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Recent Website Updates
As mentioned over the weekend, we’ve updated the website with a revised template that moves us to a fixed width format. Why this is important is because it makes it far easier on us to edit content, knowing that it will look the same on every monitor. It’s also difficult to model a website that will look good on all resolutions, especially in the 1920×1200 and beyond territory.
The primary other change that has been implemented are categories. Yes, its been a long time coming, but now that they are here, things are easier to find than ever. We’ve gone through all past and present reviews to make sure they are all assigned appropriately, but there are a few other changes that can be made in the near future. Please feel free to peruse all available categories, as there are currently 499 articles to choose from :-)
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As always, we appreciate any feedback and suggestions on the new template. If something rubs you the wrong way, feel free to let us know in the forum below. This of course is not all that’s going to be updated. We have a lot more in store.. just need to get it all organized and coded up. Thanks for the support everyone!
Source: TG Forums
Is AMD Planning On Triple-Core Processors?
According to The Inq, AMD is readying three-core processors, which immediately prompts the question of.. why? The Inq insists this is not a rumor but solid “fact”, but three-core CPUs just doesn’t seem to make much sense. What I could see resulting from this is bad yields and poor efficiency. Quad-Cores have four cores that are interconnected… in a square pattern, obviously. This allows fast information sharing and cache swapping, but how do you accomplish this with three cores instead of four? Start a pyramid?
I’ll hold all of my thoughts back until the performance of these are actually seen, but the reason behind this cannot be that great. AMD should have skipped right to Quin-Cores and actually had a chance to beat Intel’s own processors. If these actually see the light of day, I will be amazed. Somehow, I am still quite curious to see how these would overclock…
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On the technical side, this is pretty trivial to do: three to core four is just a fuse to blow. What it gets you is a whole lot of choices. Remember the smooth run of SKUs, that was the beginning. If your clocks are thermally constrained, having three instead of four cores gives you a bin or two of speed. Given how few games use a second core fully, this might be a real win.
Source: The Inquirer
Colin McRae and Son: Rest in Peace
As revealed over the weekend by numerous sources, Colin McRae, of Rally Racing fame, has died in a helicopter crash along with his five-year-old son. McRae was 39 years-old and leaves behind his wife and 9-year-old daughter. McRae was certainly a legend in what he did. He brought Rally racing to the masses (with the help of his game series) and truly accomplished a lot throughout his life.
There’s little good to ever come out of someone’s passing, but it kicks everyone else in the pants to realize how fortunate they are to be alive. As Social Distortion said in their song ‘Reach for the Sky’, “Reach For the Sky, ’cause tomorrow may never come”. Well said. Our deepest thoughts go out to the McRae family.
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Colin was a great son, a loving husband to Alison and a fantastic father to Johnny and his big sister Hollie. Johnny was a great wee guy, spending every spare minute with his dad, and even at this early stage it looked like he had the potential to carry on the family dynasty.
Source: Colin McRae.com
Ouch… MediaDefenders Entire E-Mail Database Leaked
In what’s being called the “Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak”, MediaDefender’s entire e-mail database has been leaked onto BitTorrent networks. For those who are unaware (and neither was I), MediaDefender is a company that is hired by various companies to help protect their properties. Obviously, the primary way they do this is by leaking fake copies of movies and the like onto BitTorrent sites themselves, in hopes to gather IP addresses of those downloading.
MediaDefender doesn’t know how to protect themselves apparently. Their entire database of e-mails (700MB uncompressed) has been leaked on the internet and contains everything from lunch plans to conversations between employees about their future tactics. This is an insane leak and on that no doubt has made MediaDefender tremble in their boots. TorrentFreak has all of the coverage through both links below.
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Unfortunately for Media Defender – a company dedicated to mitigating the effects of internet leaks – they can do nothing about being the subject of the biggest BitTorrent leak of all time. Over 700mb of their own internal emails, dating back over 6 months have been leaked to the internet in what will be a devastating blow to the company.
Source: TorrentFreak and TorrentFreak
Is the iPod touch the Buggiest Apple Product Ever?
Normally when Apple releases a new product, it’s gobbled up by fans everywhere, with little known about bugs and oddities. However, with the iPod touch there was no such thing. This is one of the few Apple products in recent memory that has had an insane amount of problems. It’s as though Apple actually rushed delivery on the product and skipped blatantly obvious details.
