Adobe CS6 Pricing Model Update

Adobe CloudAdobe CS6 and Creative Cloud has been announced, and I’m fairly excited. Adobe is getting ready to push out their latest and greatest Creative Suite and now there are options over the usual Arm and a Leg pricing tier. This can be a really good thing for freelancers and lean shops in the coming months!

The old model for freelancers and professionals alike was “Oh, yeah, it’s been 6 months so it’s time to shell out another $500+ for the new Creative Suite.” but it looks like Adobe is going to offer their products as a subscription.
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Using Data-Attributes in HTML5

HTML5Today we’re going to talk about HTML5 Data-Attributes and how you can leverage them with ease. I was working through an idea to help a friend do some sorting for some list items in a portfolio and I tried to attack it purely with css classes and remembered that there is great power in utilizing HTML5 to ease the burden.
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Rookie Flights: RC Tricopter

TricoptorsYesterday, I was invited out for a little afternoon flying, with my friend BJ Pennovich, who flies and builds remote controlled planes and copters.

I have been wanting to build and fly a tricopter for aerial shots with my GoPro, not to mention they just look fun. So what happens when you mount a GoPro to a tricopter?

Well that all depends on who’s holding the controls. More after the jump.
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Add Some Muscle to Your GoPro

As a video equipment nerd, I’ve come to love the GoPro HD and HD2 cameras. Small, light, versatile cameras that can be seemingly placed anywhere you might want to share a point-of-view from. These little gems seem to dominate the action camera market and there is plenty of gear to get your hands on to enhance the experience.
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Sublime Text 2

Okay, it took me a little time to get around to checking out Sublime Text 2 but I finally caved after seeing Jeffrey Way use it so exclusively in his Screencasts. I previously wrote about Chocolat as a great replacement for TextMate, and I haven’t given up on them as the beta keeps getting better and better but there is a huge appeal for Sublime Text 2 growing in the coding community.
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