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Fonts 101: A Font Primer

Written on March 16, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 10 people have commented

Over the next few days, I will be covering everything from font management apps to how to deal with font problems. By the end of the week you’ll hopefully have a solid handle on how to manage and troubleshoot fonts on your Mac. We’ll begin this series by taking a look at the history of [...]

Apple, Adobe Working Together On Flash for iPhone? Define “Together”

Written on February 02, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 5 people have commented

The weekend brought renewed hope for those waiting with bated breath for the marriage of iPhone and Flash. I have to admit that it really aggravates me when I see a site I want to check out, type the address into Mobile Safari, and am greeted with nothing but a background color and that aggravating [...]

More Mac Viruses, Similar Sources: Time to Worry?

Written on January 26, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 20 people have commented

Depending on how closely you stick to the word of the law, you may or may not be aware of the potentially dangerous trojan called “OSX.Trojan.iServices.A” unleashed on some of the Mac community last week via a pirated copy of iWork ‘09. The trojan, discovered by Mac security software company Intego, allows the distributor of [...]

Has Apple Trademarked Some Adobe Custom Shapes?

Written on January 16, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 4 people have commented

In the course of my daily wanderings, I came across this post by Turkish web developer Cagan Senturk. Cagan was working on his first foray into iPhone development when he ran into some difficulty. He describes the process at length, but it’s the third rejection of his app (an iPhone companion to Profesyo.net, a Turkish [...]

ARM-Optimized Flash: Adobe Serious About iPhone

Written on November 17, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 28 people have commented

The ongoing back-and-forth between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPhone is well-documented. First it was, then wasn’t, then was, then probably wasn’t again a possibility. If we take Apple CEO Steve Jobs at his word, then the problem lies with Flash being too heavy and Flash Lite being too insubstantial. And as it [...]

Adobe CS4 Shipping, Welome to Obsolescence CS3

Written on October 15, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 5 people have commented

According to John Nack, Principal Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, the entire Creative Suite 4 is now shipping.
Announced in September, the release date itself was not initially specified.  Those looking to test out the new programs before deciding whether or not to upgrade will have to wait, as trials are not yet available for download [...]

Flash for iPhone Confirmed; Ball in Apple’s Hands

Written on September 30, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 22 people have commented

From a blog post that launched a thousand rumors, comes confirmation that Adobe is, in fact, creating a way to bring Flash content to the iPhone.
Here is an excerpt from their official statement during a recent “town hall”:
“Upon a direct question from the audience, Paul Betlem for the first time publicly confirmed that Adobe is [...]

Adobe Announces October Release of Creative Suite 4 Suites & Components

Written on September 23, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 4 people have commented

Adobe introduced their Creative Suite 4 (CS4) product family to the world today, almost sixteen months since the announcement of Creative Suite 3. With six editions to choose from, ranging in price from $999 to $2,499 (upgrades from $399 to $899), and thirteen standalone applications costing $199 to $999, it’s important that you have an [...]

Adobe set to announce CS4 later this month

Written on September 03, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 1 person has commented

Yesterday it was announced that Adobe will be announcing (gotta love announcements announcing announcements) Creative Suite 4 on September 23rd.
Adobe will be holding a special little event online showing all of the upcoming features of CS4 (which is rumored to be released as early as this Fall).
For those hip to trying out beta products, you [...]

Mac OS X 10.5.4 to be released soon; fixes Adobe CS3 file corruption

Written on June 05, 2008 by Opal Tribble and 2 people have commented

When Mac OS X 10.5.3 was released at the end of last month it was a massive download, tipping the scales at 420 MB. Unfortunately with the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update we didn’t see the three known iCal bugs resolved but we saw numerous fixes which made many Leopard users happy; however, others faced [...]

Adobe Posts Pre-release of “Astro” – A.K.A. Flash Player 10

Written on May 15, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 1 person has commented

Adobe Systems released Flash Player 10 beta today with a modest set of enhancements, including:

New 3D Effects that make it much easier to position, rotate and animate 2D objects while retaining full interactivity. Plus, new variable bitrate streaming for video between Adobe Flash Player 10 beta and future releases of Adobe Flash Media Server will [...]

Flash making its way to the iPhone?

Written on March 18, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 8 people have commented

CNN Money is reporting that Adobe has announced that it has begun work on a Flash player for the iPhone.
Last month Jobs said Flash wouldn’t be added to the iPhone anytime soon due to performance issues. Shortly there after, Jobs also announced the released of the iPhone SDK for creating iPhone native applications.
Today, Adobe CEO [...]

Captivate for Mac?

Written on July 19, 2007 by Matt Radel and 58 people have commented

Adobe’s Captivate, the demonstration and training simulation creation software, is moving into the final development stages of it’s third version. I had the privilege of being a beta tester, and I must say that it is really cool. It really is easy (and fun) to create interactive software simulations and demos.
But unfortunately the program [...]