Adobe Creative Cloud Is Available For Rent

As expected, Adobe sells from today the Creative Cloud successor to the Creative Suite offering. This new version abandons the boxed software or paid download in favor of new versions only available with a monthly subscription. As the editor explains on his blog, these new versions are also an opportunity to integrate hundreds of news. Adobe makes several advantages to the cloud which is now mandatory, including storing documents online (20 GB basic 100GB for trade services). To manage the synchronization of data and organize files, a new application appeared on your computer. With Creative Cloud, you can also synchronize the preferences of its software between computers, including Mac vs. your PC. The editor states that this software will evolve: term, Creative Cloud app should be real service synchronization with versioning to go back, but also the ability to share a folder with just a few users. These can comment shared and comments appear in the software elements. An iOS app is also provided to access files from a mobile device. Adobe has added other services to enrich its offering in the cloud. Integration with Behance a social sharing site which is dedicated to sharing creations and bought by the publisher last year is also made. We can send the work directly from the software that make up the suite in the cloud, with the advantage of automatically update the document when you edit on your computer. This service also allows you to quickly create an accessible like any portfolio site.

If you need training, Creative Cloud subscription provides access to hundreds of tutorials. The publisher announced that two hundred new features have been added to the database. Adobe also offers future full access to 700 Type kit fonts, you can see in this video integration service from Photoshop. Each software suite has been updated each time with dozens of new features, large and small. Not everything mentioned here, but Adobe has updated the various pages of the website with the novelties presented often with videos. Photoshop CC example, there dozens of new features including a new filter sharpness, ability to edit vector shapes (rounded rectangles in particular), the selection of multiple vector shapes or a dedicated tool to reduce tremors of a camera. For more information, please refer to this article which referred in detail these developments. Many new programs Illustrator CC with, among others, a more advanced text editing tool which manages each letter independently search module fonts and synchronization of fonts from Typekit, import multiple files at once and export CSS or color synchronization with iPhone application. Integrated into the Adobe cloud the Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition adds features to InDesign to create DC iPad applications.

The editor says that it is not necessary to type a single line of code to obtain a ready application to use. About this software, the publisher also mentions increased performance through the transition to 64-bit, a modernized and more consistent interface, management Retina screens, looking for fonts and the ability to select as favorites or creating QR codes. In another area, Premiere Pro CC improves too. Editing your video is more accurate with a revised timeline, the software makes it easier to find the original source files that make up your installation, you can control the audio more precisely, you can use the Apple ProRes and the engine has been revised with the OpenCL and CUDA to accelerate treatment management. If you create websites, Dreamweaver CC incorporates some new features, including an improved CSS editor to quickly create gradients or shadows, the ability to create websites responsive (automatically adapted to every screen size) faster or the integration of jQuery UI widgets or management CSS3 transitions.

For smaller needs, Muse DC also changing; Creative integration of cloud services including Behance, adding a parallax effect very fashionable to scroll (below) or the ability to change the site from the browser and sending the changes to the software. The Creative Cloud is only available with a monthly subscription; you cannot buy it once and use it for life. The editor has been simplified to maximize its fee schedule, even if Adobe should consider special cases, including businesses. This subscription does not mean that you need a permanent internet access. In fact, it will always download locally the software you want to use, Adobe says you can disconnect once it's done. The only constraint is a connection about month to verify that you can still use the Creative Cloud. If your subscription is no longer valid, the software will not work from that time. In return, you have free access to all the news while you remain subscribed.

Facebook may unveil its own RSS reader

The number one social network Face book will hold a press conference on Thursday to introduce a new service. It could be an RSS reader, traces of which were found in the code of Facebook pages. On July 1, the RSS reader Google Reader will be decommissioned to the chagrin of users, but for the satisfaction of the competition was quickly positioned to take over. But Digg, Feedly, Flipboard, Taptu Leed and others may well see a very serious rival is none other than Facebook. Last week, a young developer has found references to an RSS feed in the code of social network which suggests an alternative to Google Reader is in preparation. Moreover, Facebook has announced it will hold a press conference on June 20 to unveil a "big idea". To imagine that there is the famous RSS reader, there is a step that the specialized press immediately crossed. Cleverly integrated into the interface, such a tool would sense because it would allow Facebook to further centralize some content consumption of its members. Appointment is given on Thursday to verify all.

