Priced from $2 to $5, the three apps are called Adobe Nav, Adobe Color Lava and Adobe Eazel. The apps don’t replace Photoshop, but they aim to enhance the experience for artists and designers.
Here’s a quick look at the three apps.
We’ve been quite enamored with Adobe’s demos of iPad / Photoshop interactivity for some time, and now it looks as if we’ll finally be able to take the whole thing for a spin. As promised, the company today released Creative Suite 5.5, which offers, among other things, the ability to use tablets and smartphones to interact with the company’s flagship image editing software. While there’s still no word of apps for other platforms, Adobe has given Apple’s “magical” device a special namecheck, and those previously announced Eazel, Color Lava, and Nav apps will likely be hitting the App Store any minute now. Owners of the now ancient Photoshop CS5 will also be able to utilize the new feature through the recently released 12.0.4 update. Press releases after the break.
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Remember how Adobe said Flash 10.2 wasn’t living up to its full hardware-accelerated potential on Honeycomb thus far? Well, it seems the company’s found a solution by the name of Android 3.1. We’ve been inundated with tips (and have confirmed with Adobe) that there’s a sticky-sweet new build of Android on the way for the recent crop of slates that OEMs and carriers are rolling out, and that — just like last time — you’ll need that software to take advantage of all the hardware rendering and compositing that your Tegra 2 silicon can afford. With any luck, 720p playback won’t burn our eyeballs this time around. By the way, the Android Market item above was updated this morning to read “requires an upcoming release of Android 3” rather than “Android 3.1,” but it’s unclear whether the original number was inaccurate or whether Adobe got in trouble.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you’ve got something we should include.
Google Reader Starts Using “Magic”
The Google Reader team announced that there is a new way to sort your feeds: by magic. They use your reading habits and web history (if you’ve opted in for web history tracking) to determine what sort of stuff from your feeds you’ll like the most. You can also view popular items from feeds you’re not even subscribed to, which they hope will help you discover new sites you’ll like.
Microsoft Reveals How Windows 7 is “Version 7″
Microsoft has assembled a video that clarifies exactly how they consider Windows 7 to be the 7th version of Windows. The order? Windows 1, Windows 2, Windows 3, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7. Who did they leave out from the consumer lineup? Poor ol’ Windows Me, that’s who. I think they’re trying to wipe it from their memory (no pun intended).
Microsoft Security Essentials Delivered to Over a Million Users
In the first week Microsoft received 1.5 million downloads of their Security Essentials antivirus software. According to them there were over 4 million virus detections in that first week on over a half million unique machines. That just goes to prove that their are plenty of people who still need antivirus software to keep them safe, and it’s a good thing Microsoft finally got around to offering a solution for free.
Windows 7 Compatibility Center Released
Microsoft has posted a site you can visit to see if your hardware or software is compatible with Windows 7.
Whitehouse.gov Now Powered by Drupal
In an interesting move the Whitehouse.gov site has decided to use the open source Drupal software as their content management engine.
Google Maps’ Appearance Takes New Direction
On Google Maps you can now see street names more clearly thanks to a visual refresh they’ve rolled out.
Windows 7 Launch Day Facts
Over 8 million people tested out pre-release versions of Windows 7 from over 113 different countries.
Flickr Adds People Tagging
Flickr is rolling out people-tagging capabilities that TechCrunch says is better than what Facebook currently has.
Video Walkthrough of Apple’s Newest Additions
Apple unveiled a new “magic” mouse, new iMac’s, and more. This is a video walkthrough of their new products.
Twitter Hits 5 Billion Tweets
Robin Sloan happened to be the lucky person to post the 5 billionth tweet on Twitter.
uTorrent Holds 60% of BitTorrent Marketshare
Vuze, formerly known as Azureus, continues to drop in popularity as uTorrent emerges as the king of the BitTorrent network.
IMDB Turns 19
IMDB, which began as a USENET group, turned 19 about a week ago! Congrats to a site that definitely deserves it.
Ninite Does Bulk Installs for Windows Apps
This amazing service lets you choose the applications you want to install on your machine, and it will then create a custom installer for you to download. When running through the setup process it will keep the questions to a minimum, and according to Lifehacker it’s able to install most apps without asking you a single question. The number of apps supported is pretty incredible, and I could see this becoming a must-have app for anyone that sets up new PC’s regularly.
