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Client: “I don’t really like that the website has a top and bottom.”Me: “Everything has a top and bottom. That’s how it goes.”Client: “Not true. Circles don’t.” Me: “So you want a circular website?”Client: “Yup! Like a conveyer belt, or ooh! a rolodex. Every time you scroll up past the top, you  get to the bottom. Every time you scroll down past the bottom, you get to the top.”Me: “Then how will we designate the—” Client: “What’s the top and bottom? Good point. If everything is continuous, then there can’t be a top or bottom.”Me: “I can’t believe I’m having this conversation.”Client: “So, what we need is a randomizer!”

Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality webapps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

If you have ever entertained that seemingly laughable thought of installing anti-virus software on your mobile phone, you are not alone.

A few months ago, Kaspersky Labs discovered two Trojan-SMS malware that masqueraded as media player apps for Android devices. Once installed, the malware can send premium SMSes costing US$6 ($7.70) each without the user's knowledge.

the money is still on computers, and cyber criminals follow the trail of money. The increasing number of people using smartphones is a factor, but not a big one yet. There are some banking services on mobile platforms, but the majority of consumers still use computers to access banking services

Client: “The ‘V’ is too pointy.  Can we get a ‘V’ that isn’t pointy?”Me: “An un-pointy ‘V’ may start to look like a ‘U’…”Client: “We don’t want a ‘U’. We want a ‘V’ that doesn’t have a point.”

What new opportunities do you see for apps in the developing world? Nobody focuses on the problem of creating apps for somebody whose monthly income is $200. Those people are not part of the computer age or the Internet age; most of them are not literate. So we run app competitions in India to try to get people thinking from that perspective. The winner of our last competition was a group of students who designed a commerce app for “fruit walas,” the guys who run around with carts selling fruits and vegetables. These students created a graphically intuitive way of running a small vegetable business. There are something like five million fruit walas in India, so if you had an app for them, there could be a lot of money to be made.

Not only is the creative services software shop closing down the Creative Suite version numbers and branding; it’s getting rid of the entire paradigm of old-school, cereal-box* software.

No more waiting for your design software’s features to catch up with what the web guys have been doing for six months

new purchasing paradigm for the entire creative industry. Every ad agency, every magazine, every indie design firm and print shop — they will all be transitioning from bought-and-owned software at $200 or $700 or $2,000 a pop to the Creative Cloud subscription model, which can cost as little as $20 per mont