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Major update to browser delivers significant performance improvements, privacy enhancements, support for new Web standards, and greater customization options

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 30, 2009 – Mozilla, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today released Firefox® 3.5, a major update to its popular, free and open source Web browser. Coming one year after the launch of the critically acclaimed Firefox 3, Firefox 3.5 introduces cutting-edge features, as well as new support for a wide variety of Web standards.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 25, 2009 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that leading Australian public broadcaster Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) will stream the 96th annual Tour de France live online using Adobe® Flash® technology, the No. 1 platform for delivering video on the Web*. Cycling fans throughout Australia will be able to watch the most prestigious and well-known bicycling event in the world, via the SBS Web site at www.sbs.com.au/tdf. The race begins on July 4 and continues through July 27, 2009 with 21 stages, covering a total distance of 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles).

SBS chose the Adobe Flash Platform to stream the race live in high-definition video, and will offer instant messaging capabilities for viewer interaction, text and audio race commentary, and real-time rider tracking complete with elevations, routes, and rider positions.

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MyPhotoshop brushes
A very large collection in different categories. ie. #Ornaments, #Nature, #Human

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colourlovers
awesome community with a very large selections of brushes, also has colors, palettes and patterns

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Qbrushes
Collection of high-quality photoshop brushes

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PSBrushes
is a large categorized collection of download-able brushes

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Brusheezy
is all about brushes. There is a big collection to download or rate.

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If you ask me, a community website is one of the hardest to build.
You can get a broad variety of paid and free forum software, but to get people to post is never easy. You will need to interest them a lot.

There are a lot of great tips available on how to get your forum started, for insance:
The best tips to get your forum started - Admin Zone Forums

Basically, the most import things to do is to fill your forum with relevant content. This is very time consuming but really pays off. It sounds tempting to pay a small amount of money to 'boost' your forums with a few posts and threads. after all 'not having to spend all those hours yourself' will be worth the money.

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Adobe and HTC annouced yesterday that the new "HTC Hero" will be the first Android phone to ship with support for Adobe® Flash® Platform technology. This will definitely help the web browsing experience as a large percentage of the content available on the web is Flash. For video content on the web, we can even say close to 80% is Flash content. It seems obvious why this is a very valuable functionality for the phone.

A lot of applications that where not available to mobile phones in the past are now available and better integrated. For instance: You can play a Youtube video online and double tap your screen to go Fullscreen.

"The HTC Hero delivers powerful, compatible video playback performance using Flash technology, and interactive content enabled by ActionScript® 2.0. Users can enjoy and navigate through Web videos using intuitive video controls. With progressive streaming of large MP3 audio files from a Web server and the local file storage, the HTC Hero provides a seamless audio experience. Support for Sorenson and On2 VP6 codecs enables higher quality video and playback of existing Web content."

A demo of the user experience enabled by the Flash Platform on the HTC Hero and the Android operating system can be viewed at www.adobe.com/go/htchero.

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