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Finally, FINALLY, someone has figured out the solution to the Adobe ImageReady droplet problem that has rendered my desktop Mac useless for batch-resizing images for over two years now. Each time I attempt to use a droplet, I would get an error message that says, “Could not play back the batch. You do not have permission to write to this file.” But thanks to Ian_Altgilbers (whoever you are), my Mac is back in batchin’ action.

Update: Here’s an image I used to test if the solution worked.

That’s me with two of my sons and their newborn cousin who came into this world last Friday.

Adobe debuts this month Proxy, a quarterly PDF magazine created to help designers “get in touch with and be inspired by peers and experts in the design community.” Adobe’s original foray into magazine publishing was its printed run of Adobe Magazine from 1995 to 2000. An archive of the PDF versions can be found here. In 2002, Adobe’s Pacific division began publishing an online magazine of the same name. Archives are here.

Here are the newest additions to The Silicon Valley Tourist album.

The overwhelming interest generated by a link to photos I took of the Apple campus has prompted me to finally post pictures I was saving for later. I introduce to you The Silicon Valley Tourist, a gallery of Silicon Valley signage I took over a span of several weeks.* A boring set of snapshots perhaps to some but I’m sure it would interest a couple of you out there. The album is by no means complete. I plan to visit Google, Adobe, Intel (which is really tough to take a picture of), HP and others soon.

You may be wondering why I frame the company signs between my index finger and my thumb. Well, I figured that’s the only way I could include myself in the picture. At first I thought about using the Pets.com sock puppet or the Geekman action figure as my prop. But in this post-9/11 era, holding up an indiscernible object with a camera pointed at an American high-tech icon would only cause a swarm of SWAT team members to surround me in a matter of seconds. So I settled for my ultra-portable, less suspicious-looking appendages. Besides, there’s something empowering about holding Corporate America between one’s fingers. Mwuhahaha… squish, squish…

*for a true tour of historic Silicon Valley, I direct you to this guy.

Update: Adobe pics are up!