Gadgetopia

Adobe Encore DVD: Ever want to make your own DVDs? Adobe just released this product for $549. "Adobe Encore DVD gives professional videographers and independent producers the power to create sophisticated, multilanguage DVDs featuring interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks."

Adobe Systems Incorporated Terms of Use: When I was writing about the photographer who photoshopped his way out of a job, I remembered something about using Photoshop as a verb. I went back to Adobe s site, got sidetracked by Encore for a second, then found this: The Photoshop trademark must ...

Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion: Oh my goodness. My mind reels at the ramifications of this. Adobe instantly bought their way into a ton of markets. Computer document company Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday it agreed to buy multimedia software firm Macromedia Inc. for about $3.4 billion in ...

Forbes.com: The Trojan Document: A great article about where Adobe is headed. "Serving the needs of state bureaucrats has never been Adobe's thing. For 20 years the company has been the digital muse for black-turtleneck-wearing art directors, making a mint off its bestselling publishing and graphics software such as Acrobat, ...

Adobe has released a public beta of their version of Apple's Aperture called Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom Beta is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually ...

Adobe Tries Out DRM In Photoshop: They're trying this out in Australia, but it's destined for all copies of Photoshop. You can install one copy on two machines. In an interesting twist, you don't "deactivate" it if you need to install it somewhere else... "A time-based algorithm determines if the ...

Adobe Tries to Create Image of a Moneymaker: A good look at where Adobe is now, and the challenges it's going to face from things like Microsoft's InfoPath: "Mr. Chizen plays down the threats Adobe faces from competitors like Microsoft. He points to Acrobat's ability to create documents that can ...

Adobe Digital Media Store: Adobe has started selling e-books in order to pump up its PDF format as a viable alternative to formats from Microsoft and Palm. They may be able to fill some of the vacuum left by Barnes and Noble when they left the market.

Tipping the Microsoft Cash Cow Could Be Adobe s Next Move: Apple users will flock to this like they flocked to Safari for two reasons: (1) it s a chance to screw Microsoft, and (2) anything that sets them apart from the unwashed masses is, by definition, better. [ ] the stage is ...

I just have to get something off my chest: Adobe GoLive generates the most wretched HTML I have ever seen. Joe and I are working on cleaning a site up that was done in GoLive. Joe was so irritated by the wee hours of the morning that he threatened to ...

I'm not working from a Windows box as much as I used to these days, so maybe I'm a little too blissfully isolated from the sheer volume of crap that most of you put up with from your computer each day. Tonight, though, I was working from my wife's PC ...

Macromedia: Macromedia's old Web site isn't what it using to be. It's been "Adobe-ized," complete with the Adobe logo appended with "formerly Macromedia." Looks like they're going to try to bury the Macromedia name completely. Adobe Dreamweaver, anyone? I don't much care, so long as GoLive dies.

Acrobat...to Support Full XML Digital Editions: More information on the changes coming to Adobe Acrobat. XML is great. "...a website that is XML-compatible could automatically display as HTML elements the text, illustrations, or entire pages or chapters of 'Adobe Reader' PDF documents. Likewise, Adobe's new software would be able to ...

Adobe is expanding the Acrobat line. In my job, we work with PDFs a lot and I think Acrobat is a piece of software taken way too much for granted. If you really dig into it, it's pretty amazing what it can do. It's good to see Adobe dropping the ...

mysoftwaresucks.com: Something about a particular piece of software piss you off? Now there s a nice place to rant about it. Have you ever yelled at your computer? Maybe you ve smacked it once or twice in frustration? [ ] >We also believe that nothing can be fixed until you speak up. So ...

Adobe discontinues GoLive: We here at Blend are devastated by this news. Oh, wait, no we re not. Adobe on Monday announced that its venerable visual Web site creation tool GoLive has been discontinued. The company has ceased development and sales of GoLive effective Monday, April 28, 2008.

Adobe Helped Gov't Fight Counterfeiting: The new version of Photoshop has anti-counterfieting technology built-in...no, not that kind of counterfeiting. We're talking about the real kind. Adobe, the world's leading vendor for graphics software, said the secretive technology "would have minimal impact on honest customers." It generates a warning message when ...

Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0: Acrobat Reader 7.0 is out, and it sounds like it's much less aggravating. Adobe have finally got around to addressing the biggest single problem with the Acrobat Reader - startup speed. In my web-browser (Firefox), Version 7.0 startup is quicker than I ever remember it being. ...

PDF-A: A New Digital Preservation Format: There's a new movement to persuade Adobe to freeze a subset of the PDF format and guarantee its integrity for a certain number of years so that archivists can ensure people can access the content in the future. "Despite its advantages, PDF itself is ...

Adobe is teaming up with GridIron Software to produce a (relatively) low-cost grid accelerated version of After Effects. Adding GridIron's XLR8 technology to After Effects which produces motion graphics and other effects for film and the web will allow users to use processor time on other computers on ...

Macromedia drops FreeHand from bundle: Please, oh please, let GoLive be next. FreeHand, Macromedia's popular illustration tool, has been omitted from the company's upcoming developer suite, dubbed Studio 8. Macromedia executives cited "extensive research with our customers" as the reason behind the decision, and not its impending acquisition by Adobe ...

