So… I recently have moved from PC to mac, and the transfer of files has been quite a pleasant experience thus fair.
However, as is bound to happen, one program in particular has given me grief… My macromedia studio MX 2004 program. Some will know that I like to dabble with graphics from time to time, and in 2005 I invested about $260.00 to purchase macromedia studio to draw and manipulate images. It works fine, and I’ve taught myself how to use it. So you can imagine how upset I was when I went to transfer the activation license from my PC to the mac and was denied!

Apparently some genius at Macromedia decided that once you activate the product on a chosen computer platform (pc or mac) it couldn’t be used on the other platform… Great!

Not wanting to purchase new software (adobe cs3 is still $630.00 on student rates…) I decided to ring their support line. But of course, Adobe had bought out Macromedia a couple of years ago and they couldn’t care less that I had problems with an old program of a previous competitor and recently acquired company… Boohoo…

What next?

Well, enter Google. The internet has the answers.
As is true to form, someone out there apparently broke the activation code on the software within 24hrs of it being released back in 2004, so all I needed was to find someone who posted the code on their website and hey presto!

A couple of hours trawling the internet over several days and bingo! there it was. I copied. I pasted. And now my Macromedia studio mx 2004 software is all go. Hoorah!

If you’re wondering how my Christian ethics are holding up under the celebration of using a program activated with an illegal code, then all I have to answer is that I payed for my software and my code. And if adobe can’t be bothered helping their customers then they should be happy that at least someone out there is helping their customers. Rah!