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The HP Slate’s resemblance to Apple’s iPad looks to be no more than skin deep. Sure, the two devices do basically do the same thing, but Slate looks to offer a bit more potential, if the HP/Abode promotional videos are to believed, with Windows 7 and Flash support. The tiff between Apple and Adobe raises some key concern about the quality of the Flash application.

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Earlier this week security researcher Aviv Raff warned of a potentially serious security bug in Adobe’s Download Manager that could expose users to a zero-day attack. At the time, Adobe said it was aware of the issue and working on a patch. Fast forward to today and Adobe has released a security update intended to plug up the security hole. The update affects certain users who downloaded Adobe Reader for Windows or Adobe Flash Player for Windows prior to February 23, 2010

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One of the bigger complaints with Apple’s recently announced (and long hyped) iPad is that it doesn’t support Flash, which some feel renders the $500+ tablet little more than a fashionable paperweight. That’s not such a bad thing in Jobs’ eyes, at least according to a report in Valleywag in which the feud between Apple and Adobe took a turn for the bitter . As the story goes, Jobs shot down Adobe’s Flash as little more than “a CPU hog” riddled with “security holes” and “old technology,” so why bother including it in the iPad? His alleged comments echo a similar sentiment shared during a shareholder meeting two years ago when Jobs explained why Flash wouldn’t be integrated into the iPhone, saying the PC Flash version “performs too slow to be useful” and that Flash Lite “is not capable of being used with the Web.” Anyone think Apple and Adobe will eventually kiss and make up? Image Credit: Wired

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The venerable picture editing software Photoshop turns 20 this week, with celebrations re-uniting the team that designed it, as well as on – of course – Facebook and Twitter . Photoshop has become the byword for picture editing , and is seemingly ubiquitous in the modern world. The National Association of Photoshop Professionals in the US will be hosting an anniversary party in San Francisco, with plenty of guests. Adobe, the company behind the software, will have a broadcast bringing together the team that created Photoshop to discuss and demonstrate their work

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Today at Mobile World Congress Google showed off a new piece of software that may prevent untold thousands of cultural misunderstandings. The prototype software allows a user to upload a photo of text, and then translate it to a different language . In the demo, the application was used on a German menu where it correctly translated “Fruhlingssalat mit Wildkrautern” as “spring salad with wild herbs.” The app was running on an Android phone, but few details were released. It could be this is just some unreleased feature in Google Goggles

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Adobe on Monday announced it has joined the LiMo foundation, an industry consortium “dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent” Linux OS for mobile devices. The move will have Adobe bringing its Flash platform to the LiMo platform, enabling developers and content providers to create apps that can run on LiMo devices. “Bringing the Flash platform to LiMo opens up a significant opportunity for Adobe to further its goals of open standards and multi-screen interoperability of rich mobile content,” said David Wadhwani, general manger and vice president, Flash Platform Business at Adobe. “Following the goals of the Open Screen Project, the openness of Linux and the Flash platform represent a common vision to enable consumers to engage with rich Internet experiences seamlessly across any device, anywhere.” In addition to Adobe, the LiMo foundation said it also added ELSE Ltd. MobiTV, and SRS Labs to its ranks.

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Adobe has announced that it has received a huge number of download requests for Flash on the iPhone OS platform. The software developer said that in December alone it saw seven million requests for Flash for the iPod touch and iPhone, highlighting the desire for it from consumers (who presumably aren’t familiar with the ongoing saga between the two companies). While Apple and Adobe said they would be collaborating on Flash video for the iPhone in the future that promise is still to be realised, with relations between the companies seemingly getting worse. “It’s your fault… no it’s YOUR fault” Steve Jobs apparently called Adobe ‘lazy’ for not making a less buggy version of the platform for the iPhone and iPad.

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By now, you’ve surely checked out Mark Soper’s excellent guide for creating PDFs by using a multitude of applications, editing steps, and detail settings. If not, you owe it to yourself to give the article a scan so you’re as well-versed as he when it comes to transforming ordinary files into these kinds of feature-packed super-documents. As he correctly puts it, Adobe ain’t the only game in town when you’re trying to turn the contents of something you’re looking at into this trusty, cross-platform format.  Let’s go one step further.  Installed programs aren’t the only way to create a PDF, period.  If you’re on a new computer (or, for that matter, your boss’s computer), you might not want to fire up the ol’ Adobe installer just to be able to gain the right to transform your screen into a PDF.  And sure, there are plenty of freeware opportunities out there that will allow you to print to a PDF.  But that’s still too many steps in the process.  It’s 4:59 on a Friday: You want to make a PDF, hit the power button on your PC, and be able to drink one-third of your “it’s the weekend” celebratory iced tea before your monitor goes black.  What are you going to do? If the answer is “cry,” then you have failed this exercise.  But let it not be said that my heart is two sizes too small.  For a little Web app exists–conveniently called PDFmyURL–that does exactly that.  Provided the subject of your affection is a Web page of any size, shape, or extension… you will be able to transform it into a downloadable PDF as fast as you’ll be able to finish reading the rest of this sentence.

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You know Adobe’s portable document format: PDF. It’s everywhere, from downloadable documentation for a motherboard you need to tweak to press releases from the assemblyman from Lower Someplace, PDFs rule. Why?

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If all the talk of HTML 5 has piqued your curiosity, then you may want to give YouTube’s new HTML 5 experiment a try. The world’s most popular video streaming portal is now offering a HTML5-based alternative to the Adobe Flash player . But the YouTube HTML 5 video player is only compatible with three browsers: Chrome, Safari, and  Internet Explorer with  ChromeFrame.

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