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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.■ M...

2 October 2007
02:59 GMT

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 tec...

1 October 2007
14:36 GMT

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 pr...

1 October 2007
05:52 GMT

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 wo...

1 October 2007
03:06 GMT

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 ...

27 September 2007
17:06 GMT

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...

27 September 2007
03:46 GMT

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 relea...

24 September 2007
14:11 GMT

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 ...

18 September 2007
13:48 GMT

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 be...

18 September 2007
08:22 GMT

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-bas...

7 September 2007
08:21 GMT

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 experi...

5 September 2007
05:01 GMT

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 ca...

5 September 2007
03:13 GMT

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 dire...

29 August 2007
06:55 GMT

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 offerin...

27 August 2007
05:11 GMT

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 fo...

22 August 2007
09:59 GMT

Adobe Brings Better Quality for The YouTube Clips

Adobe finally released a new version of Flash Player that also includes H.264 support, the same standard used by the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD devices. If you didn't know, Adobe's Flash Player represents the main technology for many Internet services and YouTube is just one of them. Although it's currently on...

21 August 2007
15:51 GMT

Adobe: Vista Home Basic Is Nothing! Worse Than Windows XP!

Adobe considers the Home Basic Edition of Windows Vista insignificant, and insignificant is an euphemism. The fact of the matter is that to Adobe, Vista Home Basic is nothing, and it doesn't even compare to Windows XP Service Pack 2. Microsoft released Windows Vista to general consumers on January 30. However, e...

3 August 2007
10:19 GMT

Wii Exploited Through Adobe Flash Bug

A surprising piece of news up on PCWorld.com says something about a vulnerability coming from the Adobe Flash that could affect your Wii while browsing the Internet with Opera. Apparently, some Wii users have experienced freezing because of this exploit and it's not just the Wii getting kicked in the butt by thi...

24 July 2007
06:41 GMT

Vulnerable Flash - Vulnerable Browser - Vulnerable Computer

It was proved several times that a single vulnerability discovered in only one application can lead to other problems with the computer and this time it's something similar. A new vulnerability was discovered in Flash Player 9.0.45.0 and in the earlier versions that can allow an attacker control an affected syst...

11 July 2007
09:34 GMT

Adobe Now Ships Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Creative Suite 3 Master Collection

As expected, Adobe today announced the availability of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection software. The former is aimed at videographers who do their own editing and post-processing, while the latter is a complete solution with all the applications in one packag...

2 July 2007
09:47 GMT

Adobe Releases Flash Player 9 Update Beta for Linux

Adobe Labs announced today the 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:■ Enhancements to full-screen mode to use hardware scaling for improved video pe...

15 June 2007
04:52 GMT

Once with the 0.8.0 Version, Gnash Releases Support for YouTube

Gnash is a project aiming to create a player and browser plug-in for the Adobe Flash file format which is free software, replacing the proprietary software niche currently occupied by Adobe Flash Player. A few days ago, the Gnash team announced their third alpha release, Gnash 0.8.0More specifically, Gnash should wor...

14 June 2007
09:51 GMT

Adobe Updates Acrobat 8 with Full Windows Vista Support

Adobe Acrobat 8, both the Professional and Standard versions have been upgraded in order to deliver better integration with Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Users of Windows Vista in concordance with Acrobat 8 have encountered various functionality issues and this refresh provided by Adobe is desig...

6 June 2007
09:30 GMT

Google Will Use Photoshop to Improve Google Earth

Google signed a deal with Adobe Systems Incorporated that will offer a special plug-in that will allow the users to work with the drawings hosted on the 3D Warehouse site. As you might know, 3D Warehouse is a newly-introduced website that hosts all the drawings made by the users and meant to be implemented into Googl...

31 May 2007
13:36 GMT

Adobe Relicenses the XMP Toolkit

Adobe has recently announced the release of a new version of its Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP). The XMP platform, or XMP for short, is a specific type of XML, used in PDF and photo editing applications. XMP records metadata in a syntax that forms a subset of the WWW Consortium Resource Description Framework, wh...

30 May 2007
09:58 GMT

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Crack Harvests Zombie Computers

A crack designed to activate Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 3 Extended brings to the table a tad more than the users have bargained for. When it comes to pirated materials, there is no such thing as free. This truism is reinforced by the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended keygen authored by "macROSS." The Key generator is ...

