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Even though it hasn’t officially launched yet, Adobe said today that developers are already embracing its AIR technology for building applications on smartphones and other devices.

Adobe first released AIR in 2008 as a tool for creating desktop apps that are connected to the Web, but the company is positioning the new version of AIR as a key part of its mobile strategy. Most of the focus in recent months has been on Adobe’s Flash, which is the company’s technology for creating video, games, and other content in the Web browser. But AIR could be just as important for Adobe on smartphones, since it allows developers to build apps that users can download from app stores, and that can run on multiple phones.

The company first announced a test version of AIR for Android at the Google I/O conference in May, and more than 7,000 developers have now signed up, AIR Group Product Manager Aaron Filner said at Adobe’s Android Summit in San Francisco today. That’s only a small part of the total Android ecosystem, which includes more than 100,000 apps (the number of developers is presumably a bit smaller than that). Still, it seems like a sign of healthy interest for such an early product.

Presumably that interest will grow once the mobile version of AIR has its full launch, which is scheduled for sometime before the end of this year. Interest in AIR could also get a boost as Adobe makes AIR available on other smartphone platforms, since one of its big selling points is the cross-platform functionality. Filner said AIR doesn’t quite achieve the ambition of “write once, run anywhere,” where developers can create a single application that runs on any device. But most AIR developers only need to do “a little bit of tuning” to customize their apps for each device.

Droid-maker Motorola and BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion are the only announced partners so far, but I’d expect Adobe to work with most or all of the same partners as it has with Flash, bringing AIR to most smartphones except for the iPhone, where cross-platform technologies, especially Adobe’s have been blocked (something that Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen said he has “moved on” from). And AIR should eventually work on some tablet devices too.

Adobe said we should “stay tuned” for more details about its AIR distribution strategy.

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Typekit, a company doing its part to help bring better typography to the web, has just announced an new partnership with Adobe.

The partnership means that Typekit users can now integrate famous fonts like Myriad, Cooper Black and Adobe Garamond into their own sites and designs.

Adobe took the time to optimize and hint its collection of fonts for the screen, ensuring that type looks its best. The web fonts support the same languages and scripts as their counterparts on the desktop.

We spoke with Bryan Mason from Typekit and he expanded more on the process of making these fonts web-ready: “Adobe has been working on the hinting and screen rendering of these (and others to follow) for months. On a pixel-specific level, Adobe reviews each font character-by-character, weight-by-weight. It is amazingly meticulous work — and the results show.” Mason also said new Adobe fonts will be added to the service as they are web-ready.

We also spoke with Jeffrey Veen from Typekit about what the company — which is celebrating its one-year anniversary — has planned going forward. He said in part: “We’re also adding more and more features that help designers focus on creativity and not compatibility. Soon, we’ll be launching some amazing CSS3 tools that not only focus on webfonts, but all of the new browser capabilities.”

These are the Adobe fonts that are now available to Typekit users:

• Adobe Garamond
• Adobe Text
• Bickham Script
• Caflisch Script
• Chaparral
• Cooper Black
• Cronos
• Garamond Premier
• Hypatia Sans
• Minion
• Myriad
• Myriad Condensed
• News Gothic
• Poplar
• Rosewood
• Rosewood Fill
• Trajan
• Voluta Script

Not all fonts and weights are available for all user plans, but select Adobe fonts are available at every tier.

What do you think of Adobe and Typekit’s announcement? Do you plan on integrating Myriad Pro in your designs? Let us know!

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Corel Snapfire photo editor is an excellent tool for editing your photos for use on wepages, myspace pages, blogs, or just for your own personal printing and display. It has a lot of neat features and is very easy to use. I have been using Adobe Photoshop for awhile, and although Photoshop probably has more intricate features, I think Snapfire is the way to go for those just starting with photo editing. You can still make awesome pictures, with less steps and confusion!

I had never heard of Corel Snapfire Photo Editor before visiting the photo webpage at cvs.com. This page offers a free downloadable copy of Corel Snapfire plus a 30 day trial of the “Plus” features. To download your free copy, follow these instructions.

1. Go to www.CVS.com

2. Locate and select the “Photo” tab from the red tabs at the top of the page

3. This will take you to a page titled “Photo Center”. Click on the button that says “get started”

4. This will bring up a new window, so do not be confused (CVS photo center is separate from the CVS website).

5. Once you are at the Photo Center webpage, click on the tab labeled “Share Photos”

6. At this page, you will see a column on the far righthand side, with several boxes in it. The third box down will say “do more with your photos!”. Click on this box.

