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Apple and Adobe may not be the best of friends right now, but Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen doesn’t seem too worried.  Describing the Cupertino company’s aversion to Flash on iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad as Apple “wanting to control the environment”, Narayen says his company would “rather work with partners who are interested in working with us” and that “they’ve made their choice. We’ve made ours and we’ve moved on.”

“Apple made some statements about the suitability of our technology for mobile devices.  I think we’ve proven that the technology is not only suitable but it actually significantly enhances the value on these mobile devices.  They’ve chosen to keep their system closed and we’d rather work with partners who are interested in working with us.  We believe in open systems. We believe in the power of the internet and in customers making choices and I think a lot of the controversy was about their decision at that point. They’ve made their choice. We’ve made ours and we’ve moved on.  It’s a business decision. With the energy and innovation that our company has, we’d rather focus on people who want to deliver the best experience with Flash and there are so many of them.” Shantanu Narayen, CEO, Adobe

The new stance seems a little less antagonistic than Adobe’s previous strategy: blanket ads accusing Apple of being against freedom of choice.  As for whether Adobe is now averse to any future dealings with Apple when it comes to Flash, despite Steve Jobs’ vocal criticism of the platform, Narayen is open-minded.  ”Our doors are open,” he said, “you will have to ask them about their part.”

The Motorola Droid 2 has just been made official today and we were surprised there wasn’t any grandiose press event filled with CEOs from companies like Motorola, Google, Verizon or Adobe to tell us how great the Droid 2 is and what amazing stuff it’s capable of.

On the other hand the full press release, which we shared with you earlier today, covered everything needed to be said about the Droid 2, and it basically confirmed everything we knew about the device from various rumors and leaks. So there’s no point holding a boring press release to announce stuff that everyone is already suspecting, is there? I’m not saying the Droid 2 isn’t a great device, far from it, actually, just making a point about Adobe.

So here’s my point: despite the fact that the Droid 2 didn’t get a glamorous press event, and despite the fact the press release did mention Adobe’s Flash 10.1 support for the Droid 2, the company decided to make it clear to everybody that the Droid 2 can do Flash 10.1, unlike other smartphones out there. And they have a video demo of Flash 10.1 in action on the Droid 2 (by the way, why is that lady frowning all the time?) available at the via link below.

Yes, it’s August, and Flash is finally available for an Android smartphone from the moment you purchase it in store. Better late then never, right? I’m not going to pass on judgment on the way Adobe does its business, nor will I come up with any Thoughts on Flash, but I bet there are plenty of people that have been waiting for a while for Flash 10.1 to come installed right out of the box on plenty of mobile devices.

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If you have just recently purchased or downloaded the trial version of Corel MediaOne Plus, you are probably looking to edit your photos. In this tutorial, I will walk you through the basic steps of editing your photos in Corel MediaOne Plus. With the editing tools, you can do things like fix redeye, rotate photos, crop photos, and adjust the color of photos. This tutorial will show you how to open your editing panel and use the different tools in the panel.

How to Open the Editing Panel in Corel MediaOne Plus

Before you can begin editing your photo, you will need to open the Editing Panel. This panel can be found in the panel on the left. The panel on the left of your program will have a menu. You will need to click the Enhance button to open that menu. Then click the Adjust Photo button located in the sub-menu. Under Adjust Photo, you will see all of your editing tools.

Editing Photos in Corel MediaOne Plus

We will take a look at the different editing tools in Corel MediaOne Plus.

Quick Fix – The quick fix option will automatically fix your photos. Sometimes clicking the quick fix option is all you will need to fix your photos. Sometimes it doesn't always do the trick. To use this option, click the Quick Fix button.

Photo Fix – Clicking this option will open the box that will allow you to edit the brightness, contrast, warmth, saturation, and focus of the photo. All you have to do with these settings is move the bar. You will have a preview box so you can see the changes. To apply the settings, click OK. To exit without saving the settings, click Cancel.

Redeye Fix – Clicking this button will open the redeye box. Your mouse will turn into an eye and you will need to click the redeye you want to fix. You can adjust the size of the eye in the box that opened.

Crop – Click the crop button and a screen will be placed over your photo. Adjust the screen by moving the points. Once you have the screen the way you want it, click the green checkmark in the box at the bottom of the photo. Your photo will then be cropped.

Rotate Right / Rotate Left – These two buttons will allow you to rotate your photo. Clicking the buttons will rotate the photo.

Straighten – The Straighten button will allow you to straighten any photo. All you have to do is click the button, move the line on your photo, and click the Apply button. That will automatically straighten your photo.

That covers just about every editing tool available in Corel MediaOne Plus.

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Before the era of photography, artists used many techniques to try to capture the moment. Most of these included working with light, color, tone, and composition. When photography came on to the scene and did a good job of capturing reality, traditional artists moved toward impressionism and other more abstract movements. As both art forms have now entered the world of digital expression, these worlds are colliding and giving artists many more venues of expression.

To compose and create a photograph feels easy to most people, but when it comes to creating traditional artwork, most photographers feel that to paint from photographs, you must have a specialized talent. Like the book Painting For Photographers, the goal of this DVD to show that anyone who can photograph can paint using photos. The same visual sense that drew you to photography can also help you turn your photographs into digital art work. The first three lessons are the bulk of this training with the remainder a set of bonus features that show you how to work with the Corel Painter Image Hose.

