You didn’t miss the first sneak peak of Photoshop CS6 with Bryan O’Neil Hughes right? Now Photoshop Product Manager Zorana Gee is showing off a second sneak peak of the Liquify tool and auto saving. This looks like two very nice additions so go ahead and watch the video to see them in action!

Read this post on the site: Photoshop CS6 Sneak Peak #2 with Photoshop Product Manager Zorana Gee

All entries will be reviewed by the Photoshop Evangelists and narrowed down so that the community can then vote on their favorite one. The winner gets to go to Photoshop World and do all sorts of fun stuff. Unfortunately you are only eligible to enter if you live in the US, Canada, UK or Germany (read the contest rules).

Have a look at the full blog post from the Photoshop team and get your thinking cap on!

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How is the current policy today?

Google currently has a privacy policy that is extremely complicated. They have a general policy, followed by specific policies for each of their products. Here is a list of products that have their own policy:

+1 Button, Advertising, Advisor, Apps, Blogger, Books, Buzz, Chrome, Chrome Frame, Gears, Google+, Google Music, Google Notebook, Google TV, Google Web Toolkit, Groups, Health
Knol, Location Service in Firefox, Mobile, Moderator, Orkut, Picasa, Postini, Safe Browsing, Sites, Store, Toolbar, Trader, Translator Toolkit, Voice, Wallet, Web Accelerator, Web History, YouTube

Does that seem complicated to you? It does to me. What’s even worse is that the company doesn’t have one specific policy in place for how to handle users informations. If they wanted to share data across their products in the future regardless of the way to do so, this would make it much more difficult.

Simplifying and Opening Doors

Looking at their new privacy policy on the other hand (which goes into effect on March 1st, 2012) this is now going to apply to all services. As you can see by looking at it, it is not a very complicated or long read. If you are interested, nothing is stopping you from reading the policy now.

What this new policy does is open the doors for Google to expand and integrate their products, something that you would expect companies to do. In the case of Google, we all stand to benefit from tighter integration between many of the products that they offer. It remains to see however how Google chooses to do this, whether through opt-in or forcing us to.

Unluckily for Google, they are not very good at communicating change to the mainstream world. What many are beginning to hear about now is the new “Search Plus Your World” service that is integrating Google+ with the Google search results. This is an entirely different business from the new privacy policy and a change that I personally am a bit skeptical about. It is however a topic for another discussion.

Further Reading/Listening

If you would like to get more into what both Search Plus Your World is and what the new privacy policy changes mean, I would suggest that you tune in to the latest episodes of This Week in Google where they talk about these issues in a very good way. No sensational journalism here.

• This Week in Google 130 with guest Matt Cuts (from Google), talking about Search Plus Your World.
• This Week in Google 131 about Google’s New Privacy Policy

Read this post on the site: Why Google’s Privacy Policy Change Isn’t As Bad As It is Made Out To Be

In this video, senior product manager for Photoshop, Bryan O’Neil Hughes gives us a sneak peak first look at the all new Photoshop CS6 which is coming out later this year. By the looks of things, there are some exciting new things coming out way!

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I decided to spend sometime today to tweak some of my core applications and workflow. Part of that was finding a new theme for Growl. While I always have thought the Smoke theme as OK, I was looking for something more…substantial. My find is the Mono 2.o theme by Christopher Lobay which I think looks very nice! Try it yourself.

Read this post on the site: Nice Theme for Growl—Mono 2.0

Image courtesy of dpreview.com

Cool news from Nikon this morning. They are announcing a brand new (mirrorless) camera lineup, going after Olympus Pen series and the Sony NEX series: The Nikon 1 system.

I have said to customers since the success of the Pen was obvious that it would just be a matter of time before Nikon and Canon followed on, given their status in the camera market. Now we have Nikon and will just have to wait and see what Canon does.

The Nikon V1, the first announced camera has a 1″ type sensor (which works out at 13.2mm x 8.8mm), giving you a 2.7x crop. A kit lens 10-30mm will be a 27-81mm equivalent in 35mm system, to which an adapter will be available (Nikon 1 to Nikon F). While the new mount and crop is necessary, I know that this will just help confuse the market even more, which is sad.

I am looking forward to trying the Nikon V1 out in late October when it shows up. To get the full scope of the new release, read this article at dpreview.

Read this post on the site: Nikon Releases its Nikon 1 System—It looks cool!

No more invites. Google+ has gone public with singups. With the many features and enhancements that Google has made, I definitely agree that it should be open to public. Now it will be interesting to see whether Google+ can catch on like Facebook and Twitter has done. As much as I like Google+ to stay smaller and not “go mainstream”, that is what Google itself is aiming for.

If you are not on G+, just go register!

Read this post on the site: Google+ goes public!

If you like me can’t be in Los Angeles for Adobe MAX (October 1-5), you can still get to enjoy the two keynotes from the comfort of your couch to see what cool things Adobe might be unveiling this year. All you need to do is go to the registration site and enter your email and you get to watch the keynotes for free.

Monday, October 3, 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Creativity unleashed

Join Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch and guests to learn how Adobe is transforming the creative process across mobile devices, personal computers, and the cloud.

 

Tuesday, October 4, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Creating the very best user experiences

Join us as we explore the best solutions for delivering highly expressive and usable experiences, both in the browser and as apps. We’ll look at a variety of technologies and products, highlighting current opportunities, and peering into the not-so-distant future.

Read this post on the site: Register to Watch the Adobe MAX Keynotes Online

You do have to register to be able to watch it for free and if you would like to have a recording or cannot join on the 23rd (11a.m – 7p.m EST) they will be offering recorded versions for $29 afterwards.

Here is a video about the event:

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Launch Effect is a fully free WordPress theme with a very simple approach. The theme is a one-page design that goes at the front of your new WordPress install, letting your visitors get a sneak peak for what you are releasing and allowing them to sign up for  more information over email once it is here.

These interest-sparking intro screens are a very good way of promoting your unreleased product or website and gathering a user base even before you have the final release product available.

Read this post on the site: Launching Something New? Check out Launch Effect