Such as? Over the weekend we found out that the touch, and other new iPods, would not work with Linux. Not a big deal.. as that protection has already been mostly circumvented. Then there was news that some people wound up with a touch that didn’t even have an OS installed, just a diagnostic menu! Now, CrunchGear is reporting that when you put in an incorrect password while unlocking the iPod, it will tell you it’s an iPhone! To add even more to the pile, OSX and Windows will both pick up the device as a digital camera… not a media player. Whew! Apple, have you let yourselves go? The good thing is that this can all be fixed with a firmware update (probably), but still…
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Ugh. More iPod shenanigans. Apparently crooked screens, washed out colors, lack of Bluetooth, disabled Linux compatibility, and a fubar calendar (to name a few) wasn’t enough. If you’ve gotten your hands on a Touch try this out: lock it and then enter the wrong password. Lo’ and and behold your little media player has transformed into a phone. Or not.
Source: CrunchGear
TG at IDF in SF
Yes, I had fun in creating that title. Just a note to everyone that Greg and I will be attending the Intel Developer’s Forum in San Francisco and will be delivering you news on what’s new and notable as the conference progresses. The first few days are filled to the brim with keynotes and also an interview with Gordon Moore, which is sure to be interesting.
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Half-way through the conference, we will be able to deliver performance results and more information on Intel’s 45nm processors, and also Harpertown/Stoakley later in the week. Stay tuned as we will be updating the site throughout the week with some exciting content!
Site Updates In Progress…
Tonight we have updated the website with a new streamlined template, moving to a fixed width model that should be easier to deal with. We’ve also added categories (and it only took us two and a half years!) which I will be spending a lot of time on to get filled up. If you are wondering why they appear empty, it’s because we need to go back through all 497 articles and manually set them, so it might take a good few hours.
Will update this post when finished and will also create a thread in the hours to come to welcome comments on the refreshed layout. Thanks guys!
New iPods Require iTunes, Breaks Linux Support
Planning to pick up a new iPod Nano/Classic/touch? You might want to re-think that purchase if you are a Linux user, as the latest models break support with all of the popular iPod synching applications. This was done due to changes in the iTunesDB, which likely means that it can be reverse engineered, just as previous updates have been. Did Apple do this on purpose or was this an actual feature update? Good question.
I have been throwing the idea of purchasing an iPod touch later this month, but this news definitely sideswiped it since I use Linux full-time. Is Apple trying to force people to their OS? If so, breaking iPod support is not likely going to do it. If people are willing to make an OS switch because of a music player, then kudos to them. I think it’s about time that Apple realizes that Linux is going nowhere and begins supporting iTunes under the OS, or even better, stops breaking support for other applications in general.
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At the very start of the database, a couple of what appear to be SHA1 hashes have been inserted which appear to lock the iTunes database to one particular iPod and prevent any modification of the database file. If you try to do either of these, the hashes will not match and the iPod will report that it contains “0 songs” when the iTunesDB would otherwise be perfectly adequate.
Source: iPodMinusiTunes Blog
Intel To Acquire Havok
Intel has signed an agreement to acquire Havok Inc., which will become a wholly owned subsidiary. Havok is no stranger to anyone interested in PC or console gaming. They’ve been part of huge games in various ways with such titles as Half-Life 2, Tony Hawk’s Project 8, Oblivion and more. They are best known for their middleware physics engine, but they offer other services in both the gaming and movie industry, as well.
Intel states that this acquisition will allow developers to take advantage of “Intel’s innovation and technology leadership” which is confusing… what was stopping them before? This acquisition could mean a lot for both gamers and developers alike, though. If Intel so chooses, they could work with Havok to develop physics capabilities directly into their chipsets or even the processors themselves. It might not go that far, but I am sure we will be learning more at next weeks IDF. Rumor has it that Intel celebrated this acquisition by kicking AGEIA straight in the…
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2007 – Intel Corporation today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Havok Inc., the leading provider of interactive software and services used by digital media creators in the game and movie industries. Havok will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel. The acquisition will enable developers in the digital animation and game communities to take advantage of Intel’s innovation and technology leadership in the creation of digital media.
Source: Intel Press Release
Sega Dreamcast Iomega Zip Drive On eBay
Sega’s Dreamcast was undoubtedly my favorite console ever, and it’s really too bad that they decided to pull the plug so early. It could easily keep up to the PS2 in terms of graphics and audio, so I will still never understand why they gave up so as if it were no big deal. I am certainly not alone in thinking that it was a great console, as the huge fanbase can confirm. One cool factor about the DC is that it had a lot of great peripherals, but sadly, many never saw the light of day.
