Well… This is quite old (last October) but I just watched it only. Adobe gave a sneak peek into Flash Player 10 and showed off the new RTL, multi-column text engine, the new 3D features, and the new bitmap effect scripting language, Hydra.
Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote
Very neat! But not what I was hoping to come out for Flash Player 10. I was kinda hoping on improvements on the UI. Flex has these really nice containers that I wish were part of Flash too. Didn’t quite like the way Flex and Flash are different products too. I dislike seeing code in XML files (Flex) and I working on presentation without XML is painful (Flash).
In this video, a user demonstrates how deceptive images could possibly be by making a fat women thin! The butt still looks kinda strange, it’s a great effort nevertheless.
It is late morning when I answered a call on my phone. I’m usually unkeen to answer calls on my cellphone, it usually means work, but this time it means school.
I enquired about a computing school. And one of the questions I post was regarding software licenses. It just came to my mind and I asked, “So what if the school requires Adobe Photoshop or some 3D Studio Max like programs?” She didn’t have the answer and promises to get back to me.
She did, “As for the software license questions, you don’t have to worry about it. We won’t be providing Microsoft Office but you can get Adobe Photoshop and those software online.”
“Where may I get those? Are they academic licenses?” I questioned.
“Oh, they told me that you can download for free.”
“Free? You mean Photoshop? Is it a trial version?” I was a little shocked, a little amused.
“Not the trial, Photoshop is free online, you can download on Adobe’s website,” she declared.
Looks like PDF won’t be include the upcoming version of 2007 Microsoft Office System. It’s kinda disappointing for me actually. It’s one of the more anticipated features of 2007 Microsoft Office System.
WSJ: Microsoft Expects Adobe to File Antitrust Suit
Microsoft Corp. said it expected Adobe Systems Inc. to file an antitrust suit in Europe after talks to use Adobe’s technology broke down this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The two companies have been in discussions over the use of Adobe’s Portable Document Format, or PDF, within Microsoft’s Office suite of applications, the Journal reported, quoting Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith.
Adobe wants Microsoft to remove the feature and offer Adobe’s technology separately for a fee. Microsoft has agreed to remove the feature, but is unwilling to charge for it, the Journal reported.
In February, Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen told Reuters he considered Microsoft to be the company’s biggest concern. “The competitor I worry about most is Microsoft,” Chizen said at the time.
Adobe’s PDF technology lets producers create and distribute documents digitally that retain designs, pictures and formatting.
Perhaps Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS) may grow popular due to this. I tried the XPS viewer actually and it’s surprising good. I mean it doesn’t have those features that Adobe Acrobat Reader has. And that’s a blessing. Oh my god, more than half of the Acrobat Reader features are crap. XPS viewer is lightweight and has none of those crap. I hope Microsoft won’t add any more crap to XPS. If you have the XPS viewer, try pressing Ctrl+T on your keyboard and watch the nice little animation of your pages becoming thumbnails. You can click on the thumbnail to go to a particular page.
It is true - Adobe Photoshop CS2 is indeed in the works. The Google cache was right!
Adobe® Creative Suite 2 Premium software is a unified design environment that combines full new versions of Adobe Photoshop® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, InDesign® CS2, GoLive® CS2, and Acrobat® 7.0 Professional software with new Version Cue® CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos. Delivering the next level of integration in creative software, Adobe Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere â?? in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices.
New stuff includes Vanishing Point, Multiple layer control, smart object and image warp. What I am interested in is smart objects. I don’t quite know what does image warp mean but I imagine it to be rather interesting.
Around a month ago, Microsoft had this idea to call the version of Windows XP without Windows Media Player the “Windows XP Reduced Media Edition”. Their sense of humor is not entertained by the European Union (EU) much, if at all.
After being found as a monopoly by the EU, Microsoft is forced to sell a version of Windows XP without the Windows media components.
And you thought Microsoft’s pure un-creativity came out with such a stupid name to mislead the public. I am not surprise if they did so intentionally. EU block the naming to “Windows XP Reduced Media Edition” of course. Having rejected 10 earlier ideas from Microsoft, EU decides to step in to suggest something smart and Microsoft agreed.
The new Windows XP without the Windows media component is here - Windows XP Home Edition N.
Okay, that isn’t exactly the smartest name I heard.
And a cache page in Google revealed that Adobe is going to be making a official press release on information regarding Adobe Photoshop 9.0. If you’re fan of Photoshop, you would have realized your favorite graphic application is named after a first-person shooter called “Counterstrike” when at 8.0 (Adobe Photoshop CS). And you thought the next one would probably be Adobe Photoshop HL (Half Life) or something.
Well, it turns out that Adobe has decided to follow SquareEnix’s nomenclature in sequel. The sequel of Adobe Photoshop CS is Adobe Photoshop CS2. Okay, very smart naming. [I attached a portion of Adobe's press release from Google's cache since it may be gone any time.]
Upon reading here, you probably wonder what does the smart EU mean when they say “Edition N”. Does it stand for “Normal” perhaps?
BBC reported that the ‘N’ in Windows XP Home Edition N stands for “not with media player”. And you thought they were more sane. Even the English phrasing is incorrect!
I knew it’d be gone soon. It really is gone, luckily I kept a copy, lol.. (more…)