Briefly: MacNN review; live CS3 events

In brief: MacNN has reviewed the Griffin Elevator laptop stand, Adobe is offering a series of live events as well as online activities to educate users about its Creative Suite 3 software, and CRJTools ebooks has released a new course book on Mac OS X Tiger with 24 lessons on six topics. The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) has announced the Guru Award winners for the east coast Photoshop World Conference & Expo, ByDesign Games has launched a blog with a new teaser for its upcoming game "The Late Call," and The VESA group has ratified a new standard that may end up replacing many video ports. Griffin's Elevator ($40, shown at right) is designed to raise a portable notebook up higher to reduce the need to tilt the head to work, suspending the notebook via a brushed aluminum frame with two U-shaped arms featuring rubber strips.

Live Adobe CS3 events, activities

Adobe is preparing to offer a series of live events and online activities designed to educate users about Adobe Creative Suite 3 over the next six months. Those events will include CS3: The Creative License Conference -- a series of conferences consisting of a two-day event in Los Angeles from June 19-20th and another in New York from June 25-26th.

The company will also host a series of one-day conferences across the country from May 16th through June 14th to provide educational information and demos of its new Creative Suite family of software.

CRJTools Mac OS X Tiger eBook

CRJTools eBooks has released a new course book on Mac OS X Tiger with 24 lessons on six topics -- including Finder, Spotlight, System Preferences, Mail, Address Book, iCal, and Safari. The eBook is combined with a free six-week membership in a private online learning learning community led by the book's author, Claire J Rottenberg.

The title provides detailed instructions with short practice exercises, as well as longer assignments often in the form of exploratory questions. Each of the six topics is divided into an introduction, four lessons, a summary, and a comprehensive assignment on the topic.

2007 Guru winners

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals has announced the Guru Award winners for the east coast Photoshop World Conference & Expo in Boston. Scott Montgomery took the Artistic category, Eduardo Rizo the Commercial category, and Daniel Johnson topped the Illustration category.

Further categories include Photo Montage -- won by Michael Green, Photo Restoration -- taken by Laura Behnke, Photo Retouch -- topped by Luis Ramirez, Photography -- won by Stephen Power, the Vincent Versace Award -- taken home by Judy Morse, and the Best-of-Show -- given to Matt Zumbo.

The Late Call teaser, new video port standard?

ByDesign Games has launched a new blog and simultaneously posted a new teaser for the company's forthcoming game, titled "The Late Call".... The VESA group has ratified a new standard -- dubbed DisplayPort -- that could replace many video ports; the technology supports twice the bandwidth of a DVI cable but uses a much smaller connector piece, making it easier to use with portable devices such as notebooks.

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