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So I could sit throo Hannity...yech, but I do it for all of YOU.
Hannity, and the rest of FAUX 'news' are following the new trial balloon narrative the FBI is pitching, to the t.
Alex Jones forced the media to abandon the two patsies originally fingered to be the Adam Lanza/James Holmes du jour, and now the MSM have circled the wagons around these two NEW patsies, totally disregarding the plethora of evidenced compiled by Infowars.com to the contrary.
Hannity just sitting there in his make-up looking like he had a stick up his ass, and lapping up all of the spooge dribbling from Mark (the OJ trial evidence planter) Furman's drooling pie-hole.
Well just look at the images Hannity was showing of these two guys, they are walking away from the camera, and there is just NO way that they are carrying PRESSURE COOKER bombs in those back-packs, and no way one of their back packs could be the one shown earlier by the FBI all blown up.
But of course this new narrative has not been debugged, and it too will soon prove that it has no legs either, it is ONLY being floated because the MSM can't let infowars control the dialog.
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Rushmoor Borough Council modernises its local election with Smartmatic's ePen vote counting technology
Smartmatic, the world's number one voting technology and services company, was involved in a local election in the UK last week.Read more
Bulgaria takes yet another step towards election modernization 08/10/2014
Smartmatic has successfully implemented a fully verifiable electronic voting solution in Bulgaria for its Parliamentary elections held on 5th October.
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In response to the high number of natural disasters being suffered by the Philippines, Smartmatic has launched its Unified Security Platform (USP).
Smartmatic voting solutions a big hit in Philippine eVoting Fair 28/07/2014
Smartmatic showcased its latest voting solutions before thousands of attendees of Tech Fair in the Philippines.
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A group of Smartmatic representatives recently traveled to Kenya to show electoral commissions our technology and services.
First-of-a-kind global Centre of Excellence to advance Internet voting 18/06/2014
Smartmatic and Cybernetica have created a first-of-a-kind Centre for Excellence to study and develop Internet voting on a global scale.

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Would you be willing to answer a few brief questions about PlayStation Forums?
Imagine a return to the fat form factor, with all the capabilities it had at launch, but taking advantage of the evolution since then (45nm Cell and 40nm RSX), but with a new mobo arrangement that has an on board EE+GS bringing back PS2 capability. Might as well throw in an SACD capable BD-ROM. And FINALLY add a built in IR sensor.
CECHR00 (Japan), CECHR01 (US) and CECHR02/03/04 for AU, UK, EU, etc etc.
500GB 2.5" HDD, 4 front USB ports, 2 rear USB ports, card readers with the opening door, chrome trim, available in satin silver, ceramic white, and gloss black. Would consume the same 100/250W that a Slim does, but have a LOT more capability.
A truly premium Playstation 3 SKU. MSRP $499. $599 bundle including Move (1 x Eye, 1 x Motion controller, Sports Champions, and the demo disk). I dream that SCEI would be willing and able to come out with this....
that'd be amazing to put all the chips on board at 45nm plus the huge size
the cooling would work amazing and the system would likely never get too hot
I vote for that with my wallet too!
I wouldn't think twice about buying a PS3 like that. $499 or even $599 I would have to get one... Let's hope our dreams come true. (Hint hint SONY)
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Would you be willing to pay $499 or $599?
If I didn't have one already, I'd definitely consider it.
That said, I wouldn't need 500GB of storage space (yet), and the fact that the ps3 uses a standard disk storage medium at least to me means that accepting a lower-capacity at first to save some money is perfectly fine, as long as I can easily upgrade later.
My CECHE01 80gb motorstorm bundle just died now after 6 ylod's. I need a new PS3 now. I'd love for them to make another fat system that's more reliable. Ceramic white is my favorite ps3 color. I'm not a fan of the new slim models. They look cheap to me. Well they were cheaper to make literally lol. I'm just not a fan of the matte charcoal black finish and new logo. It looks like a PS2 slim now. I miss the old "Spider-Man" font "PLAYSTATION 3" logo when you boot up games. I'm really considering buying a used b/c model but I know it will break down in the future. The new Xbox 360 slim consoles look a lot better than the current slim models.
Does the slim come in ceramic white?
If you import one from japan you can get any color. Sine you already fixed your YLOD PS3 6 times then changing the case on the slim to one you buy on a website shouldn't be hard.


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North Carolina's Guilford County Register of Deeds Official Prays for Marriage Equality
September 17, 2013 by Maureen McCarty, HRC Associate Director of Digital Media
Jeff Thigpen of Guilford County Register of Deeds issued a statement voicing his support for marriage equality in North Carolina after he was forced to turn down marriage licenses for two same-sex couples yesterday.
Thigpen applauded the couples, Cheryl and Tracey Bridges, and Shela Williams and Deborah Wade, for their courage and commitment to standing up for their families.
"They don't want to change the institution of marriage; they simply want to join it by making lifelong promises of commitment and devotion to one another," said Thigpen in a statement.
North Carolina law currently prohibits same-sex marriage. Yet, Thigpen said, he prays for a more equal future for his daughter.
"I have no idea if she will be straight or gay," Thigpen said of his daughter, Elle, who turned 10 yesterday. "I just hope and pray she'd live in an America that did two things: uphold what is at the heart of all of our values as people-that we'd want to treat each other the way we'd want to be treated. In addition, we'd uphold a central value of who we are as a nation: that we are all created equal. That's what I want for Elle. Cheryl, Tracey, Sheila, and Deborah deserve that too."
Currently, 13 states, plus the District of Columbia, have marriage equality laws on the books.
To stand with Thigpen, and the majority of Americans, in support of marriage equality, check out HRC's Americans for Marriage Equality campaign.
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By Alex Bell
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19 June 2014
More anger has been expressed over this week's comments by the European Union (EU) Ambassador to Zimbabwe, who criticised civil society groups while insisting there is no leadership crisis in the country.
Speaking at a one-day workshop in Harare on Tuesday, Ambassador Aldo Dell'Ariccia said Robert Mugabe is the 'glue' holding Zimbabwe's "contradicting forces" together.
The EU representative was reacting to comments made by socio-political scientist Ibbo Mandaza, who told the same discussion that Zimbabwe was in a leadership crisis and that the current leadership across the political divide had failed.
"The old leadership has failed and it is up to the new generation to take up the baton and rescue this country. We have a crisis of leadership and even the opposition should now be moulded around younger leaders," Mandaza said.
