Filed under: Macworld, Software, Graphic DesignMacworld notes today that Adobe won't have a booth at Macworld Expo, but will still be offering training sessions at the conference. Traditionally, Adobe's booth has been a major presence on the show floor. The bad news might not end there: A tipster with purported connections inside Adobe told us that the company is considering laying off a significant fraction of its nearly 7,000 employees, including management. This points to some serious, knee-jerk cost-cutting at Adobe, since Macworld Expo has been so valuable to Adobe's relationship with the Mac user base in the past. "Adobe...
The Pirate Bay is turning five in a few days and look at the little shaver go. It’s now tracking 25 million peers and over 1.8 million torrent files. The company says that new software and hardware are helping them increase the traffic but I think it’s just that they’re cute as a button. I saw one of the TPB leaders in Stockholm last week and he essentially told the audience that the site was more of an art installation than a formal piracy factory. He hates him some copyright, let me tell you, and those dirty lawyers in...
It’s no secret that designers and creative types tend to gravitate toward the Mac — OS X is noted for its ease-of-use and that it “just works.” It’s also well known that Adobe makes most of the applications designers know and love, so why does Adobe’s Creative Suite installer undermine the Mac’s ease-of-use with the single worst application installer on the platform? The Adobe Creative Suite 4 application installer does of course get the job done, but it’s awkward, confusing and gets your Adobe experience on the Mac off to a bad start. We think, given the price of CS4...
How would you like to simply click a button and have Google immediately re-index your web site? If you’re hoping that’s what Google has just launched, you’d be right–but only for Google Site Search. Still, it shows Google’s commitment to those businesses that rely on Google Site Search to power their web site, and also demonstrates how far Google’s server capacity has come. According to Google, it’s new On-Demand Indexing provides: Site owners get an “Index Now” button to quickly and easily update their site search results with new and updated content. New pages are searchable within hours — taking...
The wait is over. You can now download a 30 day trial of all Adobe software that are part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family. This includes Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Illustrator CS4, Premiere Pro CS4, SoundBooth CS4, Indesign CS4 and After Effects CS4. Many of these installers packages are well over a GB in size so if you are on a slow connection, a better idea would be ask Adobe for the CS4 DVD (Master Collection) that costs around $15. These are full functional software and you can convert the trial version into a retail version by...
Filed under: Enterprise, EducationManaging the power consumption of your Macs just got a little easier with the latest version of the LANrev cross-platform client management tool. In the new 5.0 build, the headline feature is bright green: you can assign power saving preferences to machines, including toggles based on whether a user is logged in and new reporting fields to monitor energy savings. For government users, the new FDCC SCAP component helps Windows clients meet Federal Desktop Core Configuration standards for 300-odd security settings on XP and Vista (yee-ikes).LANrev's sometimes-confusing UI has been simplified, bringing many of the server-oriented functions...
I guess I got very used to working for the man and the perks that come with it. I have had Adobe Professional on my desktop and laptop for a long time now. When I had to create a quick PDF from a word document on a client’s site - after my laptop suffered from battery drainage I had some issues. I quickly Googled around looking for a free, easy solution. Lots of places claimed to do what I wanted but the first one that did it EASY and FREE was doPDF. It is a small download, less than 2MB...
Adobe began shipping its Creative Suite 4 (CS4) this week, and perhaps the most significant new feature from a typical Maximum PC reader's point of view is the support for GPU acceleration in Photoshop CS4 and other components, including Bridge CS4, After Effects CS4, Premiere Pro CS4, Acrobat 9, and Flash Player 10. read more...
Along with their 9600M GT card for portables announcement with the MacBook Pro, Nvidia has also announced their new Nvidia Quadro CX. The $1,999 PCIe card, which according to them has been "specifically designed and optimized the Quadro CX to enhance the performance of Adobe Creative Suite 4", will accelerate all most common operations in Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and H.264 encoding. SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 16, 2008—NVIDIA today introduced its new accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 software, the NVIDIA® Quadro® CX. This new GPU provides creative professionals with a faster, better, more reliable way to maximize their creativity. Quadro...
The latest from NVIDIA isn’t designed with Crysis in mind, but rather graphic pros that rely heavily on Adobe Creative Suite 4 software. With an MSRP of $1,999, your Photoshop dabbling isn’t the market NVIDIA is after here with this optimized card. The Quadro CX card enables snappier responses and encoding in not only Photoshop, but also Premiere Pro CS4 and After Effects CS4. The card is equipped with 1.5GB (GDDR3) of memory and 76.8GBps bandwidth with dual-DisplayPort connectors and also a single dual-link DVI for panels up to 3,840 x 2,400 @24Hz. If you think you’re professional enough for this card, it is available starting...
The GPU has come of age and is no longer something that titillates hoards of gamers with promises of better video game graphics alone. Today the GPU can do many things from being used as a super computing platform to greatly accelerating many applications more efficiently than a CPU can. One of the biggest new features in Adobe Creative Suite 4 introduced not so long ago was the ability for the software to take advantage of the power of the GPU for faster processing and applying of things like filters. NVIDIA has announced a new GPU-based product called the Quadro...
The latest Adobe Creative Suite 4 for Mac OS X and Windows is now shipping in all its flavors: Design Premium ($1799), Web Premium ($1699), Production Premium ($1699), and $2499 for the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection. I can't wait to try the new GPU-based acceleration. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Now Shipping Milestone Release Radically Improves Creative Workflow Efficiency; Redefines Collaboration Between Designers and Developers SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 15, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 product family, the highly-anticipated release of industry-leading design and development software...
Adobe has announced the arrival of Creative Suite 4, the latest upgrade to its line of professional graphics and video editing applications. CS4 includes updated versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, InDesign, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Soundbooth, OnLocation, and Encore. There are four different flavors of the suite are available, with prices ranging from $1,700 to $2,500 for the Master Collection which includes all the above. Naturally you can purchase apps individually as well. Be sure to check out our review of Photoshop CS 4 and the other web developer related tools like Dreamweaver, Flash and more. To...
