Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud is every tool and services you would use in your business, from design to audio/video editing, to create, collaborate and stay in sync. Adobe Creative Cloud is not just about the over 34 application offerings on the cloud, but it’s also about the Adobe services included.

Core features include:

• Desktop, Web and Mobile Access. Creative Cloud allows users t o stay connected with workgroups and the creative community via their desktop, website, or mobile device. With Creative Cloud, your entire creative world gets its own centralized hub where ideas, files, fonts, settings, notifications, and team members are connected and organized. Join group folders to work collaboratively; track updates and comments to share files; stay connected to work on Behance; get notified when app updates are available and download the latest updates; and access favourite colors, fonts, settings, wherever you are.
• Integration with The World’s Leading Creative Community. With Behance now integrated with Creative Cloud, members will be able to publish their own portfolios, follow other creatives, publish work-in-progress from within a growing number of CC apps and solicit feedback from the worldwide creative community. Over 1.4 million creatives globally are part of the Behance network.
• Synchronize, Store, Share and Collaborate. All files and assets will be automatically synchronized between the desktop, cloud and mobile devices. A designer can take a photo on their iPad, use Photoshop Touch to refine the photo while on the go, then access that file, via the cloud, and use Photoshop CC on their Mac or Windows PC to further enhance the image. Designers can designate shared folders and invite others to collaborate on files. Edits are stored with version history so users can share their files with confidence. Individual members receive 20 GB or storage.
• Seamless Publishing. Creative Cloud members have access to the services necessary to publish highly personalized portfolio web sites using Behance ProSite, high-impact digital magazines for iPad using Digital Publishing Suites (DPS) Single Edition, and PhoneGap Build to create and publish mobile apps for any device. Adobe Typekit features an unmatched library of old-classic to new-favourite fonts for use on websites – and with this update, creatives can use many of the same fonts directly in their desktop applications.

Introducing Adobe Creative Cloud

With the complete move to Adobe Creative Cloud and phasing out the Adobe Creative Suite, many questions and assumptions arise from the confusing. Here’s some Adobe Creative Cloud Myth-Busting:

• Apps are installed and run on the desktop, not Software as a Service (SaaS).
• You do not need to be connected to the internet to use the desktop apps.
• Upgrades are included; but upgrade what you want, when you want – it’s voluntarily.
• You retain ownership of your creative work and files. Syncing work is optional and controlled by you – you can choose to keep everything on the desktop.
• Desktop apps are available in all languages. Multiple languages can be installed simultaneously.
• You can share files and collaborate with colleagues or clients who are not Creative Cloud members.

Adobe Creative Cloud Pricing

The Adobe Creative Cloud for individuals membership is now available in Singapore for SGD$66 per month for an annual commitment, and existing users of Adobe CS 3 to 5 at as discounted price of SGD$39 per month for an annual commitment.

For more information: http://www.adobe.com/sea/products/creativecloud.html

Samsung introduced Asia’s first Samsung Mobile PIN in Singapore, a premium consumer experience space, located in the heart of Orchard Road, at Ngee Ann Civic Plaza. First launched at the London Olympics in 2012, Singapore marks the debut of the Samsung Mobile PIN in Asia and the unique exhibit will encourage consumers to fully interact and experience the latest intuitive technology across Samsung’s latest suite of mobile devices.

The installation will be available for 2 months from 18 January to 12 March 2013. Consumers can look forward to a range of activities celebrating the theme of ‘friendship and love’.

This is the coolest apartment ever, and only at 420 square feet, with so many integrated, hidden cabinets and transforming the space into multiple rooms. What’s missing? Automation. Any interior designers want to help design this kind of concepts for my future condo?

Are you an Android, Web, iOS, Mobile developer? There are 2 global online port-a-thons happening this weekend on the 12th January 2013 – Android Port-A-Thon for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry 10 Community Port-A-Thon for 36 hours straight.

Rewards include:

• USD$100 per approved ported app/game; up to 20 apps/games
• BlackBerry Dev Alphas and/or a trip to BlackBerry Jam Europe (Terms and Conditions apply)
• For more information, Android Port-A-Thon for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry 10 Community Port-A-Thon

Remember, to qualify for the above rewards you have to register.

