Dear Santa...

This is a forum topic for discussing the article "Dear Santa...":

http://www.elated.com/articles/dear-santa/

Simon Meek - overworked, underpaid freelancer and web designer extraordinaire - tells Santa the 5 things he would really like for Christmas this year.

I wish for health, wealth and happiness too.

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Love your letter and shopping list, could not agree more!

Your comments re Photoshop are spot on. Adobe dropped the ball the minute they purchased Macromedia (formerly, Macromind) years ago. Further, the ftp client in all versions of Dreamweaver is a disaster. It bombs out during ftp sessions constantly, when other ftp clients manage just fine.

It is a pity Apple don't scale their iWork apps up to the level of functionality of Adobe's, so we can benefit from the outstanding GUI in apps like Pages, but with the power of apps like Photoshop and Illustrator.

BTW, I have an iPad and TouchDraw is one of the best designed and fun to use drawing apps ever published. Worth buying an iPad for, so start saving!

Alex - Typing this on a MacBook Air 11", awesome too!

@Oflife: I'd also love to see Apple produce a full-fledged web design tool along the lines of Photoshop/Fireworks.

I'm also tempted to try Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com/) when I get a moment. It grossed $1M on the App Store in 20 days:

http://www.pixelmator.com/weblog/2011/01/25/pixelmator-grosses-1-million-on-the-mac-app-store/#comments?r44b=no

Not sure if it's a complete Photoshop replacement though...

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