It was about that time…I needed to refinish the concrete floor in my basement, so I called up my friend “Your Floor Guy” and had him do a little work. It was too nice of a day yesterday for either of us to be inside, but it was nice knowing that I could sit in my house and work while he was doing stuff downstairs. Next week, I may have him do the old ass hardwood floors.
Sometimes these mundane blog posts are so nonsensical, but trust me, their is value in them for someone, somewhere.
Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion
This could either be the best thing, or the worst thing in the world for a few reasons:
(1) Getting rid of Macromedia Freehand and just using Adobe Illustrator would be great
(2) Getting rid of Adobe GoLive and keeping Dreamweaver would be awesome.
(3) Using the web graphic tools in Fireworks and scrapping Image Ready.
To quote the article:
Adobe is best known for its PDF, or Portable Document Format, technology for presenting text files online. Macromedia’s flagship product is the Flash animation software.
My retort to this is: Adobe’s Acrobat PDF reader is best known for bringing the processor to it’s knees, and causing your browser to lockup for minutes on end. Flash is known to annoy the living shit out of most websurfers due to long load times, browser hijacking, intros, background music, and unintuitive navigation.
Should be interesting, I wonder if the renounded Photoshop filters such as the ridiculously overlame “LensFlare” will be incorporated into Flash. Yargh. My head hurts.
Looks like google has set up a wireless local search, according to WebProNews. This is simply awesome, I tried to do a similar thing with PDXbars Wireless ( mob.pdxbars.com ). Unfortunately, I don’t have the good search algorithm, and quite frankly, typing on wireless devices sucks. Perhaps with scripting an autofill feature for wireless browsers would help, but I just haven’t seen much of my traffic using it yet. Still, the potential is awesome, particularly once more and more phones take the shape of the Sidekick II. Having a full qwerty keyboard would definitely be a motiviating factor in using wireless web capabilities on your phone.