Hasta La Gadget!

This week the design environment known as Adobe Edge Reflow is available as a first public preview download for Abobe Creative Cloud members, made specifically for those that want to create fabulous web content with Adobe-level finesse. This tool allow you to create web-ready designs – webpages, in other words – that are able to be viewed in a variety of different ways. Everything you do in this environment will be translated perfectly and precisely to the web as you see it right in front of you before you put it there.

This update from Adobe includes several feature updates for Adobe Edge Animate, Adobe Edge Code preview, and Adobe Dreamweaver as well. With Edge Animate you’ve got a whole new set of CSS-based features like filters, gradients, and font support more powerful than ever before. You’ll be able to preview Edge Web Fonts live, work with blur, grayscale, sepia, brightness, invert, hue-rotate, contrast, and saturate – each of these filters that have previously been unavailable in Edge Animate.

Dreamweaver’s update allows it to work better with the Adobe Edge Tools and Services family and allows use of the fluid grid layout – Edge Web Fonts are here, too! Adobe Edge Code’s update allows instant updates with Quick Edit and adds code hinting for CSS properties as well as HTML tags and attributes.

The big news is the availability of Adobe Edge Reflow for Adobe Creative Cloud members though, this service having been introduced a while ago and just now ready for action. With Adobe Edge Reflow you’ll be working with a lovely intuitive resizable design environment with the ability to show you how your designs will look on the web at any size. You’ll be able to instantly design with CSS-code backing, making what Adobe calls “high fidelity web designs” with the applications “native web surface.”

There’s an Edge Inspect extension included with Adobe Edge Reflow that allows you to preview your designs in your browser, and work on your layouts in real-time. CSS is extracted with any code editor you have on hand – Edge Code and Dreamweaver amongst them.

During the Preview period for Adobe Edge Reflow, Adobe is asking that users respond to the many ups and downs of using said service at the official Github for the project, that being https://github.com/edge-reflow/issues. Make sure to use it wisely! And continue down to the timeline below for more insight on Adobe products without a doubt – have fun!

Adobe Edge Reflow hits free preview download for web designers is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Adobe is currently receiving flack for selling software at inflated prices in Australia, where Creative Suite costs $1,400 more than in the US. In this interview, Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, completely refuses to explain why, Politicians could learn something from this guy. He is more slippery than a fish coated in Crisco. [YouTube via Verge] More »

Photography is getting easier thanks to cameras that are able to better evaluate and automatically choose the best settings for a given scene. But photo editing, that’s still a bit of a mystery to most amateur photographers. So Adobe—the makers of Photoshop—are working with the University of Michigan to develop an extremely intelligent photo editing app that simply does what you tell it to do. More »

Adobe has suddenly knocked 20 percent off its prices in Australia just one day after it was summoned to publicly defend those prices in front of a parliamentary committee. The monthly fee for a subscription to Adobe’s full Creative Cloud has dropped from AU$63 to AU$50, so it’s now only $1 more than the US price when you factor in currency. The no-contract monthly cost has also fallen to match how much Americans pay — from AU$95 to AU$75 — which is exactly what Australian lawmakers have been demanding since 2011. We can’t decide if this is a move of brilliant cunning on Adobe’s part, or just a blatant effort to side-step blame for how much it’s been charging up to this point. Either way, it puts Microsoft and Apple in a sticky situation, because they’ve been summoned to the same inquiry and may be left with fewer excuses to cling to.

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Via: ZDNet

Source: Australian Financial Review

Had we been wild and spontaneous enough to buy a MacBook Air in Australia in 2011, we’d have been looking at a 15 percent premium over the US price. According to MacRumors, throwing some Adobe software into our antipodean shopping cart would have pushed that disparity even higher — to as much as to 75 percent. Which is why the Australian Parliament has been investigating the way tech giants price their goods in that country, and why it has now formally summoned Apple, Microsoft and Adobe to come over and account for themselves in Canberra on March 22nd. Whether price differences are due to higher costs of taxes and warranties, as Apple has privately suggested in the past (see More Coverage), or whether there are more dubious reasons, this pile of laundry is about to get aired.

Filed under: Misc, Laptops, Software, Apple, Microsoft

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: MacRumors (2011), Aust. House of Representatives (PDF)