Lesson 1, “Part I: Portraits – Introduction (17:38 min),” begins with an introduction to painting by looking at how you use light and dark tones to paint an image, how to work with the various tonal controls, the color choices you should make when approaching a painting, and how to work with color schemes.

In this lesson, as with all of the following ones, you will work with both Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. In this lesson you will examine some of the basic operations such as opening and saving files. You will also learn some specifics you need when working with Corel Painter 11 such as the dialog boxes, using brushes, and working with tracing paper.

Lesson 2, “Part II: Portraits – Painting Eyes and Lips (17:58 min),” begins with what many call the window to the soul — the eyes. Here you will see how to determine the light source so you can make sure to show the catch light You will see the steps for painting eyes, learn quite a few shortcuts that you can use to lift a color, undo, resize, show and hide a color pallet, and more.

Honestly, I cannot see how you can really be so ignorant. If you're trolling then well done for bringing the other side down by making them look so bad, though I'd prefer to do without your help.

Sorry, are you that stupid, I mean, can you not understand that there are OTHER methods for gaining IP and copyright protection for your works.

Yes, that might include “sweat of the brow” OR,

OR being a subsitute or means that something *OR* SOMETHING ELSE can be used as a defense.

So yes, sweat of the brow, AND/OR original (but not creative) input can be considered of Value, and is considered in many places as INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY..

So, I was saying you CAN create a copyright works, that contains essentually NON-copyright information.

This could be because (in europe) it might be sweat of the brow, ,,,

******* OR **************** (meaning either / OR )

It can be because of the creative input from the Author, or the work in collating the information.

So again, my physics text book is a book full of NON-copyrightable information, FACTS, EQUATIONS and so on.

But the book itself is protected by copyright

Can you understand that yet, or do you want me to try to making it simplier for you..

Mabey you can ask someone else to explain it to you, mabey Mike can explain it to you.

At least in this case he seem to understand what im saying,

Even though he could not get beyone disagreeing with me, then stating the exact same thing as I said.

And 'formatting, narrative, layout, research in finding the information”.

IS Sweat of the brow…. Geeeezzzzzzzz..

Are you saying it can only be sweat of the brow, or creative input,, geezzzz.. how that world would really SUCK..

Honestly, I cannot see how you can really be so ignorant. If you're trolling then well done for bringing the other side down by making them look so bad, though I'd prefer to do without your help.

Sounds like your running out of arguments, ive shown several ways, and LEGAL methods of gaining copyrights over material that is not itself copyrightable.

At least two examples, one is sweat of the brow, and the other is creative input to non-copyrightable works.

1. is the effort in gathering data (usefull data)

sweat of the brow,/B>

But so far you are just showing a major lack of understanding of even the most simple concepts.

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The last few computers we have purchased have come from the factory equipped with Corel Office Software rather than Microsoft Office products. While Corel is downloaded on the computers as a trial offer, it is by far cheaper than Microsoft products.

There are many people live and breath by Microsoft Office products. However, the upside to Corel is, as a user, you do have the option of using the Corel Office products in the Corel mode or in Microsoft mode in any of the areas.

The Corel Office software I have on my desktop is the standard edition. The Corel Standard Edition is also on our daughters Dell laptop. However, when we purchased my laptop we opted for the Corel Business Edition since I use it for my home business.

I write many of my articles and Website content in Corel WordPerfect. When it comes to the Website content, I write for myself, I can publish it to HTML, PDF or XML. I then can upload the Website to a web hosting service ready to go. You can also publish your Quattro Pro spreadsheets to the Web or in XML.

Hopefully, after you have read how to make a spreadsheet with Quattro Pro with Corel, you will see there are other options available to you.

Instructions for Making a Quattro Pro Spreadsheet

NOTE: The instructions for making a spreadsheet in Quattro Pro will work with either the Standard or Business Editions of Corel. For the purpose of this article, I will be referencing Quattro Pro 12. Your own Corel Quattro Pro may be a little different depending on the edition and version you have.

Step One: Opening Quattro Pro

If you haven't used Quattro Pro yet, click on the start button on your task bar. You will then click on All Programs, and then find WordPerfect Office 12 (you may have another edition like 11 on your computer).

You will then click on WordPerfect Office, and then click on Quattro Pro.

Quattro Pro will open and should have a dialogue box appear asking you which mode you want to work in. In Quattro Pro 12, you will have the options of Corel Quattro Pro, Microsoft Excel or Lotus 1-2-3 modes.

In this dialogue box, you will find a circle to check, choose Quattro Pro.

In the lower left hand corner, there will be a statement as follows, “Show at Startup,” leave the check mark in the box for future use. This way you will be able to change your modes once you are comfortable with making spreadsheets. You will click “ok” to continue.

Step Two: Creating Column Titles

You will see you have a blank spreadsheet to work with. We will now make a title for three of the columns.

Column Definition

The columns in a spreadsheet are the vertical rows. In Quattro Pro 12, the columns are showing with the letters of the alphabet A through Z. Once you have added a few titles for your column titles, the alphabetical order of the columns will have double alphabet lettering added.

Row Definition

The rows in a spreadsheet are the horizontal rows. In Quattro Pro 12, the rows show numbers from one through into the thousands.

Cell Definition

Cells are the small boxes information is placed in.

Click on the square below the letter A and to the right of the number one. Now type in what you want to name this column. You will see if you use more than eight spaces, your title will move over to the next cell.

To widen the column, place your cursor on the line between the letters A and B. You will see your cursor change to a bold line with a right and left bold arrow.

