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Adobe Acrobat 9: New version aims to reinvent PDF’s

Monday, June 2nd, 2008


This is Adobe Acrobat 9 and the new version of Adobes popular application aims to reinvent PDF’s, the latest application does a lot more than just read Adobe’s Portable Document Format files. This is an application that some businesses will find is a “must-have”, and they will get to choose from three flavors.

With $699 you can get the Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro version that’s packed with features, these include the ability to convert various video file types to Flash video, it comes bundled with Adobe Presenter which was once a separate $500 application, and you also get a 3D mapping overlay so you can create PDF maps.

If the Pro version is a bit much for you, then you can get Standard for just $299 and with it comes the cool new PDF Portfolio feature. For a little more you can buy the $449 Pro, this adds additional options to Portfolio but has much less than the $699 professional extended software.

Some users will be happy with the standard version and this comes with one of the best additions to Acrobat in years, the new Portfolio feature. This addition gives you the “ability to very easily create a suite of related files and document, this is complete with their own intro screen”. What’s also cool is the fact that this Portfolio can be read by the free Adobe Reader 9.

Now that you have support for Flash video in Acrobat 9, you able to integrate the Portfolio with an .swf Flash application. If you go for the Pro Extended or Pro versions, then you will love the ability to compare two .PDF files and have the image and text that’s different highlighted for you. Now you just have to decide how much you want to spend.

Source: Read

Written by Daniel for Product Reviews
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Adobe Flash: Should you block it?

Thursday, May 29th, 2008


When it comes to our PC security we should always be on our guard, everyday we are under attack from email spam to viruses in websites. The latest breaking news is about Adobe Flash and some people in the security industry are even going as far as saying it should be turned off or blocked for now.

In the last couple of days there has been reports of an “unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Flash being exploited”, but things are not that simple and many computer users are still confused and not sure what to-do. McAfee reported that this new vulnerability is similar to “CVE-2007-0071”, that issue affected the affected Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier. Today we are finding out that this vulnerability seems to be the same one as before and we have all been told that the 9.0.124.0 version of Adobe Flash is not vulnerable.

To confuse matters even more, PC Mag are reporting that this “exploit is affecting subsequent versions”, so are you protected or not? PC Mag is recommending that Flash Users (just about everyone) download a certain version and also report that information on how to disable Flash is a really hot at the moment.

If you want to know what version of Flash you are running, then you can find that out on Adobe here. The version PC Mag recommends you update to is here. You can easily get a free plugin for Firefox, its called “Flashblock” and as the names suggests, it blocks Flash.

Are you worried about this latest security issue with certain versions of the Adobe Flash Player?

Written by Daniel for Product Reviews
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