Such as this Iomega Zip drive, for example. This drive was similar to those offered for PCs (and still are today) that would allow you to use an external Zip disk capable of storing 100MB of data to save your games and other files you download off of the internet. Pretty impressive given this was the year 2000 and internet based consoles only really started taking off in 2005 with Microsoft’s Xbox 360. If you are a DC fan and have $10,000 lying around, you know what to do.
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The drive was made to fit under the DC and would connect to the expansion port with the modem, then being plugged into the Zip drive. This was to help promote the DC from a console to a home entertainment/information system with the release of other accessories (which were also never released). This Zip drive was not going to be compatible with the PC Zip drives, but it was suggested that software for the PC would eventually be released to make it compatible with the DC Zip drive.
Source: DC Emu
Intel X48 Chipset Before Year-End?
According to DigiTimes, Intel will soon begin shipping X38 chipsets to customers so that mass production can begin. This means that motherboards should arrive around the same time as ATI’s RD790 chipset. Notable features of X38 is of course Penryn support, 1333FSB, DDR3-1333 memory, PCI Express 2.0, dual PCI-E 16x and also support for Intel’s own Extreme Memory Profiles overclocking features.
While we don’t even have X38 yet, it appears that an upgraded version of the chipset might be out before years-end. Tentatively called X48, it will support native 1600FSB and DDR3-1600 memory. This seems like a reasonable rumor, since Intel’s new Extreme Memory Profiles officially support DDR3-1600 speeds as well. According to this article, X38 motherboards will not need to be altered to support the newer chipset, which pretty much assures us that it’s mostly a speed bump.
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Board makers will not be required to change any design work of X38-based motherboards since the X38 and X48 chipsets will use the same PCB (printed circuit board), said the sources, noting that the X38 could also support 1600MHz FSB and DDR3 1600 memory after overclocking. Sources at Intel Taiwan, however, stated that the company would decide whether to launch an upgrade version of X38 chipset after evaluating the market reaction to the X38-based motherboards.
Source: DigiTimes
Microsoft Allows Students To Steal Office… For $59.95
If you are a student who’s planning to steal Microsoft Office 2007, then why not steal it directly from the source? For a $59.95US fee, of course. Yes, if you are a student and can prove it, Microsoft will sell let you steal their top-end Office 2007 offering for only $59.95US, a very good deal if you are in need of a robust office suite. Not in the US? You can purchase it for a yearly fee instead.
Ultimate 2007, which retails for $600+ elsewhere, contains all of the office products you will ever need, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Outlook, Groove, OneNote and InfoPath. Note also that this will be a downloadable version, so if you had plans to purchase a dirt-cheap copy and resell it, you might have a rough time.
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We definitely think it’s a great deal. It gives students easier access to our premium productivity suite Office Ultimate 2007, which includes tools they’ll be able to put to good use in their studies such as Office Groove 2007 and Office OneNote 2007. Beginning Sept. 12, Microsoft will launch a special Web-based promotion exclusively for students called The Ultimate Steal. Students who are actively enrolled at eligible educational institutions will be able to acquire Office Ultimate 2007 via the Web at the low student price of US$59.95.
Source: Microsoft Press Release
Microsoft Pushes Out a Silent Windows Update
Get off my lawn! Jeez I kinda feel violated.
Microsoft apparently pushed out a Windows Update a few weeks ago of which no one had been notified. There were 9 files, on both XP and Vista, pertaining to the Windows Update process which were modified. All the files reside in the WindowsSystem32 folder on your machine.
So why is this such a big deal? As it turns out this update was sent to all Windows computers, even those that have the automatic installation of Windows Updates disabled.
Read more about what Microsoft had to say, and how to tell if you’ve been secretly updated.
Source: CyberNetNews
Winamp 5.5 Beta Released With Numerous Updates
If any MP3 player can be considered a true classic, it would have to be Winamp. I first found out about the player around version 0.93, when a family member proved to me that he had hundreds of song files on his computer. At the time, I couldn’t wrap my head around it, since I knew songs off CD’s hovered around 40MB and his hard drive at the time would never have supported that. Well, it sure didn’t take long for me and millions of others to catch on to what MP3s are all about.
