Veerle's blog

I guess pretty low when looking at this blatant rip-off of Apple's iPod. A company called Nextway has released a MP3 player called D cube NHD-150D.

Dull name isn't it? Hold on THEY implemented 1 feature that the iPod hasn't, an FM radio wow! Pretty sure that somebody at Cupertino will send them a friendly letter. Apple must be the most copied company in history! Shame on you Nextway!

I recently looked into the matter of upgrading to the CS collection and it seems that Adobe is screwing their loyal customers. Upgrading to every CS program separately cost you almost as much then upgrading from 1 product to the entire Standard or Premium Suite. For example if you own Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2 you pay 553 Euro to upgrade all of them.

So people who just have Photoshop in any version can update to all these programs for only 579 Euro. Adobe doesn’t make a difference if you are a loyal customer who bought every update of all these programs in the past, no special prices, no bonuses, nada! :-( This makes me really mad if you think about the fact that they always complain about illegal downloads etc. They’re asking for it don’t you think?

We get no favors and are treated the same way or worse then people who skip versions all the time. We are in fact the victim of Adobe’s brilliant idea of bundling their products and making sure that people buy the whole suite. It goes as far as when looking on their store that you will have hard time finding the separate upgrades. Can you tell I’m a bit frustrated! ;-)

... Monday and bad weather! :-(

Look at this forecast, wouldn’t you get frustrated or agitated?

A couple of weeks ago I was at the beach and it was hot, really wonderful, 30°C! I left my towels in the car just hoping and believing that I would go back to the beach one of these days… but I guess Summer is REALLY over now :-(

But we can’t complain, we had the best Summer ever, it started in May already and it ended just 2 weeks ago. I remember it hardly rained where I live from the end of May till end of August, that is really exceptional.

And here I am, sitting behind my beautiful Mac listening to my CDs I bought from my Ibiza holiday… Thank God there is this nice music to keep me in the mood :-D And another comfort is that when I posted this it was only 22°C and heavily cloudy on my favorite Island too (Ibiza) ;-)

(Weather forecast tool/widget by Konfabulator for MacOS X)