Adobe Photoshop.
And basically any of the Photoshop for Mac, Illustrator, Photoshop Elements, Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver, or Fireworks, Final Cut Pro, iMovie and Logic Pros, and Premiere.
Oh, and Photoshop Express, which seems to be their entry level desktop app.
I can’t quite figure out why so many of the teachers at my school had this on their computers, but it seemed like a pretty safe bet, since it was simple to use.
Maybe some teachers in Sweden are using Macs too, but it seems like an English teacher’s computer might have, say, a copy of Word or Excel. But a photoshop, a piece of your license free software? Those are pretty easy to get your hands on.
What I could find online is that you can search Google and find anything under Adobe Elements. Or you can search Adobe Photoshop and find…well…images of dead deer.
But the damage is already done.
This isn’t the first time that I’ve seen this odd habit among Scandinavian computer users.
When my sister and her husband came to visit, she commented that the computer at the hotel they stayed at was easy to find and fun to use, and said that she was surprised that it wasn’t, because it looked so out of place in this expensive European hotel. The computer was an Apple PowerBook. The kind of computer I imagined only business travelers would be using, and I guess it just caught her off guard.
Turns out it was just an Apple PowerBook, but one that looked the same as the PowerBooks you’d find in U.S. hotels.
Obviously, it’s quite easy to steal software. Some sites list just about everything anyone would ever need for free, and even tell you where you can buy it for a low price.
And there are plenty of places to go to buy pirated software, from both legit sellers and those just looking to make a quick buck.
So, when you go to Europe to visit or take a trip, keep this in mind. Most European computer users don’t download pirated copies of software from Russia or places like that, and they’re still really good at using computers.
PS, they also don’t do anything very exciting with them. I’ve watched this kid play hockey, and this one girl and these two guys eat pizza and play video games, and that’s it. You should go someplace else if you’re looking to have more fun.
And they always use this chair.
Okay, I’m really done.
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