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| Adobe Opens Up the World of Flash Sites |  | Flash sites are very popular in the advertising and marketing world, but although you end up with a great looking site, you also end up with an "unsearchable" one. Search engines such as Google or Yahoo are unable to crawl flash sites, making it practically invisible to the rest of the world. Adobe has recently announced that it has developed a new technology that will allow flash sites to be indexed and that it is working with G ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tech Demo on Photoshop Tapping into GPU Power Spreads False Information |  | A tech demo held by Adobe's Senior Product Manager John Nack over at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara is creating quite a stir these days as a lot of sites are delivering bogus information on future installments of Photoshop and other apps included in the Creative suite.
Apparently, the spark originated from TG Daily whose article, ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 06:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NOD32 Mistakenly Flags Photoshop CS3 As Virus |  | NOD32 has always been considered one of the most powerful security solutions on the market but sometimes, due to minor glitches, the anti-virus may turn into the worst nightmare for some users. Something similar happened today when NOD32 3.0 mistakenly flagged several Adobe applications as viruses and restricted the access to them. Moreover, it seems like the anti-virus false alert also damaged the executable files as numerous us ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Flash Player 10 "Astro" Got out of The Adobe Labs |  | Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta, codename "Astro", was launched with a couple of nice features backing it up. Although it is available in many languages, the installers are only in English at this moment. Rich media content and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) will look and act much better from this moment ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Launches Astro Flash Player 10 |  | A public beta Adobe Flash Player 10, codenamed Astro, was officially rolled out today, bringing a couple of new capabilities besides the ones that have already been included in previous releases. Just like the older versions of Adobe Flash Player, Astro is available for free and can be used on most platforms that currently exist on the web including here Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Mac OS X and Linux. However, note t ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 03:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Not Replacing Adobe Flash with Silverlight |  | Microsoft is not replacing rival RIA technology Flash from Adobe with its own equivalent Silverlight across the entire span of its web properties. But this is merely a temporary situation representatives from the Redmond company explained. The question is of c ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 10:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Acrobat Reader and Professional Vulnerability Reported |  | It seems that Adobe Acrobat Reader and Professional users have been and probably still are vulnerable to dangerous attacks. The vulnerability has been discovered by one of the largest security company, Symantec. According to Symantec's webpage, the security issue is part of the Neosploit exploit toolkit and has been created to take advantage of a February 2008 vulnerability in the above mentioned Adobe applications ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe to Fix Broken Film Industry? |  | Announced at NAB 2008, Adobe's bold and intelligent move deeper into the video production industry will prove to have positive effects for the adoption of Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects by video professionals. It also promises to at least begin to solve problems of image degradation and workflow compatibility across software platforms, and throughout stages in the migration of footage from system to system in the productio ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Launches Lightroom 2.0. Beta Available |  | Already own a registered copy of Lightroom? Great! Click HERE, download and then hold on to the Lightroom 2.0 beta until August 31. Among the distinguishing new features you're probably going to notice the first time you fire Lightroom up are the dual-monitor support, localized ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 64-bit CS4 Not for Macs. Users to Wait for CS5 |  | It has come to our attention that Adobe's Creative Suite 4 for Mac is going to launch as a 32-bit suite, not a 64-bit suite, like the one Windows users are getting at launch, but as a 32-bit app bundle. If you're so upset that you just need to blame someone for this (and fast), blame Apple for dropping Carbon 64-bit support.
"At the WWDC show last June, however, Adobe & other [AD ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 10:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Get Your Beta for the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0! |  | Adobe has announced today the availability of the first beta for Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 and the even better news is that the new software can be taken for a test drive by everyone. You don't have to be part of a special discussion group or to receive an invitation. Moreover, it won't even affect your Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 (in case you have one) as the beta will create a separate installation.
