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Archive for September, 2008

Visa company is developing a special software for Google Android OS. It can be applied on HTC communicators under Android OS.

It is supposed that applications form Visa allow smartphone owners use different services. For instance you can get alerts on transactions or find local ATMs near your place.

I have to notice that Visa and Nokia are going to develop applications which allow users to make transaction online via you mobile phone.

It is expected that Visa’s software will be release on Android platform to the end of this year and will be available only for US citizens.

It is difficult to say what Picasa is. First of all Picasa, certainly, a powerful organizer for the images finding them on all hard disks and grouping in albums according to various attributes. On the other hand, Picasa is alsp a photo editor. There are no tools for drawing however you can correct a picture or a photo, having changed those or other parameters. At last, Picasa is a service for publishing images on the Internet, and the program represents the client for interaction with the Network.

The third version of Picasa has released in beta-testing mode. And there are some new features wich i would like to review.

First of all Picasa 3.0 can find and contain 1 million photos. If is ver helpful for those who posses photobanks.

New possibility to pre-view photos has been included in the packege also. Now you can preview your photo ore faster and the program shows small sized picture. If you want to edit it just double click and the photo will be opened in the main editorial window. There you will find a lot of instruments to make photo corrections. They are enough powerfull so you can compare them to Photoshop

The most interesting feature is Passport Photo – the tool for face recognizing. But it is in experimental mode now. So it can recognize a face of one person, if the picture has some people the program can not recognize different faces.

That’s it for today

The first beta-version of the Windows 7 (wich is currently under construction) can be released in December 2008.

It is supposed that Windows 7 modifications will be demonstrated in October at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in November 2008. Though testing starts in the middle of December at least. Some testers have already got M1 and M2 (Milestone) indexes of the Windows 7.

Besides managers of the Microsoft company in their E7 blog told that they were ready to start Windows Feedback Program for Windows 7 OS. They hope to get thousands of feedbacks to impove the Windows 7 OS.

According to the news Windows 7 will be available in 32- and 64-bit configurations and will go on sale in the end of the next year.

Adobe Systems company told the date of the Creative Suite 4 release. Creative Suite 4 is oriented for designers, artists and photographers. The product will be shown on the 23rd of September 2008 at the web-presentation.

Creative Suite 4 will become the first complex product since last 1.5 years. It will be adopted for different levels of users: for prefessional designers, web-designers, video editors and so far. Creative Suite 4 will include such programs as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver and other programs.

There are no data about the price on Creative Suite 4. You can read more about Adobe products at their official website.

The Google Company is going to open online shop for Android mobile applications. The new service will be named Android Market. Customers can download commercial and free applications there, post comments and place raitings. Developers can easily create mobile applications and sell or give them for free at Android Market.