Adobe’s AIR 2: Faster, with better HTML

Adobe Systems on Thursday released AIR 2, upgrading the features and aspirations for the software foundation. AIR is a programming foundation that lets a Net application run on a variety of computing platforms–Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and, significantly, forthcoming Google Android mobile phones now as well. The software can run standalone programs written either with Adobe’s Flash technology or, courtesy of a built-in WebKit browser engine, with HTML and JavaScript, too.

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Adobe reveals magazine iPad-izer software

The Flash Player may be banned from the iPad, but that’s not keeping Adobe Systems from other efforts to leave its mark on the Apple devices. The latest development: new viewer software announced Monday that lets publishers create splashy digital versions of their magazines

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Adobe patches ‘critical’ holes in Photoshop CS4

Photoshop users like to expand what the software can do by downloading new brushes, gradients, and color swatches, but the ability to make those additions also turns out to have been a potential avenue for attack. Adobe Systems on Wednesday released a Photoshop 11.0.2 security update to its earlier CS4 version of Photoshop for both Windows and Mac OS X versions to close off that avenue

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Microsoft: IE6 is past its expiration date

In an Australian marketing campaign, Microsoft is urging those using Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade already. “You wouldn’t drink nine-year-old milk, so why use a nine-year-old browser?” asks the Web site urging IE6 users to upgrade to something closer to the front of the fridge

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Mozilla’s ‘Lorentz,’ ‘Lanikai’ edge closer to release

Web browsing and e-mailing from Mozilla got a bit of a bump forward on Wednesday, as the company updated its beta test builds of Firefox 3.6.4 and Thunderbird 3.1, respectively code-named Lorentz and Lanikai. Firefox 3.6.4 beta 3, for Windows , Mac , and Linux , and Thunderbird 3.1 beta 2, for Windows , Mac , and Linux , offer the latest features from Mozilla but are also less stable than the current releases. When pushed out to all users, Firefox 3.6.4 will incorporate the much-anticipated Out-Of-Process-Plug-in feature, which prevents plug-in crashes from Adobe Systems’ Flash, Apple’s QuickTime, and Microsoft’s Silverlight from bringing down the entire browser.

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Photoshop CS5 tries advancing photo frontier

Photoshop CS5 can automatically correct lens distortions, straightening the lines in this fisheye shot, and fix chromatic aberration and vignetting. (Credit: Adobe Systems) Two years ago, Adobe Systems thought the only big change coming with Photoshop CS5 would be the complete overhaul needed to build a 64-bit Mac version

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