Year: 2009

Adobe has announced benchmarking results from an independent research study conducted by Pfeiffer Consulting and commissioned by Adobe. According to the report
(http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/productivity/), features in Adobe Creative Suite 4 software can dramatically increase productivity, efficiency and return on investment.

Research shows that every unnecessary click has the ability to slow down users’ productivity.

generation of automated image enhancement and image management
solutions adds extended support of PSD files.
Elpical products, which integrate with automation tools like Enfocus
Switch, are available in North America through Tools4Media and its
distribution. The company says that unique to the new Claro version 6
technology is the option of optimizing different layers within PSD
files without losing the original layers.

By processing the compatibility layer on top of the existing layers,
Claro 6 allows enhancing the image without =touching the original.

ProVUE Development has released Panorama Authorize.Net Gateway
(http://www.provue.com/authorizenet), a plug-in software package that
adds merchant credit card processing to ProVUE’s Panorama RAM based
database package.

With this package, custom Panorama database solutions can
automatically process all types of credit card transactions,
including charges, refunds, voids, and pre-authorization.

Aspyr Media has begun shipping Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Gold
Edition for Mac (US$49.99). Released in partnership with 2K Games, a
publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Civilization IV:
Gold Edition, featuring both Civilization IV and Civilization IV:
Warlords, will arrive on retail store shelves later this week.

Here’s how the game is described: “Sid Meier’s Civilization IV is the
ultimate strategy game offering players the chance to lead their
chosen nation from the dawn of man through the space age and become
the greatest ruler the world has ever known.

Freeverse has released Commander: Napoleon at War for the Mac
(http://freeverse.com/games/game/?id=9001), the second in the
Commander line from the strategy captains at Firepower Entertainment
and Slitherine Software.

This installment of the Commander series places the player at the
brink of war in the Napoleonic era. Re-write history with the same
gameplay mechanics as Commander: Europe at War, but in a new setting.
New features include a deeper combat system, detailed victory
conditions, looting, razing, vassal states, and much more.