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» Monday “A” News

 

It’s Monday and here are the news, a lot of A-companies today:

• Adobe late last week announced that the official release of Camera Raw 4.6 is here. This is probably also going to be the last update before CS4 — which is due to start shipping on Wednesday 15th. Download Here: Windows | Macintosh
   
• Tomorrow it’s time for Apple’s special event, "The Spotlight turns to Notebook" where they’re bound to release new MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops. Rumors has it today that we also might get to see new versions of iLife and iWork. You’ll be able to follow my metaliveblog from the event, right here on the site, starting 15 minutes before the event tomorrow, at 11a.m Pacific (7p.m CET). The metaliveblog post will be up in the morning!
   
• With the release of CS4, I plan to post the new CS4 features in tutorials and cover them and mix them to get some interesting workflow based improvements and to give some suggestions on how to improve it. If there is anything special you want me to cover in terms of CS4, shoot me a comment or a mail.
   
• More about Apple. In a recent poll. Apple shows off to be the most environmentally-friendly tech company as seen by the general public, which is pretty interesting considering that they’ve gotten a lot of critique about the production process from a few places.
   
• What more can I do but to send you off to my buddy Jason Andersons blog today (being influenced by all the "A"’s used in this post I have to end with one as well), he runs a great blog called Canonblogger and he just announced the continuation of his podcasts from today and on!

» First October Wednesday News

• Yesterday my buddy Jason over at Canonblogger had a cool tips and tricks post for photo shoots. They’re all very true and good pointers that even if you knew them, you might need to be reminded about.
   
• As much as they are commercials, the Apples tv ads are seen as a little series in and of themselves. They’ve been floating around YouTube as well as on the Apple site for quite some time. Apple has finally got their things gathered and made a YouTube channel of their own, sporting all of these videos.
   
• It’s a new month again, we are getting right into October and thus you might need a new wallpaper calendar. Last month on the CSTT Podcast I showed you how to create one of your own, but if you don’t feel you want to – check out these free ones posted by Smashing Magazine.
   
• Finally a site tip. I was shooting some product photography with studio gear for the first time this weekend (my model shoot didn’t happen because my model got sick) and to learn a whole lot about lighting, in a condensed time, Strobist was really a great resource. Check them out for everything on lighting basically!

And finally a shoutout to by buddy Harold whose birthday was yesterday. Happy "late" Birthday man!