Dell'Ariccia however countered Mandaza's comments, saying: "If we had a leadership crisis there would be chaos. We still have a leader who manages to keep at bay (and) under control these forces that are very much contradictory."
The Ambassador then went on to accuse civil society of being "anchored in the past," saying: "The civil society has a role to play but I have the impression that you are a little bit anchored to the past where instead of seeing NGOs one perceives AGOs, Anti-Government Organisations."
Activists and commentators have since reacted strongly to the comments, and on Thursday, former Diplomat Clifford Mashiri said Dell'Ariccia was "slapping Zimbabweans in the face."
"To say that there is no leadership crisis is a big mistake and a betrayal. The failure of leadership by the ZANU PF regime has even been noted by the late Nelson Mandela, and it has been seen in Zimbabwe where the country has been going down and down, even more since the last elections," Mashiri told SW Radio Africa.
He added: "The Ambassador is endorsing tyranny and dictatorship and saying it is what Zimbabwe needs, and that is a betrayal."
Mashiri also moved to defend the work of Zimbabwe's civil society, arguing that the point of such groups was to hold governments to account for their failures.
"It is not right for the Ambassador to criticise Zimbabwe's civil society given what they have gone through. There was a time when civil society was hounded by the Mugabe regime, abducted, arrested, beaten up and tortured. Some disappeared and it's disrespectful of civil society on the part of the Ambassador to say they must start accommodating Mugabe."
The EU has faced increasing criticism in recent months for its new strategy of positive reengagement with ZANU PF, which it has been implemented steadily despite the flawed elections in Zimbabwe last year.
Although not openly endorsing a process that other nations, including Botswana, said was questionable, the EU has rewarded ZANU PF by easing its targeted sanctions. The removal of the measures, which remain imposed only on Mugabe and his wife Grace, was led by Belgium. And since then the Antwerp World Diamond Council chief has admitted he made a deal with ZANU PF to lobby for the removal of the measures, in exchange for Zim diamonds.
Mashiri said that Dell'Ariccia's comments are all part of this "questionable reengagement."
"This is reengagement with a regime that came to power under questionable circumstances. The reengagement is playing into the hands of ZANU PF, and instead of them (the EU) insisting on a democratisation process, it is reengagement at all costs," Mashiri said.
Dell'Ariccia meanwhile, responding to emailed questions, said his comments were taken out of context.
"I take note with interest of your views on the situation in Zimbabwe. In this respect, I understand that my comment, taken totally outside of the context in which it was made, may have triggered your reaction. However I would like to invite you to consider the whole discussion in which my comment was made. This might shed a different light to it. You may like to ask the organisers of the event to give you the proceeds of the conference, to have a better understanding of the framework in which the exchange took place," Dell'Ariccia said.
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Creative Cloud: New Features + New Mobile Apps = New Tutorials
At Adobe MAX 2014 the Creative Cloud Learn team launched more than 40 new tutorials to help members learn new features and updated techniques.
Hi everyone!
It's been a big week for the Creative Cloud Learn team. Many of us were lucky enough to be at MAX, where we were able to meet many of our customers, both in labs and at the Adobe Booth in the Pavilion. Additionally, on Monday, Adobe released major updates to Creative Cloud's desktop apps along with new mobile apps. All of these new features are covered in over 40 new tutorials. Some of the highlights:
- How to get started with Creative Cloud Libraries—Browse and access your favorite creative assets (colors, type styles, graphics, brushes, and more) in new libraries that sync to Creative Cloud and are available in Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop CC, and many of the new mobile apps.
- Extract overview—Easily extract optimized image assets from layers and save them to various formats and resolutions, including SVG, using the Extract PSD assets workflow. This feature is also integrated with Creative Cloud on the web and with Adobe Dreamweaver CC. The feature will be a huge timesaver for designers and developers who use a comp-to-code workflow. See for yourself; check out Extract a Photoshop design into code in Dreamweaver.
- Add interactivity to fixed layout EPUBs—Enhance fixed layout EPUBs with hyperlinks, slideshows, animations, and triggering buttons that you have created directly in Adobe InDesign CC.
- Join and trim paths—Second only to the Surface Pro giveaway, the demo of Illustrator CC's Join tool drew the loudest applause during the MAX Day 1 Keynote!
- We also deployed over 60 tutorials to support Photoshop CC's new Welcome screen. After upgrading, start Photoshop CC and take a few minutes to navigate through this panel that presents videos based on the features you use. I think you'll like what you see.
Many, many people put in a lot of hours and hard work on this and I want to take a minute to acknowledge them:
- I'd like to thank all of our presenters, in particular, Matt Pizzi, Dan Carr, Laura Shoe, Curt Fukuda, and the folks at Infinite Skills. They all put in extra effort to make sure we got things right.
- Also, I want to thank my editorial team: Amy Hope, Erick Vera, Karla Milosevich, Rita Amladi, Maile Valentine, Stefan Gruenwedel, Michael Salinero, Hemanth Sharma, Ray Camden, and Jill Merlin did an awesome job and I can't thank them enough.
- We talk a lot about design-led innovation, and Luanne Seymour's design team makes it happen: Chelsea Allen, Erica Larson, Janelle Flores, Michael Jarrott, Kendall Plant, Laura Kersell, Amanda Gross Tuft, Julia Grummel, and Alec Malloy are all awesome
- Other major contributors include Robin Maccan, Mally Gardiner, Daniel Taborga, Jenn Clark, Viv Moses, Kirsti Aho, Serena Fox, Craig Goodman, Michelle Yaiser, George Fox, Christine Yarrow, Quinn Warble, Diane Catt, Ed Sullivan, and of course, Ben Forta.
Huge apologies if I've forgotten anyone; this was a real team effort.
Most of our pages link to surveys or forums, so please let us know what you think.
Creative Cloud Libraries—Seamless Access to Creative Assets
Yesterday, in Los Angeles, during the Adobe MAX 2014 launch keynote we announced the best versions yet of our Creative Cloud desktop apps and services and new mobile apps… making your creative workflow across apps and devices easier than ever.
We also introduced Creative Cloud Libraries, a design system that provides seamless access to your creative assets across Creative Cloud's desktop tools and its companion mobile apps and services (such as Creative Cloud Market).
Creative Cloud Libraries uses your Creative Profile to connect your favorite desktop tools, mobile apps and services to each other. Unlocked by your Adobe ID, your Creative Profile is a personalized hub that connects your favorite tools and content in one fluid creative experience.
