But our online and desktop experiences have been disjointed.
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User's files can be synced to the Creative Cloud and opened in Photoshop Touch on the desktop or online for further refinement.
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The Adobe Media Player, which will become available later this year, will use RSS subscriptions to store and play automatically updated online video on your desktop, as well as streaming videos from the Web.
Could they not use videoconferencing, webconferencing, remote desktop access, online document editing, etc. or other tools?
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Many of these "cell mostly" users have other ways to get online, such as a desktop or laptop computer.
Now, over the past year or so there has been a real move to push applications that live on the desktop into the online world.
Tweaking Microsoft, Schmidt has moved to snap up online companies that can offer desktop-style applications for free, posing at least a token threat to Microsoft's money-spewing Office suite.
According to the survey, 80 percent of respondents expect the mobile experience to be at least as good as their experience in stores, and 85 percent expect it to be better than or equal to online using a laptop or desktop computer.
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Complementing the desktop and newly released online versions, the Autodesk 123D Catch app allows users to capture the world around them in 3D while on the go.
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As bandwidth becomes cheap and ubiquitous, people will want 3-d power as much online as they do now in desktop games, and the demand for graphics processors will grow.
The move comes months after Microsoft agreed to pay the BBC a fee to use some of its online news stories within its Windows 8 desktop Bing Daily news app.
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Examples of this are things like moving from Office to Google Docs, moving from an offline CRM system like ACT to Salesforce.com, or moving from the desktop version of QuickBooks to QuickBooks Online.
But now it's unclear how that strength on the desktop will translate into an edge in online advertising, digital media and Web-based business applications.
This is how it works: a customer on an online travel site who is searching for a flight on the desktop closes a browser on the desktop.
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Both announcements represent a commitment from AMD to provide the ideal graphics solution for everyday notebook and desktop users, whether they're gaming, streaming online HD videos, creating presentations or editing photos or videos.
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The numbers show how serious Ballmer is: Microsoft's Office desktop franchise piles up profits faster than even Google 's online advertising money machine.
The Limited Edition Adafruit MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer will be available beginning March 14, 2013, online at Adafruit.com and the MakerBot Store in New York City will offer the three Adafruit kits as companion accessories.
The Google Desktop search tool is as speedy and accurate as its far-famed online search engine, though some people are alarmed by a persistent (and reeking of hogwash) rumor that it potentially compromises user privacy.
The online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access seem every bit as good as their desktop counterparts.
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Ballmer said the shift to online software and services will mean changes for all of Microsoft's businesses, which range from desktop productivity tools to database and e-mail server software.
Now the upscale retailer can push mobile or desktop ads specifically to Facebook users who regularly spend on high-end apparel or those who looked online at making a clothing purchase but didn't pull the trigger.
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