While we’re waiting for Creative Suite 5 to ship (any day now so take advantage of the grace period if you can), here’s a pithy interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen talking about the product line on the day of its launch. Entitled “Suite” News from Adobe, Narayen discusses CS5 upgrades, content creation, Flash, mobile devices, Apple, Steve Jobs, Android, Omniture, cloud computing, and new online services:

Also wanted to mention there’s just one day left in our Free Photoshop CS5 Giveaway…

Adobe MAX 2010
October 23–27, 2010
Los Angeles Convention Center and
Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE
Los Angeles, California

At Adobe MAX 2010, you’ll discover the next wave of opportunities fueled by the explosion of rich content and applications across multiple screens (from smart phones to tablets to PCs to TVs), the merging of digital content and commerce, and workflows that bring design and development together. MAX is an experience unlike any other – for five unforgettable days, MAX 2010 will bring together thousands of designers, developers, and decision-makers to set the course for the next generation of digital experiences.

Join the leading innovators of the greater Adobe community with more than 100 hands-on labs and 200 sessions and explore the latest trends, techniques, and technologies in the Adobe Flash® Platform and get extensive training on Creative Suite® 5, Flash Professional CS5, Flex®, Acrobat®, ColdFusion®, AIR®, and LiveCycle®.

MAX 2010 will be hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center and Nokia Theatre, part of L.A. LIVE, an exciting entertainment campus offering world-class restaurants and venues.

Should be amazing with all the new products rolling out this year… Learn more and register now or get on the mailing list.

[UPDATE (July 1st) – Save $400 off a full conference pass with the new promotion here. Or if you are a full-time college student aged 18 years or older, you can save even more and get it for the greatly-discounted price of $199. See details at the MAX site.]

[UPDATE – Adobe has stepped up their hiring lately, with hundreds of openings in the USA and internationally - see their current job listings...]

It looks like Adobe is hiring:

Work for Adobe building Great Experiences out of California!

MARCH 5, 2010

As we build out our capability to deliver innovative, customer-centric experiences with our platform technologies upon our enterprise technologies, we’re creating a Solution Center in our San Jose office. The solution center is a fantastic innovation-space, where a team of designers, developers and quality engineers will work together to create incredible experiences alongside Adobe partners, on behalf of some of our most strategic customers.

If you’re a developer, designer or quality engineer who thinks you could be a pivotal part of this initiative, then please check out Peter Martin’s blog post and drop him a note.

Have you heard of other tech companies hiring right now? Feel free to let other readers know with a comment below.

Or search 50,000 current job openings requiring Adobe skills.

Just a quick post because I thought you might be interested in this, on the making of Avatar:

– Watch a full-screen video from the movie’s producer on how Adobe software was used throughout.

– Download the free interactive Avatar app.

(The first link comes from the new AdobeTV site where you can check out dozens of free online training videos for all of Adobe’s products, covering everything from “getting started” tutorials to advanced “how-to” guides with tips and tricks, etc.)

Welcome.  This isn’t an official Adobe blog - but as an Authorized Adobe Affiliate for many years, we hear about a lot of good stuff coming out of San Jose… 

A healthy amount on new product features and news, but even more so on offers, coupons, freebies and other helpful goodies. Much of this remains hidden or ‘underknown’ unless you follow the company closely… But on this blog and in coming content, we hope to share a few of these great things and help them see more of the light of day.

For example, that Adobe is almost always offering some good specials and promos, and you can always find them here: http://www.AdobeSpecials.com

Or that you can instantly download a 100% fully-functional 30-day free trial of almost any Adobe product here: http://www.AdobeTrials.com

Or that there’s a huge online library of free training and tutorial videos for all of Adobe’s software at: http://ProDesignTools.com/AdobeTV

Or yet another, that Adobe even gives away some of its design tools for free to certain lucky audiences at: http://ProDesignTools.com/FreeTools

So stay tuned, we’ll get started right away with finding and digging in more to some of these scoops.