samsung

[Derek Buttery]

Galaxy Tab anyone?
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Regards

Derek

[Dom Barnes]

Is that like the clear cola drink?

I can see the appeal of a slightly smaller lighter device over the iPad, but I wonder how all those apps designed for a mobile phone sized screen scale up. Could you even write Tab specific apps? I don't think there is an ecosystem to allow you to build two UI's for the different size devices.

Nice to finally see something thats going to try and take on the iPad though, after all the hoo-har at CES this year about all the tablets being released.

Dom

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[Gordon Thornett]

Following Ben's excellent demonstration of CS5 last week atAston Science Park, I've been checking out prices, etc. on the internet. Leaving aside the educational discounts there would appear to be some incredible prices being quoted out there. It appears that you can download the software for CS5 extended for around $109 from some sites - in fact I just found one quoting $69! - see
http://www.aspe-al.com/buy_cheap_Adobe_Photoshop.CS5_Extended_12_Eastern_Edition.html

Would I be right in assuming that these sites are not legitimate or indeed some sort of scam? They refer to 'OEM' software - I'm not quite sure what this means, except they say there are no manuals or support given, but that the software is just downloaded from the internet. I was initially tempted, but in view of the true price of this software I assume there must be some catch, or that the sites are plain illegal.

Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of using them?

[Derek Buttery]

would you want to walk around looking like dom jolly?

Regards

Derek

[Gordon Thornett]

Having checked this out on a few websites, I've come to the conclusion that these OEM software offers are almost certainly illegal, and not to be touched with a bargepole...

However I see that there is also some legitimate free imaging software called GIMP. Do any members have experience of using this, and how does it compare with the real thing (ie CS5)?

[Matt Moran]

GIMP does loads of the same stuff, but the UI's different & many
reckon it's pretty fiddly. The basic software is fairly basic but
there're plugins & whatnot for all the more advanced things. There's a
version about that looks a lot more like PS though - worth a look.

[Gareth Stokes]

Gimp is very good on windows or Linux but runs via the xterm windowing system on osx and is therefore a bit clunkier and fiddlier to use than a native app. It is very good though once you put some effort into getting past that non-native difference and you will get 90-odd percent of Photoshop's power for free.

I highly recommend it.

[Matt Moran]

ISTR there's a native non-xwindows version doing the rounds. It's
worth googling.

[Gordon Thornett]

ISTR?

[Matt Moran]

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/ISTR

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Gordon Thornett

[Gordon Thornett]

Ah - I had thought it was the International Society for Third-Sector Research (or so I seem to recall:) 

So what is it I'm supposed to google?  Native non-xwindows - whatever that means?

[Gordon Thornett]

That route takes me to something about home-brew, which has lost me completely.  It's many years since I last tried home-brewing...

On 3 Sep 2010, at 23:15, Gordon Thornett wrote:

Native non-xwindows

[Matt Moran]

http://gog.is/gimp+osx+native
Intel version from http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/
PPC version from http://osx-gimp.sourceforge.net/
HTH

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Gordon Thornett

[Gordon Thornett]

Thanks, Matt. I'm still a little confused, but will try this out, and see if I can get to grips with it...

[Matt Moran]

No worries - they're not without bugs but I believe they're still
being actively developed, so bug-fixes do stil happen.