I’ve been reading with interest all articles and reviews of Adobe’s CS3, shipping now in April. Kevin Slimp has the following in his latest newsletter:
“Holy Moly! I’m speechless. And if you know me, that’s a rare happening. I just installed the prerelease of Creative Suite 3 and I’m blown away by the speed, special effects and added features available in the latest rendition of Adobe’s masterpiece.” [Full Story]
Apple has said some notebooks MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks sold worldwide from February 2006 and April 2007 may have battery performance issues , but they do not pose a safety risk.
Apple said problems with affected batteries include not charging when the computer is plugged into an outlet.
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/
The FBI is investigating a new scam aimed at extorting tens of thousands of dollars from wealthy professionals.
Wealthy professionals are being hit this week with a new e-mail extortion scam that’s set up to appear to be assassins who will murder the recipient if he or she doesn’t send them thousands of dollars.This new wave of e-mail extortion began at the beginning of the week, according to Don Jackson, a researcher at SecureWorks. The e-mails have an air of legitimacy because they come from valid e-mail accounts, instead of spoofed “from” addresses.
And if that isn’t enough to worry the people being extorted, if they reply to the e-mails, the scammer actually responds with personal information about the victim, according to SecureWorks. [Full story]
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from MacWorld: Google is adding a presentations application to Docs & Spreadsheets, narrowing the competitive space between this productivity and collaboration hosted suite and Microsoft’s Office suite.
Now, Docs & Spreadsheets will feature a word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentations application, but Schmidt said the suite isn’t a direct competitor to Office, because Docs & Spreadsheets doesn’t have all of Office’s functionality and it’s more focused on Web collaboration than Office, which is a desktop-centric product.
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