In continuing to provide the direct download links for such major Adobe products as CS5.5, Acrobat X, Elements 10, and Lightroom 3, below you’ll find the DDL for the brand new just-released Adobe Flash Player 11.1 (the final version).  This is important because the free Flash Player is the most widely-used and often-downloaded software in world, and some folks find it easier to access it quickly and directly, without a download manager (e.g., Akamai), or with their own DLM, and without additional products or toolbars included.

Check your current Adobe Flash Player: What version are you running now?

What’s New in Flash Player 11?

Flash Player 11.1 contains dozens of sophisticated new features and enhancements, here are some of the major ones – for more, and more details, see the Official Release Notes:

• Stage 3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering
• Native 64-bit Support Available
• H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras
• Flash Access Content Protection Enhancements
• Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Support
• Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding
• TLS Secure Sockets Support
• Cubic Bezier Curves
• Updated iOS 5 native extensions
• Updated Native text input UI for Android

So, without further ado, here are the direct download links – just click to download and install:

For Windows 7 – 64-Bit Systems

» Download 64-bit Flash Player 11.1 for Internet Explorer (IE) browsers

» Download 64-bit Flash Player 11.1 for non-IE browsers (Firefox, Opera, etc.)

For Windows 7/Vista/XP/2008/2003

» Download 32-bit Flash Player 11.1 for Internet Explorer (IE) browsers

» Download 32-bit Flash Player 11.1 for non-IE browsers (Firefox, Opera, etc.)

[ Not sure? See how to tell if your computer can run the (faster) 64-bit Windows version. ]

For Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 (all)

» Download Flash Player 11.1 for Safari, Firefox, Opera

Bonus!  Adobe AIR 3 Direct Download Links

» Download AIR 3.1 for Windows

» Download AIR 3.1 for Mac OS

[ Learn more about the universal Adobe AIR 3. ]

Resources

• Adobe Flash Player installation instructions
• Adobe Flash Player full system requirements
• Verify/test installed version of Adobe Flash Player
• Troubleshoot installation problems with Adobe Flash Player
• Configure Adobe Flash Player settings after installation
• Uninstall Adobe Flash Player

(Note: Internet Explorer sometimes drops file extensions from these downloads – so if you’re using that browser, you may have to add a “.exe” back onto the name of your file before starting it.)

Adobe Flash Player is a pervasive cross-platform browser-based application runtime that delivers uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across screens and browsers. Flash is the standard for engaging PC experiences – 99% of PCs worldwide have Flash Player installed and 85% of the top 100 websites use Flash.

Approximately 75% of online videos are viewed and 70% of web games are delivered using Adobe Flash technology. More than 3 million designers and developers use the Flash Platform to deliver expressive content and applications that run consistently across the widest reach of browsers, operating systems, and devices.

Learn more about Flash Player and the new features in version 11.

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Arguably the biggest announcement to come out of the annual Adobe MAX Conference last month was the unveiling of the Adobe Creative Cloud…

It was the major focus of the first day’s keynote address, and then different components of it were covered in greater detail in a number of the later educational sessions.

What Is the Creative Cloud?

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch describes it as an optional membership-based program formed of three pillars: Creative Services, Creative Community, and Creative Applications.

The first is Creative Services, which are hosted services that you can use in your production work, in the delivery of your content. This includes a font service like Typekit, which Adobe recently acquired, which enables the use and delivery of a broad foundry of cloud fonts across all of your work. A second area is Digital Publishing, which enables publishing rich media to tablets via the cloud. And the third category is Business Catalyst, which supports designing and operating websites for small businesses, with pre-built services for things like handling e-commerce, doing customer relationship management, and integrating with social networks. More services will be added over time.

The second pillar is Creative Community, which is all of you creatives around the world and enabling you to connect more easily with other creatives – it’s a place to share, to communi­cate, and to inspire each other with your work and really collaborate as you’re working. The community is a critical part of our whole ecosystem, and it’s a critical part of the cloud. At the center of this is the web presence of the Creative Cloud, which is creative.adobe.com. And one of the great things there is it will understand all the formats you’re using in your creative work – so PSD files, InDesign files, Illustrator files. Where other cloud services might show you an icon describing the file type, this will show you the actual content, and you can interact with it in a context-sensitive way. It’s a much deeper understanding of creative content.

And lastly the third pillar is Creative Applications – and these are enabling you to create not only on personal computers, but also wherever you are with mobile devices, all connected through the Creative Cloud. This includes a whole new collection of Adobe touch apps to run on tablets and other mobile devices, including Proto, Kuler, Debut, Collage, Carousel, Ideas, and Photoshop Touch. In addition, membership also includes access to all Adobe creative desktop products you know and love, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver and Premiere and InDesign, possibly Lightroom, more. You can download and install any of these applica­tions you choose as part of your membership, and these are all connected to Creative Cloud via desktop sync. They also interact with the touch apps, and you can move files between desktop and touch as you’re working.

[UPDATE (January 25th) — Adobe now says that Lightroom, Edge, DPS Single Edition, and Social capabilities will not be included initially, but are "planned for a future release."]

Why Is It Important?

So why should you care, if you’re quite happy with your current set of permanent desktop Adobe products, and less interested in services or tablet apps?

Well, because this looks to be a key direction Adobe is going in, a new (additional) model for offering their software and how it is used. The company started off with a toe in the water with CS5.5 software subscriptions, but is expanding that option substantially here. Creative Cloud membership is essentially a broader subscription-based program – in other words, renting the software that’s used, which works so long as the monthly payments are made. To quote a press release yesterday, “Adobe’s Digital Media growth strategy revolves around its recently announced Creative Cloud and will enable the company to rapidly deliver new product capabilities and services, penetrate untapped market segments, and increase overall engagement with customers.”

As implied, this model of software is going to be a significant change because it means Adobe’s engineering teams can improve the applica­tions more frequently, and as they come up with new ideas, they can put them in the app and you can get them, not just once a year.

Overall with Creative Cloud, they’re changing how they provide software from the traditional desktop model now to devices and also to the cloud. Twenty-one years ago they started with point products like Photoshop or Dreamweaver you could get individually, and then they did the Creative Suite bundling, and that was a great breakthrough for creative software and how you can acquire it, and this now is the most popular creative software in the world. Now their next step is moving to Creative Cloud, and it’s going to be a whole new way people can interact with the software.

And fortunately, this will be additive to what they already offer – in other words, you’re going to continue to be able to buy standalone the permanent point products and the suites as you’re used to with perpetual licensing, as well – however the current Creative Suite Upgrade Policy will be changing significantly.

So as Adobe says, “this is a great new adventure for us, and there’s a ton of innovation ahead for us, so it’s going to be a very exciting time.”

Availability and Pricing

The touch applications are going to be available on the Android market in November, along with a beta of Creative Cloud so testers can immediately start using the storage and the synchronization with those applications. Then full Creative Cloud membership is going to be available next year – perhaps in conjunction with the release of CS6. Adobe says the Creative Cloud is going to be attractively priced, and they’ll be announcing pricing in November as well, so we’ll learn more about that soon. In the meantime, you can read more in the Creative Cloud FAQ – or express your view: what do you think about this optional new model?

See the best from Adobe MAX 2011 – including both keynote presentations plus over 160 hours of on-demand free tutorials & training sessions from the experts, on a wide range of topics covering all major Adobe applications, plus more on the Creative Cloud.

