The window flickered. For a second, he thought the program would crash his entire system. Instead, the red Adobe logo turned into a workspace. The canvas was empty, white, and full of possibility. He stayed up until dawn, drawing rounded rectangles and optimizing slices for a website that would likely be obsolete in three years. The Ghost in the Machine
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Its key features—such as the ability to create (image segments that could be exported as HTML elements) and hotspots (convertible image segments for hyperlinks)—made it a favorite for rapidly creating website prototypes and user interfaces.