Entrepreneur lets Google fly with his creation: It gets better, and it's apparently still gonna be free. On Tuesday, Google unveils a major upgrade that could chip away market share from leaders Adobe and Microsoft. Picasa 2 is almost as full-featured as their Photoshop Elements and Digital Image Suite photo-editing-software ...

Interesting things are happening at UserLand. John Robb has left, and Dave Winer is hinting that big changes are coming. Two theories abound: (1) they will open source some or all (Frontier, Manila, Radio) of their products, or (2) they will be acquired. With Google's purchase of Blogger some months ...

E-mail worm bent only on destruction: How nice. It's like the aliens from Independence Day. The Kama Sutra worm -- also referred to as Nyxem.E and Grew.A -- is unnerving because, unlike other e-mail worms, it appears to be detached from any profit motive. It is designed to destroy all ...

Archives: The New York Times: The New York Times has opened up their archive from 1891 to 1995, the year they went online. When you find an article, you can read the first paragraph, but the rest of it will cost you about a buck. Search the Article Archive: 1851-1995 ...

Digital Inspiration: Convert doc, xls, ppt, rtf, pdf to HTML: Brutally simple hack to get a ton of different document formats into HTML: send them to a GMail account as an attachment, then "View as HTML." GMail will show the following types of files as HTML: .pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt, ...

RedPaper: Here you can write and article or publish a document, and sell it for whatever you think it's worth, from two cents to two dollars. "RedPaper is the world's first collaborative Newspaper filled with articles for sale written by people from around the world. RedPaper's goal to is create ...

Adobe Acrobat Reader upgrades, adds new tricks: This sounds like bloat, what what did we expect? Acrobat and Flash together have more saturation than any other software -- even Windows, I'd guess. When you have that kind of distribution network, you can pretty much do whatever you want. Acrobat 8, ...

Macromedia - Flex: As near as I can tell, Flex is a programming framework for Flash. Macromedia Flex (previously code-named Royale) extends the Macromedia MX platform by delivering a standards-based programming methodology for building the presentation tier of Rich Internet Applications. There's even a markup language MXML: Macromedia FLex Markup ...

BBC NEWS | UK | Google calls in the 'language police': Why do companies insist on doing this? Google has called in the lawyers to try and stop people from using "Google" has a verb ("Did you google that new girlfriend of yours?"): "The company's lawyers are trying to stamp ...

Developers gripe about IE standards inaction: Now that Microsoft has abandoned Internet Explorer, it looks like that browser's bugs are here to stay. "Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser, but they can't seem to spark a ...

You can stop speculating. Apple has added two new iPods to their line up. The U2 Special Edition and the iPod Photo. The U2 version is black with a red dial and will feature the signatures of the band members engraved on the back. The iPod Photo will support iPhoto ...

The GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program has just released version 2.0, which cleans up the interface a great deal. The GIMP has always been very feature rich, but Photoshop users considered it difficult to use (although many GIMPers would say the same of Photoshop). Started in 1995 by ...

IE, Flash, and patents: here comes trouble: Zeldman highlights a big problem with this Eolas patent ruling. Technically, rich media is now no longer allow to play automatically in the browser window. This means that Flash movies cannot start without user intervention. "Besides paying over half a billion dollars to ...

OEM software scams on the rise: In a moment of serious self-delusion I almost fell for one of these outfits. Yes, I'll admit it, I wanted Dreamweaver MX for $60. I'm sure you've all got the same spams they're saying that this is the new trend after penis enlargement ...

Here's something that's been in the back of my mind for a couple of weeks, but it hasn't been pressing enough to really dig into research. So I'm going to be lazy and throw the question out here. If you take a document from Word or whatever and convert it ...

Popout Prism: Those nutty folks over at Xerox PARC have come up with a tool to make finding information in Web pages easier (within one page only it's not a search engine). Check the image below. You bring up a Web page, then enter a keyword, and that keyword ...

Technology > Circuits > What's Next: For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/technology/circuits/22next.html">For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum: A group of folks out at Dartmouth College are breaking new ground in the art of detecting if images have been altered or ...

I have this love/hate relationship with toolbars in software. There are some things to like about toolbars, especially when dealing with new & unfamiliar software. But for apps I use every day, keyboard commands are much faster and easier than steering the cursor all over the place. The toolbars just ...

I have this love/hate relationship with toolbars in software. There are some things to like about toolbars, especially when dealing with new & unfamiliar software. But for apps I use every day, keyboard commands are much faster and easier than steering the cursor all over the place. The toolbars just ...

SCO has extended its campaign to squeeze blood from a Linux server to Linux users this week by suing Autozone for its use of the OS. The best part? The court they're filing the suit in will manage the case using Linux. However, the defence may take heart that the ...

A friend asked me today about a design firm that was very flamboyant at the peak of the bubble Kioken Design. They were based in New York, and they did sites for J. Lo, Puff Daddy (as he was named at the time), and others (I would link, but ...

Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics: Google parsed a billion Web pages and pulled some stats out of the HTML. We can now add to this data. In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, ...

A friend of mine sent me this joke today. Pretty funny. A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL ...

Prompted by Microsoft's generosity, I've started reading e-books, and I think I'm addicted. I read a book last year called "The Social Life of Information" which put forth all sorts of reasons why e-books weren't going to work. I agreed with it then, but after actually trying it, I'm hooked. ...