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May 6, 2002
May 5, 2002

SF Gate: Macromedia survives a decade by reinventing itself Reading this story makes me think that, to some extent, Macromedia still is not coherent as a company. The article mentions Dreamweaver and Flash as Macromedia’s most important products, but fails to mention their server line of products, which I think will end up being equally as important to the company moving forward. This, from a marketing perspective, is a really important aspect to their story.

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May 4, 2002

I have to agree with Jim. I’ve been a comic fan for most of my life, and Spiderman, while it was never my absolute favorite title, has always been among the best Marvel books. The movie was very well done, and I can’t think of a better adaptation of a comic book to the big screen to date. (We’ll see however, when Ang Lee’s Hulk comes out.) Some additional comic book movies I’d like to see, a Thor movie, a Captain America movie, and a Green Lantern movie. I’m not sure what happened to the Fantastic Four movie, but I also would like Clobberin' Time to come to the big screen at some point.

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Well, this morning my copy of Fireworks MX timed out on me. This stuff has gotten very frustrating. I can’t use any of the new software now on my Mac OS X machine. Guess I’ll be a Windows XP user for the next couple of weeks because I don’t want to fall behind in learning this stuff. I guess what makes this so frustrating to me is that Mac OS X has been commercially available for over a year now. This is no longer some brand new Operating System. People who have wireless networks and use a laptop tend to switch between them and wired networks.

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May 3, 2002
May 2, 2002

MX products fail to launch: “Trial Expired” message in Macintosh OS X Bottom line, if you are running Mac OS X and had this problem due to your normal network configuration, you are screwed. The tone of this technote, and JD’s comment, make me think that this could be resolved to make Mac OS X users happy, but they are more focused on getting the final software out the door. It might just be me, but I think this just might send the wrong message to this group of users. I also think that, if their preview didn’t work on Windows XP, they would be rewrapping it today.

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WaxPraxis is a new Weblog worth reading maintained by Flash guru Branden Hall. Add that to Mike Chambers, John Dowdell, Vernon Viehe, and Matt Brown and there is a real lot to be learned from Macromedia related weblogs. Mike Chambers has a list of some additional Flash MX weblogs that have sprung up here.

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May 1, 2002

Macromedia has somewhat quietly posted an updated Flash Player that takes care of the two known bugs in the previous version of the 6 player.

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Geez, that was a short preview. There’s some sort of problem with both the Dreamweaver and Flash MX preview versions that I have installed on my Mac OS X machine. They expired after the first time I ran them rather than on June 7th and in 90 days respectively. There is a thread in the Macromedia Preview forums that deals with the issue, and the fact that they are aware of it, but that they aren’t sure what causes it so there is no fix yet. So no preview for me anymore. Damn, I was having fun.

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DoubleCommand: “DoubleCommand is a Mac OS X 10.1 kernel extension that gives PowerBook and iBook users a second Command key (Apple key), replacing the enter key next to the space bar.”

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DJ’ing with Ableton Live This application is a really versatile sequencing application that runs on both Windows and Mac OS X. I’ve been playing with it since they released the Mac OS X version in January.

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