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Adobe MAX 2011 – the worldwide user conference – runs this week and if you aren’t in Los Angeles, the two major keynotes will be broadcast free, with both live and on-demand streaming… The company is promising lots of big news and announcements, so if you can’t join us there in person, you can see it all unfold online.

What’s more, over 160 free hours of the best training and tutorial sessions from this year’s show will also be available.

Adobe Dreamweaver tweets, “To hear BIG Adobe MAX announcements, register now to listen LIVE to the keynote presentations Monday & Tuesday morning…”

Adobe Creative Suite posts, “The countdown has officially begun for Adobe MAX! Even if you can’t make it to the live event, you can still join in on the fun! To hear the BIG announcements we have planned, register now to listen LIVE to the MAX keynotes Monday & Tuesday morning.”

The MAX team writes, “Adobe MAX keynote sessions are the highlight of the event. You can sign up to watch the event yourself and get all the technology news, celebrity appearances, and product announcements delivered to your desktop or mobile device.”

We think one of the major announcements will be “a broad new set of Adobe tablet apps,” for starters…

Here’s the official invitation:

Watch Adobe MAX 2011 keynotes live
While there’s nothing that compares to being there in person, you can still experience some of the excitement of MAX 2011. Join Adobe executives, product experts, and special guests as we focus on present and future technologies, time-saving techniques, and inspiring work created by the best in the industry. See the keynotes live as they’re happening in the Nokia Theater.

1. Creativity unleashed
Monday, October 3, 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PDT (convert time zone)
Join Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch and guests to learn how Adobe is transforming the creative process across mobile devices, personal computers, and the cloud.

2. Creating the very best user experiences
Tuesday, October 4, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PDT (convert time zone)
Join us as we explore the best solutions for delivering highly expressive and usable experiences, both in the browser and as apps. We’ll look at a variety of technologies and products, highlighting current opportunities, and peering into the not-so-distant future.

Watch on demand
If you can’t watch the keynotes live, you can view them immediately on demand. Bookmark this page and check back for updates.

The video coverage will be available for both desktop computers as well as mobile devices – including Flash-enabled devices as well as Apple iOS devices.

“The MAX keynotes are always inspiring, exciting, and entertaining. And if you think the last few years were cool, wait until you see what we have planned this year. The stage is 180’ wide and hosts an absolutely gigantic screen, the venue boasts 11,000 amps of power and 548,500 watts of lighting; the side screens themselves are almost 500 square feet each! You won’t believe what all that is capable of, and so we are going to … oops, sorry, I got carried away there. Look, I’ve been part of the keynote team for 13 consecutive years now, so you can trust me when I say that you won’t want to arrive late for the opening keynote. Really.” — Ben Forta

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Though the economic recession officially ended over two years ago, the job market remains pretty challenging. In the U.S. officially no new jobs were created last month, continuing a slowing trend from the spring – and this situation is currently a major focus of Washington. However, Adobe is one company that continues hiring new staff at a healthy pace, and more broadly, Adobe product skills remain in strong demand by employers worldwide.

Adobe Systems (the company itself) presently has 358 job openings around the globe (adding another 4% to their workforce) – but if you know Adobe software generally, then the opportunity is even larger. Right now there are nearly 50,000 employment openings across North America that require Adobe skills, and you can see these and browse for yourself with the free downloadable Adobe Job Feed app.

All major tools are represented here: Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Premiere, After Effects, and so on. You can drill down to sort by city/state or ZIP code for jobs in your area, and then view the complete descriptions and even apply for positions directly from within your web browser.

Here’s the app description:

Search for the latest jobs that require Adobe skills at all kinds of different companies with Adobe’s new job feed. Powered by SimplyHired, this helpful new tool allows you to search for all sorts of job openings throughout North America, so you can find a job that lets you show off your Adobe skills to the real world.

All you need to run this application is Adobe AIR, which works on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and mobile devices like Android. If you don’t already have it, AIR will automatically install itself when the Adobe Jobs Feed app is loaded.

If you need a copy of any Adobe product to refresh yourself or expand your skills, just download a free working trial. And to brush up with hours of free online tutorials, check out Adobe TV.

Or, if you happen to be out of work entirely at the moment, grab yourself a full copy of Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 absolutely free while you can.

Best of luck in your search and your career!

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In our tradition of providing the direct download links for major Adobe products such as CS5.5, Acrobat X, Photoshop & Premiere Elements 10, and Lightroom 3, below you’ll find the DDL for the just-released new Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (final version). This is important because the free Flash Player is the most widely-used and often-downloaded software in world, and some folks find it easier to access offline without a download manager (Akamai or Adobe DLM), or with their own DLM, and without additional products or toolbars included.

Check your current Adobe Flash Player version: What version are you running now?

What’s New in Flash Player 10.3?

Flash Player 10.3 improves stability, enhances security and user privacy protection, and provides new desktop video and audio capabilities for enterprises and developers.

Besides a dozen bug fixes, this release contains several new features and enhancements:

• Integration with Browser Privacy Controls – Users now have a simpler way to clear local storage (“Flash cookies”) from the browser settings interface – similar to how users clear their browser cookies today. These controls are integrated with the browser’s privacy settings in Firefox 4, IE 8 and higher, Chrome 11, and a future release of Apple Safari.
• Local Native Control Panel – Provides users with streamlined controls for managing their Flash Player privacy, security and storage settings. Windows, Mac, and Linux users can access the Flash Player Settings Manager directly from the Control Panels or System Preferences locally on their computers.
• Acoustic Echo Cancellation – Developers can take advantage of acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, voice activity detection, and automatic compensation for various microphone input levels. End-users will be able to experience higher quality audio facilitating smoother conversation flow, without using a headset.
• Media Measurement – Allows real-time, aggregated reporting of how their video content is distributed, what the audience reach is, and how much video is played.
• Auto-Update Notification for Mac OS – Supports automatic notification of software updates on Mac OS, making it easier for Mac users to stay current with new capabilities in the latest version of Flash Player.

So, without further ado, here are the direct download links – just click to download and install:

For Windows 7/Vista/XP/2008/2003

 » Download Flash Player 10.3 for Internet Explorer (IE) browsers

 » Download Flash Player 10.3 for non-IE browsers (Firefox, Opera, etc.)

For Mac OS X 10.4 – 10.6

 » Download Flash Player 10.3 for Safari, Firefox, Opera

Resources

• Adobe Flash Player installation instructions
• Adobe Flash Player full system requirements
• Verify/test installed version of Adobe Flash Player
• Troubleshoot installation problems with Adobe Flash Player
• Configure Adobe Flash Player settings after installation
• Uninstall Adobe Flash Player

(Note: Internet Explorer sometimes drops file extensions from these downloads – so if you’re using that browser, you may have to add a “.exe” back onto the name of your file before starting it.)

Adobe Flash Player is a cross-platform browser-based application runtime that delivers uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across screens and browsers. Flash is the standard for engaging PC experiences – 99% of PCs worldwide have Flash Player installed and 85% of the top 100 websites use Flash. Approximately 75% of online videos are viewed and 70% of web games are delivered using Adobe Flash technology. More than 3.5 million designers and developers use the Flash Platform to deliver expressive content and applications that run consistently across the widest reach of browsers, operating systems, and devices.

