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Adobe's recent announcement of moving to the creative cloud has a number of users up in arms. Today we look at the implications of doing this and whether Adobe has made a big mistake. If you missed the decision, basically what Adobe is doing is no longer allowed users to buy software outright. If you want to buy Adobe software (with the exception of some consumer level products), you have to pay a monthly subscription.

I'm a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to Adobe. They make some really good products, and they make some horrible decisions to ...

If you want coffee with Tim Cook at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, you'd better be prepared to pay $610,000 for the privilege. The auction for charity closed at just over $600,000 just a few hours ago, with 86 bids in total. Right now, the original page on CharityBuzz just says the auction is closed: ...

One tweet. Just twenty-eight words. That's all it took to start a complete shift in the way I use my iMac in my full-time Marketing Communications role at work. I've rearranged and modified my desk, moved my chair over to one side, and have spent the last week standing at my computer instead of sitting in the stale, stagnant position I've spent the last ten or more years sitting in throughout my working life. ...

Bill Gates was interviewed on 60 Minutes recently, and when the conversation turned towards Steve Jobs, the richest man in the world got a little teary. Gates said himself and Jobs practically grew up together, and his last conversation with Jobs wasn't melancholy, but rather forward-looking, such as ...

The number of concept designs for iOS 7 exploded over the weekend, with one of the most comprehensive being from Simply Zesty. Their design removes all the skeuomorphism currently found in iOS and updates the look and feel across the board with a fresh, clean look. There are aspects ...

When it first launched the promise of Thunderbolt was that you'd be able to hook a bunch of peripherals, including hard drives, a keyboard and mouse and your screen, up to your laptop with a single cable. Two years on however, there are a scant few options for actually doing so.The Matrox DS1 is definitely one of the more promising options out there so I thought I'd take a look.

Matrox have a history of making graphics products for laptop users. Probably their most popular ...

With 50 billion steps, you could walk around the Earth more than 800 times. Counting to 50 billion would take you 1600 years. With 50 billion bricks, you could build 12 Great Walls of China. Apple has given the 50 billion apps countdown a little more prominence on the homepage of the Apple website as ...

What the hell is that monstrosity above? It's my Litecoin mining farm. What the hell is a Litecoin mining farm? It's a bunch of computers with fast GPUs, shoved in a shed, running 24/7 to mine Litecoin. You've probably heard of Bitcoin, and Litecoin is like that theoretically, but technically different. This setup can just sit there for the next few months, pay itself ...

It's that time of year when the Apple rumour blogs spin themselves into a frenzy over the appearance of iOS 7 in their server logs, indicating devices out of Cupertino are running (or at least claiming to) the unannounced and unreleased version of iOS 7 that we're all waiting for. The hits on Ars Technica ...