Rabu, 11 April 2007

Lynda.com Exclusive Producer of training material for Adobe Creative Suite 3



Lynda.com has been around for years providing tutorials and other learning materials for Adobe products has now been chosen to be the exclusive producer of the training solutions to Adobes new Creative suite 3.

Press Release: lynda.com, the company specializing in self-paced career and computer training in digital media and design, announced today that it has been chosen as the exclusive producer of in-the-box video training for the new Adobe® Creative Suite® 3. More than 200 lynda.com-produced training videos will be included with all of the new Creative Suite 3 editions. Additional Creative Suite 3 training courses, created by lynda.com, will be on display during the NAB conference at the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth number SL2028, April 16-19, 2007.
Source: photoshopnews.com


If any learning material provider company deserved it, its lynda.com congratulations.

Google buys stake in Maxthon Browser

When we hear the word Google most people thing of the most used search engine on the internet, but now you can also relate Google to a web browser, or part of it to be exact.
Google has just bought a minority stake in the Maxthon Browser, at a presumably price of about 1 million dollars.

The Maxthon Browser is free to download and have been downloaded more then 80 million times, and about 25 % of all downloads is from China, which is also the main reason of why Google has bought stakes in this Browser, because this will increase Google’s position in China.

Google has indicated that they may integrate Google functions into Maxthon browser which would be a good strategy against competing search engines.

Source: downloadsquad.com

In Stores Now – The Terabyte Harddisk From Hitachi

Now you are able to buy a PC harddrive with 1 terabyte, but maybe we should wait untill the price it right.

The harddisk is from Hitachi Storage Technologies and is named Deskstar 7K1000, with the capacity of 1 terabyte, with 7.200 rpm and a maximum transfer rate at 1070 Mbit/s, 32 MB buffer.
Hitachi has calculated that this harddisk would aproxemetly have room for about 330.000 images (with 3 MB each) or 250.000 mp3 files (2.5 MB each).

And now to the astonnishing price at 399 dollars, this is alot compared to a harddisk with a capacity at 750 gb, to half that price.
I guess I will wait till some competition will force the price down a bit.
Source: comon.dk

But can’t wait to get my hands on this one, I will never have to worry about storage problems anymore.

Two Days A Month Wasted On the Internet


More than two-thirds of UK Internet surfers in this research admit to occasionally surfing the web aimlessly. Nearly one-third admit to do this more then 30 percent of the time they are online at work.

So what are these people searching for?
Sporting events pose a particular lure for workers, particularly men. At the end of February, on the eve of the NCAA basketball tournament known as "March Madness," Websense reported that employee productivity in the U.S. was threatened by a 31 percent increase in traffic at online sports sites and a startling 56 percent increase at gambling sites.

Now this new phenomenon has also been given a name, “wilfing” which stands for What Was Looking For). Good name for an endless internet surfing for nothing.
Also according to a British market research firm this ”wilfing” phenomenon is becoming a national epidemic.

Source: toptechnews.com

Damn, I thing epidemic is a strong word for an internet addiction (as I have), but have they ever tried to thing of some surveillance at work so keeping people in short leash while at work.