Adobe to Give Preview of Upcoming Technology at PS World. “…thousands of keynote attendees, and media on hand, a sneak peek at some of the new Photoshop technology being developed by Adobe…” (Via MacMinute.)
Adobe and the Death of a Brand. A great commentary on the state of Adobe’s “compromised” site design. (Via Apples To Oranges.)
Adobe Gets del.icio.us. Adobe has started to take advantage of the social bookmarking site that started them all. You can find all their links at http://del.icio.us/adobe. (Via John Nack on Adobe.)
Adobe has released a free preview version of their new programming framework, Spry. Spry enables you to incorporate XML data into your HTML using what you may already be familiar with: HTML, CSS, and a minimal amount of Javascript, without requiring the entire page to refresh. Yes, that’s AJAX for any of you keeping score at home.
As some of you may know, May 1st is considered a Reboot day amongst Web designers. It’s an opportunity to apply a makeover to your site and have others comment on it. This marks the sixth annual May 1st Reboot. You can find the original campaign at May1Reboot and a more standards-compliant focused cousin at CSSReboot.
Well, I don’t know if Adobe intentionally decided to join in on all the fun today or it’s just a happy coincidence, but over the weekend Adobe launched a somewhat new site design at Adobe.com. I say, “somewhat new” because at first blush the site seems to be what was Macromedia.com’s existing page template design with a revised navigation and Adobe’s visual design lightly applied through out. (Incidentally, Macromedia.com now does a complete redirect to Adobe.com.) So it’s obvious this is Adobe’s first noble attempt to bring the two companies’ product offerings together online.
Adobe’s new site design was code named “Day Next”. Craig Goodman’s article, “Day Next” comes to the Developer Center, details some of the changes to the site and where to find everything after the move.
It’s interesting to see just what Adobe chose to offer as direct links on the home page’s Products area. However, it’s also rather disheartening to wade through the barrage of products that now pour out from the main products page when you click “See all products”.
What do you think? Do you think the fusion of these two creative software companies is really going to be a good thing for us, the designers?
Chizen Comments on Boot Camp, Universal Binaries. “Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe, recently spoke at a conference in Tokyo and made mention of their Universal Binary timeline as well as what effect, if any, Boot Camp will have on their Macintosh unit.” (Via Infinite Loop.)
Adobe CS3 due in Q2 2007. Adobe today said that users can expect the release of Adobe Creative Suite 3 in the second quarter of 2007.
While many would agree that there’s plenty of features still to explore in CS2, those wanting to move to an Intel-based Mac have been waiting for solid news from Adobe when to expect CS3. Adobe had previously stated that Creative Suite 2 would not be translated to Universal and that users will have to wait for CS3.
Bruce Chizen told Forbes.com today…
Creative Suite 3 will be introduced in the second quarter of 2007. Acrobat will take advantage of the Macromedia assets. And you’ll see a lot of activity in the CS3 launch.
(Via MacNN.)
If you’re interested in why moving CS3 over to Universal binaries is more difficult than Steve has described, check out Scott Byer’s post on the subject.
Adobe planning Mac version of Production Studio. The off-again/on-again dance between Premiere and Macs may continue. (Via Think Secret.)
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