In terms of features, ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Photoshop Elements 6 Ships for Mac |  | Finally, the Mac version of Photoshop Elements 6 has arrived. We'll just get straight to the new stuff, since some of you have been dying ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 11:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Thinks iPhone Flash Is Doable |  | Adobe's Chief Executive, Shantanu Narayen, has recently been quoted as saying that having downloaded the iPhone SDK, the company can confirm the upcoming availability of a Flash Player for the iPhone, which is to be distributed through the iTunes App store. The ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 05:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Licensed Adobe Flash Lite and Reader LE |  | Adobe Systems Incorporated has just announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite software, Adobe's award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content within the ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 10:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| $1 Million Fine - Brothers’ Piracy Lands Them Behind Bars |  | Catching the bad guys making a profit from selling pirated software is catching up with the rate of copyright infringing – sort of. Many arrests and convictions have been made over the past years, and at an increased pace, but truth be told, piracy has also grown considerably over the same period. With a wild shot in the dark, I dare say that with numbers comes stupidity of the schemes, but that has nothing to do with the Robbers ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple's CEO Doesn't Like Adobe's Flash |  | The latest CNN reports (via techcrunch.com) say that liar-liar-pants-on-fire Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't very happy with Adobe's flash tech, as far as his iPhone is concerned. And for good reason too, as it slows it down dramatically. This would imply that Adobe came up with a &q ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2008, 06:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe AIR Is Going to Make Linux Breathe |  | Adobe Systems is thinking about Linux users too! The company wants to extend its AIR - Adobe Integrated Runtime - software to Linux later this year. The first stable version - 1.0 - was released a few days ago, only for Windows and Mac platforms.
AIR was known at first as Apollo, and is a runtime that enables rich Internet applications, or RIAs, ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Brings Xdrive to Macs |  | Yesterday AOL introduced Xdrive Desktop Lite, the Mac version for its online data storage service, Xdrive. This is the first time that Xdrive is ported to Mac. AOL says it ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| eBay, a Pawn in the Fight Against Pirated Software |  | How an online auction site could get implicated in the fight against piracy is a pretty delicate thing, reputation wise, except for the eventuality of it using the software in question. However, the Software & Information Industry Association brought the idea home after suing several eBay auctioneers.
The largest action part of the campaign to stop the auctioning of pirated software has been started in California, SIIA fi ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 16:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Available for Pre-Order |  | Good news for Mac-powered photographers using the Photoshop Elements application, as Adobe has just announced that the 6th version of the popular software is available for pre-order.
As a quick reminder, the Photoshop Elements 6 software includes new features based on the proprietary Photomerge technology that lets users easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of shots to create a single, pe ... [read more >>] | | 10 January 2008, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! / Adobe Ad System Ready for Testing, Download Link Inside |  | The announcement that Yahoo! and Adobe would be teaming up to test out a new ad system inside PDF documents was vastly looked over back in November when it was announced. Not because it did not have potential, but rather because it was just another way of feeding ads to the Internet users and that’s what they have already had enough of.
What wasn’t so clear was regarding the fact that the e-books benefiting from this technolog ... [read more >>] | | 08 January 2008, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Presents Its Special Christmas Gift For YouTube And Hulu |  | Adobe has officially rolled out Flash Player 9 with H.264 video support, "the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio capabilities," as the San Jose-based company explained. Obviously, this is probably the best Christmas gift YouTube, MySpace, Hulu or any other video sharing service could get, because it can enhance the capabilities offered by th ... [read more >>] | | 04 December 2007, 14:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe and Yahoo Hug and Make Up… or Out? |  | Yahoo is probably trying to prove something, because it has picked up its advertising platform that has lied pretty dormant in the last period and it has taken it to the spa and to the beauty parlor.
With the latest announcement, Adobe and Yahoo confirmed the rumors that had been circulating that they are to get to bed together as far as advertising is concerned and, as of yesterday, they have signed a deal that will allow pub ... [read more >>] | | 29 November 2007, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fake YouTube Attempting to Infect Visitors |  | A new phishing scheme is now aiming to lure users into visiting a malicious copy of YouTube in order to infect their computers with Trojan-Dropper.W32/Agent.CPL. Security vendor F-Secure today reported that some Internet consumers received spam messages asking them to click on a YouTube clip attached to the message. The link is actually redirecting the users to a fake YouTube website which informs them that they must install Adob ... [read more >>] | | 13 November 2007, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Oldest Construction in America |  | The pre-Columbian America had two centers where complex civilizations developed: Mexico and Peru. At that time sophisticated cities and huge pyramidal temples were built. Now, a Peruvian team seems to have discovered the oldest mural ever found in the Americas, close to the Peruvian coast, at the Ventarrón site, in Lambayeque valley, about 800 km(500 mi) north of Lima. Carbon dating effectuated in US revealed the ancient wall was 4,000 yea ... [read more >>] | | 13 November 2007, 02:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Online Photoshop Almost Here |  | The product which was rumored a long time ago is about to be released by the end of the year in beta version while the full product is expected next year, PC World informed today. The web-based version of Photoshop is supposed to bring the powerful image editing utilities included in the desktop application straight in your browser, allowing the users to manipulate their photos without installing anything. According to the same s ... [read more >>] | | 12 November 2007, 09:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PDF Attacks Enhanced by Windows Vulnerability? |  | The story so far: a few days ago, a new PDF spam attack was starting, numerous consumers receiving dangerous emails containing malicious PDF files attempting to infect the victims' computers. The messages were attempting to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, one of the most popular applications when it comes to the Portable Document Format. According to the reports, Adobe's technology was not able to handle the m ... [read more >>] | | 08 November 2007, 03:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Updates Leopard Compatibility Info |  | Some time ago, Adobe warned users that there might be problems with their applications running under Leopard as they did not have enough time to properly test everything. Now, with Leopard out, Adobe has updated their information, but user reports are telling a slightly different story.
