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Adobe Touch Apps now available!
Entry posted on Nov 15 by robhuddles

Late last night, Adobe released the Adobe Touch apps to the Android Market. If you were at the meeting earlier this month, you got a taste of what the apps can do. I for one can't wait to start playing with them!

(And if you've been waiting for a reason to get an Android tablet...)

http://blogs.adobe.com/creativelayer/2011/11/14/adobe-touch-apps-now-available-in-android-marketplace/

Important News
Entry posted on Nov 11 by robhuddles

Members,

A lot has been happening over the last couple of weeks at Adobe, and I wanted to take a moment to share some of the news with you.

First, I have gotten a lot of feedback about our November meeting and our guest speaker, Doug Winnie. I am very glad you all enjoyed his talk so much. Doug is a good friend, and while I was very bummed that I could not make the meeting, I knew you would love it. So, it is with a great deal of sadness that I let you know that Doug was one of the 750 people laid off by Adobe this week. I have no doubt that he will land on his feet, but I know his contributions to Adobe will be missed.

Second, I am sure that a lot of you heard the "news" yesterday about Flash. Unfortunately, as with so much else these days, a lot of organizations and individuals chose to pass off rumor and their own biased opinions as news, rather than reporting facts. So here is the realty: Adobe has announced that, after the next release, they will discontinue development of Flash Player Mobile, the version of Player that currently runs on Android and Blackberry devices. This is no means spells the death of Flash; quite the opposite, in fact. Rather, it is an acknowledgement that the world is changing, and that most people would rather consume rich media content on their mobile devices through native apps, rather than the browser. The simple reality is that very few - if any - organizations were creating mobile-optimized Flash sites. By discontinuing Flash Mobile, Adobe will be able to focus their resources on continuing to push the W3C to make HTML5 live up to its promise, while pushing Flash Player on the desktop even further. On the mobile side, Flash will continue to be one of the best options for creating native mobile apps, thanks to the continuing development of AIR for mobile.

Third: Doug spoke at the meeting about Adobe Creative Cloud. For those unable to attend, Creative Cloud is a new initiative from Adobe that will bring Creative Suite, the new Touch Apps, and more to people in some innovative ways. Most importantly, you will be able to access Creative Cloud next spring for a subscription of about $50/month. That means that you will be able to get the entirety of Creative Suite Master Collection - along with a lot more - for about $600/year, a tiny fraction of the cost of purchasing a traditional license. Best of all, if you continue the subscription, you will automatically receive future upgrades. For those interested in continuing with the traditional model, Creative Suite will still be available in a boxed edition, but here too they have made an important change: beginning with CS6, only those customers who have purchased CS5 and CS5.5 will be eligible for an upgrade. So, if you are still using CS3 or CS4 and were hoping to upgrade to CS6, you will either need to switch to the subscription model or purchase CS5.5 now. The good news here is that Adobe is offering a 20% discount on CS5.5, but only through the end of the year. (That said, the subscription model really makes sense in a lot of ways; I suspect that very few people outside of large corporate organizations will opt to get CS through the traditional "boxed" model.)

If you have any questions about these issues, please feel free to contact me directly. You are also welcome to "like" our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/sacramentoadobeusers, and start a conversation there. I have been and will continue to share a lot of this breaking news on Facebook and Twitter, so if you want to be kept up-to-date, "like" us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/sacadobeusers).

Thank you.

Rob

P.S. My apologies for forgetting to send this to this list in the first place. :)

Voices that Matter Conference Discount
Entry posted on May 13 by robhuddles

Peachpit is sponsoring the Voices that Matter conference and is offering a generous discount to user group members. Use coupon code WSUSERG at registration to receive a $150 discount off the current conference pricing. If you register before May 20, this special discount may be combined with the Early Bird price, which gives you an additional $100 off.

The conference is being held June 27-28 in San Francisco and features an impressive line-up of speakers.

Adobe Now Offering Members 15% Discount
Entry posted on May 20 by robhuddles

I'm happy to announce that Adobe is now offering user group members a 15% discount on purchases made in the Adobe store. This applies to any single order (which can contain multiple items) up to $10,000. It applies to full versions of new software such as Creative Suite 5, upgrades, books, and anything else on the site.

To redeem the discount, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/cspartners and complete the form. In the "Association" field, type "user group", and in the validation code field, enter 72360. You will receive an email with a code to access the store in such a way as to reflect the discount. Please note: do not enter the name of our group - just enter "user group".