Burn Windows 7 ISO or put it on a USB Drive
Wow! Microsoft has finally wisened up and provides a tool to create a bootable DVD or USB drive that you can then install Windows 7 from. I’m happy to see the USB drive support in there because using media like that is nice since it’s reusable… as opposed to a DVD that most people probably won’t use more than a handful of times.
VistaSwitcher Improves Alt-Tab on XP, Vista, and Windows 7
I’m always on the lookout for something to improve my productivity, and for that reason I’m always tinkering with different application switchers. As the How-to Geek points out this is one awesome app switcher… especially because of the eye candy it offers.
How to Set Up a WordPress Blog on Your PC
A guide that covers everything you’ll need to get WordPress up and running on your local machine.
Look Up the Location of Any IP Address
Curious where an IP address is coming from? Just enter it in here to have it retrieve an approximate geographical location.
How to Safely Uninstall Ubuntu from a Dual-Boot Machine
An outline of what you need to do in order to remove Ubuntu without screwing up the other OS’s on your computer.
PortableApps.com Now Does Google Chrome On-the-Go
PortableApps now has a portable version of Chrome… kinda. It will create a portable version from the small file you download. They can’t actually redistribute Chrome as a portable browser due to licensing.
Lifehacker’s Guide to Windows 7
A rundown of all Lifehacker’s best Windows 7 tips.
How to Create a Virtual Hard Drive in Windows 7
A perfectly outlined guide to creating a virtual hard drive in Windows 7 that will appear as though it’s a second drive on your machine.
Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Sponsored Themes
You can now grab themes for products/companies such as Ferrari or the video game Gears of War.
Adobe Browserlab Open for All
I thought this was already open for everyone, but according to DownloadSquad Adobe just opened the doors so that you can easily start testing your site in all the most popular browsers.
Flickr Schedulr Lets You Upload Pics When it’s Convenient
Schedule your photos to upload when you won’t be using your PC.
How to Build a WiFi Home Surveillance System
An awesome tutorial on what you’ll need to create a motion-sensitive surveillance system in your own home.
Performance Showdown: Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
Spoiler: I wouldn’t really say one OS comes out on top of the other. They both have things they’re good at.
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In this week’s Gadget Lab podcast, Dylan Tweney and Mike Isaac discuss the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook. We got one, and we tested it. Bottom line? It looks great, but it’s missing a few big things — like an e-mail client. Its support for Adobe Flash is causing us concern too, because Flash doesn’t run stably yet.
After that, Mike Calore comes on to talk about the Eye-Fi Mobile X2, a kind of amped-up SD card for your camera that also doubles as a Wi-Fi adapter. The newest version can transmit photos directly to your smartphone: no computer or Wi-Fi network required. Instagram fans, rejoice!
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The BlackBerry PlayBook, which launches April 19, continued to have problems with Flash support before launch. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
Here’s a telling sign of how hard Research in Motion and Adobe are working on Flash: Just a week before the release of RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, both companies were still working out the kinks with the tablet’s Flash support and operating system stability.
Wired.com received a PlayBook review unit last week, and during our testing, the tablet choked on a number of sites and games running the popular Flash platform for animations and interactive content.
Adobe’s explanation for the problem: The PlayBook is running pre-release software, including the OS, and RIM and Adobe are still working on some final “code check-ins” to smooth over some issues with the plug-in’s performance.
“There’s a pretty complex hardware and software stack here,” explained Danny Winokur, vice president of Adobe’s Flash runtime software division. “It starts with the silicon and goes all the way down to drivers and the OS. Issues at any layer in that stack can be exposed when any piece of content comes into play and affect the stability that users are having.”
In other words, for Adobe and hardware partners like RIM, implementing Flash on the new crop of mobile tablets isn’t smooth as jelly.
Last week, Wired.com speculated that Flash was one of the factors contributing to a delayed launch of the PlayBook, which was originally scheduled for a first-quarter launch.
“RIM is on track to launch the BlackBerry PlayBook on April 19th, which is within three weeks of the original timing estimate provided in the fall,” RIM said in a prepared response to that article. “We don’t know where the rumor started, but any suggestion that Flash support has caused a delay is simply false.”
The PlayBook hits stores in only six days, on April 19. (Check out our full review of the PlayBook.)