Register: Android Port-A-Thon and Community Port-A-Thon

In conjunction with these events, I will be offering my consulting services for free to assist anyone to port your apps over to BlackBerry 10 on 12th January 2013 and qualify for the awesome prizes at these port-a-thons. Even if you are not participating in the port-a-thons, just come if you have any BlackBerry 10 development questions to ask.

The details are as follows:

Title: BlackBerry 10 Porting Clinic in Singapore
Date/Time: 12th January 2013 from 10am to 6pm (come any time between)
Location: ”Green Room” in Plug-in@BLK71 (http://www.blk71.com/)
Food: There will be some lunch/refreshments available

I will also be giving a talk at PlugFest workshop on Porting Android Apps to BlackBerry 10 from 1pm to 2pm on 12th January 2013 at the same location.

Do I need to say more? Come over and chat with me to find out more about BlackBerry 10, and get your app ported to BlackBerry 10.

The Sony CES site that will go live with live streaming on Tuesday 8 January 2013, 0900hr (Singapore Time). Live streaming via interactive broadcast platform Ustream will also be available - http://www.ustream.tv/sonyelectronics. The Sony press conference will also be embedded on the CES website itself.

Besides the press conference, both the Sony CES site and Ustream platform will also host post-conference Q+A sessions with Kazuo Hirai, President and CEO of Sony Corporation as well as Phil Molyneux, President and COO of Sony Electronics.

On the social media forefront, Sony has also created a Twitter hashtag (#SonyCES) where you can share your thoughts on Sony’s new products or hear what visitors at this year’s CES and others around the world have to say. Using the same hashtag (#SonyCES) on Instagram will also give you a visual representation of what attendees are taking images of.

Besides that, Sony is giving consumers this year the power to choose what video content will be created especially for CES. Sony will be uploading on its Facebook page three different polls across the duration of the conference, asking people to nominate what they would to see filmed.

Date and Time: Tuesday 8th January 2013, 9am (SGT)
Location: http://www.sony.com/ces or http://www.ustream.tv/sonyelectronics

Have you ever tried to capture your voice in a bottle like fireflies when you were a kid, just to see if it works? I have. Now, Jun Fujiwara from Tama Art University, has taken this childhood dream and made the most interesting invention ever – Re:Sound Bottle. It basically captures various sounds, and remixes them into music. Way cool!

Link to the Mitsubishi Chemical Junior Design Award 2012 for “Re:Sound Bottle” – http://www.m-kagaku.co.jp/mcjda/award2012/awd01_det10.html

Dune 2 was one of the first real-time strategy that established the fundamentals of what RTS games you know today – from Warcraft to Starcraft, Command & Conquer, and beyond. I remember playing this game back in school (yes I am that old), and it’s still fun to play even today. Now, you can play this game right from your browser – ported to HTML5 with classic graphics and fonts – the works. If you have a kid that’s into gaming, get him to play Dune 2 and appreciate the history of RTS games!

Link to play: http://play-dune.com/

Canon gave a bunch of photographers to test out their upcoming Canon EOS-1D C (releasing early next year 2013), showcasing the feasibility of motion capture (taking videos) and using specific frames as a photograph. This fundamentally changes the idea of photography – “Capturing the perfect moment” to “Capturing a length of moment and selecting the perfect moment”. With the 4k video capture capability, video becomes a powerful tool for photographers now. However, the captured frame will still be in jpeg/tiff format, not RAW, which requires the photographer to refine his fundamentals of photography – composition, lighting, white balance, shutter speed, aperture, iso, lenses, etc. The results? Just simply amazing production as taking a photo straight up, with better composition of the photo and its subject.

Will the Canon EOS-1D C change the way photography is done?

Check out the photos in the video at http://www.untitledfilmworks.com/.

Remember Caffeine? It’s an app that prevents your Mac from going to sleep. You can download it from the Mac App Store.

However, if you need a little more control over your Mac’s sleeping habits, including controlling the amount of time to keep it from sleeping, Sleep No More just does that. The down side is, it only supports OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.

Link: http://sleepnomoreapp.com/

Getting ready for your New Year’s messages? Sitting right in front of your Facebook waiting for midnight to strike and mass send “Happy  New Year” to all your Facebook friends? You don’t have to do that.

You can wish all your friends a happy new year with a private message that will be delivered to their Facebook inbox at midnight on December 31 (January 1st for those actually being anal about it) with Midnight Message Delivery.

Enjoy!

Link: http://www.facebookstories.com/midnightdelivery/