I'm virtually exhausted. After last week's review of VMWare Fusion 3 and this week's review of Parallels Desktop 5, it's been a weird couple of weeks. I'm having this recurring virtualization nightmare where a penguin wants to share something with me ...
VMware Fusion 3 was released last week into the anxiously trembling hands of desktop virtualization junkies, and we've run the release through a gamut of heavy tests to see if it's able to meet the hype. At first glance, 3.0 doesn't look to be teeming ...
After what has seemed to so many of us like an eternity, the wait for the Nehalem Xeon Mac Pros is finally over. When Macworld 2009 passed without any i7 or Nehalem Xeon announcement, I was worried that it would be a while before the dual-socket boards ...
This is the first time that I'm reviewing GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), and it's definitely long overdue. As the open-source image editor of choice, the feature list of GIMP 2.6 is very long, and despite its status as a free application, it's ...
It was only a couple months ago that we reviewed Parallels Desktop's main competitor, VMware 2.0, and it's definitely no coincidence that a new version of Parallels Desktop has launched so closely on the heels its Mac virtualization rival. Competition ...
I wouldn't want to have the job of coming up with new features for Adobe Illustrator, because it certainly wouldn't be easy to dream up something new for version 14 of the industry-standard vector drawing program. As one of those programs that has been ...
It's that time again: the latest version of everyone's favorite missile faker and beauty maker has been released, and just in time for Christmas! Probably the first thing that most readers will think when they hear that Adobe Photoshop CS4 is in stores ...
Today Adobe announced the CS4 releases of their software applications, affecting basically every program they make. Bundles are available in the configurations below for their video applications (Production Suite Premium, $1,699), ...
About a year and a half ago, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 launched to a fairly positive reception, especially given the shortcomings in its main competitor, Apple's Aperture. But now that Apple has addressed many of the major problems with Aperture, ...
Editor's note: We're big fans of speech recognition apps here at Ars, and when MacSpeech announced its plan to license the Nuance recognition engine that powers Dragon NaturallySpeaking, we knew we'd have to try it. The two products aren't comparable ...
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