Over the years though, Winamp has decreased in popularity, partly in thanks to an acquisition by AOL and also partly in thanks to the release of iTunes. Even still, there is a massive fanbase that still supports the player. Today they have released a new beta, for version 5.5. Included is a completely new theme and design, which you can see in the image below. After installation, you will need to manually choose this theme.
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As you can see, it has a standard media player appeal, and is similar to iTunes and others in different ways. At all times, you will have access to your current playlist in the top-right corner, while the bulk of the application displays whatever current menu item you have selected, whether it be your media list or Shoutcast Radio. Also of interest is the fact that when playing a a song, it will display album art at the bottom, should it be able to find some. In another nice touch, relevant news is also displayed in that area. For a massive features-list and bug-list, follow the link to the official forums below.
Source: Winamp Forums
PS3 1.93 Firmware Available, Store Updated
We knew it was coming, and now it’s finally here. Both the PS3 1.93 and PSP 3.71 firmware have been released and you can update via usual means. The PS3 firmware only fixes up a few bugs that were launched with 1.92, while the PSP firmware adds theme support and video scene searching.
The Playstation Store has also been updated, but for some reason, I don’t see the results on my own console yet. Looking at the comments at the official blog though, I might be the only one. Regardless, PixelJunk Racers has been released for $6.99 and also High Stakes on the Vegas Strip for $9.99. As for demos, Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground has made it’s way in there as well as NHL 08, FIFA 08, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and PixelJunk Racers. This all in addition to a slew of new wallpapers and trailers.
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Hey everyone, time for another fantastic PLAYSTATION Store update. First off, you’ll notice that we’ve updated some of the thumbnails in the Store. There are new genres for the Game Demos category. Hopefully, this makes it easier to get to the content you want. Oh, and speaking of content, we’ve heard a lot of folks asking about the NHL Demo and Poker and yes, we’ve got them both this week – and a whole lot more. Check it out.
Source: Playstation Blog
Popular Gaming-Mice Technologies Debunked
Think all gaming mice are the same? SteelSeries doesn’t think so, and they help prove it with a new blog entry. We posted just a few weeks ago about their announcement of the Ikari Optical and Laser gaming mice, which are truly developed for gamers, with the help of gamers. As mentioned in the blog, SteelSeries is one of the very few game-peripheral companies that actually test their products in real-world scenarios, namely LAN parties.
If you are interested in gaming mice at all, this read is worthy of your time. It’s no small article though, so you might want to refill that coffee first. Many popular gaming-mice-features are debunked, including DPI, laser technology, on-the-fly DPI and more. After they explain why certain technologies are senseless, they go into detail about how they plan to correct the situation with their upcoming Ikari.
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When a company mentions DPI in the same sentence as precision, or anything else regarding better tracking, it is simply bullshit. First of all the term DPI (Dots Per Inch) has nothing to do with mice. It’s an expression from the printing world and shouldn’t even be used to describe mouse movement.
Source: FragYou!
NVIDIA Releases Top-To-Bottom Quadro FX Cards
Graphic designer on a budget? NVIDIA has you covered. Up until now, NVIDIA’s Quadro FX offerings have been high-end and far too pricey for the novice or intermediate graphic designer. Yesterday, they took care of that problem with the release of the Quadro FX 370, NVS 290, FX 570 and also the FX 1700, ranging between $129 and $699, bottom-to-top.
The three lowest-end models each feature 256MB of GDDR3, while the FX 1700 features 512MB. Each one of the cards includes SM 4.0 support, in addition to support for NVIDIA’s Cuda GPU-computing software architecture. No exact date is given on these new releases, but it might be assumed that you will be able to acquire them through OEM means in the weeks to come.
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Today, the company extended the family, with the launch of new mid-range and entry-level 2D and 3D Quadro boards for professionals in the CAD/CAM, DCC, medical imaging, digital video and financial sectors. The new Quadro professional graphics also redefine the price/performance dynamic for professional graphics—from the Quadro FX 370, available for the unprecedented entry price of $129 MSRP to the Quadro FX 1700, with an MSRP of $699.
Source: NVIDIA Press Release
Super Talent’s 128GB Solid-State Drive Reviewed
In this day and age, 128GB for a hard-drive seems incredibly low. For good reason, since the “smallest” most people will buy nowadays is 320GB and 750GB are only $200. However, this 128GB is special. It’s a solid-state drive that has flash-based innards, which means it’s far more durable than a regular hard drive, but is it faster?