29 May 2007
05:30 GMT

Adobe CS3 Install Process Poses Potential Security Threat

OS X users who install certain versions of Adobe Creative Suite 3 may open up their computer to outside attackers due to a flaw in the installer. Adobe has published a Security Advisory detailing the steps that users have to go through to ensure that security is restored.Adobe's Creative Suite 3 is extremely po...

23 May 2007
10:36 GMT

Microsoft to Open-Source Silverlight

The news that Adobe will open-source the SDK for Flex RIA development environment and documentation under the MPL (Mozilla Public License) is still hot. The open-sourcing of Flex will allow full access to the developers at the source code who can this way extend it and contribute to the improvement of the Flex compi...

1 May 2007
06:26 GMT

Photoshop Can Damage Your Computer

Photoshop is probably the most powerful image manipulation tool in the entire virtual world and this is proved by an impressive number of digital arts created with the application. However, a huge popularity doesn't necessarily mean it is also safe because a security advisory released today shows us that Photosh...

26 April 2007
05:14 GMT

iXsystems Announced Agreement with Adobe Systems

According to an agreement signed by iXsystems and Adobe Systems, the browser of the next PC-BSD version will have an integrated Flash player, which is compatible due to the FreeBSD Linux layer. Matt Olander, with the PC-BSD Project, considers this agreement as a significant step in the development of the PC-BSD proj...

19 April 2007
03:59 GMT

Adobe Ships Creative Suite 3

Perhaps one of the most famous waits in Mac history is over and done with. Adobe has announced the immediate availability of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Standard editions and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Standard editions.Designers and developers worldwide now have brand-new, tightly integrat...

17 April 2007
08:25 GMT

YouTube Might Become a Pay-Per-Video Service

Yup, the title is correct and the well-known online video sharing service powered by Google might become a pay-per-video solution. Why, why, why? Well, don't be too angry because YouTube will remain a free service but it will probably sell some videos based on a new platform recently released by Adobe. As you kn...

17 April 2007
04:52 GMT

Microsoft Unleashes Adobe Flash Killer

Microsoft Silverlight is, in the Redmond Company's perspective, the solution that will power the next generation of media experiences on the web and also a direct competitor to the ubiquitous Adobe Flash technology. While gunning down for Adobe Flash, Microsoft has ensured that Silverlight will enjoy from the ge...

16 April 2007
03:51 GMT

Adobe Is Vulnerable. Is Photoshop Secure?

At this time, Adobe is one of the biggest software companies because it developed several worldwide programs with millions of customers. Recently, Adobe was affected by an impressive number of vulnerabilities able to permit the attackers to connect to a computer and take over the control. However, the company's ...

12 April 2007
05:59 GMT

Verizon to Offer Rich Data Services through Adobe Flash Cast

During CTIA Wireless, Adobe has named Verizon Wireless its exclusive wireless carrier launch partner in North America for Adobe's new mobile apps. The company also announced that Verizon will be the first to bring Adobe FlashCast based data services to its mobile subscribers during the second half of this year. ...

5 April 2007
03:13 GMT

Liar-liar, Pants on Fire: Adobe Sundbooth Won't Be Free

Remember Adobe Soundbooth? As it was in the beta stage when Adobe was rather bragging that they'll pull off one free application, the streamlined version of the Audition, meant for flash producers and other creative people who need to edit some audio but don't really need a $1,000 software DAW.Well, once wi...

28 March 2007
04:56 GMT

Photoshop to Be 100% Leopard Compatible

The upcoming Apple product Leopard is one of the most expected solutions ever designed by the company because it is meant to bring more power to the Mac owners from every corner of the world. As you know, Leopard will bring numerous improvements for most of the applications included in Mac OSX but I'm sure that ...

22 March 2007
07:05 GMT

CS3 Will Have Two Editions of Photoshop

Adobe System Inc. announced today they will be making available not one, but two editions of Photoshop CS3 this spring. Adobe has set the date for the big launch: CS3 will be revealed in a special event in New York City, on March 27. The event will be webcast live.This release is highly-anticipated and particularly i...

8 March 2007
09:07 GMT

Easy Way to Hack Computers through PDFs

The PDF format is currently owned by Adobe, the company that also provides the most popular products that allows you to work with PDF files: Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Professional. Although they are so popular, this doesn't necessarily mean the two products are secure enough to assure that no vulnerability ...

6 March 2007
10:01 GMT




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