| Adobe ships InDesign, After Effects, InCopy updates
Adobe today released several updates to its software applications for professionals, including After Effects, InDesign, and InCopy. The Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software 8.0.2 update provides Panasonic P2 format support, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard compatibility fixes, Mac OpenGL support for supported video cards under Mac OS X v10.4.10 and v10.5, and other important fixes. The update for its professional video editing solution is 106.3MB and is available online. Adobe also noted that the Adobe InCopy CS3 5.02 update, for its provides key fixes in the areas of character alignment, undo and redo, text and fonts, dictionaries, import/export graphics, and others; the installer includes fixes from all previously released InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates (and previous InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates are no longer available separately.
LATEST: Eddie Van Halen, Van Halen Tour Goes On
Rockers Van Halen have hit back at reports they're cancelling the remainder of their reunion tour. The band rescheduled two concerts in Virginia and Georgia at the end of last month (Feb08), prompting internet reports claiming all tour dates had been pulled indefinitely. .
Golf Galaxy to further regional expansion with Towson store
New women's pro soccer league lines up investors [Sacramento] There's some new star power at Nike [Portland] California company closes design center in Portland [Portland] Callaway Golf signs license to make St. Andrews Links products [Los Angeles] Siwak, Bader sell health-care business [St. Louis] .
late night television
With most hit scripted series in reruns and “American Idol" still in the semifinals, late-night television has received more buzz than usual over the past two months. First there was the curiosity over the writer-less return of all but two late-night talkers, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson. Then came Jon Stewart's Oscar hosting gig, Jimmy Kimmel's viral video standoff with girlfriend Sarah Silverman (“I'm F*%^ing Matt Damon") and, most recently, rumors that Jay Leno could be headed to Fox, ABC or syndication when his contract with NBC runs out next year. All the talk may be fueling increased viewership among young people. Although household ratings for most late-night television shows have remained about even to prestrike levels following a brief bump when they returned from a two-month hiatus in January, late-night TV usage among adults 18-34 has actually risen.
Earnings Preview: Home Depot
Meanwhile, Home Depot has recently revealed a number of planned job cuts. At the beginning of December, Home Depot said it will cut 950 jobs and close several call centers that handle orders for home installation, planning to shift the work from those centers to stores and improve customer service. And then in January, Home Depot revealed plans to cut 500 jobs at headquarters. By comparison, Lowe's Cos., the nation's second biggest home improvement retailer, posted a 33 percent lower fourth-quarter profit on Monday and forecast weak same-store sales in the current quarter and for the year. BY THE NUMBERS: Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expect 43 cents in earnings per share and sales of $18.02 billion. ANALYST TAKE: Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analyst David Schick said it's likely that Home Depot's fourth quarter, which includes the all-important holiday season, wasn't a strong one.
Career watch: The colourful world of animation
The range of jobs available for a computer animator can be mind boggling. There is hardly any industry that doesn't require or use computer animators." "These days animation is used in almost all the industries from automobile, pharmaceutical, medicine, aerospace, civil, and architectural," says Anand Kannan from ToonSkool, Bangalore. According to Radhakrishnan, top IT companies like Tata, Reliance [Get Quote], Satyam [Get Quote], UTV, Pentasoft, Rhythm & Hues, have jumped into the fray. International animation houses like Walt Disney [Images] studios, Paprika Animation Studio, Technicolor labs, SONY are looking at tie-ups with Indian animation companies too. Puneet Sharma, General Manager of Zee Institute of Creative Arts (ZICA) says, "As per the NASSCOM Report 2006 (NASSCOM - Primary Research & Analysis, Pg 127), the starting salaries of freshers is between Rs 8,000-Rs 12,000 per month.
Bring home your own multimedia studio with Dell XPS 420
The XPS 420 offers cutting-edge performance and professional-grade options designed to help achieve creative mastery. This high-style system features world-first options like an integrated LCD screen and an integrated media accelerator to help slice, dice and manhandle media like a true virtuoso.
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Moyea PPT to DVD Burner 2.4
Moyea PPT to DVD Burner is a professional and powerful tool to convert powerpoint to DVD. This converter not only retain the original PPT file, but also can be customized as you like. With its user-friendly interface instructions, you are no more editing,but creating a gizmo by only a few clicks without professional knowlegde.You can operate the presentation of the slides with a remote control instead of watching only before the screen. Version 2.4 changed output video format MPEG2 to standard MPEG2, solved the problem that image stops when playing back converted MPG video file; enabled users the ability to modify permission in registry, in order to avoid the error 'Could not show presentation in Internet Explorer_Server' from occuring, solved the problem that the focus of menu bottons in non-standard resolution DVD display incorrectly.
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