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Adobe Creative Suite 4 — Launch Broadcast

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Since writ­ing about the Adobe CS4 live web broad­cast a cou­ple of days ago, I was for­tu­nate enough to finally view it. Enjoy!

You may view the video at a higher res­o­lu­tion via http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1556v1715. You may also find other related videos on that page with regards to CS4. The ones I am inter­ested in see­ing would prob­a­bly be the following:

All I can say is that this is going to be one very nice Suite, and should be fun to play/work with.

Adobe Creative Suite 4

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Adobe Cre­ative Suite 4, orig­i­nally uploaded by stechico.

Ear­lier today, Adobe hosted its spe­cial web broad­cast enti­tled, “Some­thing Bril­liant”. It was held to intro­duce to the new Cre­ative Suite 4.

Adobe Cre­ative Suite 4 deliv­ers tightly inte­grated soft­ware and ser­vices that mea­sur­ably improve pro­duc­tiv­ity and enable you to pro­duce richly expres­sive work in print, web, inter­ac­tive, video, audio, and mobile.

I signed up for the broad­cast a week ago but totally couldn’t make it in time as there was traf­fic head­ing into the City early this morn­ing. I’ll prob­a­bly have to just scour search results later for a good write-up/video sum­mary of what’s new and what has been improved. Any­ways, that’s a pretty quick period of release since CS3’s announce­ment in March 27, 2007. Look­ing for­ward to it nonetheless.

On a side note, I’m hop­ing Peach­pit Press releases a Pho­to­shop CS4 Wow! Book in the near future. See­ing that they didn’t even release one for CS3, and have a com­bined ver­sion for CS/CS2, this should be a safe bet as much have changed (workflow-wise) from CS2 and onward. Well, I guess that’s wish­ful think­ing at least.

PS. Here’s a visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of what to expect per CS4 edi­tion1:
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  1. If that doesn’t quite do it for you, you may click here to com­pare the dif­fer­ent CS4 edi­tions includ­ing pric­ing. [↩]

Apple Shines The New iPod Touch

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Not to be out­done by the new col­or­ful and sur­pris­ingly thin iPod Nanos, the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion iPod Touch made its debut as well in Apple’s Sep­tem­ber 2008 Spe­cial Event enti­tled “Let’s Rock”.


So what’s so dif­fer­ent, a new body. The new iPod Touch looks like it came from Quick­sil­ver’s board. It def­i­nitely got some ideas for the iPhone 3G’s con­tour, but its shiny and made from pol­ished stain­less steel. I won’t be sur­prised if we see Apple comes out with this cha­sis on the iPhone 3G in the Win­ter (pend­ing the sale of the new iPod Touch of course).

 

Other new fea­tures are:

Not­ing the built-in wire­less sup­port for Nike+, this sucks if Apple can’t just push a firmware update for iPhone 3G own­ers. I won’t nec­es­sar­ily be run­ning with an iPhone as its freak­ing just too much to worry about and a dis­trac­tion, but it just makes sense and a goodie for all Apple fans alike.

In terms of price-point, if com­par­ing with the pre­vi­ous one, the new iPod Touch starts at $229 (8GB model) and is def­i­nitely worth the upgrade if you are look­ing to have the feature-set of the iPhone 3G w/o the phone. Now, if being com­pared against the iPhone 3G and bas­ing on the fact that you are also look­ing for a phone, I don’t think its a good buy. Other than the sub­scrip­tion fee to a mobile car­rier, the only fea­ture that the new iPod Touch has over the iPhone 3G would prob­a­bly be its built-in wire­less inte­gra­tion with Nike+ (for now). With that said, if in the sit­u­a­tion I just stated, I would still get an 8GB iPhone 3G over this new iPod Touch.

Apple Introduces New iPod Nanos

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Apple Intro­duces New iPod Nanos, orig­i­nally uploaded by stechico.

Apple intro­duced its new fourth gen­er­a­tion of iPod Nanos today in 9 fla­vor­ful col­ors. Here are the fea­tures that set it apart vs. its pre­de­ces­sors1:

  • Col­ors of course! Sil­ver, pur­ple, blue, green, orange, yel­low, pink, (PRODUCT) RED and black.
  • Built-in audio record­ing features.
  • “Genius tech­nol­ogy” which auto­mat­i­cally cre­ates playlists from songs in your music library that go great together, with just one click.
  • UI/UX improve­ments with the help of the accelerom­e­ter. This allows it to behave like the iPhone/iPod Touch between switch­ing from Por­trait to Land­scape modes.
  • Improved 24 hours of music play­back or four hours of video playback.

I just won­der if its still nec­es­sary to buy the Nike+ piece since this new Nano now have an accelerom­e­ter built-in. If any, they should mod­ify the Nike+ piece to work with an iPod 1GB+ Shuf­fle; which will be tempt­ing for me to buy and use when run­ning. Bet­ter yet, just a stand­alone Nike+ piece that can sync on its own to the Nike+ site.

  1. Para­phrased from Apple Insider arti­cle. [↩]
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