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Dreamweaver 8.0.2 is available
Earlier this week, Adobe release version 8.0.2 of Dreamweaver, the industrial-strength web editor. Changes to this version include: Improved Dreamweaver-generated code for server behaviors Improved server-side Flash behavior You can read the full release notes here. Go and get it, Dreamweaver users!
Buy $2,000 worth of stock photos, get a free iPod Hi-Fi
If you have to buy alot of stock photos, and I know you do , you might want to check out Adobe's offerings. Why is that? Well, between now and July 17, 2006 if you spend $2000, or more, you'll get a free iPod Hi-Fi.You do need to have a valid license to one of these pieces of software: Adobe Creative Suite 2 software, Adobe Production Studio, GoLive® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, InDesign® CS2, Photoshop® CS2, After Effects® 7.0, Adobe Premiere® Pro 2.0, Adobe® Audition® 2.0, or Encore® DVD 2.0, however, chances are if you're using that many stock photos you have Photoshop.
Switched On: Why Adobe should cook the books
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a weekly column about the future of technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment:Now that Adobe has finished applying the magic eraser tool to its longtime graphics rival Macromedia, it needs to enter or create new markets to continue growth beyond its dominant position in professional publishing. With the recent focus on what is admittedly the nascent e-book market, Adobe is looking at a unique window in which it could step up and become a market leader. However, it had better hurry, because Microsoft is getting tired of staring at the walls when it comes to this market.The recent interest in e-books is due to the commercialization of electronic ink, which enables thin, crisp, paper-like monochrome (and soon color) displays that require a fraction of the power needed by LCDs. While their refresh rate makes them prohibitively slow for any kind of animation, they are the best technology for the medium developed to date and have attracted the attention of Sony and iRex, a spinoff of Philips.Electronic ink is the kind of disruptor that has allowed opportunistic companies to seize markets. Sony, for example, capitalized on the CD-ROM with the original PlayStation and entered the digital camera market via the floppy disk with its first Mavica cameras. Apple, of course, leveraged the 1.8-inch hard drive with its first iPod.Adobe is, in fact, already in the e-book business. but it is not providing a complete solution, which would require an end-user device. Sony's Reader will support the display of PDFs, but the electronics giant will use its own proprietary format and its own online service for distribution of content. The e-book market -- like the online music and video markets prior to the entry of Apple -- is so immature that it's just waiting for a company to step up with an integrated solution.
Blogging the switch to Mac OS X
I found another one of those 'switcher blogs' and I thought it might make an interesting read for both Mac newbies and power users. I honestly can't find any information on the author, but My Journey to Macintosh provides up some interesting switcher experiences, such as loading up Firefox just because that's what the author used on Windows, then discovering that other browsers like Camino offer a far more Mac OS X-like experience, in part because Camino isn't butt-ugly and it uses the Keychain.One thing I like about this blog is that the author seems to be a power user, of sorts; while some posts are about discovering the wonders of working with PDFs on a Mac without the need for Adobe's (fat, bloated, clunky, slow and horrible) Reader, another post laments some hangups in getting PHP and MySQL working. In other words: there's something for everyone!There isn't a virtual library of posts yet, but I thought it might be an interesting switcher blog to watch because of both the variety of topics the author has touched on so far, and an About section that reads: "Microsoft Windows user since Windows 3.0 moves to a Mac and Mac OS/X Tiger. Watch the process, good and bad :)." See? Fair and balanced, too. Enjoy.
Make a request for Adobe CS3
We're sure you've heard the news by now: No universal version of the Adobe pro apps until 2007. The good news is that Adobe is currently taking your suggestions for the upcoming Creative Suite 3. You've got the ear of one of the world's software giants, so speak up.[Via creativebits]
Adobe CS not going Universal until '07?
Ah fiddlesticks: A PDF doc that recently appeared on Adobe's website claims that the software maker won't make Universal the current version of Creative Suit. Instead, they're opting to wait until they release the next major revision -- which, looking at Adobe's typical upgrade cycle (18-24 months per major upgrade), could mean that 2007 is the earliest we'll see a Universal version of Photoshop (or any other Adobe pro app, for that matter).So much for tempting the pros with speedy new Intel chips. Another year and a half with Photoshop running under Rosetta? Yikes. Looks like Apple's gonna need those G5s longer than they had hoped....[via MacRumors]
Photoshop not Universal until next version?
Our very own David Chartier has posted on the Unofficial Photoshop Weblog that there are rumors that Adobe has no plans to make their current offerings into Universal applications (ones that run natively on both PowerPC and Intel based Macs). If this is true, and at the moment this is pure conjecture, then that would mean Photoshop pros will need to pony up the cash for the upgrade if they want to run Photoshop on an Intel Mac. It is a given that most Photoshop pros would upgrade anyway, so the real let down is the length of time that we would have to wait for the upgrade to come around.Let's hope this rumor is just that, and Adobe is feverishly working on a free (a boy can dream, right?) update to their CS2 apps that will make them Universal applications.
Adobe targets Aperture with Lightroom
Remember when Steve said that Aperture is not a competitor to Adobe's products, but a companion? Perhaps Adobe didn't take Steve's message to heart. Earlier today at Macworld, Adobe released the public beta of Lightrooom, a new, professional digital imaging application that has much of the same functionality as Aperture.Adobe states that their focus with Lightroom is the image itself. As such, Lightroom's UI features a "Lights Out" mode, which allows the tools and pallets to fade into the background at a single click, emphasizing the image itself. Similar to Aperture, Lightroom also sports a zoom feature, allowing you to focus on a specific area of detail.You can download the 111MB beta from the Adobe-Macromedia Labs website. Recommended system requirements are Mac OS X 10.4.3, 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 768MB RAM and a 1024x768 resolution display. Pricing and future release dates have not been made available.
