Odds and Ends: Freehand officially dead; Apple investors had by engadget; Knowledge Base updates

Freehand officially dead Adobe has dropped the axe on Freehand, conveniently recommending that users migrate to Illustrator.

A post on John Nack's (Senior Product Manager at Adobe) blog states:

"The application has not been revised since Macromedia released MX nearly four years ago, after which the company removed FreeHand from the Studio product line [...] Adobe does not plan to develop and deliver any new feature-based releases of FreeHand, or to deliver patches or updates for new operating systems or hardware. Adobe will, however, continue to sell FreeHand MX, and will offer technical and customer support according to our support policies."

For more, including an FAQ and upgrade path to Illustrator, see the full blog posting.

Apple investors had by engadget For those investors who base their market decisions on unsubstantiated Web site postings, yesterday proved potentially disastrous. A false story indicating that Apple had delayed the iPhone until October and Leopard until January 2008 knocked US $4 billion off Apple's market capitalization.

Web Pro News reports:

"Minutes after that article hits the Blogosphere, Apple?s stock started to see a massive selling, from $107.89 to $103.42 within 6 minutes. This knocks off a whooping $4 billion of Apple?s Market Cap. Of course, a lot of people lost a lot of money very quickly. Luckily, it turns out that the email was a hoax. Engadget updated their article to reflect the error. Again within hours, Apple stock recovered slowly but the damage was already done ? it ended the day down just $1.40/share, or $1.25 billion in market cap."

Knowledge Base updates

• #301838 Pro applications on PowerPC computers may quit unexpectedly on launch or quit, or display non-customary menus and dialogs
• #305489 Choosing a custom install location for Final Cut Studio 2 content
• #305480 Color: Only one angle of multiclips is sent from Final Cut Pro
• #305479 Color: About anamorphic 16:9 DV
• #305473 Final Cut Pro 6: Subclips in multiclips in mixed-frame-rate sequences
• #305431 Final Cut Pro 6: Limitations in exported OMF files
• #304966 Compressor 3 Distributed Processing: File may appear at destination before encoding is complete
• . Final Cut Studio 2: About the Outer Glow filter
• #305499 Motion 3: Artifacts in OpenEXR imagery
• #305497 Motion 3: Cloned text does not inherit Crawl and Scroll behaviors
• #305490 Motion 3: 16:9 DV clips sent from Final Cut Pro may appear as 4:3
• #305466 Final Cut Pro: "Error sending selection to Soundtrack Pro"
• #305463 Soundtrack Pro: "Mono/Stereo Conflict" error when sending to Logic
• #305442 Color: Unable to complete registration
• #305424 Soundtrack Pro: "Can't find file" error when opening a .STAP project"
• #305419 Soundtrack Pro 2: After Export actions sometimes do not work
• #305412 Final Cut Studio 2: Installation progress sometimes remains at 100%
• #305389 Final Cut Studio 2: Don't keep older versions of applications when upgrading
• #304990 Soundtrack Pro: XML Imported from Final Cut Pro sometimes contains only channel labels

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