Learn more about Flash Player and the new features in version 10.3.

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[UPDATE (June 6th) – MAX registration is now open!  Save $200 with an early-bird discount - or an even better promotion, save $400 with coupon code from Adobe product purchased.]

MAX is the big annual conference for all-things-Adobe. One of the best aspects of MAX last year was the key presentations and announcements were webcast live, and most of the rest of the talks and lectures were offered later on-demand. These sessions are still available for viewing and are a fantastic free resource (see the list) for learning about Adobe software. There are more than 200 recorded videos on topics ranging from Photoshop Tips, Techniques & Power Shortcuts to “Deep Dives” for Dreamweaver and Flash.

This year, MAX will happen from October 1-5 at the Los Angeles, CA Convention Center. It’s a great time to tune in online or to attend in person for the news, excitement, training, gather­ings, and giveaways (last year all attendees received free Motorola Droid 2 smartphones and Google TVs) – plus the chance to meet the experts and ask your own questions.

(…not to mention, enjoy all the hilarious fake commercials for Adobe products!)

If this year is like last, over the course of the coming months Adobe will slip out some coupons and discounts for MAX 2011 registrations. Stay tuned and like we did last year, we’ll be sure to post these here as they become available.

Learn more about Adobe MAX 2011 or join the MAX mailing list.

Adobe MAX 2011
October 1-5
Los Angeles, California

Mark your calendars now to attend Adobe MAX 2011. Last year’s attendees told us we exceeded their expectations when it came to exposing them to new products and industry trends and helping them stay at the forefront of the device revolution.

Be among the leading innovators of the Adobe community as we set the course for the next generation of digital experiences.

Connect.
Share ideas with leading designers and developers, industry experts, business decision-makers, and Adobe product teams.

Discover.
Learn from industry leaders and Adobe experts and see the hottest Adobe products in action.

Inspire.
Join the electrifying conversations and exchanges that unfold when thousands of the most creative minds gather in one place.

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Why attend Adobe MAX?

• Learn and get inspired from renowned speakers from around the world.
• See the future of digital media and new ways to create amazing digital experi­ences across multiple screens.
• Connect with thousands of forward-thinking designers, developers, and business leaders.

See for yourself

• Hear what industry leaders like Evan Spiridellis and Ken Martin say about MAX.  [see video below]
• Watch the Adobe MAX 2010 keynotes and sessions – including those led by industry experts Ben Stucki, Ray Camden, Daniel Dura, and Lee Brimelow – for free on MAX Online.
• Check out the great videos from last year’s attendees on the AdobeMAXEvent YouTube channel.

 

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Following our custom of providing the direct download links for major Adobe products such as CS5.5, Acrobat X, Photoshop & Premiere Elements 10, and Lightroom 3, below you’ll find all the DDL for the just-released new Adobe Flash Player 10.2. This is important because the free Flash Player is the most widely-used and often-downloaded software in world, and some people find it easier to gain access without a download manager (Akamai/Adobe DLM), or with their own DLM, and without additional products or toolbars included.

Check your current Adobe Flash Player version: What version are you running now?

What’s New in Flash Player 10.2?

Flash Player 10.2 introduces Stage Video, a full hardware-accelerated video pipeline for best-in-class, beautiful video across platforms and browsers – making Flash video dramatically more efficient (a 10X reduction in CPU usage in some demos). This advance in performance builds on the benefits of H.264 hardware accelerated decoding and optimized power consump­tion introduced in 10.1, and works with all of the existing video on the web viewed in Flash Player – so will save significant battery life on portable computers and mobile devices.

Additionally, this release of Flash Player offers all new features like multiple monitor full-screen support (enabling you to watch videos in true full screen on one display while multi-tasking on another), custom native mouse cursors (another popular request from designers and devel­opers), and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) hardware accelerated rendering support.

And other existing capabilities have been enhanced – like better sub-pixel rendering for superior text readability, fast switch between bitrates to automatically adjust to changing network conditions, and improved localized input method editor (IME) support.

So, without further ado, here are the direct download links – just click to download and install:

For Windows 7/Vista/XP/2008/2003

 » Download Flash Player 10.2 for Internet Explorer (IE) browsers

 » Download Flash Player 10.2 for non-IE browsers (Firefox, Opera, etc.)

For Mac OS X 10.4 – 10.6

 » Download Flash Player 10.2 for Safari, Firefox, Opera

Resources

• Adobe Flash Player installation instructions
• Adobe Flash Player full system requirements
• Verify/test installed version of Adobe Flash Player
• Troubleshoot installation problems with Adobe Flash Player
• Configure Adobe Flash Player settings after installation
• Uninstall Adobe Flash Player

(Note: Internet Explorer sometimes drops file extensions from these downloads – so if you’re using that browser, you may have to add a “.exe” back onto the name of your file before starting it.)

Adobe Flash Player is a cross-platform browser-based application runtime that delivers uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across screens and browsers. Flash is the standard for engaging PC experiences – 99% of PCs worldwide have Flash Player installed and 85% of the top 100 websites use Flash. Approximately 75% of online videos are viewed and 70% of web games are delivered using Adobe Flash technology. More than 3.5 million designers and developers use the Flash Platform to deliver expressive content and applications that run consistently across the widest reach of browsers, operating systems, and devices.

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In it he extols the virtues of an open ecosystem winning out in a fragmented world, perhaps not unlike the PC and Mac market dynamics of twenty years ago. Narayen cites Flash as a key differentiator and unifier of that fragmentation. Regarding Apple, he says it’s a non-issue in that they’ve made their decision, although they did recently relax some restrictions for Flash apps.

As evidence of growing momentum, he cites 10 million Flash-based devices (smartphones, tablets, and consumer electronic devices) having shipped in the latter half of 2010, essentially since the mobile-attuned Flash Player 10.1 was officially released.

Here at ProDesignTools we love both Android and iOS, Adobe and Apple – we don’t take sides, but we think the space and players are worth watching, not to mention entertaining…

Watch or read the interview’s full 4 minutes below:

Victoria Barret, Forbes Magazine: Last spring, Steve Jobs made a very public case against Flash on the iPhone and now the iPad – is there any update there?

Shantanu Narayen, Adobe Systems: I think it’s important to really remember what’s happening in the industry, which is we’re seeing a huge explosion of new devices. It’s actually about the future of the Internet and how content and applications are going to be delivered across the Internet. Adobe believes in it being an open system that’s going to prevail over time, and so what we’ve been doing is working with companies like Google with Android, and RIM with the PlayBook, Nokia, and HP. We want basically to do two things: For our content customers – we want to make sure that we provide them the best tools to deliver content across every one of these platforms, and for consumers we want to deliver the best Flash platform to be able to consume that content. I think it’s a non-issue with Apple in that they’ve made their decision. But we’re just all about creating content and enabling people to consume it.

Victoria Barret: A lot has changed even is less than a year now, and Apple has had a remarkable first-mover advantage. Do you think we are at the point where that first-mover advantage is no longer viable and they need to sort of loosen up a little bit – control of the iPhone and iPad environments?