It’s not unheard of for companies to be fixing bugs with their products until the last minute. Indeed, software updates to the PlayBook improved (but didn’t eliminate) Flash instability during the time we were testing it.
But it’s a sign of just how challenging it is to make Flash work right on mobile devices.
(Disclosure: Wired.com is owned by Conde Nast, which has been working closely with Adobe to bring digital versions of magazines, including Wired, to tablet devices.)
John Cooney, head of game development at Armor Games (which produces Flash-based games), seconded Adobe’s claim that the mobile environment is technologically complex.
“Mobile devices run differently and have different requirements in both hardware and software,” said Cooney. “They’re going to want to deliver a really good experience and any finagling they can do to get a device running 100 percent will be their bread and butter.”
In our testing over several days, some YouTube videos played choppily, every Flash game we accessed through Facebook crashed the PlayBook browser and some games at AddictingGames.com also crashed.
The problems are cropping up despite the fact that Flash has been supported on QNX, the operating system underlying the PlayBook OS, since 2009. Even though Adobe touts the plug-in as a “write once, run anywhere” runtime environment, the story right now is more precisely, “write once, work sometimes, on some devices.”
RIM says it has been working with Adobe to bring Flash to its devices for two years.
“It’s because we wanted to do it right,” RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis told Wired.com in an interview.
RIM delivered two different over-the-air software updates during our time with the PlayBook. These updates improved browser stability while viewing the same test videos on YouTube, and many Flash games on Popcap ran, albeit sluggishly, particularly during complex animations. Apart from Facebook, Flash games worked without crashing about 90 percent of the time after the updates.
However, all Flash games accessed through Facebook continued to crash the browser. Other types of content did not cause the browser to crash. Adobe was able to replicate the Facebook games bug, and said it was working to fix it.
RIM Senior software manager Michael Cooley said some of our problems may have stemmed from some last-minute tweaks to the OS build.
“In our optimizations in these final days, we introduced an issue to the browser,” Cooley told Wired.com in an interview. He said issues included, but were not specific to, Flash content. Earlier versions of the PlayBook OS had a memory leak problem related to the Documents to Go and Kobo apps, RIM said. Those problems were resolved with a software update over the weekend.
Given the improvements, there’s a good chance that Flash will be running fine on the PlayBook in the near future, perhaps even in time for the tablet’s April 19 ship date.
But RIM is not the only manufacturer to have difficulty implementing Flash on a tablet.
Motorola’s Xoom tablet was heavily marketed as Flash-capable in the time leading up to its release, but it failed to launch with Flash support.
Currently, a version of Flash is available for the Xoom (and other Android 3.0 tablets) in the Android Market, although it is beta software and has stability issues. A shipping version is expected within weeks, Adobe says.
To be fair, creating a one-size-fits-all web platform is challenging for any company, particularly one that must deal with a wide variety of hardware partners. But perhaps Adobe wouldn’t be facing so many challenges had it been quicker to react to the release of the iPhone in 2007.
Hey, guess what? Adobe has found yet another serious security flaw in Flash. We can already hear the iOS fanboys warming up their commenting fingers. The vulnerability affects all platforms, including Android, though only attacks on Windows have been seen in the wild so far. Just like last month’s exploit, this one is spreading via malicious .swf files embedded in Office documents, only this time it’s Word instead of Excel being targeted (a hacker’s gotta keep it fresh, after all). Once again Reader and Acrobat are also vulnerable, but attacks can be thwarted using Reader’s Protected Mode. When exactly Adobe plans on plugging this hole is anyone’s guess, so when a deposed Nigerian prince tells you about the fabulous sum of money he’d like you to transfer, you’ll have yet another reason not to open the Office attachments in his email.
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Adobe’s new Photoshop-connected iPad apps show what can be done with multitouch.
Forget Flash — Adobe’s latest iPad experiments are way more interesting than a plug-in to let you view restaurant websites. The three apps — Eazel, Lab and Lava — all link to Photoshop Creative Suite 5 running on a Mac or a PC, and let you use the multitouch display to control various functions.
Eazel lets you finger-paint on the iPad and then transmits the results to Photoshop. You can use wet or dry paint, control the size and opacity of the brushes, and a “particle-stroke painting” engine lets paint spread out for a few seconds before it dries. The most amazing part, though, is the control UI.
