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It’s easy to use Photoshop Express on your iPhone or iPad. Simply drag your finger to crop, adjust color, apply effects — you name it.

• Crop, rotate, change color with just a touch.
• Give an extra glow with Soft Focus.
• Get artsy with Sketch.
• Apply one-touch effects like Warm Vintage and Vignette.

Visit the Adobe website for more information.

This update contains improvements to stability and compatibility. In addition, it includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.

This update applies to: Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special Media Edition, Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Entourage 2008, Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition.

Visit the Microsoft website for more information.

Introducing the fastest Mac ever. The Mac Pro features the both latest Quad-Core and 6-Core Intel Xeon ‘Nehalem’ or ‘Westmere’ processors and a faster 1333MHz system memory is offered with certain processor configurations.

The Mac Pro includes all-new graphics options from ATI bringing new levels of performance graphics. As standard the Mac Pro will ship with the ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 offering up to 5x performance increase over the previous standard video card and an optional card, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 which offers 70% greater performance than the ATI Radeon HD 5770.

Mac Pro offers expansion capabilities that professionals demand with up to 8TB of storage, optional RAID card, up to four 512GB Solid State Drives (2TB total SSD storage) and up to 32GB of memory (8-Core/12-Core systems only).

Visit the Apple website for more information.

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The Adobe® Illustrator® 15.0.1 update addresses a number of issues related to stability, including the following:

• Out of memory problems specific to Macs with RAM exceeding 4gb, including failure of shortcut keys, rulers, or file open have been addressed.
• Glyph Panel issues have been addressed.
• Several crashes occurring at launch or quit have been addressed.
• A crash when traversing a variable data set containing linked images has been addressed.
• An issue with white lines appearing on rasterized gradient mesh objects has been addressed.

Visit the Adobe website for more information.