Archive for May 15th, 2005
Macromedia to Hold 2005 Annual Financial Analyst Meeting in San Francisco, California (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Macromedia, Inc. today announced that its management team will provide an update on the Company's financial strategies and growth initiatives at its 2005 annual financial analyst meeting in San Francisco, California, beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18.
Education Is the Focus at Streaming Media East (Ziff Davis via Yahoo! News)
Macromedia's acquisition by Adobe should be all the buzz, but panels will focus on the development and deployment of streams.
Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual
Excellent reference for Macromedia’s Web Authoring Software.
RSS 6 links: Dreamweaver
Excellent reference for Macromedia’s Web Authoring Software.
May 15th, 2005
Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals : American Family Immigration
Between 1892 and 1924 over 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York.
Immigration History Research Center
Resource on American immigration and ethnic history. Archival and library collections, academic and public programs, publishes bibliographic and scholarly
New Zealand Immigration Service
Official NZ Immigration Site. Lots of useful information, including current passmarks, form downloads, a list of offices and fees and all the new
May 15th, 2005
I saw that the Rolling Stones are back at it and doing a mondo sized tour. My age is becomming more evident as I saw them 20 years ago at the Oakland Coloseum.
As concerts go it was OK, but geez, can they still rock 20 years later??? Mick is in his 60’s!
Here is an excerpt of the article with details of the Stones tour.
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Rolling Stones Revival Tour to Stop in Atlanta
Fans Can Buy Tickets Saturday
NEW YORK — Roll over Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news: The Rolling Stones announced a new album and world tour Tuesday with a three-song mini-concert at one of Manhattan’s bastions of classical music, The Juilliard School.
The familiar crunching riff of “Start Me Up” was greeted with a roar from hundreds of fans filling Lincoln Center from its plaza to its rooftops, as sixty-something lead singer Mick Jagger launched into the lyrics.
“Thank you very much guys,” Jagger told the cheering crowd at the century-old conservatory on a sunny spring afternoon. “This is one of the earliest concerts we’ve played.”
The brief show promoted the tour that begins Aug. 21 at Fenway Park, where the legendary rock dinosaurs will play in front of the Green Monster. Dates in North America will continue through December.
Full text of article at:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/4475016/detail.html?rss=atl&psp=news
Rolling Stones Concer Tour News:
http://www.livedaily.com/onsale/archive/1077-4.html
Question: Are Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones too old to rock the house???
May 15th, 2005
Computerworld Encryption News Headlines
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Encryption - a CompInfo Directory
Find the best sources of Internet-based information on Encryption. Encryption - News. Anti Virus News The Register; Computer Security News
May 15th, 2005
Immigration History Research Center
Resource on American immigration and ethnic history. Archival and library collections, academic and public programs, publishes bibliographic and scholarly
Center for Immigration Studies
May 13, 1997 - The INS announces that a record number of illegal immigrants have been deported during the second quarter of the fiscal year.
May 15th, 2005
Immigration Forms and Fees
This page provides you with access to immigration forms. Please take the time to read our General Directions on Immigration Forms, as well as Fee
New Zealand Immigration Service
The New Zealand Immigration Service helps people into New Zealand to visit, study, work, invest, or live. NZIS administers visas and permits and controls
May 15th, 2005
Weinsteins show in Cannes there's life after Disney (Reuters)
Reuters - Bob and Harvey Weinstein areproving there is life after Disney.
Crazy Cabbie Gets Jail After On-Air Boast (AP)
AP - Radio personality"Crazy Cabbie"will spend a year in prison for tax evasion after boasting about it on the nationally syndicated"Howard Stern Show."
A glass glove fits'Cinderella Man'(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - As a kid, Jeremy Schaap says he was"somewhat of a geek"who liked to memorize long lists of names, all the heavyweight boxing champions. That's how he first heard of James J. Braddock. Only boxing historians know much about Braddock, the most unlikely of champions, but that's about to change.
May 15th, 2005
CANNES (Reuters) - Dreams of comic-book heroics fueled Samuel L. Jackson’s desire for a part in George Lucas’s “Star Wars” epic.
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“I used to sit in the theater and wonder who was auditioning people, where were they holding the auditions and how could I get in it,” Jackson told Reuters Saturday, the eve of the world premiere of the sixth and final “Star Wars” episode.