Hold the left-click button down on your mouse with the cursor on the line and drag the column width to the right until your text shows in one cell and release your mouse button.

You can continue this process until you have enough columns titled for your spreadsheet.

Step Three: Inputting Row Information

Now we will input the information needed for each of the rows of your Quattro Pro spreadsheet.

For example, place the name of your product into the cell below the first column's title. In the next cell to right of the product title, you will place the amount of the product in the cell in the same row to the right of the product description.

You will continue across until you come the total column for the amount sold. In the next step, we will cover how to total your rows and columns.

Step Four: Row and Column Totaling

You will need to highlight the rows and columns starting with row 2 of your spreadsheet and highlight across to one row past the last row with the information in it.

Go to the toolbar at the top and look for the Greek looking letter E, click on the drop down menu. You will need to look for the icon that says Sum or Product. The sum icon adds the rows and columns; while the product icon multiplies the rows and columns. Click on the one you need to obtain your totals.

You now have finished the quick session on totaling your columns.

Step Five: Line Drawing for Your Cells

The line drawing icon is located on your toolbar on Corel Quattro Pro. This icon looks like a broken line outlined square.

You will need to highlight the area you want to have the solid lines around them. This will help in blocking or creating a table if you wish to print this out to make it look like a ledger.

You will now click on the drop down arrow of the line drawing icon. You will see several choices for line drawing. You will want to choose the icon that draws the line around all the cells you have highlighted. The icon you need has thin solid lines with a plus in the middle of the square and click on that icon. Click anywhere on your spreadsheet and you will see the bolded lines around the area you chose.

Step Five: Printing Your Spreadsheet

You will want to highlight the area you want to print. Once you have the area highlighted, click the print button on your toolbar and follow the popup box for printing. Generally, when the popup box comes up, all you have to do is hit print. On occasion, depending on the size of the spreadsheet, especially the width, you will need to change from portrait to landscape in order to have all the information printed out.

These are the five basic, most commonly used areas on any spreadsheet software. You can obtain further help through the help icon along the top of the toolbar. While I could go into depth about every icon on the toolbar, I felt it may bore many of you to tears.

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The best software design software is something that many will argue on but few will come up with the best web design software until now. If you are a novice some of this software will be complicated, and that's only because you are not familiar with Html. Being a web designer myself and helping others navigate the internet, I have come across many programs that claim to be the one, but they are not. In order to be a successful web designer you have to have some good software that will do some work for you.

The first and most important software for web design is Adobe Dreamweaver. They have several versions but the simplest one will do, I have C3 but I have had the one before that one and was successful with it. If you can go through a webpage with dream weaver and understand the code then you will breeze through web page design in no time. The program has a screen where you can go from web view to code few and back, which make programming and watching the code in action fun. With dream weaver you can also link it to your server and every change you make can be loaded into your server for real time viewing. Dream Weaver is a must for those web designers, it's easy and everything you need to succeed is right there at your finger tips.

Photoshop is another great tool that will have you slicing images and moving them over to dream weaver for that professional looking web page. Not only can you slice and past to dream weaver but you can take your regular pictures and correct the look or the color of an image. You can make your photo look like a poster, or change your words to look like the heading in the Sopranos series. The sky is the limit when it comes to adding art work to your web page using Photoshop, but it is well worth it for your web designers that want the best software.

If you want to size all your photos, and put them in a file so you can easily find them and make a web page, then the program for that is Fast Stone image viewer. This software is amazing in that you can take all your pictures and make them the same size or move pictures from one file to another without having to close out the program and open another one. You can edit your pictures just like in Photoshop, this is a program that has all your files in view, and they are ready for editing. The best part about this program is that it is free.

For those that like to add video to their site Corel Video Studio is the perfect video software for the best web design software, I have used it recently to add a video to You Tube for my t-shirt company. It took no time at all to edit my pictures and turn them into a movie. You can use this software to post your web page and the great designs you come up with. It's easy to embed a video using this software, check out the mytees2 video I have done, and it only took me 30 minutes to create it.

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PhotoGenetics by QBeo is a program that allows you to modify your digital images by comparing and altering it to other preset images rather than manually altering the digital images by yourself. It works by presenting you with alternate modified versions of your images, which you can then rate. Your ratings will then make the program select which modified versions are best for you.

Picture Window is another digital photograph software. It caters to amateur photographers and experienced photographers alike. It isnft as expensive or sophisticated as other digital photograph software, which makes it suitable for photography-related businesses. It feature common tools for photography manipulation which are easy to use, such as adjusting brightness and contrast, retouching, correcting color balance, embossing, and global or selective blurring.

Among the most popular photography software is the comprehensive Adobe Photoshop. When it comes to having an immense number of technical features you can manipulate in order to organize and modify your digital photography Adobe software is the prime choice. It has nondestructive image editing tools which allow you to edit photographs without altering the their basic pixilation. It has the capability of rapidly blending and aligning multiple layers seamlessly. The recent Adobe Photoshop interface is adjusted to the preferences of the user by means of customized workflows and a streamlined work environment. Third-party support is more than sufficient, as Adobe Photoshop has plug-ins, books, and training from an expert Adobe community.

Picstore Digital Photo Album by Handprint software allows you to store and view digital photographs in JPEG format. It has an interface similar to a web browser and also allows you to view you photographs in slide shows.

