wife needed it

hi,

a month or so ago....

Old WinXP laptop died and replaced with little Windows netbook - she had CS2 and still needs it - so I went through the whole debacle of trying to install from CD/DVD package.... which couldnt activate. went to adobe site with her adobe account and found the info about CS2 licence and download. et voila. after many hundred MB of downloads a working CS2 on Windows Vista.... which turned into a working CS2 on Windows 7. After reading about the Adobe update tool and error codes found the clock/date fix which means it understands the update for eg photoshop so you get some patches.... funny, their licence servers are pulled and their X509 certs have expired too for update tool.

one thing I am cautious of though - these are old old products and if there are any vulnerabilities they are very unlikely to be fixed/patched now.. thats why CS3 et al came out after all. Am looking at free or cheaper alternatives for why CS2 had to be installed but not happy with any of the packages so far (I'm a big Linux fan so am aware of all the usual GPL tools ...but I am also realistic about their user friendliness ;-) )

glowing review ignoring reality

Apple fan gives Apple product a glowing endorsement and ignoring reality? cheques in the post.

..never buy on a promise

Having been stung several times by carriers and the promises they've made, I'd day don't touch this phone until it's running ICS

no choice

I think the consumers have no choice - last time I looked, if you wanted decent features (freeviewHD, HD ready display, DNLA or smartTV, etc etc you can only get those on the bigger panels.

(there again, even bigger panels are missing vital features.... and I think they should have brought in a law to ensure that any HD TV sets that offer Freeview reception should have FreeviewHD receivers)

Bad week for Samsung's lawyers ?

no, Bad week for consumers.

Apple is using legal tactics to keep itself in a position which it acheived because no other

companies blocked their entrance...its called an Open Market. they are now sticking it to the other companies. If there were legitimate patents (ie ones that arent obvious, arent prior arent and are really cool and novel ways of doing things) then yes, they would have a case. ...talking of cases, I cant believe it will be next year when the case goes to court, the phones will all be old generation by then, Apple will have used this legal method to basically block any free competition.

as others have said, I expect Apple to start taking litigation against these same companies the moment

they launch a TV screen...probably along the lines of claiming all rights to high resolution screens

or a screen which has a motion detector built into it in a certain way.

my next phone is Android, my next tablet is Android - where I can choose which model and which manufacturer I like.

search system

Given that TPB moved from being a torrent track system to simply a magnet file search system.....how long until courts tell ISPs to block access to Google (on which I can freely search for magnet links?). Eh? (in fact I can use Google to search for old fashion torrents too....and non secured cctv streams, peoples bank details etc etc)

clean hit...

as others have said...shame they couldnt hit the printers properly with the business end of those tools. i think with a good strike with the long-handled axe you could go clean through an HP.

next video, VIVA LA REVOLUTION! stick those blue-blooded printers into madame Guillotine! ;-)

.scot domain is naff and crude

they need to apply for a proper ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 2-letter country code.

great titles

one of the key points is that these (and many more missed out - especially the PixelJunk series) are

just as good, if not better than the big retail 40 quid games....and at 5 to 10 quid they are a sound investment into entertainment.

cost?

>As a result, such patents would typically need someone with a money truck handy to create commercial products

hmmm... not unlike all those patents that patent trolls sit on waiting for someone to actually

invest money and actually MAKE something. eg Intellectual Ventures who The Reg have mentioned a few times recently...dont actually make anything..they just sit on patents and get cash in from companies.

this Easy Access IP is the decent way of doing things

i like my TF

...but I'm worried (with a giggling doubt) that there'll be no ICS for it. I hope there is because that will keep my faith in asus ..and cause me much joy

one of the better stores

this is pretty miserable news - i like Best Buy - they are one of the better tech retail stores

around and i've had some good purchases from them since they opened their store here in Nottingham.

now all we've got left is the DSG bunch of overpriced horrendous stores - and random tech stuff in tesco/ASDA/etc etc - horrible.

I wonder if it would have been better of they actually advertised more...word of mouth seems to have been their main method....and The Gadget Show was still DSG sponsored - that was the sort of spot that BestBuy should have grabbed.

oh well, online shopping only...along with MMC splitting up of DSG

gamecity 6 , nottingham

Anyone in the nottingham vicinity can go to gamecity6 and try out this game in a travelling EA game trailer/pod at the market square. I didn't as there are far more indie titles elsewhere that I personally prefer ... fez dez rez, for example , rocks my boat rather than another paint by numbers FPS

90% score

really? better phones have scored less in the past couple of months. Seems a tad favourable to the fruity company , style/design over function.

3 days...that all?

my ZTE Blade aka SanFrancisco lasts pretty much a week without needing a recharge. its a great little Android phone

7" formfactor is just right

I've always said that the 7" form factor is just right for 'on the move' tablet stuff, rather than eg sitting on sofa or at desk ...smaller sizes feel like overgrown smartphones and bigger ones are a balancing act or cause your wrist to be well exercised

I'm not surprised at lower battery life if the CPU is chucking that amount of horsepower around...perhaps they should have gone for eg eeepad transformer speeds? Wouldn't be surprised to see a large community around this one..perhaps performance tweak to improve such things by a magnitude eg underclocking mods/utils

...but...

If your network access was that slow, why would you want your own data on the other end of it? You wouldn't/couldn't enjoy eg streaming your flicks to your tablet on the sofa. Better a NAS in the cellar.. (unless you are serving it out to the world. I guess)

nothing new

It's called perceptive imagination.

I try to avoid bananas while driving...thanks Nintendo...the chomps still get me though ;)

london.uk

...is, I believe, acceptable.

