Thursday, March 13, 2008

Adobe, kind enough to give you a BitTorrent client

I got my MacBook Pro this afternoon and spent quality time installing CS3 Design on it. I also installed Parallels and discovered that the Ubuntu CD I burned for installs has 52 defects on it, so I opted to download the Parallels-optimized Ubuntu installer.
Most are broken into several downloads, but there's also a torrent. I saved the torrent and just for kicks opened it knowing I hadn't installed any BitTorrent clients.

Opera opened up and obligingly started the torrent. Wait, what? I didn't install Opera. Application folder didn't have Opera in it. Fortunately right-clicking the O icon in the Dock and telling it to show me Opera in the Finder brought up a folder named MacOS with Bridge CS3 as a Unix executable -- and Opera.

Turns out Adobe Bridge has Opera encapsulated inside itself. Slick.