Artborders, by Artistic software, is excellent for people who would like to make the borders of their photographs look fancier. It adds frames to photographs. Artborders has a wide selection of frame designs and frame sizes to choose from and add to digital photographs. There are currently over 200 borders available for download over the Internet. Artistic software also has the Arteyes product, which allows users to eliminate the •red-eye- effect from photographs and also has the common modification features of other digital photography software.

Starsoft slideshow (by Starsoft Computer Systems), as its name implies, allows the user to use incorporate his digital photography into slideshow images. The slide shows you create are put together in a single file for easy distribution. Starsoft slideshow is appropriate software to use for presentations with images.

Vistametrix by Skillcrest is for the more technically astute and technologically literate digital photographer. It allows photographers to view, access, and operate the parameters of an image when the data used to make that image is unavailable.

The Digital Photograph Recovery Tool 3.0.1.5 is used, as its name implies, to recover missing image data. It works with the file formats BMP, JPEG, AVI, and PNG. It also restores data stored in cameras, phones, memory sticks, and other such paraphernalia. It even recovers data from factory-reset hardware. It works with most of digital cameras. It can recover corrupted data when hardware is accidentally pulled out.

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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen doesn’t seem too broken up about Apple’s refusal to support its Flash technology on the iPhone and iPad. Speaking to the Telegraph, Narayen delves into why he’s moved on from that drama, as well as how the company has brought Flash to other, more open, mobile platforms.

“We believe in open systems. We believe in the power of the Internet and in customers making choices and I think a lot of the controversy was about their decision at that point,” Narayen said. “They’ve made their choice. We’ve made ours and we’ve moved on.”

Instead of lamenting where he can’t implement Flash, Narayen seems more interested in the companies that actually want it on their platforms: “It’s a business decision. With the energy and innovation that our company has, we’d rather focus on people who want to deliver the best experience with Flash and there are so many of them.”

Adobe has already released Flash 10.1 for Google Android users (on phones that support Android 2.2, the version codenamed FroYo), and it’s working on versions for Palm WebOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, and more. It’s working closely with pretty much every platform and handset maker that’s offering Flash, including Motorola, HTC, Google, and Palm/HP.

It’s been months since Apple CEO Steve Jobs penned his infamous open letter, “Thoughts on Flash”, in which he elaborated on why he doesn’t want Adobe’s Flash software on the iPhone or iPad. He later went on to say that the letter was a result of Adobe picking a fight with Apple.

The lack of Flash doesn’t seem to be hurting sales of the iPad, which surpassed 3 million units sold at the end of June.

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Adobe is showcasing the new Motorola Droid 2's ability to play Flash 10.1 out of the box in a new demo video (below). Other handsets, including the HTC Evo and Motorola Droid X, are currently in the process of getting the software update. The Droid 2 has hardware acceleration for Adobe's plugin, making for smooth videos and games shown off in the clip.

The Droid 2 will give users the ability to quickly share videos with friends or followers on the popular social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. Other Flash content commonly found on the web includes animations, rich Internet apps, e-commerce, music and other audio apps.

Verizon is due to start selling the Droid 2 on Thursday and should upgrade both the original Droid and Droid X to Android 2.2 in the near future.

Whether you're a budding web developer or a professional web designer, you're limited by the software you use. To let your creativity be your only limit, it's important to choose the best software program for your web design needs. This list provides the top three web design software packages for Windows and Mac systems. No matter what type of sites you want to design, there is a perfect software package for you.

Windows Based Software

CoffeeCup HTML Editor

CoffeeCup HTML Editor is a powerful HTML editing tool allowing you to create amazing websites with ease. CoffeeCup has built in code completion and validation. For beginners, CoffeeCup offers tag references and themes to get your site up and running quickly. Support is available for HTML5 and CSS3.

Easily organize websites and web design projects with CoffeeCup's organization tool. With the provided validation tools, your site works more consistently with various browsers. For further testing and previewing, three preview modes are available, including previewing the site in ten different browser windows within CoffeeCup HTML Editor.

Dreamweaver

Adobe's Dreamweaver software is available for both Windows and Mac. You can develop visually in a WYSIWYG editor or directly in a code editor. Testing is easy with the Adobe BrowserLab, which is offered through Adobe CS Live.

Dreamweaver supports CSS and easy flash video integration. CSS starter pages are provided to help you get started. To go beyond HTML, Dreamweaver has numerous plug-ins allowing you to add videos, designs and code not available through HTML. Dreamweaver supports both web design and web application projects, allowing you to create basic and advanced sites.

Expression Web

Expression Web, by Microsoft, provides sophisticated CSS layouts that can be fully customized to meet your site's needs. To speed up the browser testing process, Expression Web offers Super Preview to view and debug your site in various browsers quickly.

Intellisense and color coding are available in Expression Web's code editor for HTML, PHP, JavaScript and CSS. Real-time validation provides instant feedback to make coding easier. Expression Web also supports many scripting and server-side technologies, such as XML, Silverlight and ASP.NET.

Drag and drop controls are available to quickly add files to your project, such as Windows Media, Silverlight and DeepZoom. Another incredible feature of Expression Web is SEO reporting, which provides information about your site to help you improve your site's search results.

Mac Based Software

Sandvox Pro

Sandvox Pro by Karelia is the perfect web design software for Mac users, both beginners and experienced users. The great thing about Sandvox is that you can try it before you buy to ensure you're getting the features you need.

With Sandvox Pro, you don't need to know HTML to use it. With their HTML editor, you can enter your own HTML or paste code into raw HTML pages or pagelets for immediate results. However, if you are an experienced HTML user, Sandvox has support for advanced HTML. By clicking any element on a page, you can quickly edit the HTML for that element or create an HTML page from scratch.

