Re-posted from EduTech Blog | Auburn University College of Education - by Asim Ali

Auburn, Ala. - The City of Auburn and the Auburn Chamber of Commerce will host a public meeting with officials from Charter Communications Tuesday, October 7 at 9 a.m. at the Auburn Chamber of Commerce, located at 714 E Glenn Avenue. Representatives from Charter Communications will be on hand to address concerns regarding Charter Communications and its service in the Auburn area. The public is invited to attend. Limited seating space is available.

Great typography resource from FontShop.com. Here’s a glossary of common type terminology, which along with the FAQs may answer many font related questions.

http://www.fontshop.com/support/glossary.php

Interesting article from TG Daily on the recent launch of IE 8.

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-41808-141.html

Adobe Photoshop Express beta: You shot it. Now do something to it. Crop, rotate, tweak, twirl, correct, and show off photos on Photoshop Express or Facebook. For free. https://www.photoshop.com/express/

If your users are already using Contribute to update websites and/or blogs, this is one more thing they can do through the same simple interface. This consistent, familiar working environment and tool set makes it easier for them to be productive across these multiple platforms. Even if they are not currently using Contribute, they may want to start in order to take advantage of the easy to use interface, built in image editing, spell check, PDF creation even without Acrobat, etc.

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that it is offering Adobe Flex Builder 2 software at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide. The Flex Builder 2 integrated development environment (IDE) is part of a powerful toolset for designing and developing rich Internet applications (RIAs), an essential part of Web 2.0.

Pricing and Availability: Adobe Flex 2 will be available to qualified education end-users for free download on Adobe.com in early November. Full article at: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071024/20071023006845.html?.v=1

October 25, 2007
AmericasMart - Building 3 - Atlanta Apparel Mart
250 Spring Street NW

This is a training conference presented by CompuMaster. Regular registration is advertised at $199.00 per person or $189.00 4 or more. If anyone is interested in this please let me know and I will see if we can get some kind of additional user group or educational discounts.

See their website for more details.

Sunday, September 30th 2007

For those of you headed to MAX in Chicago, you may want to think about this.

$99 ($149-$50 User Group Discount) through August 31st and $149 ($199-$50 User Group Discount) after.

If you register before August 31st you can use 100% of your registration towards CFUnited 2008 after that you can only use 50% of your registration cost towards CFUnited 2008.

These sessions usually fill up fast, so be sure to register sooner rather than later.

• Adobe Flex 2 Online eSeminar Series
• ColdFusion MX 7 Online eSeminar Series

MAX - Las Vegas - October 22 - 26, 2006

Visit the Adobe site for more info:

http://www.adobe.com/events/max/