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12:30PM Angus Kidman | There are numerous formats for e-books and other electronic documents, but PDF remains the most common and popular. Here’s the tools you need for reading and working with PDF without spending a fortune or succumbing to Adobe bloatware. More »
Best Tools For Reading And Creating PDFs
12:30PM Angus Kidman | There are numerous formats for e-books and other electronic documents, but PDF remains the most common and popular. Here’s the tools you need for reading and working with PDF without spending a fortune or succumbing to Adobe bloatware. More » 
Money
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Adobe’s image-editing and graphic design applications are highly regarded by Lifehacker readers, but their $500+ price tags are a nasty dose of cold water in a free online apps universe. If you’re a student or teacher, the company’s recently-revamped education store offers a little hip-pocket relief. More »
Adobe Education Store Offers Cheap Apps For Students
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Adobe’s image-editing and graphic design applications are highly regarded by Lifehacker readers, but their $500+ price tags are a nasty dose of cold water in a free online apps universe. If you’re a student or teacher, the company’s recently-revamped education store offers a little hip-pocket relief. More »
Work
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Alright, that’s a big claim to make in a universe that has given us Windows Me, Sony’s rootkit software and iMovie ‘08. Nonetheless, I’m kicking myself that I waited this long to rid myself of the bug-ridden, slow-to-update, generally nasty Adobe Reader experience. More »
Is Adobe Reader The Most Evil Program Ever?
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Alright, that’s a big claim to make in a universe that has given us Windows Me, Sony’s rootkit software and iMovie ‘08. Nonetheless, I’m kicking myself that I waited this long to rid myself of the bug-ridden, slow-to-update, generally nasty Adobe Reader experience. More »
Fix
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Waiting on hold might seem inevitable when you place a support call, but Adobe’s two-hour delay on its support line sets a pretty high bar for poor customer communication. More »
Adobe Customers On Support Hold For Two Hours
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Waiting on hold might seem inevitable when you place a support call, but Adobe’s two-hour delay on its support line sets a pretty high bar for poor customer communication. More »
Work
Adobe Shortcut App Makes Finding Hotkeys Easier
4:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows/Mac/Linux: The free Adobe Shortcut App gives fast access to look up keyboard shortcuts for the entire array of Adobe products from one simple place. More »
Fix
Flash Is Under Development For The iPhone
6:19AM Adam Pash | Adobe is actively developing a Flash player for the iPhone according to web site Flash Magazine—now all they’re waiting for is the “okay” from Apple. More »
Design
3:13PM Angus Kidman | I’d be inclined to argue that the biggest problem with Flash sites is that they can add needless complication and download weight without actually improving efficiency. However, for sites which are heavy on Flash (games and video being the obvious offenders), there’s always been a bigger problem: content in Flash rarely if ever gets picked up by search engine indexes, rendering it near-invisible to casual visitors.That problem may recede with news that Google is now automatically indexing all text labels within Flash files, meaning that those elements will now show up in relevant searches. (Yahoo! is also planning similar changes but hasn’t made them live yet). No special changes are required to have Flash content indexed, though it may be a few days before any relevant material shows up in searches. If you have Flash material you don’t want indexed, Google recommends incorporating those purely as graphic elements, as it only indexes specifically marked text (so no video subtitles, we assume). In any event, don’t be surprised to see more Flash material show up when you search Google, and a possible new round of SEO wars as sites fight to top the rankings.
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Flash now indexed by Google
3:13PM Angus Kidman | I’d be inclined to argue that the biggest problem with Flash sites is that they can add needless complication and download weight without actually improving efficiency. However, for sites which are heavy on Flash (games and video being the obvious offenders), there’s always been a bigger problem: content in Flash rarely if ever gets picked up by search engine indexes, rendering it near-invisible to casual visitors.That problem may recede with news that Google is now automatically indexing all text labels within Flash files, meaning that those elements will now show up in relevant searches. (Yahoo! is also planning similar changes but hasn’t made them live yet). No special changes are required to have Flash content indexed, though it may be a few days before any relevant material shows up in searches. If you have Flash material you don’t want indexed, Google recommends incorporating those purely as graphic elements, as it only indexes specifically marked text (so no video subtitles, we assume). In any event, don’t be surprised to see more Flash material show up when you search Google, and a possible new round of SEO wars as sites fight to top the rankings.
More » A breath of (Adobe) AIR
1:37PM Sarah Stokely | APC magazine has a writeup of Adobe’s cross-platform runtime, AIR, which looks at eBay’s beta version of eBay Desktop based on Adobe AIR (its verdict: less annoying that eBay’s website) and a number of other applications which have been written for AIR, including:
Arise – a news aggregator;
Bee – a desktop blog editor which integrates with WordPress and Flickr;
Fresh – an RSS feeder created using AJAX;
MapCache – a map/direction system using Yahoo! Map Web Services;
Podcast Player;
RoadFinder which combines Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps.
A breath of (Adobe) AIR [APC magazine]
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