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NVIDIA just wrapped up an intimate press briefing here at SIGGRAPH 2011, where — amongst other things — it officially took the wraps off of two major initiatives. Project Maximus and Virtual Graphics are the two main topics of conversation here, and while both are obviously targeting working professionals at the moment, there’s no question that a trickle-down effect is already on the company’s mind. With Maximus, the outfit plans to stop recommending bigger GPUs to pros, and start recommending “a light Quadro GPU and as large a Tesla as you can get in the system.” The overriding goal here is to make multi-GPU technology entirely more accessible; to date, it hasn’t exactly been easy to get a finely tuned multi-GPU setup to the masses, but it sounds like a good deal of future flexibility (it’ll be “nearly infinitely scalable”) aims to change that. Just imagine: dynamic coupling and decoupling of GPUs depending on user load, at a far more detailed level within the application…

Update: Regarding that Tesla bit, NVIDIA clarified with this: “What we’re saying is for applications that are light on graphics / don’t place a heavy demand on graphics, but more so a heavy demand on computational tasks, users will have an option to choose an entry- or mid-level Quadro card for graphics functions, such as the Quadro 600 or Quadro 2000. For certain applications, better performance is achieved by adding a Tesla companion processor, as opposed to scaling up the primary Quadro graphics. Users still require as much graphics as possible.”

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This article was written on June 02, 2008 by CyberNet.

Last October we wrote about how Adobe was entering the world of online word processing by acquiring a company called Virtual Ubiquity who made an online word processor called Buzzword. At the time we learned that eventually Adobe would be integrating the service (built upon Adobe’s Flash platform using Adobe Flex) into a new service which we thought would be called Adobe Share, an online office suite. As it turns out, the service isn’t called Adobe Share, but it has launched.

Adobe has decided to go under the name of Acrobat.com, a place they say is used to “create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others.”

Here’s what you can do with Acrobat.com:

• Create Documents using Buzzword (collaborate with others)
  
• Create PDF Files online (up to five)
  
• Share Documents on the web (very simple to do)
• ConnectNow – web conferencing, chat, share screens
• My Files – manage and organize your files

A quick tour is available (found at Acrobat.com) and they walk you through everything that they offer. It all looks pretty slick, and they certainly did a great job with making the aesthetics of it easy on the eyes. One of the things we like best is the option to create PDF’s online right from Acrobat.com. You can choose to convert a file from Acrobat.com or one from your computer in which case you can browse for it. Once you select the file, you click “Create PDF” and it will be created for you.

Unfortunately Adobe limits you to only five PDF’s that you can create which hardly seems like anything and is really disappointing. They’d be smart if they increased the number of PDF files someone could create, but just put a watermark on the bottom of every page saying that it was created at Adobe.com. You can’t beat free advertising!

Other than the PDF limitation, there really isn’t anything we can complain about quite yet. Their “ConnectNow” feature is amazing and allows users to share screens, chat, leave notes, and use audio and video to conduct meetings online with up to three people (hopefully more in the future).

Overall we give Adobe two thumbs-up for the work they’ve done on Acrobat.com and for entering the competition with Google Docs, Zoho, and Microsoft Office Live Workspace, just to name a few. It’s free to everybody with a few limitations, but in the future they plan to offer a version that would suit business users, in which case it would cost. Oh, and one last note. Acrobat 9 is now with flash (big news!) and has just been released although there is no Acrobat 9 Reader yet.

Thanks for the tip Omar and Radu!

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Even as plenty have declared HTML5 adoption the beginning of the end for Adobe’s once ubiquitous Flash platform, the company has embraced the web standard, through properties like its Creative Suite and Wallaby. Adobe will be taking things a step further with Edge, an HTML5 design tool that promises to let “web designers to bring animation, similar to that created in Flash Professional, to websites.” The software is currently in public preview mode, available a free download for web designers, in hopes of getting some feedback that will help shape its final release.

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Off with his head! Serial blinkers are no longer a problem with Photoshop Elements 9

Grab your coats: Hell has just frozen over. Or rather, Photoshop has come to the Mac App Store. For $80, you can now download Photoshop Elements 9 from the App Store.

Ever since the Mac Store was announced, there have been two standout examples of apps that would “never” be sold through Apple’s strictly-controlled channel. The first is Microsoft’s Office suite. The second was Photoshop. The reasons? Price and compatibility.

The thinking goes that Adobe and Microsoft wouldn’t want to give 30% of the revenue of their flagship products to Apple. The second, and more sensible reason is that these monster applications would never be accepted into the Store thanks to their deep and “illegal” ties into OS X.

Elements isn’t the full Photoshop, to be sure, and is clearly compatible with Apple’s rules (either that or Apple has bent them). More interesting is the price. The full Elements 9 costs $100, making the App Store version cheaper. It is missing the Adobe Elements Organizer, but as Elements is designed to complement apps like iPhoto, this is probably a good thing.

Elements is like a power editor for your snaps. You can tweak the basics, but the gimmick is that you get to use Adobe’s fancy-pants image processing features. You can paint out mistakes with a brush that uses Content Aware Fill to fill in the gaps. You can make panoramas. You can even switch in people from various group shots to get one picture with everyone looking good.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 is available now for $80, the same price as Apple’s Aperture.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 [Mac App Store]

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Normally, we don’t cover contests, but this Air App Challenge from Sony and Adobe does deserve some special attention. Why? Well, for one, Air hasn’t exactly taken off quite like the Flash makers had hoped — especially in the mobile space. And two, that new S2 tablet is going to need some apps that are designed to take advantage of its dual screens. The $200,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to developers who whip up the best creations specifically for the forthcoming Sony Honeycomb devices, using Adobe’s Flash-plus-browser environment. Challenges have proven successful in the past to spur interest in platforms from Android to New York City’s vast databases of information. If the contest is successful it could turn that little folding Sony from a novel design into a unique and compelling product. If you really need to know more, full PR is after the break.

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