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Adobe demos content-aware move and extend tools in Photoshop CS6

Adobe demos content-aware move and extend tools in Photoshop CS6
  • Posted February 16, 2012, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software With Video
  • Adobe has posted their fourth sneak peek video designed to showcase some of the new features that will be part of Photoshop Creative Suite 6 set to launch later this year. The most recent clip highlights the new content-aware move…

Tim Berners-Lee defends the open web from patent threat

Tim Berners-Lee defends the open web from patent threat
  • Posted February 9, 2012, 8:47 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee testified in Federal Court on Tuesday giving evidence as part of the defense of a rather remarkable patent trial that’s getting under way in Tyler, Tx, where Michael Doyle is…

Adobe prepping sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox, beta available now

Adobe prepping sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox, beta available now
  • Posted February 7, 2012, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security, Software
  • Adobe is working on a new Flash Player sandbox for Firefox that will essentially work in “Protected Mode” in an effort to protect users against exploits. The design of the sandbox is similar to what the company used with Adobe…

Adobe is bundling Shockwave Player with Norton's security software

Adobe is bundling Shockwave Player with Norton
  • Posted January 25, 2012, 5:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, IT Security
  • It's recently come to our attention that the installer for Adobe Shockwave Player is coming bundled with an optional installation of Norton Security Scan. The bundle was pointed out by Martin Brinkmann from gHacks and confimed by our Editor in Chief,…

Hackers exploit zero day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Hackers exploit zero day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat
  • Posted December 7, 2011, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security
  • Adobe confirmed yesterday that its Adobe Reader software contains a zero-day vulnerability, crediting the security team at Lockheed Martin, which itself was a victim of an attack through the exploit, and members of the Defense Security Information Exchange for discovering…

SOPA loses backing of tech giants amid policy concerns

SOPA loses backing of tech giants amid policy concerns
  • Posted November 23, 2011, 8:43 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • After initially backing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which counts the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, Dell, Symantec and 23 other tech companies among its members, has withdrawn their support saying that valid and…

RIM will continue to support Flash without Adobe

RIM will continue to support Flash without Adobe
  • Posted November 10, 2011, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software
  • Research in Motion has announced they will continue to support Flash player on their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet despite the fact that Adobe revealed yesterday they were no longer planning to develop future versions of the software.

Adobe stops mobile Flash development, will focus on HTML5

Adobe stops mobile Flash development, will focus on HTML5
  • Posted November 9, 2011, 12:08 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software
  • In a rather unexpected move, Adobe has told developers that it no longer plans to develop future versions of its Flash Player for mobile browsers, and will instead focus on HTML5 and other web technologies. ZDNet broke the news earlier…

Adobe previews prototype blur-fixing feature at MAX 2011

Adobe previews prototype blur-fixing feature at MAX 2011
  • Posted October 11, 2011, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software With Video
  • Adobe has offered a peek at an upcoming feature for Photoshop that could make blurred photos a thing of the past by calculating the movements of the camera at the time the image was taken and enabling a one-click fix.…

Unreal Engine 3 comes to Adobe Flash 11

Unreal Engine 3 comes to Adobe Flash 11
  • Posted October 5, 2011, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming, The Web With Video
  • Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 now supports Adobe Flash, meaning many popular gaming titles will soon be finding their way to web browsers and social networking sites. Epic’s gaming engine was originally designed for high-end PCs and gaming consoles, but has…

Flash 11 coming soon with GPU-assisted 3D graphics engine

Flash 11 coming soon with GPU-assisted 3D graphics engine
  • Posted September 21, 2011, 7:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web, Software With Video
  • Adobe's Flash Player is about to receive its largest update since the introduction of hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding in 2009. Version 11 of the software is set to go live early next month and will reportedly introduce a GPU-assisted rendering…

Microsoft puts Flash on notice with 'plug-in free' Metro IE10

Microsoft puts Flash on notice with
  • Posted September 15, 2011, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Microsoft
  • In what could be a major blow for Adobe's Flash, it seems Microsoft is now distancing itself from the technology with claims that the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 will be a plug-in free experience. You'll…

Adobe releases Flash-like HTML5 design tool Adobe Edge

Adobe releases Flash-like HTML5 design tool Adobe Edge
  • Posted August 1, 2011, 2:30 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • Adobe Systems today announced the first public preview release of Adobe Edge, a new HTML5 web motion and interaction design tool available for free on labs.adobe.com for Mac and Windows. Web designers can use the tool to bring animations, similar…

Adobe acquires EchoSign, to offer electronic signature solutions

Adobe acquires EchoSign, to offer electronic signature solutions
  • Posted July 18, 2011, 9:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • Adobe Systems has announced that it has acquired EchoSign, a Web-based provider of electronic signatures and signature automation. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed, so it's not clear how much the former is paying for the latter.

