Nettie Hartsock

Macromedia Inc.s release of Studio 8 has some FreeHand users feeling as though the applications days are numbered, as the company did not include the illustration tool in the suite. Ian Kelleigh, founder and author of Freehandsource.com, said his feelings are mixed on the issue of Freehand and its future outlook. In April, following the […]

Macromedia Inc.s release of Studio 8 has some FreeHand users feeling as though the applications days are numbered, as the company did not include the illustration tool in the suite. Ian Kelleigh, founder and author of Freehandsource.com, said his feelings are mixed on the issue of Freehand and its future outlook. In April, following the […]

This week saw the release of two Flash tools focused on giving Web editors and designers easier and more economical alternatives to create and generate Flash for their Web pages. Tivity Software LLC, a Birmingham, Ala.-based Web applications company, announced the release of Xtivity, a new Macromedia Flash (SWF) authoring application which gives less experienced […]

A new photo search engine called Pixsy is aiming to widen the reach of image gathering for creative professionals, agencies and publishers. With Pixsy, users get access to photos not found by most image search engines, including those from Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., which primarily rely on spidering technology to crawl the Web for […]

Software developer ARTS PDF last week announced Nitro PDF Desktop, a PDF creation and editing tool that gives users full PDF control features including commenting, form-filling and authoring, digital signatures and text editing. The tool, announced at the recent Adobe Acrobat & PDF Conference, gives users a wide range of PDF functionality at a lower […]

EMC Corp. has announced the release of its EMC Documentum 5.3 enterprise content management platform, which the company calls a major comprehensive release. Dave DeWalt, executive vice president of the information and storage management provider, based in Hopkinton, Mass., quoted in the announcement said, “Customers across the globe have come to realize the functional and […]

RedDot, a provider of enterprise content-management solutions, has released RedDot CMS 6.1, the latest version of its Web Content Management System. With this release comes an expedited content-contribution process and comparison templates for improved version control. Darren Guarnaccia, director of technology for New York-based RedDot Solutions Corp., said the development cycle for this release was […]

Rage Software, a developer and marketer of design and productivity tools for Mac users, has updated its HTML source code editor, WebDesign, to version 2.6. The update includes added support for Web languages, including JavaScript, XML, ASP and VBScript. The company said the update has been in development since August 2004. “The main focus of […]

DALLAS—One of the bigger challenges for a publisher and that most cited by attendees this week at the Newspaper Association of Americas NEXPO Newspapers 05 conference here is how to successfully archive images while saving space at the same time. How does a company or publisher process, keep and manage all the data collected for […]

Corel Corp. announced a major customer win Monday in the form of a more than 50,000-seat license of its WordPerfect Office 12 office suite to the U.S. Department of Justice. The company in the announcement release touted the win as a “key milestone” for WordPerfect Office and noted, “The DOJ adoption of WordPerfect Office 12 […]