NB: Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced that a mobile implementation of the full Flash Player 10 would be making its way onto several smartphones by October. In addition to Android, other mobile operating systems, including Windows Mobile, Palm’s WebOS, and Symbian have signed on. Missing from that list, to absolutely no one’s surprise, is the iPhone.

This is a new trend it seems, most of the everyday application Mac lovers use have been updated to be Snow Leopard compatible through beta versions; as a result you won’t be notified of these released through your applications’ update menus.

For instance, Xtorrent has been released to a 2.0 beta v80, and CoverSutra to a 2.2 beta 5.
Even Appfresh won’t notify you of these updates. Solution? Visit developers’ blogs/sites.

1. Not all third party softwares will be supported: Many rumors said Adobe CS3 won’t be supported, but it seems according to many beta tester it does work as well as many other applications.
2. Invisible changes: do not expect for graphical improvement, this update is a performing boost taking all advantages of 64 bits. That means all apps included with Snow Leopard have been rewritten for 64-bit processors. Apps coded by third-party developers who opt to rewrite their software with 64-bit support will also be snappier.
3. End of PPC: As you can see in this post, the PPC platform won’t be supported in this release.

As an additional reading, take a look at the Engadget review here.

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Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro on the Mac, one of the applications I use the most.
Still the same interface as Acrobat 8.
Very easy to handle with its big and easy to recognize buttons; the icon on the dock is a bit darker than the previous one.
Acrobat 9 is also bigger (more than 1 giga of HD space) than the previous version (800 mb approx).
The upgrade from version 8 is $159; it also comes bundled with the new released Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 (upgrade from CS3 is $159). But it loads much faster than the previous version, it’s very impressive indeed… I even thought I was launching the reader so much it was strange.
Anyway; the main new feature in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro is the inclusion of Flash support, enhanced collaboration tools like PDF Portfolios, and improved print production tools.
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Here’s a screenshot of the latest, upcoming version of Adobe Photoshop CS 4, the interface has changed, it reminds me of the latest Microsoft Office 2008; no more floating windows.[/lang_en]
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Voici en avant premiere une capture d’écran de Adobe Photoshop CS 4, une nouvelle interface graphique dote le fameux logiciel de retouche d’images, cette derniere rappelle un peu Microsoft Office 2008 qui est venu supprimé les fenetres flottantes.[/lang_fr]

Adobe launched the public beta of their Photoshop Express web service today at.

The site requires Flash Player 9 and offers an entirely web-based image editor.

Adobe has started development of a Flash player suitable for use on Apple Inc.’s iPhone, company chief executive Shantanu Narayen said Tuesday. Narayen made the revelation during a conference call with investors, explaining that Apple’s recent release of an iPhone software developers kit (SDK) has afforded his company the necessary tools to finally

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After Louie Montia‘s and Jeremie Cornelissen icons pack for CS3, here’s a 3rd one made by Adam Betts, I still prefer Montia’s package but many people prefere Betts’:

If you like it you can download it from here.