Creative ingredients
Great content that moves and inspires is built on a foundation of creative ingredients (assets like colors, text styles, logos, icons, patterns, brushes and images) that you reuse and remix. Today, these ingredients are stored all over the place: on a laptop, on a file server, in cloud storage, or scribbled on a notepad or whiteboard. Finding them when you need them is always more difficult than it should be.
There's something we learned from a professional chef's kitchen—where all the ingredients necessary to prepare menu items are laid out and ready to use. In a pro kitchen, chefs prepare dishes quickly and efficiently without pausing to seek out an important ingredient right in the middle of the preparation. This setup even has a fancy name, "mise en place.'
Creative Cloud Libraries is like managing your own professional kitchen, helping you organize and prepare creative ingredients (assets) so that they are where you need them when you need them—in your apps, on the desktop, on your mobile devices, and on the web.
What can you put in your library? Lots of things!
- Colors and Color Themes: Use Adobe Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC, or the Adobe Color CC app on your iPhone to capture your favorite colors. With Color CC you can even capture a set of five colors as a theme.
- Text Styles: In Photoshop and Illustrator CC collect and use all the text settings, from the basics (font size and font family) to the more advanced (OpenType discretionary ligatures). It's a great way to use consistent text styling across applications which has, for some time, been a frequently requested feature from designers.
- Layer Styles: In Photoshop CC, you can use layer styles to define graphic effects such as drop shadows, glows, bevels, strokes, and fills. And now they can be stored in your Creative Cloud Libraries and reused in other documents.
- Brushes: With the new Adobe Brush CC app we make it incredibly easy to create new brushes right on your iPhone, which you can then use in Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC or on a tablet with Adobe Illustrator Draw. You can also find some beautiful brushes created by members of the Behance community. A part of your Creative Cloud membership, we've made a few available in Creative Cloud Market.
- Graphics: There are all sorts of graphic elements you can store in your Creative Cloud Libraries—icons, logos, photos, textures, patterns. Some may be bitmaps, others vector-based; regardless of their original format, you can use them anywhere you can use graphics, and they will be automatically translated to the right format as needed.
Stay in sync
Creative Cloud Libraries are stored on your local device and automatically sync (the power of your Creative Profile) whenever you're online. While you're offline you can continue to use, add, remove or modify assets, and the next time you're connected all of your changes will get synchronized automatically and any necessary updates merged to your local version.
Stay organized
There are many ways to use Creative Cloud Libraries, and you can create as many Creative Cloud Libraries as you'd like. Some suggestions:
- Collect the "go to" assets that you like to reuse across projects
- Make a separate library for each project you're working on, and group all related assets
- Keep all of your branded assets in one library—like having your own brand guidelines with ready-to-use assets
- Create a "kit" of user interface elements to quickly whip out screen prototypes
- Keep a set of ingredients in a library to use for a campaign you're working on
- Gather a set of inspirational assets to build a virtual "mood board" for your next project
We're sure you'll come up with more ways to use them. Let us know in the comments below how you plan to use Libraries.
Connected creativity
Inspiration can strike anytime, anywhere. It doesn't wait until you are conveniently sitting at your desk. With our new mobile apps, Adobe Brush CC, Adobe Shape CC and Adobe Color CC you can grab inspiration with your mobile device no matter where you are. Using your device's camera, turn what you see around you into color themes with Adobe Color CC, create shapes and vector objects with Adobe Shape CC, and unique brushes with Adobe Brush CC.
Once stored in one of your Creative Cloud Libraries, you can use these assets in other mobile apps—such as Adobe Illustrator Draw or Adobe Photoshop Sketch, and you can use in your desktop apps, such as Photoshop CC or Illustrator CC.
To jump start your creativity, we have curated thousands of high-quality assets in Creative Cloud Market. These were created by members of the Behance community, and include useful icons and vector shapes, beautiful patterns, brushes and more. Available from the Creative Cloud desktop app, select any asset as well as the library you want it in, and the asset will appear right where you need it, through your Creative Profile, whether on a desktop or mobile.
Now it's easy to start a project with your iPhone, continue on your tablet and finish on the desktop. Your creation process is moving effortlessly and fluidly between applications and locations. This is truly connected creativity.
What's next?
To get started with Creative Cloud Libraries, download our new mobile apps for iOS today from the iTunes App Store. They're free. Use them on their own or with our completely new Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC, available today as part of your Creative Cloud membership.
And don't forget, if you're attending Adobe MAX join us in our session How Creative Ingredients Fuel Creativity and Productivity to learn more about Creative Cloud Libraries.
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Creative Cloud: A New Era of Mobile Creativity
Just over three months after the major 2014 release of Creative Cloud, we're delivering another milestone Creative Cloud release at Adobe MAX 2014. A quick run-down of the new and updated Creative Cloud apps, features and services that are available today.
Your Creative Profile connects you to your work
Think you can't do "real" creative work on your iPhone or iPad? That's about to change. With this release, our Creative Cloud team is setting out to transform the way you work across desktops and devices.
It all starts with a Creative Profile—your creative identity within Creative Cloud—the heart of this Creative Cloud release. Your Creative Profile connects you to your work, to the assets you create with, and to the communities you care about—wherever you are. Your files, photos, colors, brushes, shapes, fonts, text styles, graphics, and assets from Creative Cloud Market will be at your fingertips because your Creative Profile moves with you. It works across apps and across devices, giving you access to what you need, when you need it, and in the right context.
Meet the mobile app families
In June we brought the power of Adobe Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC to devices with a complementary set of imaging and illustration mobile apps. Not only do these apps break down the silos between desktop and mobile, but they're fun and easy to use, and provide countless new ways to express your creativity. Today we're proudly debuting more new apps, as well as updates to all of the apps we introduced in June:
The Illustrator family of apps extends the power of Illustrator CC to mobile devices:
Adobe Illustrator Draw—An all-new app that reinvents the best of Adobe Ideas, letting you work with familiar tools and features in a modern, streamlined interface. Better syncing makes it easier to send drawings to Illustrator CC for refinement.
Adobe Illustrator Line—A major update to the app we first shipped in June; Line sketches can now be sent to Illustrator CC, enabling you to edit original vector paths, and more.
