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Adobe launches new version of Acrobat with Flash
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Acrobat allows users to package documents so they can be read across different hardware and operating systems.
Acrobat 9 comes with Adobe's video-enabling software Flash. Users can include Flash-based videos when they create and share documents with the portable document format, commonly known as PDF.
With a professional version of Acrobat 9, for example, users could package a Power Point presentation not just with images, but also with an audio of the presenter's voice.
"You can now send someone a presentation that speaks on its own all through a PDF," said Adobe spokesman Kevin M. Lynch, who is not related to the company's chief technology officer with the same name.
Adobe also launched Acrobat.com, which will host Web-based software services to support document creation and sharing.
The San Jose-based software maker hasn't launched a new version of Acrobat since November 2006, almost a year after it purchased Macromedia Inc., the creator of Flash software. Users have expected to see Flash integrated into Acrobat since that purchase, Lynch said.
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[ Monday 02nd June 2008 ] |
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New iPhone and iPod Touch models debut with higher prices
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A premium iPhone with 16 gigabytes of memory and a 499 dollar price tag is now the top of that line, ahead of a model with half the memory and a price of 399 dollars.
An iPod Touch with 32 gigabytes of memory costs 499 dollars, relegating the 399 dollar 16-gigabyte model to second position. Apple sells an eight-gigabyte iPod Touch for 299 dollars.
"For some users, there's never enough memory," said Apple vice president for iPod and iPhone marketing Greg Joswiak.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs says the California company has sold more than four million iPhones, touch-screen mobile devices combining telephone, video, music, and Internet connectivity.
IPod Touch models are essentially iPhones without the mobile telephone capabilities.
Apple's enhancement of memory capacities in its devices comes a month after the company added a movie rental service to its iTunes online entertainment store menu.
IPhone and iPod Touch models can download and present content from iTunes.
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[ Wednesday 06th February 2008 ] |
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Russian space cargo ship launched
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An unmanned Russian cargo ship carrying over 2.75 tons of supplies, equipment and gifts blasted off Tuesday for the international space station, officials said.
The Progress M-63 lifted off at 4:03 p.m from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, said Russia's Mission Control spokesman, Valery Lyndin said.
"The launch was conducted without a hitch and the ship has successfully entered a designated orbit on its way to the station," Lyndin said. The ship is due to dock at the station Thursday.
It is carrying oxygen, water and food, including honey, fruit and vegetables for the crew — U.S. astronauts Peggy Whitson and Daniel Tani and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. It is also delivering scientific equipment and experiments, Lyndin said.
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[ Wednesday 06th February 2008 ] |
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China hails "greatest discovery since Peking Man"
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Last month's find in Xuchang, in the central province of Henan, was made after two years of excavation just as two archaeologists were leaving for the Lunar New Year break, the China Daily said.
"We expect more discoveries of importance," Li Zhanyang, archaeologist with the Henan Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute, was quoted as saying.
The fossil consists of 16 pieces of the skull with protruding eyebrows and a small forehead.
"More astonishing than the completeness of the skull is that it still has a fossilized membrane on the inner side, so scientists can track the nerves of the Paleolithic ancestors," Li was quoted as saying.
Besides the skull, more than 30,000 animal fossils, and stone and bone artifacts were found.
"The pieces of the human skull showed up just when archaeologists were going home for the Spring Festival," the newspaper said, referring to the New Year holiday which officially begins next month.
Peking Man was discovered in the 1920s near Beijing and dates back roughly to between 250,000 and 400,000 years.
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[ Wednesday 06th February 2008 ] |
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Metal chunk crashes through N.J. roof
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A hunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a home had NASA and Federal Aviation Administration officials scratching their heads.
It didn't look "very space-y," said Henry Kline, a spokesman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "It's obviously made for something ... But we wouldn't know what to do with it."
It didn't appear to be an airplane part either, the FAA said.
Finally, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said Wednesday, a colleague in his office solved the mystery: It was part of a commercial woodchipper. The same part from another woodchipper's grinder had caused similar confusion last year, he said.
How it got on a Bayonne roof was anyone guess, but Peters had a theory. The grinder piece moves very fast and, apparently, it can launch into the air if something goes wrong.
The man who lives in the house was watching television Tuesday when he heard a crash and saw a cloud of dust. In the next room, he found the hunk of gray metal, 3 1/2 inches by 5 inches, with two hexagonal holes in it.
The part was being returned to Bayonne Police on Wednesday, Peters said.
"It belongs to somebody," Police Director Mark Smith said.
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[ Friday 20th July 2007 ] |
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China's terracotta tomb site hides mystery building
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The tomb of China's first emperor, guarded for more than 2,000 years by 8,000 terracotta warriors and horses, has yielded up another archaeological secret.
After five years of research, archaeologists have confirmed that a 30-meter-high building is buried in the vast mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang near the former capital, Xian, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.
Duan Qingbo, a researcher with Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology, said the building might have been constructed for the soul of the emperor to depart.
Archaeologists have been using remote sensing technology since 2002 to study the internal structure of the unexcavated mausoleum.
They concluded that the building, buried above the main tomb, had four surrounding stair-like walls with nine steps each, Xinhua said.
Qinshihuang unified China in 221 BC.
The life-size terracotta army, buried in pits near the mausoleum to guard the emperor in the afterlife, was accidentally unearthed in 1974 by farmers who were digging a well.
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[ Monday 02nd July 2007 ] |
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NASA pondering a future grapple on the James Webb Space Telescope
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When it launches in 2013 the James Webb Space Telescope will settle in an orbit roughly one million miles from the Earth. That distance is currently too far for any astronaut or any other existing NASA servicing capability to reach. Therefore, NASA is doing everything necessary to design and test the telescope on the ground using techniques that will ensure that it deploys and operates reliably in space.
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[ Sunday 24th June 2007 ] |
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MU physicist says testing technique for gravitomagnetic field is ineffective
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A major focus on the study of Einstein's theory of general relativity has been on confirming the existence of the gravitomagnetic field, as well as gravitational waves. A physicist at the University of Missouri-Columbia recently argued in a paper that the interpretation of the results of Lunar Laser Ranging, which is being used to detect the gravitomagnetic field, is incorrect because LLR is not currently sensitive to gravitomagnetism and not effective in measuring it.
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[ Sunday 24th June 2007 ] |
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