Recently I was having a discussion with a fellow web developer on what is becoming a classic argument, as a web designer/coder is it taboo to use Adobe Dreamweaver? The guy that I was discussing this with is one of those, “I’m a web designer who codes from scratch with amazing standards and breaths awesomeness from my nostrils, blah blah” type person. You know the type of person who was hit with some magic wand and now knows everything about web design, past, present, and future. My biggest concern came when a family friend who is still in college (studying information systems) sat with us listening to our whole debate.
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Every now and then we at Miracle World Media like to take two similarly designed software applications, developed for the same purpose and put them head to head in a no holds bard death match to see which one is left victorious. This time we have chosen two economically friendly image editing tools that we affectionately call ICAPS(I Can’t Afford Photoshop). The softwares being compared are Pixelmator and Gimp. We will be of comparing the fore mentioned on 6 key points, platform compatibility, usability, selections tools, filters and effects, retouching tools, and pricing. First lets briefly discuss each software’s history.
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Recently members of the Miracle World Media staff have been keeping up with the newest innovations in cloud computing, one project in particular is the Bespin internet based web editor. The Bespin project is brought to you by the folks at Mozilla Labs, and based on their video they seem to be very excited about this experiment. Front-end web developers understand that this is not the first attempt at an online based XHTML editor; however the Bespin team claims that this one has the potential of bringing the same power of a desktop code editor to the web. Currently Bespin is still in beta (version 0.1) and is available to everyone for testing.
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