7. This will bring up a sign-in page (once again, it comes up in a new page). If you do not already have a CVS photo username and password, create one here by clicking “Join for Free”, and following the directions. (Because it is a separate website, you must have a separate login username and password than the one you use at CVS.com, if you have an account there.)

8. Once you have established your account, login on this page.

9. A screen will pop up informing you that 10 free photo prints will be added to your account for downloading the software.

10. Once you reach the download page, click “download here”, and in the pop-up box, select “run”. It does take a few minutes to download. (To see an estimated download time for your internet speed, look on the download page under the “download here” icon.)

11. After it completes the download, your computer should automatically bring up the installation screen and wizard. After this, you should be able to follow the directions in the installation wizard to install the program.

12. Once installed, you may open the program on your computer from the start menu.

Have fun with this new photo editor…remember that you only have 30 days for the “Plus” features, because they are only a trial. The basic photo editing features, however, are yours to keep for free. I will be writing tutorials for using this program to edit your photos, in case you need extra help with the program!

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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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I'm an attorney too, and I share your frustration. I do not think that there is a magic bullet out there. (I'll follow this thread just in case, though, because if there is one, sign me up!)

The one thing I've learned is that you have more time than you think. Your boss would rather have you get it right, so ask if you can have one more chance to read it through before it gets filed/sent.

And I second the suggestion to read your work aloud. You would be surprised how many errors you can catch that way. (And although you may feel dumb, you can always hold up your phone so it looks like you're talking on the phone.) You won't need to do it forever – it's kind of like training wheels. It gets you to the point where you can see your mistakes as you're making them.
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If you are looking to create nice looking certificates, you may want to try the certificates in Corel MediaOne Plus. If you do not have this program though, it is not worth purchasing just for the certificates, but if you already have the program, the certificates are pretty nice. In this tutorial, I am going to walk you through the steps of creating certificates in Corel MediaOne Plus.

To get started with the certificates, you will need to open the photo you want to use for the certificate. After you have opened the photo, drag the photo to the photo tray. That will store the photo so you can use it once you have your certificate layout opened.

Next, you will need to open your projects panel to select the certificate project. On the left side of your program, you will see the panel of buttons. Click the Create button and that will load your projects in the main panel.

In the main panel, you will need to look for the Certificate project and click it. That will load a certificate in your main window. Now you will need to click the Layout button in the left panel to see the different layouts. There are three layouts to choose from. Click the layouts to see a larger view of them in your main window. Select the certificate you want to use by clicking it.

Now you are ready to add your photo to the certificate. Select the photo in the photo tray that you wish to use in the certificate. Then drag the photo to the photo slot of the certificate. After you let go of the photo, you will notice the editing box that opens. In this box you can adjust the photo you added to the certificate. With these tools, you can rotate the photo, fit the photo to the frame, and more. Click the buttons to adjust the photo.

After you have your photo the way you want it, click the Text link in the left panel. That will open the text box and you will need to click the text box on the certificate. That will load your text field and options in a box. Delete the text in the field and type what you want. Then adjust the text settings to what you want. Once you have the text the way you want it, click the X on the box to close it. Your certificate should be finished and ready for printing. If you are ready to print, go to the top of your window and click File > Print. Adjust your printing settings if you need too and then print your certificate.

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Flex 2 is a Rich Internet Application framework for building responsive Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications deployed on the Adobe Flash player plugin which is available in all modern A-grade browsers. Flex 2 applications are written using a markup language, MXML, and a JavaScript-like programming language, ActionScript 3. A Flex application's MXML and ActionScript files are compiled down into SWF bytecode and run on the Flash 9 player.

Traditionally the Flash player has been used for streaming videos or playing vector-based games. The YouTube video player for example is developed in Flash. The Flex 2 framework is an abstraction layer and set of MXML and ActionScript libraries for building cross platform User Interface applications. Flex 2 applications, like Flash, run on the client-side, or browser and can communicate with a Ruby on Rails, PHP, or Java based server-side application.

Up to now the tools of the trade for building any sort of web application involved creating a set of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files for producing the client view. HTML was used to layout out form elements such as text fields, CSS was used to customize the theme or look of the web page, and JavaScript was used to handle user validation and other user events. Writing the front end of a web application using recommended standards such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript has been a pain for developers because the request-response nature of HTTP, browser incompatibilities with said standards, and lack of a rich UI components like tables in HTML.