Plop down five fingers and a control appears at the tip of each. Move the appropriate finger to adjust color, opacity, settings and brush size. flicking your thumb left or right will undo or redo. This looks like something that should be in every app, not just drawing apps.
Next up is Nav, which puts the Photoshop tool palette on the iPad’s screen with big, easy-to-hit icons. The 4×4 grid is customizable, so you can pick your 16 favorite tools, and touching them selects the tool on the desktop machine. It also lets you browse and duplicate open documents on the iPad’s screen. This one is simple, but may turn out to be the most useful.
Finally, Lava is a color-mixer. Anyone who has mixed oil or acrylic paints on a palette (or an old piece of wood, or plastic or whatever) will know that it is far more intuitive than sliding widgets on-screen. Lava lets you do this, interacting with colors directly and using the results in Photoshop.
All of these apps, which aren’t yet available, use Adobe’s new Photoshop Touch SDK. This software development kit lets anyone write iPad apps that interact with Photoshop.
But it’s not a big deal just for iOS developers. The open SDK means developers working on other platforms — like Android Honeycomb and the forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook OS — can begin coding their own apps based on Adobe Touch. Considering that tablets produced over the last year have been generally considered content-consumption devices, Adobe’s SDK release invites the possibility of a new wave of content-creating users.
These apps show what Adobe can do when it’s not fighting with Apple over Flash. They also show what multitouch can do when you stop thinking in desktop metaphors. I can’t wait to try them. They may even make me start using Photoshop again.
Nav [Photoshop]
Lava [Photoshop]
Eazel [Photoshop]
Mike Isaac contributed to this report.
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Any discussion about Adobe and the iPad seems to always devolve into a Flash vs. HTML5 debate. For today at least, Adobe’s hoping to temporarily refocus the conversation on a trio of new tools that extend desktop Photoshop functionality to the iPad via native iOS apps. First up is Adobe Eazel, an iPad drawing app that lets you create a five-fingered painting on the iPad before transferring it back over WiFi to the Photoshop application running on your Mac or PC. Adobe Nav turns the iPad into a Photoshop companion device by extending live controls and menu bars from the Photoshop workspace to the iPad’s display. Finally, there’s Adobe Color Lava which turns the iPad into a hi-tech color mixing palette. Of course, these are just the first in what Adobe hopes to be a full range of Photoshop extensions hitting app stores just as soon as devs get their talents around Adobe’s Photoshop Touch programming tools (consisting of a Photoshop scripting engine and enhanced SDK) for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS devices (available for Mac and Windows platforms today). Expect to see the Eazel, Color Lava, and Nav Photoshop Touch apps arrive next month — alongside the 5.5 update to Adobe’s Creative Suite (and free Photoshop update for CS owners) expected on May 3rd — with prices ranging from $1.99 to $4.99. Until then, why not feast your eyes on a video preview posted after the break?
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Photoshop Touch apps and SDK extend desktop functionality to iPad and other tablets originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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One thing that has always amazed me is the fact that none of the desktop feed readers currently available synchronize with Google Reader. Maybe I’m wrong and I just haven’t searched hard enough, but we’re getting a little closer with ReadAir. It’s a free (and open source) download that leverages off of the relatively new Adobe Air to bring your Google Reader feeds to your desktop.
At first glance it will probably remind you of Newgator’s free NetNewsWire app for Mac’s, and I’m guessing that there was definitely some inspiration taken from it. Don’t be fooled by the appearance… this is a both a Mac and Windows application since it runs on Adobe Air (doesn’t appear to work in Adobe Air for Linux). Albeit it does look a little weird on Windows since the skin is still the same, but it’s not any weirder than iTunes on Windows.
There are some pitfalls though. You can star, share, and search items in your feeds, but there are no offline capabilities. For some people the whole point of using a desktop feed reader is so that they can easily read the news when their not connected to the Internet, but you can’t do that with ReadAir. Plus there are no keyboard shortcuts, and no more than 20 items can be viewed in a single feed. Yeah, those are some deal breakers for me.
I think I’ll be sticking with NetNewsWire until something better comes along, but I do like Google’s online feed reader better than Newsgator’s. So hopefully a better Google Reader synchronization option will come about so that I can use a desktop client on my computer, and use Google’s new iPhone interface when I’m on the go.
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