According to the specs, this drive should top out at 60MB/s read and 40MB/s write. Where is does excel though is with latencies. But is that little gain worth it? Well, considering the fact that the drive retails for $4,600… that might be a question you have to make.
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128GB of fast flash doesn’t come cheap, though. When the SATA25 hits Newegg and other online retailers at the end of the month, it’s expected to sell for a whopping $4600, or roughly $36 per gigabyte. For web servers, $4600 for a 128GB solid-state drive is a lot cheaper than the equivalent in DRAM, so the SATA25 may actually be a pretty good deal.
Source: Tech Report
Heavenly Sword A Seven-Hour Taste Of Heaven?
The highly-anticipated Heavenly Sword has finally been released for the PS3 and reviews are trickling in from all over. I took at look at GameSpots first, and I must say… it does look quite good. I played the demo last month though, and it didn’t really leave the best taste in my mouth. Could the full game really be that much better? One particular gripe I had with the demo was the fact that it was done in under ten minutes. Now I know why… the full game can be beaten entirely in just under seven hours!
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind short games if they are absolutely stellar, but it’s still difficult to make an excuse for 6.5 hours worth of gameplay. Paying $10 an hour to play a game seems a little extreme. Regardless, Gamespot found the game had great presentation and enjoyed the fact that the game was never dull. Of course, it never really has a chance to be, does it? Given the ridiculously short gameplay, this one might be a rental for most.
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Add it all up and Heavenly Sword is a fantastic game from start to finish. It’s just a shame that it’s not longer. The developer made the wise decision to keep the action tight by not including any fetch quests or backtracking, but skilled players will probably finish the game in a little more than six hours, and it probably won’t take longer than eight hours for anyone else.
Source: GameSpot
Bottle Capable Of Cleaning Dirtiest Of Water
Sure, this isn’t really gadget news, but it’s interesting nonetheless. An Ipswich man has created a £190 bottle that will cleanse any dirty water you put in it. Apparently, it can filter through 4,000 – 6,000 litres of water before ever needing a filter change, which is a huge benefit in itself. The bottle can filter out anything over 15 nanometres long, including fecal matter. The military is obviously quite interested, but there are numerous situations where it could prove useful if ever put into mass production, such as for hikers and campers.
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Mr Pritchard, who runs a water treatment business in Ipswich, was inspired after watching coverage of the tsunami in south-east Asia on Boxing Day 2004 and of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana the following year. He was amazed to see refugees waiting for days to get any fresh water. He said: “Something had to be done. It took me a little while and some very frustrating prototypes but eventually I did it.”
Source: Telegraph UK
Logitech Announces Two New PS3 Bluetooth Peripherals
Logitech is a company that creates outstanding gaming peripherals… but only for the PC. To date, no Logitech console product has impressed me, and I even awarded their PS3 Cordless Precision Controller a 6 out of 10 back in June. After that review, I was really beginning to wonder how much Logitech really cared about the console market. But, my doubts might soon be wiped away with their latest releases.
The Cordless Vantage Bluetooth Headset and Cordless MediaPro Keyboard both use the Bluetooth connection that’s built into the PS3, which only makes sense. The extra dongles included with previous offerings were clunky and not great to look at, despite being very small. The headset is designed to last upwards of twelve hours in between charges and the keyboard is set to last 200 hours with the included AA batteries. Kudos to Logitech for finally releasing some PS3 products that don’t require a separate dongle!
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“Logitech is pleased to offer two Bluetooth-enabled products for the PlayStation 3 console platform, making the PS3 experience even better,” said Bruce Lancaster, vice president of Logitech’s interactive entertainment business unit. “The Cordless Vantage Headset for PS3 allows gamers to coordinate with teammates – wirelessly. And the Cordless MediaBoard Pro Bluetooth keyboard significantly improves the PLAYSTATION(R) Network experience, making it easier and faster to manage accounts and text with friends.”
Source: Logitech Press Release
Tony Hawk Proving Ground Demo On XBL, Ikaruga and Rez On Their Way
For all those Xbox 360-owning Tony Hawk Pro Skater fans out there, stop what you are doing, turn on the console and promptly download the Proving Ground demo. I’m bordering on Tony Hawk Pro Skater fanboy, so I expect to give it a try in just a short bit. For the first time in a while, the series finally has some competition with EA’s skate., which was recently awarded an impressive 90% at IGN. I can’t remember the last time any Tony Hawk game has had such high scores, so here’s to hoping that Proving Ground seriously impresses and has a chance to retain it’s reign.
