Adobe Illustrator CS3 has arrived in its Universal Binary glory. Ars goes in-depth with the latest version of one of Adobe's flagship applications, looking to see if—Universal Binary aside—it's worth the price of admission.

I guess you can tell by my tone that it's a bit hard to get excitedabout the Illustrator CS3 upgrade. What it does, it does well enough,but this is a relatively brief review, and yet I've covered pretty muchall that's new to Illustrator CS3. I...

Adobe Photoshop CS3 is here, Universal Binary and all. Ars goes in-depth with the latest version of one of Adobe's flagship applications, covering both the standard and Extended editions.

Photoshop CS3 is a tricky one to rate since what it does, it does very well. Not all of the Extended features will appeal to everyone, but things like the Black and White adjustment, curves with histogram, layer auto-align and auto-blend, Camera RAW 4, Sm...

Voice recognition software has come a long way since the first commercial package was released just over a decade ago. Does Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 have what it takes to wean you from your keyboard dependence?

If you want to run Windows (or Linux) on your Intel Mac, but don't want to mess around with partitioning and rebooting, Parallels Desktop may be just what you're looking for. Ars reviews the first virtual machine application for Intel Macs.

Ars revisits Aperture to take a another look at workflow and RAW image rendering. Does Aperture rate any better after further testing?

When Apple announced Aperture in October as a "all-in-one post-production tool for photographers," many have wondered how well done Apple's latest "pro" application would be. We got a copy, tested it extensively, and were surprised by what we found.

The Mozilla Foundation's open source e-mail client Thunderbird hits version 1.0. Ars takes a look at it to see if it up to the high standards set by the Firefox 1.0 release.

Without a doubt, Mozilla Thunderbird is a very good e-mail client. It sends and receives mail, it checks it for spam, handles multiple accounts, imports data from your old e-mail application, scrapes RSS news feeds, and is even cross-platform. So is it re...