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A tech publication compiled a list of 10 iPad apps designed to help with habits and daily routines, excluding Apple's own first-party apps and Adobe's subscription tools. All the apps are free to start, though most offer paid upgrades for additional features. The selections emphasize clean design that makes use of the full iPad screen and limit AI use mostly to search and transcription rather than image or text generation.
Adobe announced a partnership with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to let Premiere mobile users browse, search and insert up to 60 seconds of licensed tracks directly into their video edits. The music is licensed for personal, non-commercial use only, while Adobe Stock Audio remains the option for commercially licensed tracks. Adobe did not specify a launch date, whether both labels' catalogs will arrive simultaneously, or how many songs will be included.
Adobe is partnering with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to bring a library of licensed music into its Premiere mobile video editing app. The update, described as 'coming soon,' will let users add up to 60 seconds of popular tracks, browse and filter music by artist or genre, use music-paired templates, and export videos directly to social platforms.
A blogger researching old Adobe PageMill software uncovered bundled clip art from Image Club Graphics, a Calgary company founded in the 1980s by engineering-student-turned-designer Greg Kolodziejzyk. The post compiles rare sampler discs and web-ready bullets, rules, dingbat fonts, and backgrounds the company produced for the early desktop publishing and web design markets.
Developer Brandon Thomas built Artcraft, a set of free, open-source clones of Adobe Creative Cloud apps including a Photoshop substitute called Photocraft, using Claude Opus 5.5 to reverse-engineer the software in Rust. Thomas says the move was prompted by frustration with Adobe's subscription cancellation fees, and the apps mimic Adobe's interfaces closely enough to require little relearning. Testing found Photocraft handles basic tasks like resizing and masking well but suffers from bugs, instability, and an inability to open native PSD files.
A new commentary piece argues that AI labs' push to sell AI coding assistants as replacements for human software engineers has backfired by letting ordinary users build cheap alternatives to paid software products. It cites examples such as a hobbyist building a Photoshop-like tool in a weekend and AI tools reverse-engineering established software and releasing clones as open source. The author frames this as AI labs undermining the recurring-revenue business model of the very companies they hoped would become their paying customers.
Developer Rafael Rivera found that wallpapers Microsoft emailed to Windows Insiders in mid-October, marking the program's 12th anniversary, carried file metadata showing they were saved using Photoshop on a Mac. Rivera said the ten wallpapers came from Microsoft's in-house design team, and the company has since replaced the files on its design site without comment.
Adobe has added an Open Eyes Quick Action to the mobile version of Lightroom for iOS, iPadOS and Android. When the app detects closed eyes in a photo, it surfaces an icon that uses generative AI to replace them, drawing on other images of the same person in the user's library to match eye color, size and shape.
Adobe discontinued Flash Player at the end of 2020, leaving thousands of early-internet games and animations inaccessible through normal browsers. Several archive sites have since emerged that let users play those old Flash games today, largely by running them through Ruffle, an open-source emulator built specifically to replicate Flash's functionality without the original plugin.
An Entrepreneur contributor's video essay examines how Lovable grew into a business with a reported $400 million in annual recurring revenue by February 2026 by solving the problem of people who had app ideas but couldn't code. The piece also cites an Adobe Express survey of 1,010 gig workers showing 46% said they earn income from AI side hustles, and recalls Dropbox's early struggles paying $233-$388 to acquire customers for a $99 product before a referral program lifted signups 60%.
Sansec has disclosed CVE-2026-103849, dubbed BlockStrap, a maximum-severity vulnerability in Adobe Commerce, Magento Open Source through 2.4.9, and Adobe Commerce B2B through 1.5.3 that could let attackers execute arbitrary PHP code via a second-pass injection in the email template engine. No active exploitation has been observed yet, but Sansec says it found four potential attack paths within a day of analysis and is urging merchants to apply Adobe's October patch or isolated fix rather than relying on a standard Composer install.
Adobe VP Deepa Subramaniam said the company has rearchitected Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D Painter to run on NVIDIA's new RTX Spark system-on-chip, which brings local AI processing to Windows laptops and small desktops aimed at creatives. Subramaniam claims the optimized apps run twice as fast on AI-driven tasks and general editing workflows, with improvements including real-time previews in Photoshop, faster rendering and color-grading in Premiere, and quicker texturing and file handling in Substance 3D Painter.