You can easily see how your page will look outside of the web designer. This lets you see how your site looks in the browser window. Sandvox supports Google integration including Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Combined with the easy to use and understand graphical interace, Sandvox Pro Edition is a win-win for web designers.

Rapid Weaver

Rapid Weaver is built especially for Mac OS X Leopard operating system, with a familiar interface Mac users will love. Rapid Weaver takes advantage of all Leopard has to offer, including Quick Look, Core Animation and iLife integration.

Rapid Weaver supports one click publishing and supports almost every web host by having built in support for FTP, SFTP and MobileMe. To quickly design your site, ten page types and over forty themes are available. Rapid Weaver also allows you to view your text and code side by side and supports drag and drop to quickly add images and ads to your web pages.

Coda

Coda offers web design software that allows a single screen for everything, including development and file transfer. To make web design even easier, Coda supports plug-ins, which allows you to easily integrate code from other developers into your site. Find files quickly and easily with Coda's version of Spotlight, which allows you to type a few letters of the file name to locate the file.

In addition to code checking, Coda also has a spell check feature that checks only your words, not your code.

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Last year we wrote about a new product from SuperMegaUltraGroovy Software called Capo. The well-designed software was essentially a tool to help users learn to play music by ear, and it worked by slowing down songs without changing their pitch. Capo restored our confidence that not all competent developers were focusing on the iPhone, and that there could still be high quality software for the Mac. Now, Capo 2 has launched. While one developer can’t support an entire platform, Chris Liscio is still making really great software.

At its root, Capo 2 still focuses on slowing down music without changing the pitch, enabling users to practice along with difficult passages of music. The technique has been used since the days of record players, and is one that many budding musicians are familiar with. The core functionality of Capo is still there, and if you are interested in learning more, you can read what we had to say about the original version of Capo.

In the newest version of Capo, the waveform view has changed to spectrogram. Now instead of seeing the fluctuating amplitude of the music, you actually see the individual pitches. Individual tones are represented by what can only be described as smears; the view looks a lot like an old time piano roll.

The higher the pitch on the spectrogram, the higher it is represented; the longer the streak, the longer the duration of the note. On its own, the spectrogram would only be mildly useful, as it only shows you the relative distance between notes. What makes Capo 2 remarkable is that a user can trace the smears of the music and, in turn, automatically create tablature. (This was enough to make me drop a few expletives in amazement.) If you click on a given smear, the note representing the pitch gets played back to you. 

Music with just a solo guitar can work well, and with an entire band, it works better than you'd think. You still have to use your ear to differentiate between instruments, but as you use the application, you learn to read which notes are the fundamentals and which notes are part of the overtone series.

Valve's Steam for Mac has boosted developers' interest in releasing Mac versions of their games, but according to Valve, that interest won't translate into more new Mac releases until next year. Still, Valve believes that 2011 will mark a sort of renaissance for Mac gaming.

Valve director of business development Jason Holtman said in an interview with GamesIndustry that, while hard numbers weren't available to share, there are plenty of Mac users on Steam. Even users with both PCs and Macs are using the Mac to buy games, instead of thinking of their PC as the sole machine for gaming. 

“They're not thinking about their PC and Mac being separate anymore, they're really thinking about both of them being together and the platform just being there,” Holtman said.

That behavior is driving new interest in delivering Mac versions of current game releases from publishers, as opposed to considering ports after the Windows version has shipped. “Developers who weren't thinking about the Mac a year ago are coming to us and saying, 'Wow! How could I make a Mac version of my game?'” said Holtman.

Graphics performance is still an issue on Mac OS X, though, and so is OpenGL coding for developers more accustomed to DirectX. Apple still has plenty of work to do to support newer versions of OpenGL and better optimize graphics drivers to achieve performance parity with Windows. But to help developers accelerate development schedules and work around these issues somewhat, Valve is making code it has developed for the GL layer available to Steamworks partners. 

Those developers “will have access to some of the hard work that we do to get our games up on Mac, and they'll be able to incorporate that into their games,” Holtman told GamesIndustry. “And our hope is it gets them there faster.”

Even with Steam for Mac making a great distribution platform and Valve providing OpenGL graphics tools, though, Mac gamers shouldn't expect a bunch of simultaneous releases from other top-tier developers just yet. For games already in the development process for 2010, adding a Mac version could ruin current schedules and cause release delays. Valve vice president of marketing Doug Lombardi said that publishers are instead looking at releases planned for 2011, and looking at how to incorporate making a Mac version from day one.

“The interesting thing we're seeing from publishers and developers alike is… they aren't thinking about porting their games to Mac,” Holtman said. “They're thinking, 'I need to write for a Mac. I'm not going to do a port six months later or maybe a year later, I should bring that in and do that now because there's a fair amount of people out there.'”

While gaming has never been one of the Mac's strong suits, Valve's efforts to bring more developers to the platform and generate interest in first-class Mac OS X versions of top-tier games is certainly welcome. 

**Note: the following review comes from the writer's firsthand experience with Final Cut Pro non-linear editing software as a senior Broadcast Journalism major at the University of South Alabama. The following review does not necessarily reflect the views of the aforementioned university or of Apple Inc. as a software company.