The issue about the request-response nature of HTTP, where each server request requires a new page reload is solved with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). AJAS solves the issue with the request-response nature of HTTP by dynamically and asynchronously loading additional fragments of HTML from the server making the browsing experience feel more responsive and rich. Browser incompatibilities and lack of rich UI components has been address with JavaScript libraries such as the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library. AJAX and YUI provide a good start for modern web application development but they still don't protect the developer fully from browser incompatibility and still lack rich and responsive UI components.

I like to think of Flex 2 as Ajax 2.0. Flex 2 is a complete, consistent, and standards based application framework for developing responsive, usable, and great looking web applications. Since Flex 2 is built on top of Flash, Flex 2 has immediate support for Rich Media such as audio and video formats. Also, the Adobe Flash player is thought to be deployed in 98.7% of the Internet enabled desktops in the world, a ten percent lead over Java the second most pervasive software. Adobe is not only pushing the Flex 2 Software Development Kit for building cross-browser web applications but also developing cross-platform desktop applications with the Apollo runtime.

Flex 2 is being pushed hard by Adobe and I foresee a large developer adoption in the next year. As explained here, Flex 2 is a viable, and I would say, better option for developing Rich Internet Applications than with the tried and busted HTML, CSS, and JavaScript combination.

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Adobe Systems make programs that allow computers to “read” graphics. Back around 2000, Adobe Acrobat was a popular program, and deserved to be. You could download it free from many web sites. It worked well. The pictures usually came through quickly and looked good.

What a switch to find obnoxious ads for Adobe software popping up, repeatedly, here on AC. I don't know whether AC is responsible for allowing this, or aware that it's been done. I don't know whether Adobe Systems is. I do know that products worth buying don't have to be “sold,” so whenever anyone takes a lot of time and trouble to push a product at me, I know it's not a product I want.

Internet software used to include “pop-up blockers.” I looked for that function on the computer I'm trying to use during the limited time I have today to try to catch up with my favorite ACers' latest work. Possibly because Internet Explorer, on this computer, goes straight to Yahoo rather than a system the owner would have to pay, I don't see anything about “pop-up blockers.”

However, are “pop-up blockers” an adequate way to transmit a badly needed message to companies that advertise their products in truly obnoxious ways? I think not. I think it's time to boycott all Adobe products until the company sees the error of its ways.

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Microsoft has been helping Adobe develop a sandbox similar to the Protected View in Office 2010. Adobe Reader Protected Mode, a sandboxing technology based on Microsoft's Practical Windows Sandboxing technique, is a new mitigation feature scheduled for the next major version release of Adobe Reader. In addition to working with the Microsoft Office security team, Adobe also learned from the Google Chrome team as well as third-party consultancies and other external groups that have sandboxing knowledge and experience.

Adobe Reader Protected Mode will be enabled by default and will ensure that all operations required to display a PDF file to the user are run in a restricted manner inside a sandbox. Actions not permitted in the sandboxed environment, such as writing to the user's temporary folder or launching an attachment inside a PDF file using an external application, are funneled through a “broker process,” which has a strict set of policies for what is allowed and what is not. This first release will sandbox all “write” calls, mitigating the risk of exploits that seek to install malware on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. In future releases of Adobe Reader, the company hopes to extend the sandbox to include read-only activities to protect against attackers seeking to read sensitive information from the user's computer.

Adobe's products are almost as ubiquitous as Microsoft's, and since Microsoft has been taking security much more seriously ever since Windows XP SP2, it made sense for cybercriminals to target software which had so many vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered. Last year, Adobe Reader took the crown away from Microsoft Office as the software with the most vulnerabilities. Brad Arkin, Senior Director of Product Security & Privacy for Adobe Systems, announced in May 2009 that a major Adobe Reader and Acrobat security initiative was underway: code hardening, incident response process improvements, and a shift to a regular security update schedule.

Microsoft's and Adobe's products compete on many fronts, but it makes sense for Redmond to help its partners in the area of security. The sandboxing approaches that Microsoft has pioneered in Office, including the sandbox for its search subsystem, the MOICE sandbox, and Protected View, are there to improve the overall state of security on Windows. The progress in security made by the Office team can thus be extended to other third-party applications for Windows, protecting the customers that Microsoft has in common with its partners.

And we’re here at Adobe HQ.  Updates and goodies on the way…

9:37AM – First up is a Flash 10.1 overview/intro from Anup:

Current devices…

-Nexus One, HTC Desire, HTC EVO, and DROID 2.

