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CS5 Extravaganza: Experience the Magic!

April 20, 2010

Ascend Training is hosting a CS5 Open House June 3rd at our downtown Chicago training facility. Some of the presentations will be:

Photoshop CS5: The Knock Your Socks Off Upgrade!
Interactive Documents with InDesign CS5
Dreamweaver CS5 Under the Hood: Author of DW CS5 Classroom in a Book
Interactivity with out Coding: Flash Catalyst CS5

Adam Pratt of Adobe Systems [...]

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Flash Catalyst: Flash for Everyone?

February 11, 2010

Flash Catalyst: The game changer for those in print to move over to animation.

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Adobe On The Go (be)

February 4, 2010

Now you can take Adobe Photoshop with you wherever you go! If you have an iPhone, and Android device, or even a mobile device with Windows Mobile, you can can edit, crop, and color-correct all your images just like you can at home…but you probably already knew this–what’s important is that, now that the iPad [...]

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The battle behind the screens – Flash vs. Silverlight

January 25, 2010

It’s definitely a war–it’s just that it’s a Cold War.
Since Microsoft released Silverlight, (and by the way, watch what happens when you surf over there) their answer to Adobe Flash, in 2007, there’s been a (sort of) silent war going on behind the two software giants about who gets to play your movies.
When you go [...]

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What do you get for the phone who has everything?

January 5, 2010

What to do next with the coolest phone Ever?
So ok–it’s going to be a while until we get Flash for the iPhone, but I think we can all agree that it’s still pretty cool. The question is: now that you can do almost everything on the iPhone, like getting GPS Driving directions, reading e-books with [...]

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Pay-Per-iView…Apple to get into the digital TV biz?

December 22, 2009

In November, it was leaked that Apple may be getting into bed with a few of TV’s major networks to begin offering a paid, subscription-based package of digital content using Apple TV. Apparently, for a tithe of about $30, subscribers will get to watch whatever they want using Apple’s existing network of streaming and downloadable [...]

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Cloud Computing then and now; a look at how far we’ve come

December 11, 2009

About a year ago (specifically last February), “Cloud Computing” was a fairly new techno-buzzword. In fact, when Jori blogged about it then, we got a fair few comments asking what it was. At the time, the “cloud” was a nebulous thing true to its name; when something went into the electronic “cloud,” just where [...]

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