Hidden Opera

This may be old news to many, but I just learned that Opera is installed by Adobe as part of the Creative Suite. Turns out Adobe has been using Opera for years as a rendering engine. I’ve read that it’s used in all kinds of places: to display Adobe Help files, in Device Central (to [...]

On Dvorak and the future of the keyboard

1. Dvorak-Qwerty redux I decided to test out Tweetdeck, a new Twitter application in Beta developed on the Adobe Air platform. I like it. But when I attempted to hide the app with the shortcut ?-H … it didn’t work. Then it hit me. It’s an Adobe app. Of course it doesn’t work. That’s because [...]

Dvorak-Qwerty support for Adobe CS

So, here’s my latest Dvorak-Qwerty keyboard support rant. I received a very odd ‘personal’ response from an Adobe customer support representative regarding my request for Dvorak-Qwerty support for Adobe’s Creative Suite applications. My complaint: Dvorak-Qwerty does not properly work with Adobe products. (See my previous post for background on DQ if you have no idea [...]