The Photoshop family of apps brings the power of Adobe digital imaging to mobile devices with the full compatibility of Photoshop and Lightroom:
Adobe Photoshop Mix—Now available for both iPhone and iPad, it includes amazing new technology with a cut-out option that automatically creates a selection for the primary element in an image.
Adobe Photoshop Sketch—Draw with new expressive brushes as well as custom brushes, and send sketch artwork to Photoshop as a PSD file, opening the door to deeper integration between Sketch and Photoshop CC.
Lightroom mobile—Builds on the amazing image management and editing capabilities… view comments and favorites in Lightroom mobile that clients, friends, or family leave on the photos you've shared online in Lightroom on the web.
The Premiere family now has a mobile app for video editing on the go:
Adobe Premiere Clip—Our first video-editing app brings the power of Adobe Premiere Pro CC to mobile. It works on iPhone and iPad and integrates with Premiere Pro CC on the desktop for professional editing and finishing.
We're also really excited about a new family of mobile apps for capturing inspiration on the go and dropping them directly into your creative workflow:
Adobe Color CC (formerly Adobe Kuler)—Create color themes on your iPhone from the photos that inspired them.
Adobe Brush CC—Transform images on your iPhone and iPad into unique brushes for Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC or Photoshop Sketch.
Adobe Shape CC—Turn shapes and objects from high-contrast photos on your iPhone into editable vectors for use in Illustrator CC and Illustrator Draw.
Updated desktop apps & services make it all easier
Photoshop CC—New 3D printing features, enhanced Mercury Graphics Engine performance, and improved support for Touch on Windows 8
Illustrator CC—A new Curvature tool, and new Touch support for Windows 8 devices like Microsoft Surface Pro
InDesign CC—Interactive EPUB support and a new Color Theme tool
Adobe Muse CC—SVG support and Synchronized Text
Premiere Pro CC—Search Bins and GPU-optimized playback
After Effects CC—An enhanced 3D pipeline and HiDPI support
Dreamweaver CC—Expanded Live View and Creative Cloud Extract (read on for details)
Flash Pro CC—Improved WebGL support and custom brushes
- Creative Cloud Market—A collection of high-quality, curated content that's free to Creative Cloud members. Access thousands of patterns, icons, brushes and vector shapes to add to your own projects.*
- Creative Cloud Libraries—A powerful asset management service, connected to your Creative Profile, that facilitates a seamless workflow between our desktop and mobile apps. Save favorite colors, brushes, text styles, graphics, vector images, and content from Creative Cloud Market into one of your Libraries, and those creative assets will be available to you as you work across Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, and our mobile apps.
- Creative Cloud Extract—Simplifies the comp-to-code workflow by making it a snap to extract design information (like CSS, colors, gradients, measurements, and fonts) from a PSD file. Extract works right inside of Photoshop CC and Dreamweaver CC, or can be accessed in Creative Cloud Assets where your files are stored.
The power of community
The Behance community has grown by leaps and bounds since joining the Adobe family, and now has over 4 million members with more than 20,000 new portfolio projects and "works in progress" published every day. The new Creative Talent Search from Behance connects creatives across the globe with job opportunities from top companies and major brands. Just one more great reason to join Behance if you haven't yet.
A big investment in training
The pace of innovation in Creative Cloud tools and services is growing fast. So the Creative Cloud Learn team has stepped up its game to keep you on top of your game. Hone your skills with hundreds of tutorials that cater to every experience level. The how-tos are viewable in your browser, on your iPad, and some are available inside your Creative Cloud desktop apps.
There are some amazing new things in this release. And you can see it all, just as it unfolded, from center stage in the Adobe MAX 2014 Day 1 launch keynote, now available on demand. Watch the new mobile apps in action and see how they connect with the desktop apps and services through your Creative Profile—your creative identity within Creative Cloud.
Get your hands on the newest Creative Cloud apps, features and services available today. If you're already a member, it's time to update Photoshop and your other apps. And if you're not a member yet, join us for the journey.
*You must be a paid member to access Creative Cloud Market assets; Creative Cloud Assets are not included with Creative Cloud photography plans.
Surface Design: The Art of Jenean Morrison
When we asked painter/illustrator/textile designer Jenean Morrison to join us at Adobe MAX this year as a MAX Insider, we knew that she'd been using our mobile drawing apps to supplement her drawing/doodling/sketching habit. We had no idea, however, how often she used them nor how prolific she is.
It's a love affair that began this year, in late spring, when Jenean, a long-time Adobe Illustrator CC user, picked up an iPad Air, a stylus, and started using Adobe Ideas to sketch wherever and whenever the mood struck. She was hooked. The artist, as she's mentioned on her blog, likes to start her mornings making art: "If I'm in the middle of a painting, I like to jump right into it first thing with a cup or two of coffee. If I'm not working on a painting, then I usually sketch or make some patterns—or both."
From Ideas to Illustrator CC:
By July, Jenean was "head over heels" about her newly adopted creative process and had added Adobe Line and Adobe Ink & Slide to her creative toolkit. She began experimenting more and more with the potential of the apps and has become particularly fond of Line. Although designed for precise drawing and drafting, Jenean appreciates "the organic results from loosely playing with shapes and color."
Sketching on her iPad has become a daily occurrence that she attributes to being enamored with her new drawing tools. In a July 24 blog post she wrote, "It's so interesting how sometimes new tools—be they apps, devices, or something as simple as a new paintbrush or pen—can inspire you to do new things with your art."
Using Adobe Line along with Ink & Slide:
Jenean continues to use Line's in-app tools to experiment with drawing techniques—erasing work she's already done or putting a lighter color on top of a darker one—that she "could never do on paper."
And, appreciating the freedom that comes with designing on a mobile device, she's begun creating versions of images that before now she'd created using Illustrator CC. Experimenting with various combinations of freehand drawing, Ink & Slide, and the drafting templates in Line, she gets a pleasant mix of freeform lines and digital details.
Jenean's new way of working gives her patterns, designs, and geometric prints new dimension and a new look:
Jenean wasn't an early adopter of drawing digital on mobile; now it sounds as if she wishes she hadn't waited so long… "I resisted buying an iPad for the longest time. I just didn't see the need for it in my life. When I finally got one several months ago, I realized I'd been missing out on a whole new wonderful way of creating art! I had no idea how much I would enjoy this."
See so much more of Jenean's work on her Instagram along with occasional insights into her inspiration and her process:
This article was compiled from a series of posts on Jenean Morrison's website and Instagram.
