Yesterday, Apple upped the ante in the continuing drama between itself and Adobe by banning the use of Flash development to build iPhone apps. This is the latest in a series of events that has really got me thinking hard about Apple, Adobe, and other massive “old world” corporations, and where things are really moving. For myself, it really started a month or so back when the hype over some kind of netbook-like device coming from Apple could no longer be ignored. As a fan of Steve Jobs and Macs in general, I was stoked to see a $400-ish netbook from Apple. Something light, lean, and affordable. What I got instead was a disappointment…a bigger version of an already locked platform.

This is Apple’s definition of revolutionizing. Hang on to your seats kids, it’s gonna be as mind-blowing as…

A root canal…

In a third world country…

With a rusty screwdriver…

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Here’s an older article from the previous incarnation of the Ten Ton website that a few readers have been looking for. Enjoy!

If you have content in one site that you’d like to use in another site that you’ve defined in Dreamweaver, you could certainly copy your files to the second site’s local root folder on your hard drive. However, there’s a much easier way to do this is directly from the Assets panel itself.

Here’s how to copy assets to other sites:

1. In the Asset panel, open the category that contains your asset, then select it.
2. From the Asset panel’s Option menu, choose Copy to Site, then select the site you’d like to copy the asset to in the sub-menu.

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Alrighty, welcome to the third and final part of our look at 25 cool Acrobat features. Hopefully you enjoyed the first two parts. This time around, you’ll find out about adjusting page numbering, using Acrobat’s commenting tools, security, and if ya make it all the way to the end, ya might find yourself a wee Acrobat bonus! So put down the phone and check it out!

Secret #17: Mark It Up With Watermarks!

Did ya know you could stamp good ‘ol fashioned watermarks right across the pages in your PDFs? Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of co-workers like FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY, DO NOT COPY, or my personal favorite, (more…)

Welcome to Part 2 of our look at 25 cool Acrobat features. I hope you enjoyed the first part, and I’m sure you’re gonna love this installment, too. Here you’ll find out about some cool navigation tricks, how to manage mulitple PDF’s, and how to use audio and video in Acrobat. And for all you traditional print designers, I’m gonna finish off with two must-know Acrobat commands that’ll make your pre-press life a breeze. So let’s get to it!

Secret #9: Articles: Navigatin’ Complex Documents With Ease!

Articles—you know in newspapers it’ll say “story continued on A15,” or something like that, right? Then you have to flip until you get to the right page. Well, articles in Acrobat’ll let you simply click to jump to continue reading—it’s yet another way to nagivate through a PDF, and (more…)