Review: Pixelmator 2.0 provides powerful image editing in a sleek package

Pixelmator 2.0 offers an incredibly rare combination of ease of use, powerful features, and a low price tag.

Adobe: Here's why Creative Cloud is worth $600 a year

Elements of the Creative Cloud (Credit: Adobe Systems) Unimpressed by Adobe Systems' Creative Cloud, its forthcoming $50-per-month subscription plan? Adobe wants to change your mind. The company offered some new details today to show people that the Creative Cloud plan gets people access to more than just the full Creative Suite (CS) Master Collection and tablet-oriented Touch programs ...

Adobe to entice users to upgrade to CS6 with special pricing

After getting a good amount of criticism for changing its upgrade policy late last year, Adobe is offering incentives for Photoshop and Creative Suite CS3 and 4 users to get them to jump on the CS6 bandwagon. Starting with Adobe CS6, Adobe is restricting upgrade pricing just to those who are one version behind -- those who currently use CS5 or CS5.5. Adobe explained that it would help customers ...

Adobe will offer CS6 at special price for CS3 and CS4 owners

Adobe will offer a direct upgrade path to Creative Suite 6 to customers who own CS3 or CS4 after all, it has announced.

C-a-C: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will destroy you, ball

In the years since his retirement, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has found many ways to pass the time. He's been a coach, a mentor, the Archangel of Basketball , a best-selling author and, most recently, a global cultural ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. When you add his many post-career accomplishments to his Hall of Fame playing career, you're left with a man who has achieved on a level few ...