Day: November 17, 2020

As one of the most popular software for designers, Photoshop has released its 21st version in 2020. Apparently, it has always been a key research and development project of Adobe company. Its emergence and early history are also very interesting. Photoshop went through two “evolutions” before it belonged to Adobe. In 1987, PhD student Tom…

Club Penguin is an online multiplayer game for kids and ran from 2005 to 2017. It was shut down by Disney after a dramatic decrease in users, but copycat sites and versions have been put up since. Essentially in the game, the user gets to explore a fun, snowy world as a penguin and play…

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two computer science graduate students, met at Stanford in 1995 and created what would become one of the most useful inventions of all-time — a highly usable and accurate internet search engine. In 1998, Google’s branding began to take form, progressing from the wacky older logo above (and others) into…

SketchUp is a Computer Graphics software program widely used within the realms of architectural designing, CAD, and 3D modeling. Mechanical engineers, interior designers, and film and video game creators actively use this software to deliver prolific results. The software was originally developed by startup company @Last Software, co-founded by Brad Schell and Joe Esch in 1999. SketchUp…

On March 10th, 1998, Macromedia Digital Arts Group released Fireworks as a free public beta; it was officially released that same year, on the 2nd of June. Adobe Systems later acquired Fireworks on December 3rd, 2005, and released to the public in 2007 in the Adobe Creative Suite CS3 release. (Could not find any of…

Final Cut Pro is software that a lot of video editors who are Mac users used today. A lot of people chose to use it because it creates a much simple, clean, smooth, and faster experience compare to Adobe Premiere Pro. Back in 1998, Macromedia had hired Randy Ubillos’ group to create digital video editing…

Microsoft Paint is an application that has been a part of Window since 1985, most often associated with its poorly and badly illustrated digital art. For many, including myself, it was the first form of painting or editing images on the computer, and the only tool available at the time. Its simple interface and limited…

Snapchat, formed in 2011, is a social media platform used to share photos and messages among friends. Snapchat was formed with communication between friends and new ways of expression in mind. The gimmick of disappearing pictures was a new step no one had done up until now. With this in mind, Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown,…

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program. It was released on April 20, 1987. The first version of PowerPoint only works for Macintosh Operating system based computers, which was created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin from the company called Forethought.After Forethought hired Robert Gaskins as the vice president of product development in 1984, Gaskins chose…

Even though Google Chrome only has 12 years of history, it has become one of the most well-known web browser software in the world. Google Chrome first debuted in 2008 and it was designed for Microsoft Windows.   Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of the Google company, in other words, they are the…

Firefox started out in 1998 under the Mozilla project – an open source created by a team from Netscape. It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the Internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market. It is an open source that has been evolved from the…

Twitter is one of the most popular app people are using today, yet, it is one of the earliest social networking services in the twenty-first century, along with Facebook and Youtube. Today, with over 145 million daily users, there are 6,000 tweets sent each second on average. That’s 500 million tweets sent each day. Therefore,…

Gmail is a free e-mail service released by Google on April 1st, 2004. When Gmail first came out, new users needed existing users to send email invitations. As of February 7,2007, Google announced that Gmail registration is fully open. The Beta logo was officially cancelled on July 7,2009, and after more than five years of…

Spotify Launched: April 23, 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden Original founders: Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon Current CEO: Daniel Ek Currently owned by Spotify AB a publicly traded company They have many many many patents available including one for their cross-fade option where users can choose to have songs fade into each other. Spotify has a patent…

The history of Wikipedia begins with Ward Cunningham, who created a new website model in 1994; he named it “Wiki”. Wikis are websites that allow users to create and edit information on the site in real-time. Because we live in a sharable big-data / information expo generation, The Wikis revolutionizes how people collaborate and share…

Based on a century years old card game, Microsoft Solitaire was first introduced more than 30 years ago and ended up becoming one of the most played video games in history. This game has been entertaining and introduced computer games to more than 500 million players all around the world. Microsoft’s Paul Jensen, studio manager…

Microsoft Word (originally known as Multi-Tool Word) was introduced in the early 1980s by software developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi who came to work for Microsoft from Xerox.  Although Microsoft Word was made available for both Macintosh and computers using MS-DOS, It wasn’t until 1989, when Word shifted its focus to Windows, bundled with…