Tag: Adobe
Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 & Premiere Elements 10 in Mac App Store
The popular Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 and Premiere Elements 10 photo and video editing apps for consumers showed up in the Mac App Store this week for $79.99 each. That’s the going upgrade retail price for each app when purchased individually either at stores or from Adobe. However, if you buy them both in the [...]
Weekly Wrap Up: Notebook, Tablet and Smart Phone News for April 1
Despite all of the April Fools jokes running wild on the Internet today, there is a lot of real notebook, tablet and smart phone news worth checking out. Notebook News For the Week of April 1st: We kicked off World Backup Day with a collection of deals on services and storage that will help you [...]
Adobe Flash 10.2 Mobile for Android Only Compatible with Honeycomb
With the slew of Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphones getting released and announced at Mobile World Congress, you may want to hold off on purchasing those handsets as Adobe has recently said that its Flash 10.2 plugin will only be compatible with Android 3.0, also known as Honeycomb. According to the company, Google had to make [...]
Flash 10.2 Arrives with Hardware Acceleration, Efficiency and Multi Monitor Support
Adobe has just released Adobe Flash 10.2 which, unlike many upgrades, is delivering some really cool features that you will notice including hardware acceleration, native mouse cursors, multiple monitor full screen support and better text rendering. You can get Adobe Flash 10.2 today on Mac, Windows and Linux computers by visiting the Adobe Flash Player [...]
Black Friday: Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for $49.99 at Amazon.com
Amazon.com is selling Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for just $49.99 after a $30 (30%) discount and $20 rebate. That’s a total of 50% off Adobe Photoshop Elements 9′s normal retail price. Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 incorporates many of Adobe Photoshop’s tools and features, but is designed to be easier to use and learn. It’s also [...]
Flash Ain’t Free – MacBook Air Battery Life Cut 33% w/ Flash Installed
Think whatever you will about Steve Jobs, and Apple’s obsession with avoiding Flash, but the numbers don’t lie. At the root of the battle for what plays our movies and serves our ads is the claim that Flash isn’t good for mobile devices because it hurts their battery life. We saw this first on the iPhone and the iPad and [...]
How to Disable Flash in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer
With the latest testing on the MacBook Air showing that simply having Flash installed when surfing the web can cut your battery life by 33% — just by serving the ads that appear on many webpages. If you are going to be mobile and want to extend the battery life of your notebook you may want to [...]
President Obama Autographs an iPad
The iPad is useful for so many things, including getting the leader of the free world to share his John Hancock. Sylvester Cann attended a rally where the President was and while walking the rope line, Cann stuck out his iPad with the message Mr. President sign my ipad†written using Adobe Ideas. President Obama [...]
Apple Relaxes Developer Restrictions and Admits: “We don’t need any more Fart apps.”
Apple relaxed their developer restrictions (PDF file of guidelines) for apps created for their voluminous apps store. The biggest change means they will now allow the use of third-party development tools. They are also quite blunt in the kinds of apps they will and won’t approve going forward. With great pain from Adobe, earlier this [...]
Motorola Droid 2: Poor Flash Experience
According to Avram Piltch over at LAPTOP Magazine, Flash 10.1 performance on the Motorola Droid 2 leaves much to be desired. The recently released Motorola Droid 2 is the first Android 2.2-based phone to come with Flash 10.1 pre-installed. Because much of the web contains Flash, this was a welcomed addition, allowing the smartphone to [...]