With an increasing number of filmmakers and broadcast news organizations seeking more advanced methods by which to create and edit their material, it is no wonder so many are turning to Apple Inc.'s one-of-a-kind nonlinear editing system Final Cut Pro (FCP). Previous versions of the software, much like Avid Xpress, have been universally compatible between multiple operating systems. The latest edition of Final Cut Pro is, however, confined to operating within the functional parameters of the Macintosh Apple Operating System.

Macworld.com writer Mike Curtis notes that “While Avid's Media Composer, FCP's main competitor, offers more tools at a higher price (and Adobe is readying a new Mac version of Premiere Pro CS3), FCP 6.0.1 is an improvement on an already powerful, flexible, affordable, and scalable editing program for a wide range of professional and semiprofessional users.” (http://www.macworld.com.)

Curtis could not be more correct in his statement about the conveniences and affordability of Final Cut Pro. As Avid continues to fade out of the industry, FCP is steadily taking over with a host of fancy new tricks to show off in its latest version. According to a 2007 SCRI survey, 49% of the professional editing markets within the United States employed the use of Final Cut Pro, while Avid rang in at a low 22% (Source: TVB Europe: www.tvbeurope.com). The percentage of FCP users has only increased since 2007.

One of the most notable features of FCP 6.0.1 is its much anticipated SmoothCam® plug-in. This highly stylized option incorporates Optic Flow technology and allows for better stabilization of camera shots in which the camera was “shaky” or “unsteady”, possibly due to an error on the part of the camera operator or poor weather conditions, etc. Speaking from personal experience, the usefulness of this feature is unparalleled in comparison to other editing software programs. Where camera stabilizers and tripods fall short during the shooting process, SmoothCam brings stillness to an otherwise rough shot during postproduction.

Final Cut Pro is, however, merely a smaller part of a much larger Final Cut Studio package, which includes six additional applications: Motion, DVD Studio Pro, Color, Compressor and Soundtrack Pro, according to the official website: www.apple.com/finalcutpro. Unlike Avid, FCP will allow you to create, edit and finalize all of your professional audio/video projects at the highest and most sought after level of quality in the industry.

This brings up one of the additional benefits of FCP 6.0.1: open and multi format timeline editing. As is noted by www.isoftwarereviews.com, this allows the user to “mix frame sizes, frame rates, and formats in the same Timleline in real time. Multicam editing of up to 128 sources with real-time playback of up to 16 angles.” (http://www.isoftwarereviews.com/final-cut-pro-review/)

Obviously, as is the case with any high-end editing software, the processing speed of your machine will determine the functionality of such a feature. However, if the computer is fast enough, you'll be able to juggle simultaneous frame-rate and frame-size conversions in real time.

You can visit the official website of Apple's Final Cut Program at: http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/. Here you will find prices, features and additional information—all you could ever want to learn about one of the most advanced and highly sought after editing software programs on the market and in the industry today.

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We all know that the Motorola Droid 2 is launching on August 12th. Pre-orders start tomorrow, folks. And, we all know that Android 2.2 is coming pre-installed on the device, as it’s one of the main selling points of the upgraded Droid model. And with Froyo, also comes Flash Player. While there’s been a huge furor over whether or not it even works on the device, as many original Droid owners are having a heck of a time with their own upgrade to Froyo and utilizing the software, it looks like Adobe themselves wanted to calm folks down. So, here’s a video.

And, sure enough, it looks like it works. And, we can confirm that Adobe’s Flash Player is definitely featured right on the Droid 2’s box, so it’s a pretty big deal to Motorola, Verizon, and of course Adobe. However, to get into the details, it looks like Adobe currently has their Flash Player 10.1 Beta at version number 3, and the final version is all set to get released on August 16th at the Adobe Android summit. So, that should mean all the other devices out there that can use the service, will be able to without a problem. Devices like the Samsung Galaxy S line-up, the Droid X, and the HTC Incredible should all get updated in due time.

: Here’s an official statement from Adobe, about the state of Flash Player 10.1, its Beta tag, and when it’s going to launch to other devices:

“Adobe released Flash Player 10.1 in June to OEM and platform partners worldwide. This is the final release that partners like HTC and Verizon/Motorola are distributing to their customers. Examples are the HTC Evo, HTC Desire and the new DROID 2 by Motorola, which is the first smartphone that will come pre-installed with Flash Player 10.1. We expect additional Android devices and other mobile platforms to get Flash Player 10.1 over the next few weeks. The version of Flash Player 10.1 that is available on the Android Market for the Google Nexus One is a Beta 3. A final release will be posted shortly.”

[via Android and Me]

Dave McAllister, Director of Open Source and Standards (OSS) at Adobe Systems said the company's “current repository was not meeting the desire to allow our projects to evolve in multiple directions simultaneously.” So the decision was made to collaborate with Sourceforge, which recently rolled out an open source forge development platform.

The Geeknet-run web-based source code repository acts as a central location where developers can manage and maintain open source software.

“SourceForge,” McAllister continued. “gave us the ability to support all of the things we needed and the flexibility to replace things we wanted to. SourceForge and the new development forge gives us the ability to connect our developer community to a global community.”

The Open Source Forge is a new platform at SourceForge. The “first instantiation” of the new platform, according to Geeknet's Jeff Bates, VP of Products, is Open@Adobe.

“By utilizing SourceForge, Adobe benefits from SourceForge's new forge platform and large global community, while saving time and resources required to maintain a large repository of code and documentation.”

The repository currently holds 267,000 open source projects and facilitates just under three million downloads per day.

