Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim has surpassed Bill Gates as the world’s richest man, according to a financial Web site based in Mexico. Following big gains in his investment portfolio, Slim’s total worth now stands at about $62.9 billion, says Sentido Comun. By contrast, Microsoft founder and chairman Gates is currently worth about $59.2 billion.

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“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today released the beta version of Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly code named Apollo. Adobe AIRâ„¢ is a cross-operating system application runtime that allows developers to use HTML/CSS, Ajax, Adobe Flash® and Adobe Flexâ„¢ to extend rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. New features in the Adobe AIR beta include an embedded local database, PDF support, enhanced capabilities for JavaScript developers, and deeper integration with Adobe Flex. The beta version of Adobe AIR and the Adobe AIR Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) can be downloaded for free from www.adobe.com/go/air .”

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Adobe has slowly been adding to that chip on many people’s shoulders for some time now, and lately they seem to be upping their game. Certainly, comments from their CEO like “our customer is not typically price sensitive” don’t help matters, but it seems that even the very software their company is so well known for is beginning to suffer

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A cool widget that puts Google Analytics on your OSX or Windows desktop and is powered by Adobe’s Apollo runtime.

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Together these six editions of Creative Suite 3 address virtually every creative discipline and empower you to work more efficiently with your creative team; collaborate more closely with developers to produce engaging experiences; and serve your clients, your business, and your creative vision more easily and effectively than ever before.

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Everyone is talking about Apollo, the platform from Adobe that puts rich web apps on your desktop. Here are the coolest, slickest and bestest apps so far.

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Here’s a highly detailed look into the upcoming release of the next version of Adobe Photoshop. Good information, good screenshots - good job.

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Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company’s chief executive said on Tuesday.

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Go play, this is a pretty nifty flash implementation.

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Lesson 1: July 11 2004
Composition And Impact - It’s A Beautiful Photograph, But Do You Know WHY It’s Beautiful?
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Lesson 2: July 18 2004
Aperture And Shutter Speed - How They Work Together.
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Lesson 3: July 25 2004
The lens - choosing camera optics.
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Lesson 4: Aug 1 2004
ISO, Grain, Transparency vs. Negative, Specialty Films
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Lesson 5: Aug 8 2004
Fun Effects - Camera Filters, Soft Focus, Zooming And Panning
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Lesson 6: Aug 22 2004
Landscape, Nature and Travel Photography
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Lesson 7: Aug 29 2004
Portraits And Studio Lighting
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Lesson 8: Sept 5 2004
Studio Lighting - Still Life and Product Photography
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Lesson 9: Sept 21 2004
Tying It All Together
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Lesson 10: Sept 27 2004
Special Requests
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If you need Photoshop Brushes, this site has tons of them, in addition they’ve add a great Stock Photos section so you can find lots of free stock photos.

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I just can’t wait for the flash 9 release, but i think you can try this with the flash 9 alpha release. really nice thing adobe has put in.

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In each version of Photoshop, Adobe releases features that are of use to different types of users. Some features are tailor-made for photographers, for example, while others are better suited for designers. Let’s take a look at who will benefit from some of the new features in Photoshop CS3.

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The title says it all.

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10 Predictions for Rich Internet Applications in 2007 by ZDNet’s Ryan Stewart — The run down of 10 predictions for Rich Internet Applications in 2007 covering everything from Apollo and Apple to Vista and WPF/E. It’s going to be one heck of a year.

Go to Start > Run > and type in eudcedit - this will open up a font editor - allowing you to design your own custom fonts and characters to be used in things like MS Word.

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Flash animators are invited to participate in a Flash animation contest for webcam effects and win $1250 (US) in prizes.

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