The past few weeks, Adobe has been doing its best Apple imitation, with a slew of product news aimed at creative professionals.
Macworld has already carried profiles of Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com this week. But I thought it would be a good idea to look at Monday’s announcements from a creative pro perspective.
With Acrobat 9 Pro, [...]
Ajay Naqvi of Shark Designs works from home three days a week. Not because his office has space constraints, but, as he puts it, because of the comfort he feels at his ‘home office’. He has converted the first floor of his duplex home into an office that gives him best of both worlds.
As working [...]
Bt-resistant populations of bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, were found in more than a dozen crop fields in Mississippi and Arkansas between 2003 and 2006.
What we’re seeing is evolution in action, said lead researcher Bruce Tabashnik. This is the first documented case of field-evolved resistance to a Bt crop.
Bt crops are so named because they have been [...]
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TOKYO, JAPAN, December 10, 2007 — NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that the FOMA F801i, a new child-friendly 3G mobile phone loaded with special features for the safety and convenience of children, will go on sale December 20.
Building on the popular FOMA SA800i model that DoCoMo released in March 2006, [...]
What is Bau-Biologie%26#8482;?
From before recorded history human beings have constructed shelters. Though floor space and investment value may factor in, the primary job of every home or office is to create an environment that allows this biological mystery called human life to flourish.
Have you ever spent time in a building that embraced and [...]
Figuring out how Bt toxins punch holes in the cells of an insect’s gut was the key to designing the new toxins, according to a Mexico-U.S. research team.
Some insects have developed resistance to Bt toxins, naturally occurring insecticides used worldwide to combat pests of crops such as cotton and corn and also disease-carrying mosquitoes. [...]
With knowledge from many fields, it is possible to propose the right solution for the aircraft’s control system at an early stage. This reduces the risk of wasted efforts on faulty designs, which entails lower developmental costs and enhanced safety.
When a new airplane is projected, designers need knowledge and competence from many disciplines in order [...]
The team, based at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, reports that the bubbles in their microfluidic device can carry on-chip process control information, just like the electronic circuits of a traditional microprocessor, while also performing chemical reactions. The work will appear in the Feb. 9 issue of Science.
Bubble logic merges chemistry with computation, allowing [...]
Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen told a news conference he wanted to clamp down on the organised criminals whose growing influence has corrupted the historic city centre.
%26quot;The romantic picture of the area is outdated if you see the abuses in the sex industry and that is why the council has to act,%26quot; he said. %26quot;We dont [...]