On future delivery to devices…

-OTA updates:  content triggered downloads, system software updates, and via on-device app catalogs (Android Market).

-Ship pre-installed like on Droid 2

Adobe AIR overview/intro…

-Support for Android is coming in Q4 2010.

-No word just yet on how it will be introduced.

Digital Video and TV Delivery overview/intro:

-Delivery:  HD video and allow playback of online content through your television.

-Gaming:  Bringing Flash games to TVs.

10:05:AM  - Paul Betlem Director of Flash Player…

Release Goals/Focus:

-Performance and battery life

-Usability and user experience

-Existing content compatibility

-Deliver new capabilities

-Partner collboaration

The Flash device lineup.  Who has it and who will get it…

How about Flash on the Droid tablet in 3D?  It’s under consideration…

10:55AM – Adobe AIR for Android now by Aaron Filner…

-DEMO TIME!

-Aaron just demo’d Youtube, a game called Meteor and FITC event apps for AIR.  So clean, so much potential.

-How AIR works with Flash, deployment as applications, features and requirements, and rollout…

11:41AM – NJ talking Flex Mobile and Flash Builder…

The rundown on Flex…

The rundown on Flash Builder…

LUNCH.  Check out our second half post coming this evening!

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Let's have a look at some video editing software programs, and consider the pro's and con's. Afterward it's up to you to decide what works best for your needs.

This year, Video Maker gave the award for 'Best Video Editing Software' to Final Cut Express. FCE, in short, is cheap ($300) and the ideal way to begin using video editing software in a professional way. Their latest version, FCE 4.0, now accepts AVCHD, which has become the newest high-definition format.

You have to take into account that FCE has a restricted number of video file formats. But does this really matter if you're only a beginner at video editing? The same company also offers Final Cut Studio. As you can imagine, for a price of $1,200 you get more fixtures, among which a reasonable higher number of video file formats.

For their 'Best Introductory Editing Software' Video Maker could not decide between Pinnacle Studio Ultimate, for $129, and Corel Video Studio Pro X2, for $99 and they were both awarded. Each of the programs is easy to use for a beginner, but allows him or her to carry out more complex tasks as well.

For Pinnacle Studio there are three levels of complexity available: Pinnacle Studio ($49), Pinnacle Studio Plus ($99) and the above mentioned Pinnacle Studio Ultimate. All of them are simple enough and make it easy to video edit. They will, for example, configure templates instead of instructing you to use all kinds of variables.

The same goes for Corel Video Studio. Here there are two grades of complexity: Basic for $70 and Pro X2. The cheapest version has only two video tracks and two video overlay tracks. The pro version offers you seven of these.

When you get more into the business of video editing, you may consider getting an entire suite of video editing software. Here, Video Maker went for the rather expensive ($1,699) Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium. This suite includes several profession software programs and makes a great package if you want a lot of capability. If you are not yet clever enough at video editing, you can better go for Premiere Pro (single program) for $799, which is user-friendly.

The award for 'Most Innovative Software' went to Visual Communicator 3, also from Adobe. This is a cute program when you want to video blog. It includes software that makes it easy to upload your content to the web.

The last award that of 'Best Visual Effect Software' was received by proDAD Adorage. This software offer loads of transition effects and, all included, will sell for $499 One word of warning though: you will have to remember that this package has to be used together with other video editing software!

Important advice: before buying one particular video editing software program, think about what your need and what you are willing to pay.

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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.”

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.

Wanting to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator CS2, I went to my local Barnes and Noble and picked up the Adobe Illustrator CS2 Classroom in a book. This book is the official training workbook from Adobe Systems, so I had high expectations that this would be the most precise way to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator.

The only thing that is assumed by the writers is that you are familiar with the computer platform you are using, whether it be PC or Mac. The book includes both PC and Mac terminology so it makes no difference which one you are using. It does not assume, however, that you have ever used Adobe Illustrator or any other Adobe product before. This is great, because if you have never used Adobe Illustrator or another Adobe product before, the interface can be a little intimidating. If you are familiar with Adobe Illustrator and you had been using a prior version, the book also has a section called “What's new in Adobe Illustrator CS2″.

The Adobe Illustrator CS2 Classroom in a Book is accompanied by a CD-ROM, which contains all of the image files you will see in the book. The files are also arranged into separate chapter folders so that you can quickly access them without losing your train of thought. I found it to be beneficial, though, to copy the files to your hard drive so that you don't run into problems when trying to save your work. The book also walks you through how to do this.