Adobe Ideas: A Transformation
Very soon, Adobe Ideas, our popular vector drawing app for iPad and iPhone, that's been downloaded over 2.2 million times since May 2013, will be growing up and getting better. It's a transformation that means a newer, more modern version of the full-featured drawing app that people have come to rely on.
Still free, and with the features designers and illustrators love
For everyone who loves Adobe Ideas: Don't worry. Not only are we keeping the core drawing elements and everyone's favorite controls and preferences, but the app will still be free.
Sign-up, sign-in and sync
What can you do to get ready? Take the time to create an Adobe ID, sign in with it, and sync your Adobe Ideas files to Creative Cloud. Adobe Ideas files synced to Creative Cloud can be grouped in folders for easy management and once Adobe Ideas is updated, the synced files will be migrated and re-grouped automatically. So, take a minute to sign-up, sign-in, and sync… because the new version of Adobe Ideas will be here before you know it.
We'll be talking more the applications, services and tools in Creative Cloud at Adobe MAX. Join us October 4–8 in Los Angeles, California. In the meantime keep a listen on Adobe Drawing's Facebook and Twitter pages.
Creative Cloud: A (Continuing) Promise to Innovate
We've done it again (and again, and again, and again)… continued to fulfill our promise for ongoing innovation to Creative Cloud.
Read on to catch up on the latest and greatest Creative Cloud updates to services and apps that will help you get your creative on.
The new Creative Cloud Market, just released in July, is a royalty-free repository that gives paid Creative Cloud members* access to a curated collection of Behance-sourced vector graphics, icons, patterns, UI kits, and layered PSD files. Creative Cloud Market has been a huge hit because it gives members a jump-start on their designs. Find the Market under the Assets tab of the Creative Cloud desktop app.
And stay tuned: Creative Cloud Market is also coming to your browser, and Adobe's mobile apps, starting with Adobe Sketch (read the update below).
Nothing's evolving faster than 3D printing, and Adobe is in lockstep.
Just a few months after releasing Adobe Photoshop CC with 3D printing capability, we're now providing expanded support for new 3D printers (MakerBot Replicator 5th Generation), and print services (check our current list of print service providers), and we've added a broader range of supported file formats including VRML, U3D, PLY, and IGES. Plus there's now streamlined 3D painting and the ability to combine multiple jobs into a single print bed. So even if your 3D printer is slow, setting up your design will be quick.
Adobe Muse CC, the app that enables designers, who don't want to learn code, to build and publish beautiful websites, continues to evolve and gather fans.
Adobe Muse now supports self-hosted web fonts, and the new Bullet Styles and Glyphs panels facilitate one-click addition of bulleted or numbered lists and special characters (such as © or ᵝ). We've also partnered with Google to include reCAPTCHA, a free service that uses text and number distortion to distinguish humans from bots. Now you can more easily create better-looking web pages and put the brakes on spam.
Finally, Adobe Sketch (now in version 1.1) keeps getting better.
The mobile drawing app, with the capability to express and connect with the broader creative community now includes free, in-app access to Creative Cloud Market so you can add high-quality assets to compositions on the go, and faster file syncing for easier sharing with Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC. There's also finer precision when drawing shapes with more finished, chamfered corners with
Adobe Slide or Touch Slide (a built-in feature for drawing straight lines and curves without hardware).
Keep an eye on this blog for our monthly roundup of the new additions to Creative Cloud.
And don't forget, Adobe MAX is October 4–8. Register now for the Los Angeles event and you'll be among the first to learn what's coming next to Creative Cloud.
* With the exception of the Creative Cloud Photography and Photoshop Photography plans.
Academy Award Winner Rob Legato On Inspiration, Film & Tools
At this year's Adobe MAX conference, Academy award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato excited the audience by sharing a glimpse behind the scenes of work he's done on major blockbuster films such as Apollo 13, Titanic, Aviator and Hugo. He reveals his secrets behind visual effects, his inspirations, and creative process.
Known for creating visual effects so good the audience doesn't realize that they are effects, Legato aims to transport the movie-goer into another time and place. His ideation process is surprisingly simple, as he looks to the past for inspiration. His talent, coupled with the use of creative tools for video professionals from Adobe, help Legato execute beautiful and memorable scenes in modern-day film.
For more, you can view his entire talk on Adobe TV or below:
We'll be focusing on all-things video production for the remainder of this week. Be sure to check us out on Facebook and Twitter for more inspirational stories, creative work and product news and tutorials.
Kuler updates: iPhone App & Website Redesign
Earlier this month we showed you a preview of Kuler for the iPhone, the new Kuler website and how you can access your Kuler themes in Illustrator CC. Today, we're launching the new site and making Kuler available on the App Store.
For those of you who missed Kuler in the MAX keynote, Kuler allows you to create inspiring color themes and explore hundreds of thousands of color themes created by other users. The Kuler iPhone app lets you capture color themes anywhere, using the iPhone camera. All the themes you create with Kuler, on the web or with your iPhone, can be accessed with other Adobe applications such as Illustrator and Ideas.
The full benefits of Kuler are available to Creative Cloud members. The Sync Colors feature lets you use Kuler and Illustrator to quickly incorporate colors you see around you into your vector artwork. Sync your favorite themes with the Kuler website, and they'll be accessible immediately inside Illustrator CC – only available in Creative Cloud.
If you are an active Kuler user, you may notice a few pages and features missing from the new Kuler website. I'm writing to explain what's missing, why it's missing, and what you can expect to see in the coming weeks and months. Here's an overview of what you won't find on the new site:
Create a theme from an image: We know many users really like the "Create from an Image" feature. Unfortunately, this feature was not ready for the new site launch. So, rather than launching a buggy or half-baked feature, we decided to take a bit more time to get it right.
We intend to add this feature to the site as soon as it's ready. Until then, you can use the free iPhone app to create themes from images.
Color space "slider" controls: We talked to a lot of Kuler users about the slider controls. Some users like them and others don't. The main complaint we heard was that the sliders add unnecessary complexity and take up too much space.
So, we opted to not add the sliders and err on the side of making the creation experience simple. Though, we decided to keep the "brightness" slider control since some colors spaces don't have a brightness variable. We'd love to know what you think. You can voice your opinion on the Kuler forum.
Change the order of colors: In our research, we found most users did not know you could re-order colors on the old Kuler site. And, it's actually quite a bit of work to build this feature. So, rather than re-building a feature many users don't know about or use, we wanted to hear from you first. Please visit the Kuler forum and let us know what you think.
