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Inside Mac - November 15th 2003

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Warwick Davies - Group Vice President - IDG World Expo

Warwick Davies is a Group Vice President at IDG World Expo responsible for the Macworld Conference & Expo and LinuxWorld Conference & Expo brands, having recently joined the company in July 2003.

Before joining IDG World Expo, he was an independent consultant helping companies quickly and profitably discover and launch international business opportunities in the high tech and biotech sectors. Prior to running his own consulting business, he was Vice President of Expositions and International Business Development at DCI, one of North America's premier business and technology conference and exposition organizers. At DCI, Warwick conceived and launched DCI's international conference program, including events in the UK, Germany, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. He also held worldwide responsibility for DCI's Customer Relationship Conference and Exposition. Prior to joining DCI, Warwick held a series of international sales, marketing, operations and administration management positions with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lufthansa Germana Airlines, Hertz Corporation and the British Government.

Warwick is also author of The Freeport Experiment, a book detailing the success and failures of the UK free trade zones. He holds a BS in Economics from Northeastern University.

Adam Pratt - Application Engineer - Adobe

Adam Pratt is an Application Engineer at Adobe Systems where he focuses on Adobe's creative professional products. He's the co-author of SAMS Teach Yourself GoLive 6 in 24 Hours and an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, Acrobat, InDesign, LiveMotion, and PageMaker.

New Adobe GoLive CS Speeds Creative Web Design With Powerful Authoring Tools

Enhanced Adobe PDF Support, Advanced CSS Authoring and Breakthrough Cross-Media Integration with InDesign Anchor Extensive Upgrade of Award-winning Web Tool

Adobe Systems Incorporated, the leader in network publishing, announced Adobe GoLive CS, a major release of the powerful, integrated Web publishing tool for creative professionals involved in Web design. Available as a key component of the Adobe Creative Suite (also announced today) or as a stand-alone software application, GoLive CS speeds web site design and production with innovative capabilities such as Package for GoLive from InDesign, and GoLive Co-Author as well as advanced Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) visual authoring and extensive support for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

"GoLive CS advances Web authoring with new capabilities that allow designers to take their print work to the web in record time," said Jim Heeger, senior vice president of Creative Professional Products at Adobe. "In addition, with Adobe PDF a crucial element across millions of web sites, GoLive CS offers the industry's most integrated and simple PDF workflow for publishing documents to the Internet."

Advanced CSS Support

Adobe GoLive CS offers a powerful visual programming environment aligned with industry standards. By supporting CSS level-2 layout and authoring, separating form from content for Web communication, GoLive CS lets designers visually author CSS level-2 compliant pages and check support in different browsers and devices. A completely redesigned CSS editor helps create styles, which can be rendered instantly with a visual preview. Working with source code is now even more powerful in GoLive CS. Code-completion offers users the ability to work with tags directly from a pop-up list in the source code editor, right as they type. 360Code provides a complete set of roundtripping tools to ensure proper code integrity and allow for fast code clean-up. In addition to new CSS tools, GoLive CS features Apple QuickTime authoring enhancements.

New Level of Adobe Integration

Adobe GoLive CS provides unparalleled integration with components in the Adobe Creative Suite and the familiar Adobe look and feel makes it easy for designers to get up-to-speed quickly on GoLive CS. Offering industry-leading support for Adobe PDF, GoLive CS takes advantage of Adobe PDF for common tasks, including late stage bookmark and link edits, previewing pages, and exporting page designs directly to Adobe PDF for client review.

The breakthrough Package for GoLive feature in Adobe InDesign CS allows designers to quickly export the textual and image assets of sophisticated pre-press layouts into Adobe GoLive CS, radically cutting down the time required to create integrated print and Web campaigns. Smart Objects allow users to work with native Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, and Adobe Acrobat files directly inside of GoLive CS, while the Adobe Color Engine enhances and streamline color workflows.

Smart Guides provide vertical and horizontal indicators to line up page elements and include pre-built, professionally-made elements for Web page design. Changes can now be viewed immediately in GoLive CS with the Live Rendering palette, a real-time rendering window for Web design. The Adobe GoLive Co-Author, a feature set and standalone interface for collaborating with other team members, allows participants to make changes through a form-like interface without changing the layout.

New Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe GoLive CS is a component of the all-new Adobe Creative Suite. The Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition combines full, new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS with ImageReady CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, Adobe GoLive CS, and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional and introduces the innovative new Version Cue file version manager, to easily track iterations and quickly locate files. The Adobe Creative Suite is a complete design solution that gives today's creative professionals everything they need to create and publish content to print and the Web faster, more easily, and more efficiently than ever.

Pricing and Availability

Adobe GoLive CS for Mac OS X 10.2.4 is expected to be available in the fourth (calendar) quarter of 2003 to customers in the United States and Canada through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store. Estimated street price for the full version will be US$399 for all platforms. Registered users of Adobe GoLive 5.x and 6.x can upgrade to GoLive CS for only US$169. One seat of Adobe GoLive Co-Author is included with each version of Adobe GoLive CS and additional copies are available at http://www.adobe.com/store for an estimated street price of US$89.

For more detailed information about new features and upgrade policies for Adobe GoLive, please visit: http://www.adobe.com/golive. For more detailed information about the Adobe Creative Suite, please visit: http://www.adobe.com/creativesuite

MacMice's The Mouse
New optical USB mouse from MacMice that sports a slick scroll wheel and even a two-button design. For all who want a simple and affordable two-button optical mouse, this just might be it. The Mouse even has customizable [definable] driver software.
http://www.macmice.com/

iSkin's eXo2
iSkin's eXo2; sneak peek. iSkin is ready to ship the much anticipated eXo2 for 3G iPods. New design sports beveled cut outs, removable belt clip (heavy duty), and an altogether better feel and finish. Also, the new eXo2 will come in 'Glo' (glow in the dark) colors.
http://www.iskin.com/

Booq's, PodPaq014
Crafted from tough ballistic nylon and neoprene, trimmed with quality nappa leather, PodPaq014 is a solid protection for the new (3G) 10/15/20GB iPod.
http://www.booqbags.com/

Scott Sheppard - Executive Producer / Host

Scott Sheppard is the founder and editor of the popular Macintosh Web Site, http://www.OSXFAQ.com He is also a monthly Contributing Editor to Macworld UK magazine and produces a daily audio broadcast of Mac news and information Inside Mac Radio.

Scott Sheppard previously hosted the Inside Mac Show broadcast by CNET radio.

Scott has been using Apple computers for more than 25 years, as well as spending many years as a Wintel user, giving him the unique perspective of having spent a lot of time on both sides of the computer fence.

Sam Levin - Co Host & Senior Mac Technologist

Sam Co-Founded the Stanford Mac Users' Group in 1985, and has worked with leading Macintosh developers on business development, licensing, and strategic market development. Sam Directed licensing initiatives for leading entertainment companies such as Virgin Interactive, Broderbund, and Mattel.

Sam has worked with numerous Mac companies such as: Aladdin, Apple, Broderbund, Connectix, IBM Multimedia, IXLA, Jiiva, Keyspan, Microsoft, MYOB, Meilenstein, Fathom Pictures, LandWare, Mattel, Nova Development, Totally Hip Software, Y-E Data and more.

Christan Pickman - News Anchor

Christian Pickman is the producer of Inside Mac and he brings 5 years of radio experience to the show.

Greg Douglas - Director of Network Operations

Gregory Douglas has fifteen years of experience in the radio, television and computer- related areas. He was the Director of Network Operations for Personal Achievement Radio, which included responsibilities for the production, operation and distribution of the "PAR" format. As the primary individual in charge of the on-air sound for "PAR", Mr. Douglas interacted with the motivational authors, Nightingale-Conant, ABC Radio Networks, PAR O & O's and affiliates and the broadcast talent. He pioneered the transition to digital for the flagship PAR studios. In addition, Mr. Douglas was M.I.S. Manager for Douglas Broadcasting Inc. where he was responsible for the traffic and business computer functions as well as the computer networking of DBI/PAR radio outlets.

Previously, he was the General Manager of DBI's Seattle operation and Station Manager at WBPS-AM in Boston. Also, Mr. Douglas has been involved in almost all areas of broadcasting, including traffic, business, engineering, production and sales.