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Submission + - Palm Before the PalmPilot

Submitted by Gammu on Sunday October 21, 2007 @03:02PM

Gammu writes: The Pilot (later PalmPilot and finally just Palm) saved Palm Computing. Before the release of the Pilot, the company was subsisting (barely) on revenue from connectivity packages for HP PDA's and a version of Graffiti for the Newton. This was because its first PDA hardware product had failed under the weight of feature creep and design by committee. Read about Palm's early history at SiliconUser.

Submission + - History of Photoshop: The Mac's First Killer App

Submitted by Gammu on Saturday June 09, 2007 @09:58AM

Gammu writes: For the past fifteen plus years, Photoshop has turned into the killer app for graphics designers on the Mac. It was originally written as a support app for a grad student's thesis and struggled to find wide commercial release. Eventually, Adobe licensed the app and has sold millions of copies. Read about its early history at SiliconUser.

Comment What's new? (Score 1) 264

by wackymacs on Friday May 11, 2007 @03:04AM (#19079775) Attached to: Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted

All AOL seem to do is screw-up again and again these days. They must like bad publicity.

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