Avail yourselves of more ReadWriteWeb coverage of Adobe and open-source issues.

I love free stuff, don't you? And whenever possible if I can find free – or low-priced software I jump on it. Not all free software is worth the risk of downloading, but occasionally there are some winners. I would like to share my free software choices. This is software to die for and that I cannot live without.

Google anything. I love Google and not because it is free. They keep pushing technology; an example is the Google desktop and sidebar. When I am at work and things slow down, the scrolling sidebar keeps me updated with the weather report and news briefs. It captures the last blogs I visited and alerts me to messages in Gmail. Google Search helps you find lost files. Oh right – you never lost a file in your computer? I created the file yesterday (for example) and don't remember where I filed it. Desktop will search your computer to find the file. You can add additional desktop gadgets like a bright antiquish clock, a calculator, calendar and music player. Do you want to play the game “Smarter than a 5th grader?” You can add it to the sidebar.

The Weather Channel. At the bottom of the status bar in the corner sits the temperature and when it chirps and flashes red, it alerts me to severe weather conditions and changing conditions such as a steep drop in temperature.

My Folder Pro. Windows comes populated with yellow folders throughout the directory and the desktop. Since all the folders look the same it can happen that you open the wrong folder. Tired of that yellow folder? How about a tangerine color? Or a dark blue folder? My Folder Pro changes the colors of the folder.

Cam Unzip. You have a large folder with several files to unzip, but that brand name unzip/extractor software charges money after the 30 day evaluation. What do you do? Get Cam Unzip. It does the same function and it is free forever.

Front Page 2003 Web page designer. Yes, I know it cost money, but it is meager compared to that larger brand name web page designer, and this one is easier to use. You practically do not need to know HTML code. Just choose a template from its large library, type the content and insert images. Much friendlier to use for a novice.

NVU is a web page designer too, but you should know HTML code to use it. The screen interface is friendly.

Foxit PDF and Adobe Reader 8. I have both readers on my computer. One is not better than the other, but there were times when Office and Adobe conflicted and caused debug code errors. I never get those errors using Foxit PDF.

Trillian is my instant message lifesaver. Trillian allows me to chat with Yahoo, AIM and MSN buddies. No need to download those programs separately to chat with friends because Trillian alerts me when they are online whether they use Yahoo, AIM or MSN.

You can find and access free software with the keyword search, “free download” “free software” or go to the manufacturer's web site.

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Cye Says:

July 22nd, 2010 at 10:33 am

Sounds good to me & Adobe did right by going after Apple after all Apple tryed to destroy Adobe which will not work in my eyes because every HTML5 site I go to sucks & the video never works correctly at least for me on my Mac’s,Pc’s running Linux & Windows. Now I have a old IPhone 3G & an IPad 3G/Wifi 64GB & I love it I loved it so much that I bought a wifi version for my mom & she loves it to, The reason I am saying this is for some reason I think because of app’s like (Air Video),(Netflix),(EyeTv) & now (Hulu Plus App) I don’t miss it because I can play what is on my local network server or on anyone of my computers or internet devices. I even got my Apple TV hacked with ATV Flash & it even plays flash & ripped dvd’s of course that I purchased & I love it,but to me I still love flash no matter what & that is why I am about to purchase an Android based Smart Phone & an Android based Tablet when the good ones finally come out this year or early next year. Before you say it (I am by far not an Apple fan boy)& how I know my brother is one & we argue all the time about every Distro which is my side & my brother always on the Apple side(he he). I just hope that we as user’s just get what we want on our device, what works best for us as individuals not suits behind a desk that hardly knows how to send an email making decisions for us because if they do not give us what we want,then we will hack/tweak/Mod what ever you want to call it to do what we want when we want as long as we are not breaking any laws that I agree with. I believe if I paid for it then I will do what I choose with it if the Gov & suits do not like it ,I do not care because being free is what I live by & you all should also. Do What You Want With Your Devices & If The Devices Do Not Do What You Want Them To Do ,Then Hack The Dang Things & Make Them Do What You Want Them To Do.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has denied a Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to a complaint filed by Adobe against Apple, stating that the release of the information would impede the commission's “law enforcement” duties.

Nearly 200 pages of records regarding Adobe's complaint were requested by Wired this week, and rejected. Adobe filed the paperwork with the FTC after Apple announced it would not allow iOS applications ported from other languages or development environments, such as Flash.

The FTC justified its decision to keep the documents, stating that making them public “could reasonably be expected to interfere with the conduct of the Commission's law enforcement activities.” The FTC said that 189 pages are related to the case, but the records are exempt from the FOIA request. The response strongly suggests that the FTC is currently conducting an investigation into the matter.

“The FTC never publicly confirms or denies when an investigation is open or closed, except when it sues or reaches a settlement with a company,” author Ryan Singel wrote. “However, both Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal reported in May that the FTC had gotten a complaint from Adobe and opened a formal investigation.”

The fight between Apple and Adobe came to a head after Adobe announced it would create an application that would allow developers to port software written to Flash to the iPhone. That software would allow developers to circumvent Apple's ban of Adobe Flash from iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPad.

But Apple changed its developer agreement, banning applications written in non-native languages and ported to the iPhone. That prompted Adobe to abandon development of its Flash-to-iPhone porting software, and file a complaint with the FTC.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs publicly commented on the matter in an open letter published in late April, in which he slammed Adobe Flash as a Web tool that is unfit for the modern, mobile era of computing. He also said that an intermediary tool for converting Flash applications to the iPhone would produce “sub-standard apps,” and would hinder the progress of the platform.