Shantanu Narayen: Well, I think when you go to CES which I attended recently and you look at the proliferation of devices, it’s clear that Android – that’s bet on open system – is seeing remarkable adoption, and I think it’s again going to be about, do open ecosystems triumph in the end? Because you bring innovation of an entire ecosystem and that’s certainly the viewpoint that Adobe takes. Adobe actually allows our publishers right now to create both content for the iDevices as well as [since] Apple reduced their restrictions, we can actually provide applications. So you can build an application today in Flash and then convert it onto an iDevice – so we’ve made progress with the Apple platform as well.

Victoria Barret: How do you see this playing out in the next… let’s give you long timeframe – 5 years?

Shantanu Narayen: Well, if you put yourself in the shoes of customers, first for a publisher that wishes to get their content or applications out, fragmentation hurts. Because all you want to do…

Victoria Barret: It creates work.

Shantanu Narayen: Exactly, and what you want to do is just focus on your brand and focus on the customer and how can you get the most compelling content out, to as broad a customer base as possible. And so I think the way it plays out is, as fragment­ation occurs, Adobe has to step up and deliver the best tools in order to be able to help you with that authoring problem that you do have today.

Victoria Barret: The world will always be fragmented, we know that.

Shantanu Narayen: That’s correct. On the other hand, for consumption – the more we can provide our technology on multiple devices, we’ve had over 10 million smartphones already in the latter half of 2010 shipping with Flash. So the more we provide this really compelling, hi-fidelity runtime, we’re assuring you of the fact that your content will be consumed in the way in which you intended. So, I think it is going to be frag­mented, I think you are going to see a few platforms really gain disproportionate share, and I do think open ecosystems win out over the long run.

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• Engaging, interactive content – Bring engaging technical communications to life with support for 3D, SWF files, XML, and DITA.
• FrameMaker and RoboHelp integration – Import FrameMaker content into RoboHelp with support for the new hierarchical structure of FrameMaker books, directly link DITA maps, automatically convert table and list styles, and publish multiple RoboHelp outputs from within the native authoring environment.
• Full support for DITA standards – Take advantage of full DITA 1.1 and DITA 1.2 support to develop compelling training content.
• Complete and integrated solution – Easily work with the tools you need for authoring technical information, including books, documents, online help systems, knowledgebases, interactive training, and eLearning content.
• Best-in-class software components – Work with full new versions of Adobe professional tools for technical communicators, user assistance specialists, and instructional designers, including FrameMaker 10, RoboHelp 9, Adobe Captivate 5, Acrobat X Pro, and Photoshop CS5.

†Adobe Illustrator CS5 is not part of the suite and would be purchased separately.

Adobe TCS 3 includes the following components

• FrameMaker 10
• RoboHelp 9
• Captivate 5
• Acrobat X Pro
• Photoshop CS5
• Adobe Bridge CS5
• Device Central CS5
• Adobe CS Live online services*

*Adobe CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time.

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Adobe® FrameMaker® 10 is a fully integrated, template-based authoring and publishing solution for unstructured, structured, and XML/DITA content. Easily author and aggregate content with an enhanced user interface and standards-compliant tools and templates, quickly collaborate and review with out-of-the-box content management system (CMS) integration, and automatically schedule and publish via Adobe FrameMaker Server 10* to multiple channels such as PDF, HTML, WebHelp, Adobe AIR®, Adobe FlashHelp®, EPUB, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help, and Oracle Help. Save time with single sourcing, and better manage and repurpose existing content through out-of-the-box content repository integration.

Top 25 reasons to upgrade to Adobe FrameMaker 10

• Usability enhancements – Work more efficiently with standards-compliant, prebuilt tools and templates designed for easier authoring. Use utilities like Auto Spell Check, Highlight Support, scrolling for lengthy dialogue, and enhanced Find and Replace to get the job done faster and smarter.
• Extended rich media support – Select the right format and import a range of media files into Adobe FrameMaker 10. With comprehen­sive support for different video formats as well as SWF poster frame, you can easily add a slew of multimedia features to create more engaging, high-impact technical content.
• Automation through scripting – Easily automate time-consuming, repetitive tasks through advanced scripting support with ExtendScript. Run scripts for simple tasks from within Adobe FrameMaker or through the ExtendScript Toolkit to eliminate manual effort and increase productivity. Competently manage various kinds of scripts (registered, auto run and favorite) with a highly usable script catalog/library.
• Standards support for DITA 1.2 – Take advantage of comprehensive support for DITA 1.2 elements, and DITA 1.1, including Bookmap, Indexing, and Glossary specifications.
• Tools for easy DITA specialization – Easily meet consistency and authoring needs as well as specific output requirements while retaining the advantages of your existing DITA architecture by specializing DITA to create customized information models.
• Structured Application Creation Wizard – Benefit from a basic infrastructure for working with structured FrameMaker. With this highly intuitive, UI-based tool, users can start working with structured FrameMaker even if they don’t have any prior knowledge or training.
• Filtering by attribute – Take advantage of support for multivalued attributes and the ability to import expressions from one document to another.
• Enhanced tag view – Easily view all elements in a collapsible format, even in document view; hide or collapse parent and child elements individually or simultaneously; and search through and open elements, including those that are collapsed.
• Enhanced attribute editor – Define and edit attributes for declarations in markup to perform multiple functions: Record the status of content within elements, allow cross-referencing between elements, or specify how to format an element.
• Structure-level comparison of documents – Compare any two documents through the Compare Documents user interface — changes will be marked through Track Text Edits in the composite document.
• Multiple topicref insertion – Save time by inserting multiple topicrefs in one move.
• Documentum and SharePoint connectors – Smoothly integrate with content management systems via EMC Documentum 6.5 with Service Pack 1 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2 to perform search, read, write, delete, update, check-in, and checkout operations on configured repositories.
• Multiple format output with Adobe FrameMaker Server 10* – Output to multiple formats including PDF, EPUB, WebHelp, Adobe AIR, Eclipse Help, and Oracle Help from a single source document.
• Advanced scheduling and publishing capabilities with Adobe FrameMaker Server 10* – Create multiple build and automated publication tasks and schedule them to run at specified intervals. Select from one-time, daily, weekly, or monthly high-volume publication tasks.
• Shareable publishing task configuration with Adobe FrameMaker Server 10* – Reuse configurations for a publishing task across your organization to set up similar publishing tasks.
• Enhanced importing of comments from PDF files – Import comments with type highlights retained from PDF files into FrameMaker 10 with the Text Background Color feature.
• Repeat Last Operation – Quickly redo or correct errors with the powerful Repeat Last Operation feature, which allows you to repeat the last operation performed, from current insertions to text or object selections.
• Change tracking at book level – Save time with a host of powerful features to review and track changes across an entire book. Use review icons to navigate through a review by accepting individual changes or all changes, and view and edit changes from selected users.
• Drag-and-drop cut/paste feature – Simply drag and drop to cut elements from one DITA map and paste them into another.
• Table catalog creation – Manage and apply table formats with enhanced table catalog creation. View all table formats present in your document and apply or delete them easily.
• Formats and format overrides – Manage formats for paragraphs, characters, and tables from the existing catalog or create custom lists to be displayed. You can also create new formats and delete or override those that are unused or not useful.
• Easy-to-use RM view – Move back to the RM view in a single click, and take advantage of support for additional child and sibling elements.
• Conditional expressions – Generate conditional output using conditional tags combined with Boolean operators, and manage existing build expression.
• Alert suppression – Choose from a select list of alerts to disable those that you do not wish to see repeated.
• Text drag and drop and background color – Drag text, elements, and rows and columns from tables and drop them into new documents or applications to save time. Use the Background Color feature to emphasize and highlight important sections of text by adding color to the background, whether for sections of text or paragraphs.

