Sony has announced a massive price cut for the console’s software development kit. The Playstation 3 Reference Tool will now be made available to new developers for $10,250 USD, or €7,500 EUR. This is almost half of what the SDK has previously cost developers.

Courtesy : GameIndustry 

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Adobe on Friday updated Photoshop CS3 to version 10.0.1,which includes additional support for Apple’s new Leopard operating system.The Adobe Photoshop 10.0.1 update addresses a number of issues discovered after Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended (10.0) software were released.

The most significant fixes in the Photoshop 10.0.1 update include:

1. The speed of moving objects contained within multiple layer sets has been improved.
2. Converting images to CMYK using certain profiles no longer results in black files.
3. The Save for Web feature now includes an option to “Include XMP” (metadata) in the settings menu within the main Save for Web interface, making the existing capability easier to access.
4. When using Save For Web with “Include XMP” enabled, all XMP data is now included in the optimized file.
5. Print color matching has been improved.
6. Images saved as DICOM and reopened in Photoshop CS3 are no longer corrupted on PowerPC based Mac computers.

courtesy : AppleInsider

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Alongside the Mac OS X 10.4.11 updates today, Apple also released a new beta of Safari for Windows.The latest Safari beta for Windows incorporates a number of stability, performance and security improvements. A number of new features are detailed as well, including:

New Features

1. Allows windows to be resized from any side
2. Includes an additional font smoothing option (”standard”)
3. Adds International text input methods
4. Adds advanced text options (contextual forms, international scripts)
5. Supports NTLM
6. Includes auto-detection of PAC files
7. Supports listing FTP directories
8. Links to proxy settings from Safari (Safari respects the proxy settings in the Windows Internet control panel)
9. Adds cookie management
10. Adds LiveConnect support
11. Includes tooltips
12. Adds spell checking and grammar checking
13. Allows printing of page numbers, titles, margins
14. Improves bookmark collection interface
15. Maintains original order of imported bookmarks
16. Adds an interface for editing AutoFill information
17. History searches now search the full text of visited websites
18. Adds a new preference to manually mark RSS articles as read
19. Includes support for tilt wheels

Apple also incorporated Safari 3 with the Mac OS X 10.4.11 update, bringing the final version of Safari 3 to Tiger users. Apple first released Safari for Windows in June at WWDC 2007.

Download : Safari 3.0.4 (Windows)

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Have you used your printer to print out your photos ? Or do you have a printer or you are bored waiting in the line at the photo studio for photograph prints. If the answer is “Yes” , I have a easy method for you to take your prints from your computer.

Do you know that you can “Order online prints of photos inside Windows XP” ? I am sure many don’t know about this and have not tried it.Here is a quick tutorial.

1 . Open the folder where you have kept your valuable photographs.

2 .In the left task pane you should see an option “Order prints online” underneath “Picture Tasks”, as shown in the screenshot. Click this option.

3 . An “Online Print Ordering Wizard” dialog box will pop up. Click “Next”.

4 . You can now check or uncheck which pictures to print, as shown in the above screenshot. After you have made your selection, click “Next”.

5 . You will be presented with several printing companies. Choose your desired company and click “Next”.

6 . After Windows XP downloads information from the selected printing company, follow the on-screen prompts to select your photo sizes and other printing options. During this process you will have to enter your personal information and credit card to place your order.

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