Adobe releases Flash 11 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux (64-bit support!)

Adobe releases Flash 11 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux (64-bit support!)
  • Posted July 14, 2011, 5:30 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • Adobe has announced a beta release of Flash Player 11. You can download it directly for Windows, Mac, and Linux. At the same time, the company has announced the availability of the Adobe AIR 3 beta. Last month, Adobe killed AIR for Linux and announced it would focus on mobile instead.

Adobe kills AIR for Linux, focuses on mobile instead

  • Posted June 17, 2011, 8:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • Adobe has announced it is discontinuing further support of Adobe AIR for desktop Linux. The latest release of Adobe AIR for desktop Linux is version 2.6. You can download it directly from here: Adobe AIR 2.6 for Linux.

Adobe CEO talks Android tablets, dispute with Apple

Adobe CEO talks Android tablets, dispute with Apple
  • Posted June 3, 2011, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Mobile Computing With Video
  • Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen says that Android tablets will soon overtake the iPad, just as Android smartphones now outnumber the iPhone. Speaking on stage at the D9 conference hosted by All Things Digital, the executive nudged aside notions that Apple's…

Adobe releases Flash Player 10.3 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android

Adobe releases Flash Player 10.3 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android
  • Posted May 13, 2011, 12:34 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • Adobe has released Flash Player 10.3. You can download it directly for Windows, Mac, and Linux. In addition for the first time ever, Adobe has simultaneously released the same new version of Flash Player for Android.

Adobe releases three Photoshop apps for the iPad

Adobe releases three Photoshop apps for the iPad
  • Posted May 11, 2011, 11:30 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software With Video
  • As part of its Creative Suite 5.5 update, Adobe has released three Adobe Photoshop Touch apps for the Apple iPad: Adobe Color Lava ($3), Adobe Eazel ($5), and Adobe Nav ($2). You can grab them now from the Apple App Store.

Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, others sued for wage fixing

  • Posted May 6, 2011, 7:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Industry News
  • Siddharth Hariharan, a former software engineer at Lucasfilm, has filed a class action lawsuit in California Superior Court in Alameda County, charging that several leading technology companies in the US violated antitrust laws by conspiring to fix the pay of…

Adobe releases Creative Suite 5.5 with subscription options

Adobe releases Creative Suite 5.5 with subscription options
  • Posted May 3, 2011, 4:21 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • Adobe Systems has released the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 product family, improving HTML5 and Flash authoring, adding innovation in the areas of video production and editing, and delivering new capabilities in the area of digital publishing. Creative Suite 5.5 content…

Adobe unveils Creative Suite 5.5 with subscription options

Adobe unveils Creative Suite 5.5 with subscription options
  • Posted April 11, 2011, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
  • Adobe has rolled out an upgrade for Creative Suite, version 5.5, that better integrates with touch-based tablets or smartphones and serves up a subscription model that lets users rent individual programs for a monthly or yearly fee instead of buying…

Adobe warns of Flash vulnerability, Mozilla promotes HTML5

Adobe warns of Flash vulnerability, Mozilla promotes HTML5
  • Posted March 15, 2011, 6:37 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Software, The Web
  • Adobe has warned of a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that affects a vast majority of users. The flaw (CVE-2011-0609) has been exploited in the wild and allows an attacker to gain control of a machine by embedding a…

Adobe releases Flash 10.3 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Adobe releases Flash 10.3 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux
  • Posted March 8, 2011, 2:41 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software, The Web
  • Adobe has announced a beta release of Flash player 10.3 on Adobe Labs. You can download it directly for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Flash Player 10.3 beta introduces a number of features including enhanced privacy controls, VoIP tools and analytics.

Adobe releases experimental Flash to HTML5 conversion tool

  • Posted March 8, 2011, 6:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software, The Web
  • Not only has Adobe launched its own HTML5 video player, added HTML5 export tools to Adobe Illustrator and Dreamweaver CS5, but it has now released an experimental Flash to HTML5 conversion tool, codenamed Wallaby, over on Adobe Labs. Wallaby, currently…

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