Adobe did the right thing in warning users that there may be unforeseen problems with their applications running under Leopard. Whether or no ... [read more >>] | | 30 October 2007, 07:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Users Not Vulnerable To PDF Flaw |  | The recently reported flaws discovered in Reader and Acrobat tools urged Adobe, the developer of the vulnerable solutions, to release patches in order to protect the customers of the company. If you haven't read the advisories, you should know the holes affected Windows XP users with Internet Explorer 7 installed because the attackers tried to exploit them using malicious PDF files. According to Adobe which confirmed the exi ... [read more >>] | | 23 October 2007, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Photoshop CS3 Print Error – Only on Windows |  | A few days ago, the Adobe Photoshop CS3 consumes were complaining there is an error in their application which makes the printing process pretty buggy. John Nack, Photoshop product manager at Adobe, published a blog post a few days ago to let the consumers know the company is currently working on the issue and a patch should be released soon. In fact, I'm not sure this problem can be called a bug since Adobe's intention ... [read more >>] | | 15 October 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Illustrator Lets Hackers Compromise Your Machine! |  | Adobe products are very popular and if they’re found with flaws, it means that a lot of machines are vulnerable. And if the recent Adobe-related bad news wasn’t enough, other two vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Adobe Illustrator CS3. The flaws are related to PNG/BMP file processing, and let me tell you that they’re not something to you should take lightly. Secunia experts have dubbed these vulnerabilities as highly critica ... [read more >>] | | 10 October 2007, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Vulnerability: Vista Not Affected, Workaround for XP |  | I wrote a hot material a couple of weeks ago, about the fact that Petko D. Petkov of GNUcitizen had discovered serious vulnerabilities caused by opening PDF files. Hackers exploiting those could have screwed up (for good) the Windows box. He didn’t give us the proof of concept, in fear hackers will ... [read more >>] | | 09 October 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Brings Flash Lite 3 for Mobile Phones |  | The new Flash Lite 3 has just been released to bring mobile phone Internet browsing one step closer to what PCs have to offer. This new software from Adobe will make it possible for developers to create more evolved applications and make the mobile experience more engaging then ever.
Mobile phones will be able from now on to watch Flash Player compatible video, the world's most popular video format, and browse Flash enabl ... [read more >>] | | 04 October 2007, 13:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Flash Player 9 Update 3 for Linux |  | Adobe Labs announced yesterday yet another prerelease version of their award winning Flash Player 9 Update software, for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. This new beta version brings a lot of features and improvements over the previous releases, such as:
• Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.
• Multi-core support for ... [read more >>] | | 02 October 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe's Free Word Processor Barks At Google |  | If you never heard of it, Buzzword is one of the technologies which come as the perfect web-based word processor for numerous Internet consumers, allowing them to create and store documents online. But what's more important is that its owner, Virtual Ubiquity never managed to make Buzzword one of the top web technologies but the things might be changed very soon. Adobe announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Vi ... [read more >>] | | 01 October 2007, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Has a Real Chance of Killing Microsoft Office |  | On October 1, Adobe joined Google, IBM, Sun, Ajax13, ThinkFree, TransMedia, and Zoho, piling up on the rivals offering alternative solutions to Microsoft's Office system. Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that it has acquired Virtual Ubiquity, a start-up developing Buzzword, a web-based, collaborative word processor, similar to Google Docs & Sp ... [read more >>] | | 01 October 2007, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Mobile YouTube Gets Adobe Support |  | Adobe recently rolled out Flash Lite 3, a mobile technology which enhances the power of the mobile devices to display videos and other content based on the flash format. Adobe sustains there are no less than 300 million flash-compatible devices so I think it is quite important to have a powerful technology able to work with our handhelds. Adobe Flash Lite was especially designed to reach this goal and provide almost the same expe ... [read more >>] | | 01 October 2007, 03:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One New Corel Release to Compete With Photoshop |  | Corel Painter Essentials 4 was officially released today and is now available for anyone who wants to buy straight from the main page of the parent company. The product can be bought for $99 as a standalone technology but it is also available for $69 as an upgrade for the basic Painter 4. In fact, Painter Essentials is a mix of the basic version of Painter and several painting utilities such as brushes, pencils, paper textures an ... [read more >>] | | 27 September 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Makes It Nice and Easy |  | Adobe is a famous American computer software company, who has been on the market for almost 25 years – even if you have been living under a rock, you’ve still heard about them! Most people are satisfied with the fact that the company’s products are pretty easy to use, but what doesn’t sound too good is the fact that their site had a scripting error which made it easy for people to gain access to some internal files.
