Adobe

I tend not to like subscriptions. I like to buy my products and own them. Well, Adobe announced a subscription based model with the announcement of CS5.5. You can still outright buy the software. Although, if you don’t want to fork out the cash all at once, they have two subscription models. There is an annual with month-to-month payments and a no contract month-to-month plan. The advantage of the annual month-to-month is that your monthly fees are less, but you are locked into a year commitment.

Adobe Lightroom has done it once again. It has improved! A free upgrade for all Lightroom 3 users, Lightroom is now version 3.3. Ok you may ask, what does Lightroom do in the first place?
Well Lightroom is an image processing program that allows you to work on one to thousands of images, processing and organizing them along the way. And that’s not all it does. You can show your images in slide shows, web galleries and print layouts uploading them to your website or photo-sharing sites.

I recently read an article on cnet.com titled, “Adobe moves further into Google’s orbit”. The article comments on Adobe’s mobile strategy and how it is tied to the long term success of Android. Adobe had tried originally to partner with Apple as far back as 2008 on the iphone. With the recent Steve Jobs bashing of Adobe Flash, there is now a certain amount of bad blood between Adobe and Apple. With the Android platform quickly rising to compete with the iphone, Google has become real competitor for Apple. Adobe technologies are now being optimized for Android phones and eventually Google TV.

Cool news today about the the launch of Adobe Web Fonts on Typekit. The Typekit service makes it easy to sign up and start adding rich typographical content to your sites right away. And with over 120 Adobe Web Fonts (from 16 families) now available from Typekit, you have even more to choose from. A snap to deploy, just sign up, create a kit from your library of fonts, and paste the code that Typekit provides you right into your web page.

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What is Flash Rocks?
The goal of the Flash Rocks program is to create buzz and demonstrate momentum around the value of applications built using the Adobe Flash Platform products.

How does it work, and how can you help?

Adobe is pleased to announce the launch of Cube Builder, a trivia game that lives on Facebook and challenges developers to answer a combination of timed general trivia, logic, Flex and Flash Builder questions to earn points and build out cool virtual cubicles. Please log-on, play, and then spread the word via your social media channels. Additionally, we are putting the call out for user generated video around game play.