Once you have gotten through the beginning portion of the book and have been introduced to Adobe Illustrator's function, interface, and tools, the lessons begin. Each lesson builds upon skills learned in the previous lesson, whether it be something a simple as selecting an object or using layers, or something more complex as using the new Adobe Illustrator CS2 Live Paint and Live Trace tools. This means that you are getting constant reinforcements of new skills so you will not forget them.

The best aspect of using the Adobe Illustrator CS2 Classroom in a Book is that the tutorial mimics real-world uses for the Adobe Illustrator software. This includes making graphics for print ads as well as for the web. In doing each exercise, you get a real taste of how Adobe Illustrator can benefit you in your graphic design career.

Another thing that the Adobe Illustrator CS2 Classroom in a Book does well is that it introduces you to keyboard shortcuts for common functions, so you get the benefit of knowing how to use Adobe Illustrator CS2 both effectively and efficiently.

The only place that the Adobe Illustrator CS2 Classroom in a Book is lacking is in that it doesn't include much on how to properly coordinate colors. The book does an excellent job of explaining the use of predefined palettes and custom palettes; however unless you have experience in choosing colors that work well with each other, or colors that display properly on the web, you may have some difficulty making your products look really good. The book's purpose, though, is to get your hands wet with Adobe Illustrator CS2, and it does that very effectively.

Aside from this small shortcoming, the benefits of this book greatly outweigh its lone pitfall. For the novice or for the experienced Adobe Illustrator user, the Adobe Illustrator CS2 Classroom in a Book is a priceless gem that should be part of any complete computer software book collection.

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The Microsoft Mac team has posted the first in a series of videos that show off some of the new features in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011.

The next version of Office for Mac, which includes the valiant return of Outlook for Mac, is due out by the end of the year. The Mac Office team has been posting about some of the new features and some of the changes to the interface.

This Mac release is a big deal because it will finally put the Mac and Windows versions of Office on more equal footing. In addition to bringing back Outlook (no tears will be shed over the death of Entourage), the next version of Office for Mac will include the ribbon interface first introduced in Office 2007. Although Office for Mac 2008 had some of these elements, the next version will really take things a step further.

Additionally, some of the newest features from Office 2010 — like conversation view for Outlook — will be coming to the Mac version. Even better, the new database system for Outlook for Mac will be compatible with both Time Machine and Spotlight. This is actually a pretty big deal because one of the problems with Entourage is that it doesn’t work well with Time Machine.

You can check out the video of the Office for Mac team explaining some of these new changes below:

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Sony is apparently looking to Android for its future ereader plans, with a job listing spotted for a “senior staff software engineer (Android)” in the company’s Digital Reader Business Division.  According to the job description – pulled from LinkedIn, but still in Google’s cache (or you can read it in full after the cut) – the successful applicant will be involved in “developing application software for digital reading and other consumer electronic devices” based on the Android OS.

That seems to imply not only software for dedicated ereader devices, such as future iterations of Sony’s Reader line, but potentially compatible Reader apps for the company’s other hardware.  That would most likely include the Sony Ericsson line of XPERIA Android smartphones.

The listing also calls for familiarity with “Google Android SDK, Microsoft Windows, and/or Apple Mac OS X” which could imply desktop versions of the Reader app are on the way too.  Sony has seen its market share gnawed into by Amazon’s Kindle and the (Android-based) Barnes & Noble nook.

Job Listing:

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Android) – Digital Reader Business Division at Sony Electronics

Location: San Jose, US-CA (San Francisco Bay Area)
Type: Full-time
Experience: Mid-Senior level
Functions: Engineering
Industries: Consumer Goods
Posted: July 15, 2010
Employer Job ID: 21445

Job Description

As a part of Sony Electronics’ engineering team you can ensure that what we produce is just as extraordinary as the ideas that inspire us. While we run on fearless creativity and innovation, our engineers make certain that everything we do is of the highest quality. Every day, they work with advanced technologies, including some that most people never even thought possible. Some may call it magic; we call it a commitment to innovation, quality, and style and design.