Nokia stops production of Symbian devices from this summer

According to the Financial Times, Nokia deliver the latest Symbian devices in July. The Finnish firm has turned to Windows Phone and its family of entry-level mobile like Asha. Soon Nokia stop making instruments based on Symbian OS devices. This is the information got through the Financial Times and saying that the latest models will be shiped this summer. In fact, Nokia has not released new models from the 808 PureView and its 41 megapixel camera sensor marketed mid-2012. The priority is to the Windows Phone with which Nokia controls more than 80% market share thanks to the Lumia 920 and 710. The manufacturer has passed 5.6 million devices in its first quarter 2013 alone. Besides Windows Phone, Nokia remains on the feature phones segment with Asha range, the last model Asha 501 is expected this summer in the market for 109 Euros without subscription. This phone is the first to use as the new operating system software platform Asha becomes an operating system as such to replace Symbian.

Google launches balloons internet!

The balloons that Google launched this week from an icy place of the South Island of New Zealand looked wrinkled and flabby at first, but it was getting stiff as totaled by the blue winter sky over Lake Tekapo, and spent the first big test of a higher goal: to bring Internet access to the entire planet. It was the culmination of 18 months work at Google called Project Loon. Developed in the same secret laboratory that produced the automatic driving car and goggles and this helium-filled aerostats Internet content transmitted to earth in its path. Still in the experimental stage, balloons were the first of thousands that Google expects to launch at an altitude of 20 kilometers in order to close the digital divide between 4,800 million people without internet connection and its 2,200 million online counterparts. If successful, the technology could allow some countries to avoid the expense of installing fiber optic cabling, and increase the use of internet in places like Africa and Southeast Asia. "It's something really ambitious.

A really huge target to chase, "said project leader Mike Cassidy.”The power of the Internet is perhaps one of the technologies of our era with greater power to transform." The first person who had access to the internet with a globe of Google this week was Charles Nimmo, a farmer and businessman from the town of Leeston. He was one of 50 people who signed up as testers of a project that was so secret that no one told them what was happening. The technicians went home and installed red receptors basketballs size. Nimmo had internet access about 15 minutes before the balloon transmitter remained out of reach. The first thing on the net was to review the weather forecast, because I wanted to know if it was good time to shear his sheep. Nimmo is one of many rural dwellers, even in developed countries, lack access to broadband. She canceled her phone dial-up four years ago to hire satellite service, but sometimes bills exceeded $ 1,000 per month. "It was weird," said Nimmo on the internet experience with balloons. "But it's exciting to be part of something new." Project-Loon-Google balloons fly where the wind takes them out of the reach of the human eye. Obtain energy with a solar panel to charge four hours a day to operate.

On land, internet link stations located 100 kilometers transmit the signal to the balloons. The signals are relayed balloon to balloon. Each balloon covers a service area of about 1,250 square kilometers, twice the size of New York City. And the terrain is not challenging for the signal. Google did not mention costs at this moment, although they say that pain has taken to make balloons and receivers as cheap as possible. The signals travel by unregulated radio spectrum, which means that Google does not have to go through the onerous regulatory process required internet providers that use wireless communication networks or satellite. In New Zealand, the company relied on the Civil Aviation Authority for testing. Google chose the country in part because of their geographic isolation. Cassidy said that the next phase of testing expect to have up to 300 balloons circling the 40th parallel south of New Zealand, in Australia, Chile, Uruguay Paraguay and Argentina.

Why Cloud Storage is so Useful

Lots of offices are turning to cloud storage as a way to store and access all of their documents. Cloud storage is a handy way to be able to get to all of your work in one place without having to sign in and out of different computers or go into work to email yourself an important document on your day off. For many offices, there is no turning back from cloud storage, and there are lots of reasons for this.
Firstly, it reflects the growing need for many workers to be able to access their work anywhere, anytime. As the traditional office set up becomes less and less popular and more staff opt to work from home or out of the office, or choose their own flexible hours, it’s important to have a way to access everything you need easily. Cloud storage makes it very easy to find whatever you’ve been working on in a flash, whether you’re in the office, on the train, at home or anywhere else in the world.
Another reason cloud storage is useful is that your company only needs to pay for the storage it uses. It means you don’t have to spend a fortune on a vast amount of storage you don’t need, making it especially cost-effective for smaller businesses who still want to operate a more flexible way of working.
One major benefit for lots of offices is that the burden of backing up data and performing updates on storage software is taken out of their hands and handed over to the company hosting their cloud storage. This means that you can always be reassured that your data is being backed up regularly, minimising panics when something goes awry, and no long waits in the office for everything to update, so you can get on with what you need to do and let someone else deal with the technical issues.
Cloud storage has a major advantage over the standard method of saving work onto an individual computer or internal computer network because it means that when you wake up in a cold sweat at 3am about a glaring error you’ve made in a crucial document, you can sort it out on your phone there and then, or if you’re on a business trip and find yourself with a corrupted copy of your vitally important presentation, you can log in to the cloud storage space to pick up a working copy even if you’re hundreds of miles away.
Steven Harvey is a business productivity consultant who regularly extols the virtues in taking advantage of cloud storage facilities