Stories by Cameron Crouch

InDesign Update Challenges Quark

Adobe Systems Inc. is updating its InDesign "Quark killer" less than a year after launching the professional print page layout tool. Quark has avoided the morgue, but Adobe hopes 70 new features and work flow enhancements will prompt you to kick the Quark habit.

Pocket Full of PC Apps

How much software fits in the palm of your hand? A lot, according to Microsoft Corp., which is filling handhelds with its applications.

LiveMotion: Adobe's Flash Killer?

Long known for its print graphics software, Adobe Systems Inc. is leaping into cyberspace with LiveMotion, a Web animation tool Adobe likens to Macromedia Flash.

MusicMatch Updates Jukebox

The MusicMatch Jukebox helps you organize your digital music collection and find out more about the music you like (or might).

The Wireless Web: A Reality Check

Internet-enabled phones and portable devices are intended to hasten a personalized, roving, wireless Web. But will it be the second coming of the Net or just new charges for your mobile phone bill?

The Best of the Wireless Web

Internet mobile phones may still be a novelty, but already a number of Web sites accommodate for Wireless Application Protocol browsers. Want to know which ones are the best?

Web Phones Contain PDAs

From low-priced phones for your kids to multifeature smart phones, new mobile phones all have Web fever.

Paving the Way for a Wireless Web

The wireless Web means more than the ability to get abbreviated Web sites through your mobile phone. It's a matter of convergence, from service providers that let you both talk and surf, and diverse devices that communicate wirelessly.

Microsoft Updates MSN on Phones

Microsoft Corp. is releasing at the Wireless 2000 show here an update of the software that brings timely information in its MSN portal to your Web-enabled phone.

Color Palms: Worth the Price?

This week Palm Inc. adds color to its line of personal digital assistants. But for $449, are 256 colors enough to make the jump?

Toshiba Notebooks Debut With Windows 2000

Windows 2000 is Toshiba Corp.'s operating system of choice for its notebook lines. To make the point, the company is launching new 4200 series Satellite Pro notebooks Thursday, timed with the release of Microsoft Corp.'s new OS.

Will Your Next Phone Speak Symbian?

As Windows CE and Palm duke it out to run handhelds everywhere, Symbian Ltd. wants to make our Web-enabled smart phones smarter by running its EPOC operating system.

Director 8 Makes Shockwave Easier

Anyone can go to Shockwave.com to find Shockwave games, product demos, and chat applications. But to create Shockwave content you need to be a programmer. With the new version of Director, that's not necessarily true.

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