*Adobe FrameMaker Server 10 is not part of FrameMaker 10, and is purchased separately.

Supported authoring environments

• Adobe Acrobat® 8, 9, or X
• Adobe Captivate® 4 or 5
• Adobe Illustrator® CS5
• Microsoft Word 2000, 2003, or 2007

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Adobe® RoboHelp® 9 is an easy-to-use solution for technical communicators to author, collaborate, personalize, and optimize content for help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledgebases for multichannel, multidevice publishing. Easily collaborate with other authors and subject matter experts (SMEs), and smoothly import content created with Adobe FrameMaker®.

Version 9 offers exciting new features including: Publish to eBook readers, mobile devices, tablet PCs, and more. Save time with reusable assets, automated context-sensitive help (CSH) authoring, and advanced dynamic user-centric content. Boost participation with community-authored content and external web content, engage your users with graphics, animations, and videos, and optimize your content based on usage patterns.

Top 23 reasons to upgrade to Adobe RoboHelp 9

• Automated context-sensitive help authoring – Speed up development time with automated context-sensitive help (CSH) authoring, improved Map ID, and live linking — no manually matching items or program­ming required.
• Next-generation collaboration and review workflows – Collaborate with authors, subject matter experts (SMEs), and end-users using Adobe PDF, live linking of shared resources, Adobe RoboHelp software review manage­ment, or Adobe AIR® Help with new advanced author-to-author, author-to-SME, and author-to-end-user features.
• Shared reusable resources – Save time and boost productivity by reusing assets across authors and projects. Maintain con­sistency and conform to organizational and industry standards using linked resources that can be updated simultaneously.
• Community-authored content – Enrich the quality of your content by adding Web 2.0 interactivity with enhanced Adobe AIR Help features that empower users to add comments and feedback, and generate relevant content independently.
• External web/community-authored content support – Create rich, interactive help content by providing access to external web content (Google search, blogs, wikis, forums, and so on) from your help system — just specify or preselect search metadata while authoring.
• Dynamic user-centric content – Improve the end-user experience by enabling personalized filtering of content. Author once with prespecified search metadata to allow users to search for relevant content that is dynamically filtered based on their role, geography, products, or operating system.
• Multichannel and multidevice publishing – Leverage the multichannel publishing versatility of Adobe RoboHelp 9 to distribute your output in WebHelp, XML, CHM/HTML Help, Print (Adobe PDF, .docx, .doc), Adobe AIR, electronic publication (EPUB), and others. Easily distribute your content to mobile devices, eBook readers, and tablets using ePublishing features.
• Moderation and storage of comments – Enable topic ratings, and public and private comments. Configure and moderate comments, or store outside the network via an Adobe AIR application.
• Advanced analytics – Gain valuable insight into usage patterns with customizable Adobe RoboHelp Server 9* software feedback reports. Leverage advanced reporting capabilities to import external data on topics, search terms, OS analytics, browsing patterns, and more.
• Browser, platform, and device support – Stay up to date with support for the latest browsers, platforms, and devices (eBook readers, mobile devices, tablet PCs, and more), and import or output Microsoft Word 2010 files.
• Adobe AIR Help Skin Editor – Achieve a more professional look by changing colors, styles, and fonts to match company branding and other specifications with the enhanced Adobe AIR Help Skin Editor.
• Adobe AIR reviews – Export your Adobe RoboHelp project as an Adobe AIR application for email-based or online reviews. Combine and manage comments from multiple reviewers into a single file.
• Live link support for Microsoft Word files – Import multiple Word files simultaneously, along with indexes, glossaries, and tables of contents. Easily map Word styles to Adobe RoboHelp styles. Repurpose Word content for HTML on import, and use markers to identify context-sensitive help topics.
• Scripting and automation support – Use new scripting features to generate custom reports, automate frequently used workflows, and even extend the functionality of Adobe RoboHelp. Take advantage of command-line support, an easy-to-use script management interface, and script-editing and debugging tools.
• Content curation and moderation-enabled commenting – Enable topic ratings, and public and private comments. Configure and moderate comments; store them on a corporate network or on the web via an Adobe AIR application.
• List and Table styles – Work with a completely enhanced CSS Style Editor that allows you to define and edit List and Table styles.
• Enhanced templates – Take advantage of enhanced support for master pages as well as advanced interface features such as breadcrumbs, mini tables of contents, and “see also” references.
• SharePoint publishing – Publish RoboHelp output to Microsoft SharePoint using Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path.
• Adobe Captivate® integration – Easily integrate Adobe Captivate show-me demos and how-to illustrations with your help files.
• Adobe RoboScreenCapture® utility – Take screen captures, edit screenshots, and export images to more than 20 image file formats with Adobe RoboScreenCapture.
• Adobe RoboSource Control™ – Use the built-in Adobe RoboSource Control™ application (or a third-party software version control application) to collaborate on projects. Restrict file access, view complete document histories, roll back to previous versions, and compare two versions of a file.
• Adobe RoboHelp Server 9* software – Deploy and manage the latest online content, and control and monitor the use of web-based help systems and knowledgebases in real time through a web interface. Gain valuable insight from customizable feedback reports on usage patterns, topics, search terms, and OS analytics.
• Content optimization leveraging advanced analytics – Gain valuable insight into usage patterns with customizable Adobe RoboHelp Server 9* software feedback reports.

*Adobe RoboHelp Server 9 is not a part of Adobe RoboHelp and is purchased separately.

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This year, as in years past, Adobe is sharing a holiday greetings card online that’s attracting thousands of visitors… And their card this year is all about finding inspiration.

Only this year, the tradition is even better – because for each viewer, Adobe will make a $1 donation to Mercy Corps to help children around the world. Mercy Corps is a global aid agency dedicated to helping people in the world’s toughest places through crises of natural disaster, poverty, and conflict.

So please take a moment to view Adobe’s Holiday Card 2010 (and be inspired), and you’ll also be helping Adobe and Mercy Corps help millions of young people around the globe.

As of this writing, the number of visitors (and dollars) is up to 11,260 – so this is adding up to be a significant contribution, at no cost to us…

Plus, it’s just a cool card. So please visit and then share and spread this post to increase our impact, and help reduce poverty around the world!

Previous years:

• Adobe’s Holiday Card 2006
• Adobe’s Holiday Card 2007
• Adobe Greeting Card 2008
• Adobe Good Thoughts 2009 (no longer available)

[UPDATE (December 17th) – A separate, new holiday greeting video from Adobe's XD Team (Experience Design) - and this one is all about multiscreen Flash... no donations but it's fun!]

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Some of these were truly hilarious and we’ve put together a reel of the best ones below. Perhaps the funniest of the 10-minute collection is the first one about new Adobe Acrobat X, but we’ll let you decide… Here’s the playlist:

Which one was your favorite? Share your vote and thoughts below…

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Introducing Adobe® Acrobat® X Suite. Maximize the power of Acrobat Dynamic PDF to help you deliver breakthrough business communications. Quickly capture, edit, and combine digital content – right from your desktop. Touch up and enhance digital images. Create captivating rich media presentations, complete with video clips, screen recordings, narrations, transitions, and clickable navigation. Easily create fillable forms from scratch or a variety of included business templates. Then assemble it all in a polished PDF Portfolio that anyone can experience with free Adobe Reader® software*.