Avatar: Most of the users we talked with about Kuler avatars were indifferent. In fact, they asked us to focus on other features first. So, that's what we're doing–we're focusing on some of the most requested features first.
Community spotlight and Pulse: The Community Spotlight and Pulse were beta features that never really gained any traction. So, we opted to not continue with these features.
API: We're working to rebuild the Kuler API to offer more robust capabilities. Until then, we're no longer issuing new API keys. If you already have a key and are using the API, your service will not be interrupted (your key will continue to work).
We're always looking for feedback and would love to hear what you think about any of these topics—please join the discussion on the Kuler forum.
#AdobeMAX Day Two – Community Inspires Creativity & Sneak Peeks
Inspiration is everywhere here at Adobe MAX! Here's a quick recap of our events from yesterday.
Day Two Keynote: Community Inspires Creativity
David Wadhwahi, our SVP of Digital Media, opened up our day two keynote, then handed it off to creative luminaries to share their stories. We heard about breaking the brief from Paula Scher, were inspired by embracing limitations from Paul Hansen, and experienced the making-of-details from innovative creatives such as Erik Johansson and Rob Legato. Check out the playback available here for the next 24 hours.
Sneak Peeks
There were a number of special guests at the MAX sneaks. First up, Rainn Wilson, actor and co-creator of SoulPancake, who opened up the night to talk about creativity, what it meant to him and how it was the catalyst for how SoulPancake came to be.
Then we got an early look at amazing technologies that might become product features in the future. Host Ben Forta shared the stage with Rainn and celebrity guest, actress/comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub, as we walked through exciting developments from the our engineering teams. Everything from the future of drawing, as inspired by Project Mighty, to experimenting with light in photos and videos, to audio layers to remove unwanted background noise were all shown at MAX. Check out some of the sneak peeks below.
Sneak: Playing with Light
Sneak: Perspective Warp
Sneak: Audio Layers
Stay tuned for more as we wrap up our final day at Adobe MAX 2013!
#AdobeMAX Day One – A Creative Evolution
And…we're off! Adobe MAX is buzzing today as we kicked things off with our day one keynote session, "A Creative Evolution." We announced a slew of news today, including all-new updates to our Creative Cloud apps – Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Edge Tools & Services, and more! If you missed the keynote, watch the playback available here until tomorrow morning's day two keynote at 10 a.m. PT or catch the community-curated version captured in Storify by MAX attendee, @GayaneAdourian.
Even more exciting, we shared an early look at a number of new explorations:
- Project Mighty – A Creative Cloud pen
- Project Napolean – Complementary to Mighty, Napolean is a digital ruler designed to bring back some of the feeling of drawing with analog tools like the t-square and triangle
- Project Context – Reimagines the editorial room for publishers
For more on MAX, join the conversation on #AdobeMAX on Twitter and Instagram and/or follow @AdobeMAX.
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A thing that I found to be a problem with people trying to make 2D fighting games in 3D in the past is that there's too much focus on finishing animation -- like, making sure that the entire punch goes all the way through and comes back, instead of just snapping back so that it's more functional than visual. Where was the balance for you?
YO: That's a really good question. Like you said, we couldn't possibly do it the way we did it in Street Fighter III. What happened with Street Fighter IV was at the beginning, the way that characters get punched or kicked or the return motion of their fist or foot... we left that at 60 frames, moving really smoothly, and left all of the animation in there.
So a fist would go forward in five frames, then return in five frames. Even though the timing was the same as the ordinary 2D Street Fighter, it looked really weird, and it kind of gave the visual impression that it was moving too slowly or too smooth.
So basically, the adjustment that we've made is that when you first throw a punch, you have that 60 frames per second polygon smoothness, but when it pulls back, we've deliberately skipping large amounts of frames, as opposed to a smooth movement. .
I think one of the first games that actually did it somewhat effectively and made it feel like a 2D game was Arc System Works' Battle Fantasia, even though it's a very recent game. Have you played that one?
YO: Yeah, I'm actually very familiar with it. I even went to the location tests of that game, back when it was very early in development.
What do you think?
YO: The cool thing about Battle Fantasia is because the characters are done in a super-deformed art style, it doesn't feel weird that the animation works the way that it does. It works really well, and looks really good with that art style.
Our fear was that with Street Fighter IV, because our characters are taller and more human-proportioned that it might look funky, with frame skipping, and a look that's more choppy.
What we learned through development was that no, it's not going to look weird. It's actually going to feel really good. Battle Fantasia was part of what made us realize that, I think.
I really like the El Fuerte character. Although he's actually a wrestling character, the way that he moves around the screen and the arc of his jumps and stuff really reminds me of Kyo's fighting style [from SNK's King Of Fighters series], which is somewhat counter to the Shotokan [i.e. Ken and Ryu in Capcom's Street Fighter series]. Was that anywhere in your design decision for him? It feels like the arc to some of his specials is just perfect to get over the attacks of the Shotos, and over fireballs or middle kicks at the peak.
YO: The fact that you even noticed that in playing it for such a short time is really impressive. I guess you're really a fighting player. I didn't expect questions like this until much later after the game came out.
But the fact that we'd done it at 16:9 this time made it so that we had to adjust the jump arcs even moreso than you would normally have to. It would be troublesome if all the jumps were too strong.
Characters that are specifically suited for jumping -- El Fuerte, and Crimson Viper is kind of a jump-centered character -- we really spent a lot of time adjusting their arcs to decide, "Should they be able to jump over Sonic Booms? Should they be able to jump over a Hadoken? What angle do you need to launch them at in order for that to happen?" So yeah, thanks for noticing that. Some characters are very specifically designed to counter those kind of projectile attacks.
That's one of the reasons why I really liked the Capcom vs. SNK series, because you actually have those Kyo- and SNK-style characters versus the Shotokan characters, and you can actually compare them. I'm glad that it's happening again within a Capcom game.
YO: You're making me really happy, because even at all the other interviews I've done at GDC and other events, no one's actually gotten that deep into the fighting game essence. I'm happy to hear you mentioning stuff like this.
|Maurício Gomes
Good article!
It remembers me that when appeared Street Fighter II and MK I tought it to be great, and I played those games, I knew how to do the most simple (but exploitable moves), but when expert players started to show up, I got: Oh man, I have no idea how to play this thing, I will not play anymore.