Sony’s Digital Reading Business Division (DRBD) currently has an opening for a Senior Staff Software Engineer in our San Jose, CA office. As a Sr Staff level Software Engineer, you work with Sony’s highly talented application software engineering team developing application software for digital reading devices and other consumer electronic devices. Responsibilities include developing application software for digital reading and other consumer electronic devices; working closely with Product Planners to understand the feature requirements; implementing features according to the product requirement documents; designing product architecture; working with test engineers on bug fixes and resolving issues; writing unit test codes, instrument your code for measurements, actively participating in code review, and performing “pre-flight” testing. Additional duties assigned as necessary.

* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field; or 10 years related experience required
* Programming experience with Google Android SDK, Microsoft Windows, and/or Apple Mac OS X
* Programming experience with C/C++/C#/Objective-C and/or Java
* Familiarity with standard software development tools including: Eclipse, Apple Xcode, Microsoft Visual Studio, and others
* Superb communication skills (both written and verbal)
* Experience working within software development lifecycle
* Love of solving challenging problems
* Product sensibilities – enthusiast with regard to digital media, devices, and related products
* Experience with packaged application software product

Experience with cross-compilation environments like Qt
Experience supporting a consumer electronics device platform
Linguistic skill in Japanese is a definite plus

[via The Digital Reader]

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Learn how to use Microsoft Word to create brochures. The most popular word processor on the market does more than create letters and reports. Word includes templates many users take advantage of to create professional looking brochures. The Microsoft website has additional templates available for download.

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Look on your computer to see if you have Microsoft Publisher. Many people have this software on their computer without realizing it. Publisher often gets downloaded as part of the Microsoft Office suite without the computer owner even knowing it. While not as widely known as other elements of Microsoft Office, such as Word or Excel, Publisher's usefulness as a brochure-designing tool makes it very helpful to have. Publisher includes flexible design options that make it more useful than Word when creating more complex brochures. Available for purchase in most office supply stores and online, Publisher software makes brochure creation easy for a reasonable price.

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Look for more template choices online. Many sites offer additional templates for popular programs by Microsoft and Adobe. For example, HP.com and StockLayouts.com offer professionally designed templates for download, many of which cost nothing.

Search for Software

Use CNET.com to locate a brochure creation software program available for download. Using CNET benefits site visitors because of the chance to read previous user reviews of the programs. The site also shows the number of times each program got downloaded. These programs range in price, but many cost nothing.

Paid Online Services

Investigate paid online services for brochure creation. Many of these services allow for free brochure creation on their websites and make their money by having the final creation printed using their services. Such services as VistaPrint.com and BrochuresPrintingOnline.com help those wishing to create and print brochures online.

Free Online Services

Examine the free services available on the Internet for making brochures. For example, MyBrochureMaker.com allows users to choose from numerous pre-designed templates and customize them to meet their needs. Templates include photos, but the program allows replacement photos. Users print the final product on their computer in any quantities they choose.

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Budding new web designers may find it near impossible to choose the most appropriate website designer software, considering the sheer amount of programs available. In this article we will take a brief look at three of the most popular software packages, favored not only by beginners, but by the more experienced as well. The three most popular are MS Front Page, Adobe GoLive and Dream Weaver, all of which are user friendly with an impressive array of features which , with a little bit of imagination, will allow you to create the website you have always dreamed about. Another big advantage of these three programs is the fact that nearly all website hosting services will accept the finished result. However, irrespective of which program you choose to use, the page compatibility with various browsers will still need to be determined.

Dream Weaver

Microsoft FrontPage

Undoubtedly one of the forerunners, MS FrontPage has secured its position largely due to it being part of the Microsoft Office software package. Formatting text with this software is an absolute breeze, more so than ever if you're familiar with MS Word. Coupled with this, you have an interface which utilizes many of the same buttons, etc as you would find on the other MS Office programs. As with MS Word, incorporating pictures into your web page could simply not be any easier.

Adobe GoLive

In designer circles and between those who are familiar with other Adobe software programs, Adobe GoLive is the undisputed champion. If you're already familiar with other Adobe products such as Photoshop, you'll find yourself to be very much at home when using GoLive. Any graphics created with Photoshop can be include in your page with no more than a simple “drag & drop” action. For an amazing looking website, with fantastic appeal, there are few other applications to match this one.

Having significantly more HTML features than many other programs, Dream Weaver is often the software of choice between website designers. This very impressive software package not only allows you to create simple, beginner style pages but instead, its equally as efficient in enabling the creation of advanced web page. Incorporating Flash or Java in website pages is also made possible using this very versatile package. Users who have little or no knowledge of HTML will also find this software extremely easy to use thanks to the innovative WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) option.

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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.

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.

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