Adobe’s new mobile scanning app ups the ante on competitors and does away with paid subscriptions and upgrades. Called Scan, the free app for iOS and Android converts printed text into a PDF simply by snapping a picture of it. That’s not unusual for scanning apps, but Adobe’s including optical character recognition (OCR) for …
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Google has officially put its Nik photo-editing suite on ice. The tech giant, which last year made the popular collection of photo-editing tools free to use for Mac and Windows, quietly let users know Tuesday that it had gone as far as it plans to go with the suite. “The Nik Collection is free and compatible with Mac OS X …
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It looks to me like Microsoft has wrestled control of our creative future from Apple and Adobe. When you combine Microsoft’s two most recent updates of its Windows 10 operating system — the first Creators Update and the just-announced Fall Creators Update — with its aggressive work in mixed-reality and computing-related hardware, it looks like Windows is becoming the go-to …
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Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft debuts Windows Story Remix to edit and organize… 3:54 Microsoft hopes to make a show of creative force for its Fall Creators Update with Windows Story Remix, a new application that incorporates all the 3D technologies it rolled out with the initial Creators Update to help intelligently create mixed-reality montages. It’s like a combination of …
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It took six weeks of tech support calls, power usage monitoring and Genius Bar diagnostics, but I’m finally convinced my new MacBook Pro isn’t an expensive mistake. And what I’ve learned along the way can help you, too — regardless of what laptop you’re using. I bought a 15-inch Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro sight unseen late last year, confident that …
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After buying a 15-inch 2016 MacBook Pro in December with initially disappointing battery life, I became one of the skeptics. But I’ve been running tests and talking to Apple techs — read the details here — and I’ve extended my useful battery life dramatically. In one day’s test, mostly using a browser with a dim screen, I made it beyond …
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Google’s Chromebook initiative for the education market, which the company announced Tuesday, comes with its first targeted set of apps. Adobe has refreshed a select handful of its Creative Cloud Android apps to work in the latest version of Chrome OS, which can run apps designed for Google’s other mobile platform. Notably, the Chromebooks offer stylus support, which makes the …
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Google just made it a no-brainer for school districts to kick Apple and Microsoft to the curb. At the education technology conference Bett, the search giant announced two new Chromebooks from Acer and Asus that basically offer low-cost, secure alternatives to iPads and Windows notebooks in one device. Google has been pushing hard into the education market for the past …
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Netflix has said TV Everywhere is its own worst nightmare. Now, TV Everywhere is hoping it can make that a reality, despite a track record that might suggest otherwise. TV Everywhere is how traditional pay-TV networks and providers attack the consumer shift to video online and on their phones. By setting up streaming channels included in pay-TV customers’ subscriptions, the …
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When Adobe Systems launched Lightroom for phones and tablets, it was a pale reflection of the version for Windows and Mac. It’s been gradually improving, but an overhaul Thursday brings the mobile app much closer to the PC version of the photo editing and cataloging software. Adobe surveyed its customers to figure out what they’d like. The new editing interface …
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