And in fact I stopped playing those games, with the notable exception of Virtua Fighter series (simple and lovely gameplay!) and Soul Calibur 3 (that people that live with me has, and I play sometimes, it is a good game, simple and not overly complex, altough I avoid playing it when expert players are around...)
Even the MK series got harder and harder to play, in fact I could not ever beat the second character on easy mode on MK2 unless using spammer characters...
The Shaolin Monks MK game, altough it does not look like MK, it was one of the few games from the series that got my attention again.
I hope that it works with Street Fighter IV! A game where I can play, and not get easily beaten by the pros :P (not that I do not get beaten, but do not happen like when I tried to play Guilty Gear with a friend of mine, and he launched me on air and I only landed after being dead...)
He seems like a smart guy and I expect Street Fighter 4 to be the way he wants it to be gameplay-wise. But I strongly disagree with his comment on the animations of Street Fighter 3 feeling weird and the animations of 4 being better.
I think Street Fighter 4 has a big problem when it comes to animations and it's not only the way the transitions are done. Animations don't match with flying arcs especially when hit. And even pre-packaged ones like Abel's big throw look extremely stiff and wrong.
I will still buy the game and it could end up being the best 2D fighter yet but the animations already bug me.
|Jordan Carr
Hélder Gomes Filho, You can't make it past the second fight in MKII without cheap-move spamming?
Then it sounds like you should play an RPG or something that does not require reflexes, timing, or skill.
I mean seriously, my sister beat MKII back during out boring childhood summers. For fun.
|Rosso Mak
Don't mind Jordan.He is just telling U that he is not that into fighting games but loves to give comment on something.
I would like say something on the 'SF3 is ahead of its time' comment Ono said in the interview.
I think if 'SF3 is ahead of its time' , then the right time would never come. The problem SF3 had was the plan they use on balancing the game was not that right. The fault was not the parrying system;it is the push this parrying too hard in the first installment. I think it should make it nearly useless at first and push EX special move instead of parrying in the first SF3.EX special move give a easy solution to every character to deal with some problem beginners often face but not easy to solve. Just let parrying be there and leave it alone at first, and put more importance on this after people feel familiar with its existence and basic usage like deflecting projectiles. The lukewarm result SF3 series got also was also caused by many balancing fault in the first installment of SF3.
On SF4, I don't agree that the approach currently used in the game can bring forth a chance for the beginners. Look at the gauges! Life bar, super and Ultra. Hardcore love the maths behind these but beginners killed by these without knowing what happened. This turn-off a lot of amateur.
|Finn Haverkamp
Great interview. And answers. Fighting games require extremely intricate design and fine-tuning. I imagine designing them is quite the challenge.
|Dedan Anderson
El Fuerte reminds me of El Blaze - anyhoo great interview!
Good stuff! Waiting for a KOF12 interview now! Hop to it!
|i play winner
There is more going on screen with Halo, Final Fantasy and these other "casual" games than Street Fighter IV. The life gauges, Ultras and whatever is not what is going to prove to be a hurdle for casuals; once again it is the gameplay system that will be the real barrier. People keep saying that this is a "rewind to Street Fighter II" but its really only SF2 on the surface.
Ive had 2 months to play this game heavily in the arcade, and I was able to attend some location tests (if thats what you want to call them, GDC and Evolution) here in the states over the past year. So, I have had some time with SFIV and I'll say the gameplay system is much more complicated in IV than it is in SF3: 3s. This is the biggest misconception about SFIV, that it is some sort of dumbed down street fighter for the masses. You all are in for a big surprise.
Look, with parries it was just a tap forward or down. With Street Fighter 4 so much goes into the Focus Attack system most people wont even really know where to begin. To do the most damaging combos you have to utilize then Focus Attack Dash Cancel and I'll say its much more difficult to do something like that compared to a parry into super or something.
With that being said this is a real good interview, I really enjoyed it!


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When Richard D. James released 2001's Drukqs, the last proper Aphex Twin album, it was considered a massive disappointment. The 2xCD set mixed frenetic drill'n'bass tracks with gorgeous Satie-like miniatures for prepared piano, and the feeling at the time was that he'd been here before and done it all better. After 1999's "Windowlicker", a landmark track that was both deeply strange and also somehow a pop hit, there was an unspoken dream that James might just might change popular music completely, remake it in his image. Drukqs didn't come close to fulfilling that promise, but listening to it 13 years later, perhaps not surprisingly, it sounds more interesting than it did at the time. Could this have something to do with it being the last Aphex Twin album? When we heard it in 2001, we had every reason to think that there might be another around the corner in a year or two.
So Drukqs seemed more like a bump in the road, maybe, than an artist coasting for a minute. It wasn't the last we heard from James—there were the many Analord releases in 2005, some stray tracks, additional work as the Tuss—but James' unbelievable 10-year run as a creative force mostly ended just after the turn of the millennium. Since we're still left wondering if and when he'll make a full return to the world of recorded music, the huge clutch of music he did release seems more classic with each passing day. He's become something like electronic music's post-retirement Miles Davis: from the vantage point of the 1980s and later, say, everything Miles released through his 1975 hiatus sounded amazing. An artist who quits can become so revered, what output there is becomes enveloped in a kind of aura, and you start to hear it differently. Tracks that don't necessarily connect in a big way on their own become understood as an important part of a bigger picture, and its perceived importance grows exponentially.
I mention all this by way of saying that the "new" album by Richard James, the Caustic Window LP, sounds very good, but there's so much wrapped up in hearing new/old music from him it can be hard to puzzle out. That this set has such a strange genesis also seems appropriate, given James' very low public profile and long history of "Is this him or someone else?" releases. Earlier this year, a test pressing of a previously unreleased LP by Caustic Window, one of James' many pseudonyms, originally intended for release on Rephlex, the label he owns with Grant Wilson-Claridge, appeared for sale on Discogs. Members of the We Are the Music Makers forum, an active message board dedicated to electronic music in general and Aphex Twin in particular, persuaded Rephlex to sanction an unusual idea for distributing the music: they would raise money through Kickstarter and those who contributed would get a high-quality digital copy of the record, recorded from a needle-drop of the test pressing. After the project was funded and the music digitized, the test pressing was auctioned on eBay. Some of the money went to the label, some went to charity. But 4,000 people got lossless files of the record from donating, and then of course it leaked. It's a long way for music to travel in 20 years, and it'd be an interesting story based only on the crowd-funding angle, showing the connectedness of fandom in the digital era. But the music has its own rewards.
