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All-New Adobe Creative Suite 4 Education Solutions for Web, Video, Design and Mobile

New Adobe Creative Suite 4 solutions provide the industry-standard creative software, teaching resources, and licensing options needed to engage students in learning while preparing them for career success.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 products are expected to begin shipping late October 2008. If […]

Review: Mindjet MindManager Pro 7.2

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Version 7.2 of Mindjet’s MindManager package, launched in June, has been upgraded since the 7.0 release in 2007, the main thrust being improved remote collaboration support with the ability to access MindManager map files from a Web-based Distributed, Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) server.

WebDAV lets users work on documents on remote servers […]

Content-aware scaling highlights Photoshop CS4

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With Photoshop CS4’s Content-Aware Scaling capabilities, users can take a large image…

… and resize it without cropping people out of the shot.

Highlighting the new features in Photoshop CS4 is Content-Aware Scaling. This addition allows users to take a large image and resize it without losing the most interesting […]

Yafka breathes life into Greek history for History Channel.

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Back in 1999, a film project was produced about the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek computer. That was part of Producer Antonios Kotzias’ postgraduate research at Glasgow School of Arts in Scotland. Wild Dream Films, a production company in the UK, saw a story reporting his project and contacted him to […]

Vegas Pro 8 – Vegas 8.1 free 64-bit update

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Vegas Pro 8.1 software has been engineered to take full advantage of a 64-bit operating system to enable users to work with multifaceted, memory-intensive projects. Vegas Pro 8.1 64-bit software is a standalone application that does not require prior installation of Vegas Pro 8 software, and is available to all […]

Zend, Adobe Team to Bring PHP to Rich Internet Apps

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At the ZendCon PHP conference, Zend and Adobe announce plans to collaborate to help PHP developers better leverage Adobe’s user experience technologies. The two companies will enable PHP developers to make better use of Adobe’s Flash and Flex technology.

At the event being held Sept. 15-18 in Santa Clara, Calif., the two […]

Cinema 4D R11 (includes BodyPaint 3D R4) Now Shipping!

Cinema 4D R11 (includes BodyPaint 3D R4) is available at an academic price of $195.

Fusion 2 Upgrade Brings Mac and Windows Harmony – Webmonkey

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VMWare has announced Fusion 2, the latest release of its flagship Mac virtualization app. Like competitor Parallels, Fusion allows Mac users to run Windows applications alongside their normal Mac OS X apps.

Fusion 2 packs in a host a new features and current Fusion users will happy to hear that the upgrade […]

Photoshop GPU advice

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In the wake of various sneak peeks, I’m seeing a fair number of questions about what kinds of graphics cards GPUs will be required or recommended for running Photoshop going forward.

We’ll have more to say once the new version is announced, but very generally I can say you’ll […]

McCain-Obama Mindmap: Helping You Decide Who to Vote For

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The Presidential Election in November will be one of the most important in America’s history. Barack Obama was nominated as the Democratic Presidential Nominee last week and John McCain will be nominated as the Republican Presidential Nominee this week.

With all the convention speeches, television ads, and political talk […]