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Adobe Introduces Muse for Creating Websites without Code
Adobe has released a public beta of a program called Muse, which helps users design websites without mucking about in piles of code. 9to5Mac reports that it will cost $15 a month and should be officially released early in 2012. The official Adobe site calls Muse a “code name,” but it’s available for download right now and looks pretty beautiful.
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Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animation Software Edge
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) is launching new software called Adobe Edge. Edge will allow designers to create web content using web standards such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. Flash is not built in to this software. This software is expected to co-exist with Adobe Flash and not to replace it.
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Adobe Product Users May Wish to Avoid OS X Lion
Since Apple released OS X Lion to the general public yesterday, it’s already gotten more than 7,000 five-star ratings in the App Store. In contrast to this positive response, Adobe has released a list of issues with Adobe products on machines running Lion. One such issue is that Apple may have disabled Flash hardware acceleration. In some cases Adobe offers suggestions of how to change Lion settings to better work with Adobe devotees’ expectations of product performance, but in other cases Adobe simply recommends that users do not update to OS X Lion. Many of the issues are small but obnoxiously annoying for anyone who uses the affected feature frequently, such as droplets not working in Photoshop CS3-CS5.
Adobe Acquires E-Signature Company EchoSign
EchoSign, a company that provides signature automation and electronic signatures, has been acquired by Adobe. EchoSign already has more than 3 million users. The tech will be integrated into Adobe’s online document exchange platform, which includes SendNow, FormsCentral and CreatePDF. The monetary terms of the acquisition have not been released, but EchoSign’s team, including the founders and all full-time employees, will be working with Adobe. [Business Wire]
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Adobe Flash 10.2 Beta Now Available For Android
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced that Adobe Flash 10.2 will be available on Android devices running on Froyo, Gingerbread, and Honeycomb. Adobe 10.2 has increased performance from the previous version. The beta release of Adobe 10.2 does not utilize full hardware acceleration as that feature has been turned off. Hardware rending and compositing will be added in a later release. That release “will bring 720p playback to a really smooth, enjoyable level.” [Engadget]
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Adobe Wallaby Converts Flash To HTML5
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has attempted to get Adobe Flash to run on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod, but Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) did not relent. Now Adobe has created software called Wallaby that takes basic Flash files such as banner ads and converts it into HTML5, a language that works on Apple’s products.
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Adobe Flash Player 10.2 To Be Available On Android Market On March 18
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced that they have launched the Flash Player 10.2 application for download on the Android Market on March 18th. The GA (General Availability) production of the Flash Player 10.2 application will initially be released as a beta for Android Honeycomb 3.0 tablets.
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Nikon Turned Down Buying Photoshop In 1988 [Software History]
In 1987, Thomas Knoll began writing graphic subroutines on a Mac Plus. He teamed with his brother John to combine the subroutines into an application called “Display.” Display was refined into software called ImagePro. About a year later, the two brothers displayed their software at the MacWorld tradeshow. The two brothers approached Nikon and offered them the rights to the image editing program. Nikon U.S. and Europe liked the idea, but Nikon Japan decided against the idea because they believed there wouldn’t be much demand. Kodak and a few other big photography companies also turned down the software made by the Knoll brothers. In 1989, Adobe struck a deal with the two brothers to license their image editing program. It would be called “Photoshop.” Today Adobe Photoshop is one of the company’s best selling software. [PetaPixel]
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Adobe Officially Announces Flash Player 10.2
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) today announced Flash Player 10.2. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. As part of the launch, Adobe announced a full hardware accelerated video pipeline called Stage Video. Other features include custom native mouse cursors, multiple monitor full-screen support, IE 9 hardware accelerated rendering support, and enhanced sub-pixel rendering. Vimeo, YouTube, Epix, and Brightcove have started enabling support for Stage Video. [Adobe Blog]
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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen: “Let The Games Begin”
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit conference earlier this week for an interview with John Battelle. The theme of the conference is “points of control” and he said that this statement describes what is happening between Adobe and Apple: “There’s a war happening for developers.”
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