I do not like the .london concept (and all the other capital city/major town top levels it will sprout) at all

..pity

no App2SD support - otherwise it'd be an instant purchase

PS don't care if its available for other platforms. you'd have to be a

bit of a twit to switch phone platform just for one nice little App - after all,

such an App could exist as a Cloud-based web application that you

simply e.g. tweet your photos to.

passwords stored encrypted?

>Industry practices dictate they should never be stored in clear text

...unless you're in France where theres a big fight going on against the Government who

want all passwords stored in plaintext on remote servers :-|

some smart phones are better...

after the Register coverage of the Orange San Francisco phone (aka 'ZTE blade') I popped out

and picked one up (for playing with...) 89 quid with mandatory 10 quid top-up (I think its 99 quid with 20 quid topup now...)

it lasts for over 5 days from a single charge when used as a enhanced phone (ie dont run data apps etc). thats actually not that bad!

damn you..

damn all you Reg readers! i couldnt resist and bought one of those SanFran phones for my own personal play-thing :-)

DIRAC

@Bruce - yes, been following Diracs progress via BBC Backstage for quite some time now

mines still running strong

A1200 with PowerPC upgrade - 240MHz of 603e power and 256Mb of RAM - with a Voodoo3

card on PCI busboard expansion. yep - these things could be expanded WAYYYY beyond their original shape/design.

anyway, for those intrigued by the current AmigaOS etc then you could do worse than head on over to amigakit and look at the SAM440EP system with OS4.1 http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=sam+flex+system

down with the union

when i was at Sussex Uni, every year a motion was brought forward to not pay the NUS

affiliation fee... it was always voted down primarily because of the 'we get cheap drinks'

argument.. with no cheap drinks I can see many bodies dropping their NUS affiliation.

that said, when I was at Uni, the Uni bars werent cheap - you could go into town (Brighton)

and get far more drink for your cash.. 2 for 1, half price, free shot with every pint etc etc.

yes, there was very cheap drink when i was a student - at least 1 quid per pint - and yet we didnt have issues with binge drinking in the early nineties as we seem to have now (or is it all just media hype?) - its not cheap drink..drink isnt that cheap (reports have said cocaine is cheaper ;-) )

theres a _reason_ why people are drinking themselves into stupors every wekeend in the UK - because life int he UK is currently quite sh*t and theres nothing better to do for a large proportion of the population.

history teaches us lessons. if we dont learn from history what hope do we have? not that long ago a similar portion of the population used to wpend their free hours in gin houses drinking the cheapest mind-bending stuff they could. those 2 were the days when the poor were porr and the rich were very rich and thousands died of curable illnesses. ah yes, and now its 2009 and its all the same again.

wou;dnt be running old firmware anyway!

these software releases are fairly old - anyone keeping up with bug-fixes,

features etc would already be running the latest firmware anyway

of course, you'll then hit the caveats and bugs in the newer release - but

at least those ones aren't known/published yet! ;-)

not really an issue

This is really a non-issue. Nintendo gamers have already had to buy the nunchuck addon alongside the WiiMotes for a lot of games - and those are pricey. This , i doubt,

will be any more cash.

And anyway, most Nintendo gamers will probably rush out to buy Sports Resort which

will come with the required add-on gyroscope extension anyway. moot point me thinks.

At end of day, this sort of controller requirement is fully workable; you don't see too many complaints about having to buy the guitar for GH, the mics for singing games etc - and whilst the wiimote can be used for other 'board' games - the real board (as used in WiiFit) brings a far more rewarding experience. I , for one, will prefer the advanced experience with this dongle than play the games with basic. This aspect is the annoying one - the current games would also be improved if they could use this new better sensor too (I'd even go out to buy Red Steel at Lego Star Wars - they suck with the current WiiMote only!)

gaming is a must!

Agree wholeheartedly with ANtti - this is ideal for head-to-head gaming - no chance the other player can 'cheat' by seeing what you are doing.... or could be used in quiz games etc so others cant see your answer

freetard?

hmm, sorry, someone who uses firefox is labelled as a freetard?

but I cant recall paying for IE6 or IE7 - it came free too - with the Windows OS.

does that make me a 'freetard' if i use that too? great!

perhaps I'm supposed to PAY for a web browser? What I CRAZY idea. Its the sort of stupid thing I did when when Voyager browser became available on the Amiga.

hello. 1998 called. they want their 'pay for the browser' mentality back now.

wirelessHD

wirelessHD is the real answer to your requirement Bemi

3Gbits of data xfer speed - to increase up to 25gbit through

the next couple of years. plenty to move HD video around

whilst doign lots of other stuff.

details microsoft gains

Peter - have you never sniffed the TCP/IP traffic from a PC when opening

a document with microsoft office? very enlightening!

next gen - you are all wrong

quick fact. Wii is the same generation as xbox 360 and PS3 - look

at the release cycles and the previous console release cycles.

quick fact 2 - NONE of them are 'next generation' - as they now all exist and have been in the market for over a year! They are therefore correctly described as 'current generation'

when will we start seeing them correctly described as thus?

(any pedants out there need me to publish the full generation cycle for consoles since 1988?)

not many people have a clue as to what the 'next generation' consoles will be like. a few obvious guesses point to built in networking, HD gfx output, multiple CPU architecture, motion sensitive wireless controllers with feedback. other than that...

regarding the 'next gen' i think another posted has correctly stated that we wont see advances made in the gfx/sound - a lot of gamers dont care for more photorealism...the future will give us more unique control aspects, better AI, better multiplayer options etc - i'd propose systems that have dual display outputs etc might enter the console gaming mix.

umbraco

t'other day my wife shocked me by revealing her hours of working with a CMS... Umbraco. http://umbraco.org/ - turned out to be open source and quite useable too. I'm going to investigate it further - as currently I've got a lot of Drupal, Joomla and PHP-Nuke sites.. some need migrating and updating.