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Adobe Shouts About Soundbooth

Adobe introduced a beta version of “Soundbooth” on Thursday, intended for the average consumer who may not need the power and capabilities of its professional audio editing product, Audition. Eventually, the application will make its way into the Creative Suite product.”Adobe Soundbooth is a completely new, highly intuitive audio creation and editing toolset designed to accelerate the integration of sound into video and Flash workflows,” Adobe Dynamic Media vice president and general manager Jim Guerard said.

BetaNews | Adobe Intros New Web Audio Editing Tool

While note worthy, the public beta is limited in features. For example it lacks the ability to import/export MP3 files.

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Oracle Knocks Red Hat Off

Enterprise Linux binaries will be available for free from Oracle. There was no discussion, however, of supplying source code, which is required by the GPL.That may be because Oracle is not claiming to “distribute” Linux, but instead to be merely “supporting” it. In Oracle’s terms, Unbreakable Linux is a support program that provides enterprises with world-class, award winning, global support for Linux — not a distribution per se.Specifically, Oracle will be offering patches, fixes, updates, and back ports for (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 3 and RHEL 4 for the x86 and x86-64 architectures, delivered via a subscriber network, the ULN (Unbreakable Linux Network). This will replace the functionality of Red Hat’s RHN (Red Hat Network).

Oracle adopts Red Hat Linux as its own

Well, this was going to happen sooner or later. I’m thinking that either Red Hat rebuffed an Oracle buyout or Oracle took a close look and realized that it was cheaper to add their own support to RHEL than it was to buy the company.  O the joys of open source!  Of course once the dust settles the big loser here could be Microsoft.  With more and more heavy weight support for Linux coming in from the likes of Oracle, waiting for Vista makes less and less sense.

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Adobe Launches New Ebook Reader/Manager

oday at Adobe MAX in Las Vegas, Adobe announced a pre-release beta of its latest ebook product, Digital Editions.Digital Editions will be offered initially as a free Windows download of the e-book reader software, which keeps ebooks organized and accessible. Adobe says it eventually plans to support Macintosh, Linux, and a host of portable device platforms. Version 1.0 is slated for release in early 2007, Adobe says. The Digital Editions will be rights-managed by Adobe and openable in the client software but not Adobe Reader, says Bill McCoy, general manager of the ePublishing Business Unit.

Adobe Makes New e-book Push

 The article does actually say “iTunes for e-books” at one point.  Lots of DRM is involved, but it will open any PDF or Open eBook file. 

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Google Custom Search Engines

Google just launched a customized search service called Google Co-op (screen shots below). Co-op allows a user to create and launch a search engine with just a few specific websites included. Searches will return results from only that website.

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google Co-op Launches

I’m all over this:)  I added a CSE for law schools at Learnthelaw.  I’m sure it will be quite useful for all of those interested in attending law school.  I’ll add one at CALI too just as soon as I figure out where it should live.

The great thing about this Google offering is that it really works.  Unlike other custom engines, there is no apparent limit to the number of sites you can add to your CSE.

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