Adobe is being very generous in extending this offer to us, and we need to not abuse it so that we will get more deals like this in the future, so please do not share this information with anyone outside of the group.

CS5 Now Shipping
Entry posted on Apr 29 by robhuddles

As of 9pm Pacific time tonight, CS5 is officially out there in the wild!

You can go to www.adobe.com to purchase your copy or download trials of the various products.

Our next user group meeting (next Weds) will be all about CS5, and we have some amazingly cool things to give away, so watch your inbox for more details in the next day or so!

Flex 4, Flash Builder 4 and ColdFusion Builder released
Entry posted on Mar 22 by robhuddles

This morning, Adobe announced the release of the Flex 4 framework, and along with it the newly-rebranded Flash Builder 4, the IDE for building Flex applications. (It's the new version of the tool formerly known as Flex Builder.)

Adobe also announced the release of ColdFusion Builder, a brand-new IDE for developing ColdFusion applications.

You can read all about all of these new releases at http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/.

Flash Builder 4 and ColdFusion Builder can be purchased as a bundle for $299 if you currently own Flex Builder 3. Students, teachers and those recently laid-off from work, however, can get them for free (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/free/index.html).

60-day trials of Flash Builder and ColdFusion Builder are available as well. Of course, the Flex platform itself remains open-source and free.

New Name; New Branding Coming Soon
Entry posted on Jan 19 by robhuddles

As was announced at our meeting last week, we are now officially the Sacramento Adobe Users Group. Our new web address is www.sacramentoadobeusers.org, although www.sierrammug.org will remain active and eventually redirect to the new address.

Our co-manager Ted Fitzpatrick is heading up a project team to design a new logo and develop all-new content to go on the web site. If you'd like to participate, please get in touch with Ted.

Thanks to all who voted.

Renaming Survey and January Meeting News
Entry posted on Dec 18 by robhuddles

Happy holidays!

I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful holiday season.

We've been talking about giving the group a new name for some time now. I've put together a survey of the names that have been suggested. While I know it's a busy time of year, I'd like to ask everyone to take a moment and fill out the survey. There's only one question, so it will take no more than one or two minutes to complete.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QFMBBXN

I'll compile the results and will announce our new name at the January meeting.

Speaking of which ... I had hoped to be able to do a preview of FlashCS5 in January, since Adobe had said at MAX that they were planning to have a public beta of the product available by the end of the year. However, yesterday they announced that they are canceling those plans. (If you'd like to read why, check out http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2009/12/there_will_not_be_a_beta_for_f.html.)

So, our fearless co-manager Ted Fitzpatrick will be presenting instead. Sticking with the Flash theme, Ted will be talking about ActionScript. I'll send out a normal meeting announcement email in the next week or so, but in the meantime mark your calendars for January 13 (one week later than normal) to learn about ActionScript and to see what we'll be calling ourselves going forward!

Thanks for continuing to participate in the group - we couldn't continue without you. Enjoy the rest of 2009, and we'll see you in 2010!

Diane Blakley's Web Resources 1
Entry posted on Dec 02 by robhuddles

Diane provided a list of her favorite web resources, and generously agreed to make them available here.

Convert web safe colors to hex/RGB: www.seoconsultants.com/css/colors/web/safe

Color schemes:
colorschemedesigner.com
kuler.adobe.com
www.avivadirectory.com/color

Keyword tool to get new keyword ideas:
adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

CSS to Typography to ...
alistapart.com
www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/27/css-typographic-tools-and-techniques
www.sitepoint.com

Accessibility - color blindness:
colorfilter.wickline.org

Inspiration:
www.csszengarden.com
www.haystack.com

Relaxation/fun:
fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf

Links from the September Meeting
Entry posted on Sep 02 by robhuddles

Thanks to everyone who attended tonight, and a special thanks to Ted for presenting!

In the announcements, I mentioned the Auburn Fire. If you'd like to contribute to the American Red Cross' relief effort, make checks payable to American Red Cross - Placer District - 49 fire and send them to:

American Red Cross, Placer District
457 Grass Valley Highway, Suite 8
Auburn, CA 95603

I also talked about Microsoft's offer to feed the hungry if you download IE8. Basically, they will donate money to feed 16 people for each copy of IE8 that is downloaded from their site. So it's a win-win: we get to help feed people, and help kill off IE6 at the same time.

http://www.browserforthebetter.com/download.html#getie8:ADj4-dMAwRh

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