ROB MCCART wrote:
>> If Corel (now that they bought out Jasc) make a *nix version of it, I may
>> very well switch my main OS... will run MS-VS under vmware, but that will
>> be the app that turns the tide for me... though I've been eying the new
>> MacBook Pro's ...
> 
> What changes would (did) Jasc bring about ?  It's been quite a
> while since I tried Corel Draw. I did a few years back but for
> most of what I do it's too complex to fight with.. probably the
> same with PsP although I haven't used it since version 3.

Corel bought out Jasc... Paint Shop Pro isn't based on Corel Draw at all,
Corel bought out Jasc.. made some minor updates to PSP, and included a much 
more intrusive authentication (registration validation) system into the 
installer, and made the version "10" up from 9 (the last Jasc
version, which 
iirc was released under Corel's name, but was done in line with the buyout.)

> I don't do that much fancy stuff. For whole image manipulation or
> simple cropping I can do almost everything I need with Irfan View.
> It has lots of special effects and image adjusting options built in.
> To actually modify small parts of images I use the final release of
> NeoPaint for DOS, of all things..  For the most part those two small
> programs can do everything I need to do with images..

Honestly, use what you are familiar with... I happen to like PSP, which 
supports Photoshop filters/plugins, and works pretty well.. it's become a bit 
bloated, but not nearly as much as Photoshop, and is about the same in a 
feature to feature comparison.

> Must be hold-overs from my small hard disk years.. I don't run
> software just because it's available to me. Bigger isn't
> necessarily better.
> I use MS Works 4 even though I have 3 versions of MS Office
> (97, 2000, XP) sitting here. These days I have a 160 gig
> Seagate hard drive but after 15 months it's still 90% empty..

I can understand that.. I've always been less concerned about drive space, and 
more concerned about functionality... does it do what I want, how I want it 
to... if it does I usually use it.

> Speaking of..  I hear Seagate just bought Maxtor, who not so
> long ago bought Quantum.. Pretty soon there won't be any
> choices left. It surprised me a bit that Seagate is still as
> big as it is. You don't hear the name nearly as often as you
> do Maxtor or Western Digital yet the $1.9 Billion they bought
> Maxtor for is less than 1/4 of Seagates annual earnings.

Seagate is imho the best drive company, as far as reliability goes,
I've been using them pretty much exclusively for a while now...

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