Despite some issues with CS6, it seems that Adobe’s new suite of software is a hit. Every time the company releases something new, though, I always find myself thinking back to running Photoshop on the classic Mac OS on beige hardware.
To mark CS6’s release, Adobe has produced a massive blog post, looking back over the history of its products, with in-depth tours of past logo and splash screen designs and the role color plays in these designs.
Coda 2 will be out on May 24, and packs “over 100 new features.”
Diet Coda will also be out on the 24th, and will cost just $10 at launch. It includes syntax highlighting, FTP and SSL connectivity, find and replace and more.
Both apps look great. I can’t wait to give Panic some more of my money in just a few days. Seriously.
Ken Shirriff has torn down an iPhone USB charger, and the results are impressive:
Apple’s power adapter is clearly a high-quality power supply designed to produce carefully filtered power. Apple has obviously gone to extra effort to reduce EMI interference, probably to keep the charger from interfering with the touchscreen. When I opened the charger up, I expected to find a standard design, but I’ve compared the charger to the Samsung charger and several other high-quality industry designs, and Apple goes beyond these designs in several ways.
Adobe released a security upgrade for Adobe Photoshop CS5 and earlier for Windows and Macintosh. This upgrade addresses vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious .TIF file must be opened in Photoshop CS5 and earlier for Windows and Macintosh by the user for an attacker to be able to exploit these vulnerabilities. Adobe is not aware of any attacks exploiting these vulnerabilities against Adobe Photoshop.
I’ve linked to the Icon Bronco before, but this video over at Devour is worth a look, too.
For the most part, Adobe is offering its CS packages at the same price as its 5.5 offerings as well, with pricing for the Design Standard ($1,299) and Master Collection ($2,599) packages remaining unchanged. One notable exception is the Production Premium package for video professionals, which is being bumped up $200 to $1,899 thanks in part to the addition of new applications Adobe Prelude and Adobe Speed Grade. Lastly, Adobe’s $1,799 Web Premium package is being dropped from the company’s lineup, replaced with the $1,899 Design and Web Premium package.
According to Mac Rumors, the next iPhone might look a lot like a small iPad 2 or 3.
The site describes a phone with a flat back with rounded corners, unibody construction and 4G/LTE connectivity.
While I usually don’t get excited about rumors like this, I can’t help myself this time. That thing looks really good.
Joshua Schnell over at Macgasm:
An interesting tweet by Michael Margolis, a former Apple TV engineer at Apple Inc., popped up in our Twitter feed this evening, and we thought it was worth passing on. According to Margolis, the new Apple TV UI was not only on the table at Apple years ago, but Steve Jobs alledgedly shot it down because he didn’t like it at the time.
(Here’s the tweet.)