Top 8 reasons to move up to Adobe Acrobat X Suite

• Create polished PDF Portfolios – Assem­ble documents, presentations, images, audio, video, screen recordings, spreadsheets, email, forms, and more into a PDF Portfolio. Apply layouts, visual themes, and color palettes that can be branded with your corporate logo and colors.
• Edit digital images – Add high-quality visuals to your business communications with unprecedented speed and control. Crop, resize, retouch, and color-correct photos. Remove backgrounds and erase image elements. Make colors more vibrant and add special effects.
• Create and deliver rich media demonstrations – Rapidly combine audio, video, screen recordings, slides, and more into rich media experiences. Simultaneously record narration and onscreen actions, including mouse movements and keyboard activity, to create engaging presentations – no programming expertise required.
• Turn presentations into rich media experiences – Quickly transform static PowerPoint slides into compelling, self-running presentations. With just a few clicks, you can easily add narration, videos, and interactivity to make your business presentations look – and sound – better than ever.
• Create fillable forms – Easily create professional business forms. Choose from a library of PDF form templates – including invoices, employment applications, expense reports, and supply requisitions – or design your own forms from scratch.
• Convert video formats – Convert a wide variety of video formats into Adobe Flash® Player compatible formats. Add them to any PDF file to enable easy playback in Adobe Reader® software* – no special media player required.
• Manage electronic reviews – Provide team members with a complete set of commenting and markup tools. Enable all reviewers to participate using free Adobe Reader*. See and build on one another’s comments, and track review progress and participation.
• Share files online at Acrobat.com – Use services at Acrobat.com to easily send large files with confidence. Upload documents into your online Workspaces at Acrobat.com to share files with individuals or teams inside or outside your organization.

* Reader 9 or Reader X required.

Adobe Acrobat X Suite includes the following components

• Acrobat X Pro – Prepare, protect, and deliver professional PDF communications.
• Photoshop® CS5 – Provide high-quality visuals for your business communications with the industry standard for image editing.
• Captivate® 5 – Rapidly combine audio, video, screen recordings, slides, and more into rich media experiences.
• Presenter 7 – Quickly transform static PowerPoint slides into compelling, interactive presentations.
• LiveCycle® Designer ES2 – Create professional forms from templates or design them from scratch.
• Media Encoder CS5 – Convert a wide variety of video formats into an Adobe Flash® Player compatible format.

Video: Acrobat X in 5 Minutes

Upgrade Information

Customers who own the following products are eligible for discounted upgrade pricing to Adobe Acrobat X Suite:

• Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional, 8 Professional, 9 Pro, or X Pro
• Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 7 or 8
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended
• Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4, or CS5
• Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4, or CS5 Extended
• Adobe Captivate 3, 4, or 5

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Introducing Adobe® Acrobat® X Pro software. Experience the full power of Adobe Dynamic PDF to deliver next-generation PDF communications. Combine a wide variety of file types including video, audio, and interactive media into a polished, professional PDF Portfolio – and then customize your Portfolios with an all-new collection of professionally designed layouts, visual themes, and color palettes. Use the new Action Wizard to automate, standardize, and share multistep tasks. Gain the feedback you need, faster, through easy-to-manage electronic reviews. Search and reuse scanned content with greater accuracy through improved optical character recognition (OCR). Create and distribute fillable PDF forms to collect critical data. Seamlessly integrate PDF files into SharePoint workflows. And confidently store and share documents through easy-to-use services at Acrobat.com.

Top 16 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Acrobat X Pro

• Assemble PDF Portfolios – Quickly assemble a wide range of file types into polished, organized PDF Portfolios using the new PDF Portfolio Wizard. Customize using new professionally designed layouts, visual themes, and color palettes. Import custom PDF Portfolio layouts and themes developed by third-party developers and designers.
• Automate tasks with the Action Wizard – Save time and standardize processes by automating routine, multistep tasks in a guided Action. Create, manage, execute, and share a sequence of frequently used steps that can be applied to single PDF files or batches of files.
• Improve scanning results – Scan and convert paper documents and forms to PDF. Export smoothly to Word or Excel formats. Enjoy improved optical character recognition (OCR), up to 50% smaller file sizes, greater image fidelity, and automatic color detection.
• Integrate with SharePoint – Work seamlessly with PDF files stored in Microsoft SharePoint. Access SharePoint from any Acrobat Open or Save dialog box. Open PDF files from SharePoint for viewing. Check them out to edit, and then check them back in after editing.
• Streamline commenting – Access markup tools and view comments from a single, unified tool pane. View all comments in a searchable list that can be filtered and sorted by page, author, and date.
• Create interactive forms – Easily convert existing forms into fillable PDF forms with intelligent form field recognition, or design them yourself using included templates. Track and manage responses within Acrobat. Collect data quickly and export to spreadsheets for analysis. Acrobat X Pro on Windows includes Adobe LiveCycle® Designer ES2, a graphical tool for creating fillable forms for Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, and Acrobat Server products.
• Extend Adobe Reader – Enable Adobe Reader* users to fully participate in shared document reviews, fill and save forms, and digitally sign and approve PDF documents – regardless of platform or operating system.
• Access frequently used tools – Quickly access the tools you use most – from your favorite PDF document editing tools to your most often used commenting and markup tools – by adding them to the Quick Tools area.
• Optimize PDF file viewing – Maximize your screen for optimal reading and presentation of PDF files with the new Reading Mode. Menus and panels disappear, and a transparent floating toolbar appears, to help you navigate PDF files more easily.
• Improved web experience – Open online PDF documents faster and easier to experience streamlined loading and viewing.
• Work with Office 2010 – Create PDF files with a single click from within the most popular Microsoft Office 2010 applications – including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, and Access, as well as specialized applications like Microsoft Project and Visio.
• Permanently remove information – Use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive information, including specific text or illustrations. Easily find all information contained in a document, including metadata, annotations, attachments, form fields, layers, and book­marks, and delete as needed.
• Compare PDF documents – Eliminate confusion and improve version control. Easily identify differences between two versions of a PDF file by having Acrobat analyze both files and highlight changes to text and images.
• Include rich media – Quickly bring ideas to life through rich, interactive documents. Insert audio, Adobe Flash® Player compatible video, and interactive media into PDF files for seamless playback in Adobe Reader.*
• Comply with PDF and accessibility standards – Confirm that your documents conform to PDF/A, PDF/E, and PDF/X ISO standards, and fix those that do not. Check and adjust documents to help ensure that they are accessible to people with disabilities.
• Share files online at Acrobat.com – Use services at Acrobat.com to easily send large files with confidence (Adobe SendNow). Upload documents into your online Workspaces at Acrobat.com to share files with individuals or teams inside or outside your organization.

* Reader 9 or Reader X required.

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Upgrade Information

Customers who own the following products are eligible for discounted upgrade pricing to Adobe Acrobat X Pro:

• Adobe Acrobat 7, 8, 9, or X Standard
• Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional, 8 Professional, or 9 Pro
• Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 7 or 8
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended

Step up to Acrobat X Suite

Before you choose, consider getting Acrobat X Pro as part of the new Acrobat X Suite. Deliver breakthrough business communications with the ability to quickly capture, edit, and combine rich digital content to create exceptional PDF experiences. Also includes Adobe Photoshop® CS5, Captivate® 5, Presenter 7, LiveCycle® Designer ES2, and Media Encoder CS5.

