One of the most dazzling demos I ever saw at a tech trade show happened more than twenty years ago, at a Macworld Expo in Boston. It involved a new software package — then called Fractal Design Painter — which let Mac users create digital art which replicated the look of real-world art supplies such as watercolor and charcoal with great fidelity. At the time, the whole idea was a tad mind-blowing. There aren't all that many applications from the early 1990s which are still alive and well, but that product, which is now known as Corel Painter, is one of them. And at South by ... Read More