“It’s always part of that comic-book world that I grew up reading and wishing I could be in,” he added, as the Cannes film festival braced for a flood of Lucas publicity Sunday.
The movie, “Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith,” is set for its global premiere in the French Riviera resort, with an ocean liner booked to host Lucas and the world’s media for one of the most heavily hyped releases in recent years.
The first five films have taken well over $3.5 billion at the box office and a further $9 billion in official merchandise sales.
Jackson believes Sith is a key part of the series, because it explains how Anakin Skywalker turns from Jedi Knight to evil warlord Darth Vader.
“I think these (last) three films are about the evolution of who we know as Darth Vader, and I guess now looking back on the other films you also have a different view of who he is,” said Jackson, wearing a white flat cap and dark sunglasses.
“We used to see him as just pure evil, because we didn’t know that much about him. Now we know how he got to this particular place, so he seems more the tragic figure than an evil figure now.”
For Natalie Portman, the actress who plays the queen- turned-politician in the latest Star Wars trilogy, saying farewell to the films will be a bittersweet moment.
“It’s been an amazing sort of phase of my life,” she told Reuters. “You’re leaving it behind and … you don’t have another chance to go back and do it again.”
Portman’s hair will raise eyebrows when she hits the publicity trail Sunday, without her flowing black locks.
“I’m shooting a film called ‘V for Vendetta’ right now in Berlin, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, and in this story I’m imprisoned by a totalitarian government and my head is shaved,” she explained.
Apart from the Lucas creation, Portman has other interests in Cannes: a second film in which she stars, Israeli director Amos Gitai’s “Free Zone,” is one of 21 movies competing for the coveted Palme d’Or prize.
Article Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050514/people_nm/samueljackson_starwars_dc_1
May 15th, 2005
Uh oh Abobe bought Macromedia… will we get shafted???
You have no doubt heard about Abobe buying Macromedia. It’s not official yet but there is already buzz about what will happen when it goes down.
I just worry that a few of my fave products will disappear. Like Fireworks. While I love Adobe Photoshop, there is something magical and fun about Fireworks. You can do some wicked LOGO and type tricks with it.
What do you think???
Here is news text.
Adobe may drop several of its products once its takeover of Macromedia completes.
An NPD Techworld report cited by MacNN reports that Adobe will also gain control of Macromedia’s ubiquitous Flash platform, an important asset, according to the analyst firm. Over 95 per cent of Internet-connected computers have Flash installed, the report claims.
Flash ownership a focal point
“NPD believes that Adobe will not only leverage the Flash platform to drive sales of its graphics and digital video editing and compositing applications, but will use Flash to extend the reach of its “intelligent document” platform automating enterprise business processes as well,” claims MacNN.
Customers stand to benefit from the merger, which will possibly take until 2008 to be fully completed. Customers will see better integration between the applications they already use.
GoLive, FreeHand, Fireworks may pass
“NPD predicts that Photoshop and Dreamweaver customers will be least affected by the merger”, the report adds, explaining that these will most likely end up being integrated within one suite of tools - the report observes that the GoLive, Fireworks and FreeHand products may be sold.
Marketshare figures cited in the report for professional graphics and Web applications show Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash as leaders in their respective fields.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?home&NewsID=11553
Talk about it!
May 15th, 2005
MediaCrypt Unveils Newest Encryption Algorithm: IDEA NXT
Yahoo News (press release) - May 9, 2005 Based on the strengths and foundation of MediaCrypt's IDEA encryption algorithm, which has secured millions of transactions, documents and communications
You should not come accross this error as most ISP's servers do
Cheap56k.com (press release) - May 13, 2005 ISP History: protocol to allow the computers to send and receive messages and data, known as an interface message processor (IMPs).
Vontu and PGP Corporation Deliver First Content-Aware Email
PR Newswire (press release) - May 9, 2005 leader in Data Loss Prevention solutions, today announced that it has partnered with, PGP Corporation, the global customer standard for encryption and digital
May 15th, 2005
MediaCrypt Unveils Newest Encryption Algorithm: IDEA NXT
Yahoo News (press release) - May 9, 2005 Based on the strengths and foundation of MediaCrypt's IDEA encryption algorithm, which has secured millions of transactions, documents and communications
Missing Backup Tapes Spur Encryption at Time Warner
ComputerWorld - May 9, 2005 Part of the current problem, Lazar said, is that companies don't have proper chain-of-custody requirements or encryption technology in place.
May 15th, 2005