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There’s a cool new art museum that’s just opened, and it’s available to anyone, anytime, anywhere, at no cost… It’s the Adobe Museum of Digital Media, a first-of-its-kind, all-digital venue created to showcase all forms of digital art and media. As digital media is Adobe’s business, we’ve been looking forward to this space opening its doors…

And the setting does not disappoint. You get the idea like you’re at a museum of the future, with a stunning cityscape intro to the unique building and its exhibit hall. The striking structure was designed and modeled by an architect even though it exists only in cyberspace. Holo­graphic videos from the curator and a cyborg jellyfish (with a euro-diva voice) are your primary guides, and you have the feeling like you’ve snuck into your very own “night at the museum” with a cavernous, futuristic, even cinematic atmosphere.

The details of the first major exhibition now open can be found here. The works are not static, and visitors to invited to explore the interactivity and possibilities of the (Flash-based) medium. Like physical museums, there will be rotating artists, new shows, and expanding collections – and this is a good thing since modern art can be hit or miss as to whether it speaks to you personally. Once you enter the building, you can sign up for a free charter member­ship with your email to receive advance notice and previews of future exhibits, access to seminars, and other exclusive events.

Anyway, it’s all very slick and worth checking out for a peek into the future today. While it won’t replace a physical visit to MoMA, with everything else moving online this is another sign of the digital times.

About the Museum

The mission of the new Adobe Museum of Digital Media is to showcase and preserve groundbreaking digital work and expert commentary to illustrate how digital media shapes and impacts today’s society.

Open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, and accessible anywhere, AMDM is a place to reflect on the importance and impact of digital media in our lives. The museum is an ever-chang­ing repository of eclectic exhibits. Shows will be curated by leaders in art, technology, and business to inspire fresh conversations about our constantly evolving digital landscape.

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Incredible movies, effortlessly! Adobe® Premiere® Elements 9 makes it easier than ever to create and share entertaining movies and work with all your media. PRE 9 delivers powerful, automated moviemaking options, professional-quality effects, and optimized HD and SD editing. Automatically organize all your video clips and photos. Easily fix audio problems to give your movie high-quality sound from start to finish. Treat family and friends to convenient, interactive web DVD viewing experiences and on disc. Quickly share videos and photos on mobile devices, Facebook, and YouTube. And now enjoy a complete solution for videos whether you use Windows or Mac OS.

Top 15 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Premiere Elements 9

• Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product – Use Premiere Elements 9 for all your video needs. Import and organize your video clips, and edit them together yourself or use automated options. Make your movies look like professional productions with amazing special effects, sound, titles, and Hollywood-style motion menus. Quickly share via the web, disc, and virtually anywhere else.
• Create a polished movie instantly – Take advantage of creative techniques from Hollywood directors with InstantMovie, which automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, effects, and transitions from your choice of movie theme. Customize anything to get just the results you envision. All-new themes are included.
• Easily import from compact camcorders and more – Easily bring in video from compact camcorders like Flip cameras and DSLR still cameras.
• Quickly share videos and photos on Facebook – Conveniently share videos and photos on Facebook directly from the Organizer, which automatically optimizes your media so it looks its best.
• Enjoy optimized HD editing – Experience fluid responsiveness and high performance when editing video, even HD.
• Easily fix audio issues – Easily reduce background noise and fix problems with audio volume and clarity so your movie has high-quality sound from start to finish.
• Save time with automated options – Make movies with less effort. Adobe Premiere Elements can automatically fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems, trim away all but your best footage, and balance audio elements to give you professional-quality sound throughout your movie.
• Share in an exciting new way on the web – Debut your movie with a convenient, interactive web DVD viewing experience. Easily share your movie – complete with a scene index and chapter menus – on your own website.
• Quickly find the clips you’re looking for – Want to find your best video clips or clips that meet a particular set of criteria? The Auto-Analyzer automatically tags your footage and photos for quality and interest, and a variety of smart search options makes it easy to zero in on just what you need.
• Jazz up the action – Give your movie an eye-catching cartoon look. Choose from a variety of animation styles, and customize as you wish.
• Make movies with drag-and-drop ease – Create your story fast in the Sceneline, an easier alternative to the more traditional video-editing Timeline. Make your movie by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails of your clips, transitions, and effects.
• Add professional-quality effects and transitions – Add entertaining graphics that automatically follow the action in your movie. Easily combine elements from different scenes for entertaining results. And add visual appeal with hundreds of amazing special effects and TV-style transitions, including several brand new options.
• Energize your movies with music – Use SmartSound to add a variety of musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to perfectly match the length of your movie. Even synchronize scenes to the beat of your soundtrack.
• Conveniently share your movie and enjoy the latest technology – Follow easy steps to create your movie once and then share it on disc, the web, or mobile devices – even treat friends and family to an interactive web DVD viewing experience. Share on high-quality HD or Blu-ray Disc so you can enjoy your movie on virtually any screen, from your iPod to your HD flat screen TV.
• Now available for Mac – If you use a Mac for your videos, you can now enjoy the power and simplicity of Adobe Premiere Elements software. Choose automated options to effortlessly create incredible movies or enhance your movies with professional-quality effects and Hollywood-style motion menus. Then share your movies on the web, disc, and virtually everywhere else.

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Plus

Get everything you need for your videos and photos and the convenience to do so much more. Includes everything in the award-winning software product, and more:

• Protect precious memories with 20GB of storage for automatic online backup – enough to protect up to four hours of DVD-quality video or 15,000 photos.
• Boost your creativity with access to exclusive libraries of how-tos and creative extras.
• Learn new tricks with ongoing delivery of easy-to-use how-to’s.
• Keep the creative sparks flying with ongoing delivery of seasonal artwork, templates, and Online Albums.

Sign up for Premiere Elements 9 Plus

Do you also take digital photos?

Consider getting the Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 & Premiere Elements 9 bundle, a complete photo- and video-editing solution. Create extraordinary photos and incredible movies, and use them together in entertaining ways.

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Simply unlimited! Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 9 delivers powerful yet easy-to-use editing options that help you tell your life stories in amazing ways. With PSE 9, it’s easier than ever to create great-looking photos and printed mementos and to automatically organize all your media. Instantly unclutter or repair photos with the enhanced Spot Healing Brush. Easily match the style of a favorite photo to another photo. Use Guided Edits to create stunning pop art, reflection, and portrait effects. Quickly share photos and videos on Facebook; in Online Albums; and in printed photo books, cards, calendars, and more that look just the way you want. And now enjoy a complete solution for photos whether you use Windows or Mac.

