Dear Lifehacker, I wanted to know if there was a way to stop all the annoying Acrobat Reader and Flash updates on Windows. It seems every day there is a new update! Thanks, Flash Forward
As we noted earlier this morning, Adobe is now offering the option to rent its applications rather than paying full price for them. When does that make sense?
Need Photoshop or another Adobe product, but only for a quick project? You can now get a monthly subscription (a scheme trialled in Australia ahead of its global rollout. Adobe products offer trial periods, but if you need official goods without mortgage-sized costs, it’s an option. [Adobe via Download Squad]
How can you combine working as a software product manager, university lecturer and author and not go completely insane? Lifehacker sat down with Doug Winnie, Adobe’s product manager for Adobe Flash Catalyst, Flash Platform Workflow and WorkflowLab, at the recent MAX conference in Los Angeles to find out how he organises his life and how he manages the process of writing a book.
newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/mtm3Ahx_paY&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":332.5,"ratio":0.615,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} );Adobe Air/Web-Based: Available as both an Adobe Air app and a web app, Project Rome is a simple but powerful content editing tool. Create everything from brochures and presentations to web sites and animations.
Windows users have been enjoying hardware-accelerated video decoding since the Flash 10.1 Final release; now the latest Flash Player release for Macs (10.1.82.76) officially brings GPU decoding to OS X – in theory resulting in better video playback on your Mac. [Adobe via ByteArray.org]
Mac (Snow Leopard): Your Mac’s processor can rest a bit easier now. Adobe has release “Gala”, a preview release of Flash 10.1 that can utilise graphics hardware to accelerate streaming web videos, reducing the strain on already-hot CPUs.
Whether you’re eager to get to sites and apps you can’t access without Flash, or just keen on seeing how it runs, Adobe is offering Android users a chance to sign up to beta test Flash 10.1 and/or the Adobe AIR app platform on their Android phones. You’ll need to create an Adobe account if you don’t already have one, but Adobe should then notify you when a beta test download is available. A sign-up worked early this morning, but spaces may eventually run out. [PC World]
Earlier this week, we noted that the new CS5 release of Photoshop was more expensive for Australian users than for their US counterparts. That stinks of down-under rip-off, but Adobe argues that the price represents “enormous value”.
