| Adobe ships InDesign, After Effects, InCopy updates
Adobe today released several updates to its software applications for professionals, including After Effects, InDesign, and InCopy. The Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software 8.0.2 update provides Panasonic P2 format support, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard compatibility fixes, Mac OpenGL support for supported video cards under Mac OS X v10.4.10 and v10.5, and other important fixes. The update for its professional video editing solution is 106.3MB and is available online. Adobe also noted that the Adobe InCopy CS3 5.02 update, for its provides key fixes in the areas of character alignment, undo and redo, text and fonts, dictionaries, import/export graphics, and others; the installer includes fixes from all previously released InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates (and previous InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates are no longer available separately.
A Case of 'American' Excess
Last December, a collector's edition of his "Blade Runner" was released, delivering no fewer than four versions of the sci-fi classic. The director's most recent project, "American Gangster," follows a similar pattern, arriving today in a two-disc extended edition ($19.98) that includes the original theatrical release, already at a hefty running time of two hours and 38 minutes, and a longer version with 19 more minutes of movie added. (If that's not enough, another version with three discs worth of material also releases today.) Add in some sizeable extras, including a one-hour-and-18-minute documentary that covers the making of this story of drug mogul Frank Lucas's rise and fall, and one starts to wonder who has the appetite to digest so much Denzel Washington. Allow me to simplify.
Chavez Warns of War With Colombia
Deploy the air force,'' Chavez said during his weekly TV and radio program. ``We don't want war, but we aren't going to permit the U.S. empire, which is the master (of Colombia) ... to come divide us.'' Chavez called Colombian President Alvaro Uribe ``a criminal'' and branded his government a ``terrorist state,'' likening it to Israel for its U.S.-backed attacks on militants. In protest, Ecuador withdrew its ambassador from Bogota, ordered Colombia's top diplomat expelled and ordered the mobilization of troops to the border with Colombia. Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, said Colombia deliberately carried out the strike beyond its borders. ``There is no justification,'' Correa said Sunday night, snubbing an earlier announcement from Colombia that it would apologize for the incursion.
'Girls Gone Wild' Trial Delayed
RENO, Nev. -- A federal judge in Reno postponed the tax evasion trial of the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series, but did not rule on whether the filmmaker could be released from jail. U.S. District Judge Brian Sandoval granted a defense request on Friday to postpone Joe Francis' tax trial until August. He also said he would rule in the "very near future" on a revised bail proposal that defense lawyer Fred Atcheson said would end Francis' legal limbo that has kept him in jail for nearly a year. Francis is seeking release with the assurance that he will not be extradited to Florida, where he faces separate charges related to the filming of underage girls in 2003. .
Mona Shores to replace 600 computers
MONA SHORES — More new technology is on tap for the students of Mona Shores Public Schools. The district plans to replace 600 desktop computers in labs districtwide this summer, completing improvements funded with a 0.65-mill, $4.2 million bond issue approved by voters in 2005. The district has spent $3.8 million in technology upgrades and new buses so far, and will spend another $400,000 on the computers this summer. The millage proceeds have paid for improvements to security (such as surveillance cameras, motion detection and doors), six new buses and new technology such as a phone system, desktop and laptop computers, digital video equipment and digital cameras. The district has invested heavily in technology through the past decade because officials said they believe it's an essential part of quality instruction for students.
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