Jobs said he knows from “painful experience” that allowing developers to become dependent on a third-party tool, such as Adobe Flash, rather than writing natively for the iPhone is restrictive. “We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers,” Jobs wrote.

I love free stuff, don't you? And whenever possible if I can find free – or low-priced software I jump on it. Not all free software is worth the risk of downloading, but occasionally there are some winners. I would like to share my free software choices. This is software to die for and that I cannot live without.

Google anything. I love Google and not because it is free. They keep pushing technology; an example is the Google desktop and sidebar. When I am at work and things slow down, the scrolling sidebar keeps me updated with the weather report and news briefs. It captures the last blogs I visited and alerts me to messages in Gmail. Google Search helps you find lost files. Oh right – you never lost a file in your computer? I created the file yesterday (for example) and don't remember where I filed it. Desktop will search your computer to find the file. You can add additional desktop gadgets like a bright antiquish clock, a calculator, calendar and music player. Do you want to play the game “Smarter than a 5th grader?” You can add it to the sidebar.

The Weather Channel. At the bottom of the status bar in the corner sits the temperature and when it chirps and flashes red, it alerts me to severe weather conditions and changing conditions such as a steep drop in temperature.

My Folder Pro. Windows comes populated with yellow folders throughout the directory and the desktop. Since all the folders look the same it can happen that you open the wrong folder. Tired of that yellow folder? How about a tangerine color? Or a dark blue folder? My Folder Pro changes the colors of the folder.

Cam Unzip. You have a large folder with several files to unzip, but that brand name unzip/extractor software charges money after the 30 day evaluation. What do you do? Get Cam Unzip. It does the same function and it is free forever.

Front Page 2003 Web page designer. Yes, I know it cost money, but it is meager compared to that larger brand name web page designer, and this one is easier to use. You practically do not need to know HTML code. Just choose a template from its large library, type the content and insert images. Much friendlier to use for a novice.

NVU is a web page designer too, but you should know HTML code to use it. The screen interface is friendly.

Foxit PDF and Adobe Reader 8. I have both readers on my computer. One is not better than the other, but there were times when Office and Adobe conflicted and caused debug code errors. I never get those errors using Foxit PDF.

Trillian is my instant message lifesaver. Trillian allows me to chat with Yahoo, AIM and MSN buddies. No need to download those programs separately to chat with friends because Trillian alerts me when they are online whether they use Yahoo, AIM or MSN.

You can find and access free software with the keyword search, “free download” “free software” or go to the manufacturer's web site.

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This is the sixth of a series of reviews that will cover what is contained in the Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) Master Collection. When Adobe released CS5 this year, they not only released single version products, but also five separate suites of products. They are Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Production Premium, and Master Collection. You can go online to compare what is contained in each version. The goal of this series it to define what each product does and provide information of what the new version brings to the table.

First introduced in 1999, Adobe InDesign CS5 is the publishing platform of the creative suite that is targeted at designers, publishers and those whose job it is to design professional layouts including periodical publications, posters, print media, and more.

In effect, InDesign is a page-composition program that lets you take a variety of elements from different sources and combine them to make multipage documents. Once you have all of the objects together, InDesign will let you put them together on the page to create your composition. While you can also create single page documents, InDesign is really meant to create larger multipage compositions. Many people use InDesign to create for standard print, it can be just as useful for electronic delivery via PDF, Web page generation, and mobile devices.

So What is New with InDesign CS5?
• Interactive documents – and presentations will help you to engage and inform readers and clients with documents and presentations that integrate interactivity, animation, sound, and video. By creating interactivity directly in InDesign you will also reduce the cost and time to develop rich media using other application. New intuitive panels like the Animation, Object States, and Timing panels help you add rich media to your page layouts much easier than ever before.

• Object selection and editing – gives you the ability to perform repetitive layout tasks much more efficiently in InDesign CS5. Numerous improvements can help make tasks such as aligning and distributing objects or customizing frame corners faster and easier. These include a Gap tool to adjust the white space between objects, a Live Corner Effects to change the shape of a frame, and the ability to make multiple transformations with the Content Grabber.

Day, founded in Basil, Switzerland in 1993, is a somewhat lesser known player in the ECM market – and Gartner predicted last year the company's market position would decline. However, it has an impressive portfolio of clients including GM, Audi, McDonald's. Larson praises the company for its early recognition of the potential of the web and for designing software that was built from the ground-up for scalability and interactivity.

Larson says Day's content management and content repository software will compliment Adobe's enterprise software offerings LiveCycle and Omniture (which it acquired last year) to create a full suite of enterprise technologies.

Larson's vision for the enterprise revolves around “customer experience management,” which combines the discipline of user experience design, interaction design, process management, content strategy and customer service into a unified field for web-based customer experience. Larson predicts in the near future, if this isn't the case already, customers will expect to have most of their interactions with companies online – and citizens will have most of their interactions with governments online as well. To this end, Adobe hopes to position LiveCycle, Omniture, and Day's offerings as a customer experience suite to compliment its existing web development technologies.

What the acquisition means, if anything, for Apache remains to be seen. The Apache Software Foundation is of course a very independent entity, but it's hard not to see this acquisition by Adobe as a play to get closer to the world's most popular web server. Update: Paolo Mottadelli, a sales engineer at Day Software, said via Twitter that the “acquisition shouldn't mean anything for Apache but hopefully more contribution.”