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Adobe plots its path on the Web

Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business. Read more »

Adobe aquire Macromedia

With its US$3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems is buying into a crucial battle to shape the next generation of Web application development. Read more »

Adobe server adds smarts to PDFs

Looking to garner more sales to business customers, Adobe has beefed up its server software for handling the flow of business forms based on the PDF format. Read more »

Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »

OpenOffice celebrates turning 2.0

Programmers released version 2 of OpenOffice.org on Thursday, a major overhaul to an open-source software suite that has recently become a more serious rival to Microsoft Office. Read more »

Macromedia readies ColdFusion update

Macromedia plans to wade into the growing electronic forms market with the next version of its ColdFusion Web application server. Read more »

AJAX spurs Web rebirth for desktop apps

Slicker development techniques like AJAX, a way of building interactive browser-based applications, are fuelling a surge in consumer Web applications. Read more »

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Desktop RSS with Adobe AIR

Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is currently in public beta; it allows developers to build dual platform applications for the desktop with existing Web 2.0 technologies including Flash and Ajax. Read more »

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Getting to know ColdFusion 8

In the final interview of our MAX07 series, we talk with Tim Buntel, senior product marketing manager ColdFusion, and discuss the release of ColdFusion 8 Read more »

Starting with Spry

Spry is intended to be a way of easily implementing Ajax; designers with entry level HTML, CSS and JavaScript experience should find Spry an easy way to integrate content. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Developing Applications for Intel-based Macs

A new processor architecture has massively boosted Mac power and capabilities, but what does it mean for developers? Stephen Withers investigates how to port your Mac apps. Read more »

Draw and annotate in your browser using SVG

SVG is a language for describing 2-D graphics in XML, and it lets you treat a browser like a drawing or painting tool. Although not supported by current browsers, SVG functionality is available via free plug-ins. This tutorial puts SVG through its paces. Read more »

Dreamweaver MX 2004

If you need the latest and greatest in Web site development, Dreamweaver is the best investment; but it's overkill for casual users. Read more »

All about Longhorn

COMMENTARY -- Longhorn will be immensely popular once it is released, because Longhorn is revolutionary technology that makes desktop computing better. Read more »

Using AppleScript to build Mac OS X applications

You can easily build applications that use the Aqua UI and interact with other applications on your Mac. We'll show you how. Read more »

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What's new in Dreamweaver CS4?

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Let's look at some of the new features we can expect to see in Dreamweaver CS4. Read more »

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  • Staff A first look at Windows 7 beta

    In this week's Roundup we show you a preview of Windows 7 beta, cover news from the annual Macworld and more. Read more »

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  • Staff Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?

    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

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