Top 18 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Elements 9

• Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product – Use Photoshop Elements 9 for all your photo needs. Manage, edit, and enhance photos; make photo creations that look just the way you want; and share in print, on the web, and on popular devices.
• Instantly unclutter or repair photos – Is your photo cluttered with telephone wires, tourists, or passing cars? Make unwanted elements vanish with one stroke of the enhanced Spot Healing Brush, which beautifully blends even the most complex background. Also instantly fix old or torn photos so you can make new prints.
• Create stunning photo effects – Easily create stunning effects that enhance your photos with professional style. New Guided Edits help you create pop art masterpieces, reflection effects, perfect portraits, and more.
• Create richly layered photos – Bring new sophistication to your photos. Reveal one portion of a photo through another photo by using layer masks to control the transparency of specific areas.
• Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds – Get just the photo fixes you’re looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth and make skies a vibrant blue. When you perform one-step photo adjustments – including color, contrast, and lighting – you can quickly choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews.
• Conveniently print photo creations at home – Admire and share your photos in custom wall calendars, greeting cards, and photo books that you can print with your home printer.
• Quickly share photos and videos on Facebook – Conveniently share photos and videos on Facebook directly from the Organizer, which automatically optimizes your media so it looks its best. Or share to Flickr, Shutterfly, Kodak, YouTube, SmugMug, or Photoshop.com.
• Experience the ultimate media-management hub – Quickly organize all your media in one convenient place. Find your best photos and clips – or photos that feature specific people – fast, thanks to automated options. Then dive into a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.
• Easily create the perfect photo – Take advantage of amazing Photomerge technology to easily match the style of one photo to another – create perfectly lit images, great group shots, and combine elements of different faces for entertaining results. Enhance and expand your panoramic scenes by magically filling in the jagged edges, stitching together multiple horizontal or vertical photos.
• Count on step-by-step assistance – Want to easily fix a scratch, create a reflection effect, or design a scrapbook page? Get help with key steps to get the results you want fast.
• Match a favorite photo style – Want to imitate a favorite photography style, like a dramatic high contrast or a beautiful color tone? Photomerge Style Match analyzes the stylistic qualities of any photo you choose and then automatically applies those qualities to another photo.
• Show off your creativity with flexible layouts – Make amazing printed photo creations like scrapbook pages, photo books, calendars, and cards. Choose your level of control: Create in minutes using professionally designed templates, or let your creativity run wild and access every photo-editing option from directly within your layout. Get fun, fresh looks with new artwork and templates.
• Create the way you want – Make photo creations the way that works best for you thanks to Basic and Advanced design modes that let you choose your level of control.
• Dramatically transform your photos with easy-to-use options – Convert your color originals to elegant, nuanced black-and-whites, or use color curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure.
• Get just the right look – Access every photo-editing option from within your creation layouts so you can customize any detail you wish.
• Get a complete photo solution for Macs – Use a Mac for your photos? You can now experience the ultimate media-management hub for organizing your photos, and quickly find your best photos and video clips – or photos that feature specific people – thanks to automated options.
• Enjoy support for Mac multitouch – Take advantage of the hands-on capabilities of Mac multitouch technology.
• Share experiences in fresh, exciting ways on the web – Show off your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of animated templates, including all-new options for sharing photos and videos together with music. Adobe Flash® technology lets viewers interact with your photos for an entertaining experience.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 Plus

Get everything you need for your photos and videos and the convenience to do so much more. Includes everything in the award-winning software product, and more:

• Protect precious memories with 20GB of storage for automatic online backup – enough to protect up to four hours of DVD-quality video or 15,000 photos.
• Boost your creativity with access to exclusive libraries of how-tos and creative extras.
• Learn new tricks with ongoing delivery of easy-to-use how-to’s.
• Keep the creative sparks flying with ongoing delivery of seasonal artwork, templates, and Online Albums.

Sign up for Photoshop Elements 9 Plus

Do you also take digital video?

Consider getting the Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 & Premiere Elements 9 bundle, a complete photo- and video-editing solution. Create extraordinary photos and incredible movies, and use them together in entertaining ways.

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Up until now, iPhone/iPad apps built with a new technology in Adobe CS5 known as the Packager for iPhone were not accepted in Apple’s App Store – meaning existing multi­platform Flash applications could technically be recompiled run as native iOS apps, but could not easily be made available to the broader public. But this is all changed now – and suggests that a wealth of new apps will be coming soon to Apple’s smartphones, benefiting both users and developers alike…

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We are continually trying to make the App Store even better. We have listened to our developers and taken much of their feedback to heart. Based on their input, today we are making some important changes to our iOS Developer Program license in sections 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.9 to relax some restrictions we put in place earlier this year.

In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while preserving the security we need.

Now this applies solely to self-contained mobile apps and games, and not to the Adobe Flash Player – so it won’t suddenly make dynamic Flash web content work within the iPhone and iPad browsers, but it’s nonetheless a major policy shift by Apple and huge step towards healing the rift betweeen these two behemoths that has so often left developers and end-users caught in the middle.

Apple also for the first time is publishing their official App Store Review Guidelines to help developers better understand how the company reviews (and accepts or rejects) submitted apps. So this will help increase transparency, which has also been an point of controversy – and makes for good news all around.

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Following our tradition of providing the direct download links for major Adobe products such as CS5.5, CS4 and CS3, Captivate 5, Photoshop Lightroom 3 and Elements 10, below you’ll find all the DDL for the recently-released Adobe Flash Player 10.1. This is important because the free Flash Player is the most widely-used and often-downloaded software in world, and some folks find it easier to gain access without a download manager (Akamai/Adobe DLM), or with their own DLM, and without additional products or toolbars included.

Check your current Adobe Flash Player version: What version are you running now?

Adobe Flash Player is a cross-platform browser-based application runtime that delivers uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across screens and browsers. Flash is the standard for engaging PC experiences – 99% of PCs worldwide have Flash Player installed and 85% of the top 100 websites use Flash. Approximately 75% of online videos are viewed and 70% of web games are delivered using Adobe Flash technology. More than 3.5 million designers and developers use the Flash Platform to deliver expressive content and applications that run consistently across the widest reach of browsers, operating systems, and devices.

So, without further ado, here are the direct download links – just click to download and install:

For Windows 7/Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000

 » Download Flash Player 10.1 for Internet Explorer (IE) browsers

 » Download Flash Player 10.1 for non-IE browsers (Firefox, Opera, etc.)

For Mac OS X 10.4 – 10.6

 » Download Flash Player 10.1 for Safari, Firefox, Opera

Resources

• Adobe Flash Player installation instructions
• Adobe Flash Player full system requirements
• Verify/test installed version of Adobe Flash Player
• Troubleshoot installation problems with Adobe Flash Player
• Configure Adobe Flash Player settings after installation
• Uninstall Adobe Flash Player

What’s New in Flash Player 10.1?

Flash Player 10.1 is redesigned from the ground up with new performance, stability, and mobile-ready features, and is the first release to bring the full Web across desktops and devices. The new release delivers expressive content to personal computers, smartphones, tablets, smartbooks, and netbooks, and can take advantage of native device capabilities including multitouch, gestures, mobile input models, and accelerometer input.

New hardware acceleration support delivers smooth, high-quality video with minimal overhead to mobile devices and personal computers using audio and H.264 video decoding. Added capabilities such as Smart Rendering, Smart Zooming, Smart Seek, Sleep Mode, and Advanced Out-of-Memory Management help drive efficiency and reliability gains. As a result, the reduced memory and CPU consumption help increase battery life on mobile devices.

Finally, expanded options for high-quality media delivery provide new ways to deliver rich Internet experiences using HTTP Dynamic Streaming, content protection, and improved support for live events, buffer control, globalization, and peer-assisted networking.

Learn more about the new features.

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