Monthly Archives: April 2007

Adobe® Photoshop®

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Apparently, Adobe® is worried that their trademark will one day be revoked for the Adobe® Photoshop® software. I find this really interesting, because I have not heard of it until now. While I can understand the detrimental consequences of no longer possessing a trademark for Adobe® Photoshop®, their requests seem to be rather humorous. (Link to Adobe® site)

The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be capitalized and should never be used in possessive form, or as a slang term. It should be used as an adjective to describe the product, and should never be used in abbreviated form. The following examples illustrate these rules:

Ah, it appears that Adobe® has a plan to help maintain their trademark status.

Trademarks are not verbs.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.

Trademarks are not nouns.
CORRECT: The image pokes fun at the Senator.
INCORRECT: The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator.

Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.

Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
CORRECT: Those who use Adobe® Photoshop® software to manipulate images as a hobby see their work as an art form.
INCORRECT: A photoshopper sees his hobby as an art form.
INCORRECT: My hobby is photoshopping.

Trademarks must never be used in possessive form.
CORRECT: The new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software are impressive.
INCORRECT: Photoshop’s features are impressive.

Trademarks are proper adjectives and should be followed by the generic terms they describe.
CORRECT: The image was manipulated using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was manipulated using Photoshop.

Trademarks must never be abbreviated.
CORRECT: Take a look at the new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: Take a look at the new features in PS.

This looks like a good idea, but I don’t think it’s going to do a lick of good. No one is going to change their speech habbits to say “Adobe® Photoshop® Software” for the simple reason that people don’t like to say more then they have too. You can say an 8 syllable phrase, or you can say a 3 syllable word. That’s the difference between “Adobe® Photoshop® sofware” and “Photoshop®”. When people have to say “Adobe PhotoShop software” on a daily basis, or multiple times durring the day, they are going to shorten the word. That’s one reason people use nicknames, or even why we call people by first names. It’s shorter and more practical then using the full name.

I’m not saying Adobe® should give up the fight, I’m just saying that this is never going to catch on.

Color Inspiration

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I just saw a post on Modern Life is Rubbish talking about how he changes his color scheme on the first of every month. I thought this sounded like a sweet idea. The best part is that my color scheme for this site is so minimal, I basically have to change the link colors once a month. I took the liberty of changing all the link colors to more spring colors for the month of April. I think they look nice and pastel. Hopefully later today I will have some time to choose the rest of the months colors, and I hope to set up a script that will change the colors for me, so I don’t have to think about it. Maybe I could even get a WordPress plugin made out of it. We’ll see.

My M&Ms…

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I need my M&Ms… I haven’t had M&Ms… in what, a week now? Has it been longer then a week? I have this craving for chocolate. The thing is, I don’t have time or energy or money to go and actually buy M&Ms.

See, I have a plan. All I have to do is wait until after Easter, and all the Easter M&Ms go on sale. I can get a truckload of M&Ms at discounted price. It’s an amazing strategy, but it requires me to wait a week. I highly doubt there are going to be any “Mounday Thursday” or “Good Friday” M&M sales.

I tried a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich, it didn’t work. I tried a Green Tea, it didn’t help either. I need my M&Ms man! I need my M&Ms!

Moldy Coffee

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There’s nothing worse then moldy coffee… Okay, so there are several things that are worse then moldy coffee.

A few days ago as I was falling asleep I had a thought, and the thought was this: Did I clean my coffee maker out last time I made coffee?

It’s funny I should ask myself that, because I haven’t made coffee for over a month. I forgot to even look, that is, until today. It was chilly today and I could use a kick of caffine to get some homework done. My first thought was: Coffee!

I pull out my coffee maker, and realize that I didn’t clean it out last time I used it.

I had moldy coffee and modly coffee grinds. This presented a problem. A problem I didn’t want to deal with. I took my coffee maker into the hall and sprayed some bleach spray on it. I left it out there for a few hours, until after supper. I then took the coffee maker and put it in two plastic bags and put it back where I had it.

The problem’s not solved, and there’s still a mess, but it’s not something I want to deal with. I figure I can just take it home with me a few days and clean it up there, if it’s still worth salvaging. I think it just may go straight to the dumpster. (Although the coffee pot itself is still good.)

This is my Apathy, not caring about cleaning up my coffee maker. Good choice? Bad Choice? Does it really matter at this moment?