a few days.



3. Then select the All Mail folder under your account.
4. Switch on the Size column in the list of your mails by CTRL-clicking the column titles.
5. Sort the messages by Size. Now you can see individual messages that have the largest attachments within your account.
6. Select and delete those emails that are unneeded. Check for those duplicates where you forwarded a large attachment and therefore it occupies your mailbox twice in your inbox and sent folders

Besides freeing up space on your Gmail account, by setting up an IMAP account you've also set-up a backup of your Gmail in case something happens to your internet connection or your Gmail account.

Google is experimenting and will soon launch a new social bookmarking and commenting service that is much like Digg, but will work on any keyword. This may change the way SEO is done and I can already see hordes of fakers trying to manipulate the system.

1. Thou shalt not abuse Flash.
2. Thou shalt not hide content.
3. Thou shalt not clutter.
4. Thou shalt not overuse glassy reflections.
5. Thou shalt not name your Web 2.0 company with an unnecessary surplus or dearth of vowels.
6. Thou shalt worship at the altar of typography.
7. Thou shalt create immersive experiences.
8. Thou shalt be social.
9. Thou shalt embrace proven technologies.
10. Thou shalt make content king.

iPhone 3G The Good: Faster download speeds
Talk and get data simultaneously
New, lower priceSupport for third-party applications
Integrated GPS

The Bad: Capacity is somewhat low
Strained battery life

Still a 2-megapixel camera
Limited GPS functionality
Still exclusive to AT&T

The Price
US$199 - 8G
BUS$299 - 16GB

If you're reading a Web page and want to go back to the last site you visited without leaving the current site you're on, there's a simple trick to allow you to do so.

Hold down the Command (Apple) key and click the Back button in Firefox or Safari. The site you're currently visiting remains open and the previous site you visited will open in a new tab.

Tip courtesy of The Graphic Mac.