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GeoEye Starts New Earth Photo Album With High-Res Pics October 10, 2008 
Some five weeks after its launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, GeoEye-1, the satellite developed by aerial and geospatial information provider GeoEye, has signaled back to Earth. GeoEye-1 snapped the first location the satellite saw when the camera door was opened -- Kutztown University, located midway between Reading and Allentown, Penn.
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Moviemaking Demystified September 30, 2008 
Movie making and editing are now within everyone's reach. All you have to do is check out YouTube to witness this new age of movie making, in which anyone with a digital video camera and a story to tell can enter the fray. "People-powered video is an opportunity to get a glimpse into someone else's life," Albuquerque-based filmmaker and multimedia specialist Dickie Cox told MacNewsWorld.
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Adobe Gives Creative Suite 4 More Flash September 23, 2008 
Adobe's long-awaited Creative Suite 4 has made its public debut. As the company has demonstrated with previous releases of Creative, as well as other products, it is advancing a Web 2.0 agenda. For example, Adobe has integrated Flash throughout Creative Suite 4 to facilitate collaboration among designers and developers as they craft digital work products.
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Adobe Flips Switch on Lightroom 2 July 29, 2008 
The promise of digital photography is that it can help any amateur develop into a backyard Ansel Adams, given the right camera, software and dedication. Imaging software company Adobe Systems has known this since 1990, when it rolled out version 1.0 of its trailblazing Photoshop software; it has followed that with a host of related products aimed at different segments of the digital imaging market.
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Microsoft Aims to Outshine Flash With New Silverlight June 03, 2008 
Microsoft has unveiled an updated beta release of its Silverlight multimedia publishing software. Chairman Bill Gates announced the debut of Silverlight 2 beta 2 at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando on Tuesday. The utility, to be made available for public download by the end of the week, lets developers write Web-based applications using Microsoft's .Net Framework.
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Adobe Offers Sneak Peek at CS4 May 27, 2008
Adobe's next generation of Creative Suite graphic design, Web development and video editing applications are edging closer to official release. The company's Adobe Labs site has posted publicly available betas of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth. Dreamweaver is Adobe's application for Web design and development. Fireworks is for prototyping, and Soundbooth is for audio creation and editing.
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Open Source House Design: Just for Starters May 21, 2008 
Looking to remodel your own little castle in Spain? Perhaps just design a modest little country cottage or addition to your current abode? As in many areas, software tools and expertise up until relatively recently accessible only to professionals are now available to just about anyone that cares to invest a little time and money acquiring and learning how to use them.
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Adobe's Roadmap to Heftier Photoshop Bypasses Mac Land April 04, 2008
In a heads-up effort that has resulted in a storm of blame, frustration and sometimes outright anger, Adobe's Senior Product Manager for Photoshop John Nack revealed this week on an official Adobe blog that the next version of the product, Photoshop Creative Suite 4, will be available in a 64-bit version only for Windows.
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Photoshop Express Is Surprisingly Snappy April 02, 2008
The beta launch of Adobe Systems' latest addition to its Photoshop family of image editing tools offers up the most commonly needed edits on the Web -- for free -- and throws in a solid range of Web 2.0 sharing features. The new online tool is Photoshop Express, and while it won't replace any current customer installations of Photoshop CS3 or Elements, it's certainly a handy tool for mass consumption.
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Photoshop Elements 6 for the Mac Brings Pro Power to Everyday Users April 01, 2008 
It took a couple of years -- as well as a few months of jealousy -- but the wait for the next version of Adobe Photoshop Elements for the Mac is over: Adobe is now shipping version 6 for the Mac. The last version of Photoshop Elements for the Mac was version 4, which means Adobe completely skipped over the Mac community when it came out with version 5.
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Adobe Unleashes Photoshop Free-for-All March 27, 2008
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what does it cost to edit the picture with Photoshop? As of right now, the only cost is Internet access with a modern Web browser. Adobe Systems has launched an online photo editing tool that's free to anyone who wants to edit, store, sort and show off their digital photos -- up to 2 GB worth.
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Guitar Rig 3 Turns a Mac Into an Amp Stack March 11, 2008 
Guitarists out there know that finding that perfect sound, tone or depth from your electric guitar can be an expensive and painstaking process. With the digital age now in full swing, many manufacturers have tapped into computer emulation as a way to duplicate the sounds of guitar setups and amplifiers through software.
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Apple Touches Up Aperture Photo Toolset February 12, 2008 
Apple has released the second major version of its professional-grade photo editing and management application, Aperture. The company packed 100 new features in to Aperture 2, including a more streamlined user interface and an entirely new image processing engine. Key enhancements include new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition and RAW fine-tuning.
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Bling It: A Simple Tool for Primping Up Photos February 12, 2008 
When purchasing an Apple computer, consumers are often greeted and promised ease of use for a digital lifestyle. Though Apple Computers do greatly increase one's chances of becoming a digital guru, getting that far can often mean to a frustrating journey full of overpriced software and countless visits to Amazon.com looking for The Complete Idiot's Guides to Everything.
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Seeing (Red): Saving Lives Creatively, Protecting Against Political Lies, Product of the Week January 28, 2008 
Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really upset, not once but twice, and thought I would share why this week.
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Live From Macworld: Slick Podcasting, Tricked-Out Tablet, Awesome Display January 15, 2008 
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made big news Tuesday, taking advantage of the Macworld keynote spotlight to announce of his company's latest hardware offerings, including a wireless hard drive backup system and an incredibly skinny laptop computer. However, Macworld is much more than Jobs' 90-minute speech.
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