Adobe PhotoShop CS5 System Requirements

Windows

Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 Processor

Microsoft Windows XP(Service Pack 3), Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate  Enterprise(Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2), Windows 7.

1GB Memory

1024×768 screen (1280×800 recommended), with hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16 bit color and 256MB VRAM.

Some of the GPU accelerated features require Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 graphics support.

DVD-ROM drive

Multimedia features require QuickTime 7.6.2.

Online services require Internet connection.

Mac OS

Intel Multi-core processors

Mac OS X 10.5.7 or 10.6

1GB Memory

1024×768 screen (1280×800 recommended), with hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16 bit color and 256MB VRAM.

Some of the GPU accelerated features require Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 graphics support.

DVD-ROM drive

Multimedia features require QuickTime 7.6.2.

Online services require Internet connection.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 System Requirements

Windows

Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 Processor

512 MB Memory

1280×800 screen, 16 bit graphics card

DVD-ROM Drive

Online services require Internet connection

Mac OS

Intel Multi-core Processor

Mac OS X 10.5.7 or 10.6

512 MB Memory

1280×800 screen, 16 bit graphics card

DVD-ROM Drive

Online services require Internet connection

Adobe Flash CS5 System Requirements

Windows

Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 Processor

1GB Memory

1024×768 screen (1280×800 recommended), 16-bit video card

DVD-ROM Drive

Multimedia features require QuickTime 7.6.2

Online services require Internet connection

Mac OS

Intel Multi-core Processor

Mac OS X 10.5.7 or 10.6

1GB Memory

1024×768 screen (1280×800 recommended), 16-bit video card

DVD-ROM Drive

Multimedia features require QuickTime 7.6.2

Online services require Internet connection

1. press 1 for Quark’s fee-based support and be prepared for a $39 fee on your credit card
2. press 2 for Customer Service
3. press 3 for Sales

So I pressed 2 for Customer Service. I was greeted with, “Thank you for call Quark Customer Service. Please be prepared for a $39 fee to speak to customer service.”

What!!! So I have to pay to talk to customer service?? So I held on a got an obviously “not-American” customer service rep with a distinctive accent. I explained to her about not being to activate Quark and I needed an activation code. She replied with, “That will be $39.”

“WHAT!!! YOU WANT TO CHARGE ME $39 TO ACTIVATE SOFTWARE THAT I OWN???”

“Yes.”

So I asked to speak to her supervisor. I was given the same lame answer. So I asked to speak to her supervisor. She said she didn’t have one. “So you own Quark??” “No.” “Then let me talk to someone above you.” “There is no one else.”

This went on for several minutes until my blood pressure reached critical levels. She finally offered me email activation that would only take 15 minutes or so. So I tried it.

Well, three hours later, the activation came through. Three hours. That is three hours with a machine out of production because of Quark’s arrogance and lack of customer support.

So please Quark, do us all a favor, and close your doors.

• Press C during start-up: Start from a bootable CD/DVD, such as the Mac OS X Install disc.
• Press D during start-up: Start the Apple Hardware Test when the Install DVD 1 is inserted in your Mac’s drive.
• Press and hold (Command + Option + P + R) until you hear two beeps: Reset the NVRAM.
• Press Option during start-up: Loads Startup Manager, enabling users to select which volume they would like to boot from. Pressing N will show the first bootable Network volume as well.
• Press the Eject button, press F12, or click and hold the mouse or trackpad button: Ejects any removable media.
• Press N during start-up: Attempt to start from a compatible network server (NetBoot).
• Press T during start-up: When two Macs are connected via FireWire, this will start one in FireWire Target Disk Mode (two Macs with FireWire ports are required).
• Press Shift during start-up: Starts your Mac in Safe Mode, temporarily disabling log-in items.
• Press (Command + V) during start-up: Starts in Verbose Mode.
• Press (Command + S) during start-up: Starts in Single-User Mode.
• Press (Option + N) during start-up: Start from NetBoot server using the default boot image.

Apple recommends pressing the start-up key combinations immediately after hearing the start-up tone.

You may say, “So what?” Well, there are plenty of people still using Appletalk in production environments to access shared volumes or to print to Appletalk printers. For me, the printers are the bigger issue. I have many, many people still using Appletalk printers.  The beauty of Appletalk printers is that they are automatically discovered on the network, and, the big advantage, is they know what is installed and communicate that back to the Mac. Bonjour/Rendevouz printers don’t do that!

Apple’s solution is to print to these printers using IP Printing. What a joke! First of all, you must assign the printer a fixed IP address (how many non-techie users can do this?), then you must know all the options installed in the printer (RAM, extra trays, etc). You must then MANUALLY setup each printer on your network for IP printing. On some corporate networks, there may be hundreds of printers to setup.

Way to go Apple!

Here are a few workarounds to this problem.

1. If a font is copied from a Mac to a share via AFP, you can only read it using AFP. If you then mount the share as SMB, the font is corrupted.
2. If a font is copied from a Mac to a share via SMB, you CAN read it using SMB! It is not corrupted.
3. If a font is converted from T1 to OTF, it works either way since Open Type fonts don’t use a resource fork.
4. The problem occurs with existing files on Mac shares. If the Mac share is simply converted or mounted as SMB, the fonts get corrupted. However, it appears that if a Mac mounts the share as SMB and copies the files, they are not corrupted. What the Mac does is copy the data fork as a regular, visible file, and the resource fork as a hidden file. This maintains the integrity of the font. The danger is that Windows users with “Show All Files” turned on, can see the invisible resource forks. If they are deleted then the font is damaged.
5. If the fonts are converted to OTF, then this is a non-issue as OT fonts don’t have a separate data and resource fork. One easy way to convert all T1 fonts to OTF is to use a $99 program called FontXChange. It is fast and can convert and repair fonts.

Mike’s Sketch Pad

There are some Mac fonts and even more Windows fonts. Mac users can use some Windows fonts, otherwise you will need to convert them.

Apple engineers are aware of the problem and a fix should be forthcoming.

You can add your comments to the Apple Discussion forum. As of now there are 88 PAGES of comments! Seems like a big issue!

From the Apple knowledge base article:

“Impact: Receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message may lead to an unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue exists in the decoding of SMS messages. Receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message may lead to an unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved error handling. Credit to Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators, and Collin Mulliner of Technical University Berlin for reporting this issue.”

To get the update, plug in your phone to your computer and launch iTunes to automatically download and install the update.

Note that this update is only for the iPhone; the iPod Touch is unaffected since it can’t receive text messages.

So if you use any modern flavor of Windows, head over to

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890

for the latest patch. It couldn’t be easier to install. Just click the repairman with the wrench in the middle of the page that says, “Fix It.” If you are using IE, it will fix automatically. If you are using Firefox, it will download the fix and you will have to run it manually.

A simple way to keep your Windows install safe!