It helps to understand where James was in 1994. For the previous three years, he'd been issuing a string of 12"s and EPs under various names, most of which were firmly under the umbrella of acid house and techno. You can find these tracks scattered across the Caustic Window set Compilation, the Aphex Twin collection Classics, the Polygon Window album Surfing on Sine Waves, and the Analogue Bubblebath EPs. In addition to functional dance music, James had also put out Selected Ambient Works 85–92 and, around the time this album would have come out, the legendary Selected Ambient Works Vol. II, so we're talking about some serious output in just a couple of years.
During the early days, James tended to go to extremes. He made dance music that was often harsh and repetitive and then he made ambient music that was stirring in its simple beauty. He was exploring the edges, figuring out where the boundaries were, and in the second half of the 1990s he figured out how to make it all work together. What's interesting about the Caustic Window LP, especially relative to the abrasive material collected on Compilation, is that it's generally measured, never too harsh or too fast and also never especially lyrical. It feels like an album, with tracks that were not singles meant to be heard together. James uses this middle ground as a showcase for his unerring feel for structure and his ability to make electronic tracks there were futuristic but also imbued with personality, where you get a sense of the man behind the controls.
So the highlights here, which include the bouncy electro-cruncher "Mumbly" (later a live staple), the spacious and easily tuneful "Fingertrips", the salsa-inflected acid house "Squidge in the Fridge", and the chilled-out and playful neo-trip-hop "Jazzphase", sound best in the context of the record as a complete listen, with its gradually shifting palette and BPMs. James' work during this era had a slightly crude, homemade quality that brought it down to earth but also, with its contrasts, served to highlight the overall musicality. If these are not necessarily the prettiest melodies he created, Caustic Window LP is still filled with tunes that work brilliantly as tunes, with memorable chord progressions that move through clearly delineated sections. One of James' defining qualities is that he's almost never boring; there's almost always some element of fascination in his tracks, whether it's an oddball sample, a weird texture, an impossibly heavy percussion line, or tune that won't leave your head.
It's only on the album's final third that the record takes a sharp turn, as the nice but ultimately too-long mood piece "101 Rainbows (Ambient Mix)" leads into the hyper-distorted "Phlaps" and the blistering acid of "Cunt" and then into a listen-once track of phone pranks. It's tempting to speculate on how the record would have been received at the time and why it might have been shelved. James was moving fast in those days, so it's possible that this album felt too much like where he'd been before, especially given the new ground he was breaking with SAW II. By the following year's I Care Because You Do his sound was again changing rapidly, and the rest of the decade saw him attaining the status of a serious composer. Given all that, Caustic Window LP probably wouldn't have left a significant mark, and would have been heard as second-tier James. Twenty years later, though, we're hearing it with that aura, that extra bit of longing that comes from how scarce music from James has become. And in that light, second tier is still very good indeed.
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Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire family–mother, father,brother–had vanished. No note, no trace, no return. Ever. Now, twenty-five years later, she'll learn the devastating truth.
Sometimes it's better not to know. . . .
Cynthia is happily married with a young daughter, a new family. But the story of her old family isn't over. A strange car in the neighborhood, untraceable phone calls, ominous "gifts"–someone has returned to her hometown to finish what was started twenty-five years ago. And no one's innocence is guaranteed, not even her own. By the time Cynthia discovers her killer's shocking identity, it will again be too late . . . even for goodbye.
Linwood Barclay is a columnist for the Toronto Star. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Stone Rain and Lone Wolf. He lives near Toronto with his wife and has two grown children.
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Interest: I'm writing this from my recent experiences both as a serial entrepreneur and as an investor at a seed-stage fund, which is typically a sub-$100 million fund. First, I agree with the emphasis on the importance of burn rate from Bill Gurley and Fred Wilson that generated some buzz a few weeks ago. Second, for a venture capitalist (defined for this post as $150+ million funds) like Fred Wilson, it is true when he says, "Valuations can be fixed...
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snow-covered backside
I really wanted to like these, but both times I tired them I ended up completely covered in snow up my backside. I went the other day with a friend who rented a pair, and he didn't have this problem (I assumed it was just part of the sport...silly me). I'm planning on getting the MSR Lightning Assent shoes, as I have read the reviews and they look decent.
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Pros: easy to put on, lightweight, tapered a bit so I didn't step on my other foot, great traction.
Cons: the way the metal teeth/grips are configured at the bottom allows snow to be compacted and stuck to the bottom of the snowshoe so now you're lifting up the weight of the snow as well. My friend had the MSR's and didn't have this problem. Wasn't as bad on groomed trails and not going so far but on ungroomed trails it's a problem esp. when you go for miles lifting up the extra snow.
These are nice snowshoes. What others said about throwing snow at the bum is correct. I solved it with putting on gaiters-dont even notice the snow anymore. However they are very comfortable due to suspension and are very easy to put on. I am 130 lbs and with day pack on my back stayed on top of 12 of powdery snow on my snowshoes. Love them!
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I learnt what spring loaded really means with these snowshoes...it means wet bum! Atlas are the brand of snowshoe you see out on the trails that kick up a lot of snow directly at the user's bum. Now if you can get past the feeling of having snowballs thrown at your backside for the hours your are treking, then these snowshoes are great. Really, they are smooth to walk with felt nice and light and were plenty grippy. Just wish someone had told me they flung snow at you before I bought them.
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I am going to answer my own question: I tested both Atlas 12 and MSR Lightning Ascent - they are both amazing but I found that MSR is great if the snow conditions are icy and steep hills whereas Atlas 12 just as good except you have to kick in the toes to grip when going uphill, however coming downhill is quite fun, you can run downhills without tripping over the snowshoes (which I did when accidently stepped on the other shoe with MSR). Overall, they both are amazing so it is a matter of personal preference.
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Atlas E12 versus MSR Lightning Ascent - I used Atlas 1023+ but thinking of getting a MSR ... will be using for climbing in all snow conditions: icy, powder, slushy. Have concerns about coming down (and going up) steep hills - which is better, Atlas E12 or MSR Lightning Ascent?
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I've now had these snowshoes for 2 seasons and they're the best I've tried yet (although I also like MSR snowshoes too). They're lightweight, easy to strap on to your boots (even with mittens), and your foot stays put. The heal is also very useful when going on steep hikes.
Very helpful, so I desided to buy these.