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Entries from May 2007

Made it through day one

May 31st, 2007 · No Comments

I am half-way through day 2 and I made it through day one though it was a close call today. Low-Carb eating that is. There were plenty of pastries and shortbread on offer this morning at the Adobe Event and I was so tempted especially as I got there half-hour early. But I made it [...]

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Acrobat 8

May 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Adobe are really pushing the 3D element of Acrobat 8 [2] - todays seminar featured it quite heavily together with a number of other features - probably I would guess because Microsoft are touting Vistas glamorous Aero[4] and teasy Silverlight[3] with their nifty graphics and 3D demos and Adobe don’t want to be left out.
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Password Management Systems

May 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I’ll be one of the first to be telling people not to write their passwords down; whilst at the same time telling them to make their passwords as complex as possible. The problem is when the number of passwords in use gets too many to remember. Especially, and I’ve spouted on about this before, when [...]

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The future is here (nearly): Microsoft Surface Computing

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

You just have to check out Larry Larsens article on Microsoft Surface Computing, link here. You can get more information from Microsofts Techfest, here, and again here on the Newsweek Blog.

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Acrobat Roadshow

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m off to the Adobe Acrobat Roadshow tomorrow at Birmingham - it is “Discover the Power of Adobe Acrobat 8″ where I’ll hopefully learn new ways of collaborating with Acrobat. Details here.

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