In other semi-related news, Joystiq relays information from the Tokyo Gaming Show conference where announcements were released of Rez, Ikaruga, Exit, Omega Five and Triggerheart Exelica all coming to Xbox Live Arcade. No dates have been laid, but Ikaruga in particular has my interest piqued. That game was gorgeous as is when released on the Sega Dreamcast, so I’m curious to see if it will be upgraded at all for XBL. It’s also one of the most difficult top-down shooters out there (is there an easy one?), and should definitely prove worthy of your cash once released.
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Microsoft confirmed that Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s melodic shooter will soon make you hear everything you see and see everything you hear on Xbox Live Arcade. Other things you’ll see are waves of hypnotic bullets (Ikaruga), saviors adorned with fine hats (EXIT), pulsating geometric shapes (Every Extend Extra Extreme), flying robots (Omega Five) and… er, some sort of Japanese car (Triggerheart Exelica)? No release dates have been announced for any of the games, though we suspect none of them are likely to come soon enough.
Virtual Job Fairs Offer Second Lifers Real World Jobs
You’re virtually hired? Does that mean I get virtual benefits? Virtual vacation pay? What about virtual severance?
One big benefit of virtual world recruiting is that job seekers aren’t hindered by geographic boundaries. Pearson said that, when EMC participated in TMP’s Second Life job fair in late August, 150 people from as far away as Japan and the Netherlands requested interviews.
In its quest for top-notch salespeople and system administrators, Hopkinton, Mass.-based computer and software storage giant EMC has entered a new dimension: the virtual world of Second Life.
“It was fantastic,” said Polly Pearson, an EMC vice president for employment, in a real world interview about the company’s virtual world job fair.
For the uninitiated, Second Life is a bustling cyber-world, accessible via the Internet , where as many as 9 million people from 100 different countries gather to eat, sleep and shop.
And, apparently, land real world jobs.
Source: Linux Insider
Microsoft Enables “Reduced Functionality” In Vista
Over the years, Microsoft have launched numerous campaigns and techniques to combat piracy. After all, if you are using Windows, you should pay for it. There’s no disagreeing there. However, some of their methods up to now have not only not worked well, but have been intrusive and poorly designed. WGA comes to mind, as it was a system in particular that had a strikingly high number of false positives. So in essence, their piracy-killing techniques not only affect pirates, but legit users as well.
Microsoft is done playing softball though, and plans to up the ante a little bit further. According to Computer World, a large Vista distributor received an e-mail notifying them that a “Reduced Functionality” function in the OS had been activated. What does this mean to those using pirated versions? “A black screen after one hour of browsing; No start menu or task bar and No desktop”. Well… then. As if Vista wasn’t difficult to use in the first place! Hopefully all legit users of the OS will be able to evade potential false positives this time around.
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“If Windows Vista is not activated with a genuine product key, your customers will experience reduced functionality,” according to the ad. “The blocking of nongenuine product keys is an ongoing process, not a one-time event. To help protect honest partners and fight piracy, Microsoft will continue to block product keys that are determined to be pirated, stolen or otherwise deemed nongenuine.”
Source: Computer World
Adobe’s Online Photoshop Making Progress
Some six months ago, we made a post about an online version of Photoshop that Adobe was apparently working on, but since then not much has progressed. Adobe’s Jack Nack has posted an update regarding a first showing at the Photoshop World convention. One thing is clear… this is not meant to be a Photoshop replacement, but that much was obvious to begin with.
What I find most interesting about the screenshot below is the small cube in the bottom, that contains a lot of Adobe’s product icons. Now, it’s hard to imagine that other Adobe products would also see small clones online, but it’s possible. It could simply be a quick method to export the file you are working on to an Adobe program on your computer. Of course, if you have Photoshop already installed, why would you be using a feature-restricted online version? I guess the only option right now is to wait it out and see.
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I can’t share a ton of additional detail at the moment, but here’s a screenshot of the app in action. Adobe Sr. VP John Loiacono showed that it was possible to adjust an image just by rolling over the different versions shown at the top, previewing the results & then clicking the desired degree of modification. I’ll post more info as it becomes available.
Source: John Nack Blog