The flaw ... [read more >>] | | 27 September 2007, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hot Photoshop Goodies Waiting for Your Download |  | Adobe rolled out several major updates for Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4, both for Windows, which are meant to bring more power to the users looking to manipulate photo and video content. According to the parent company, a Mac version of Photoshop Elements is currently in the workings and will be released in 2008. The two products can be both bought as a suite for $149.99 but they are also available separately for ... [read more >>] | | 24 September 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mac OS X Leopard to Run Into the Same Problems as Windows Vista |  | Microsoft made available Windows Vista for businesses in November 2006, and for general consumers in January 2007. Additionally, Vista was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006, almost a month before the business launch and three ahead of the consumer release of the operating system. And still, Adobe managed to drag its feet when it came to delivering support for Microsoft's latest operating system. And it looks like ... [read more >>] | | 18 September 2007, 13:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Warns Of Potential Leopard Incompatibilities |  | It appears that Adobe simply doesn’t want to play nice with Mac users. After a lengthy delay before releasing software compatible with the new Intel based Macs, the company is now reporting that it may take some time before Creative Suite applications are fully Leopard compatible.
Originally scheduled for the beginning of the year, Leopard was pushed back to an October release date. Furthermore, Apple has been providing devel ... [read more >>] | | 18 September 2007, 08:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Here's The Freeware Adobe Photoshop! |  | Some time ago, if I'm not wrong approximately 6 months ago, the folks from Adobe confirmed that a freeware web-based version of Photoshop was at that time in the labs. Today, the same engineers published the first screenshot of the application in action, showing that Photoshop can be easily replaced by a web-based technology, surely with similar features with the downloadable application. According to John Nack from Adobe, t ... [read more >>] | | 07 September 2007, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Silverlight 1.0 Debuts to Kill Adobe's Flash |  | The final release of Silverlight 1.0 is available for download from Microsoft and it debuts hungry for market share and gunning after Adobe's Flash. Silverlight is essentially nothing more than Microsoft's vision of a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in designed to be the source of rich online user experiences and to dislodge Flash from its current dominant position on the market. And when the Redmond company said cross-platfor ... [read more >>] | | 05 September 2007, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Free Corel Tool Bridges Office 2007 and Adobe Acrobat |  | WordPerfect Lightning is a free tool available for download from Corel, designed to bridge the company's own WordPerfect application with Microsoft's Office 2007 System and with Adobe Acrobat. Corel describes WordPerfect Lightning as a hybrid piece of software delivering note-taking and Web collaboration capabilities. The premium Word Processing Module for WordPerfect Lightning will be showcased at the Office 2.0 Conference in Sa ... [read more >>] | | 05 September 2007, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft JPEG Killer Not in the Same Race with Adobe's Digital Negative |  | Adobe does not consider that its own Digital Negative (DNG) and Microsoft's JPEG XR (Extended Range) are in the same race together. Both DNG and JPEG XR are digital image formats in the course of becoming internationally standardized. However, DNG and JPEG XR are more complementary, and a scenario involving direct competition is quite a stretch. This is because of the nature of the two formats and the completely different issues each ... [read more >>] | | 29 August 2007, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Vista Paint - Adobe Photoshop CS3 Killer |  | Paint in Windows Vista has evolved to the level where it can now rival Adobe's Photoshop Creative Suite 3 on equal terms. Don't believe me? Then just watch the video embedded at the bottom. It will offer a new vista, I mean a new perspective over Paint. In this context Adobe's strategy to delay offering support with CS2 for Vista and ... [read more >>] | | 27 August 2007, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Flash Player from Adobe Supports H.264 and AAC |  | Adobe Labs announced yesterday yet another prerelease version of their award winning Flash Player 9 Update software, for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. This beta version brings new features and improvements over the previous releases, such as:
• Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.
• Support for full-screen mode on ... [read more >>] | | 22 August 2007, 09:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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