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Adobe Systems announced the launch of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Student Edition at a new recommended retail price of RM399, up to 80% off the recommended academic retail price of RM2,359.

Available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms, the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Student Edition software contains full versions of the following products: Adobe InDesign CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Fireworks CS4, Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, Adobe Bridge CS4, Adobe Device Central CS4 and Adobe Version Cue CS4.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Student Edition is available immediately to all higher education students (full-time or part-time) in Malaysia, who are enrolled in an accredited public or private university or polytechnic institute that grants diplomas or degrees requiring at least two years of full-time study.

Each student can only purchase one license, and a valid student ID card is required when purchasing the software.

Students can purchase the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Student Edition from the following resellers of Adobe products:

• Sapura Sapura Marketing (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (sapura.marketing@sapura.com.my or 03-8948 0066)
• Mac City Sdn Bhd (www.maccity.com.my or 012-2322010)
• Prestariang Systems Sdn Bhd (muse@prestariang.com or 03 8314 8442)

Please visit www.adobeasia.com/my/students for additional information on purchasing terms and conditions.

My two cents

Adobe Systems has the great software but they are well known for its high price tag. It is a great move to cut the software price for students.

Note that the software included in Adobe CS4 Design Premium Student Edition is same as normal edition($2,313.00 USD) but a lot cheaper!

Thumbs up for Adobe! (Wish I am a college student now…)

[hat tip: Anne K. Ewe]

You are invited to join The Nature Conservancy to Plant a Billion Trees in The Atlantic Forest of Brazil.

The Nature Conservancy is working with local partners to bring the Atlantic Forest back from the brink by restoring 2.5 million acres of land and planting 1 billion trees over the next 7 years.

Just a dollar a tree. You’ll help to make a difference now and for future generations.

I have donated $25 for 25 trees. How about you?

My friend, HongKiat, is having a contest to giveaway 3 premium wordpress themes from FlashMint.

How to win the free premium themes?

All you have to do is head to the FlashMint’s wordpress themes list, pick a theme you like and tell them in the comment box of the blog post.

The contest will be closed at Monday, 27th April 2008.

FlashMint wordpress themes

There are only 10 wordpress themes on FlashMint. Each cost USD$55. 7, all of them have very similar layout, with differences in theme colors and graphics used.

Though they are suitable for CMS, cooperate and personal blogs, none of them is my pick. Ah.. I am picky one!

If you would like to get any of the premium theme for free, drop your comment at the contest page. Good luck!

Related books:

• "WordPress Theme Design: A complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes" listing at Amazon.com
• "How to Theme WordPress: From Blank to Beautiful in 2 Hours" listing at Amazon.com

Received an email from my beautiful accountant yelling for help. Her innocent personal blog has been marked as spam by blogger.com and asked her to request for a i-am-not-spam review.

Her blog will be reviewed, and, and if everything is ok, will be unlocked in 2 working days. Otherwise, Blogger.com will remove her blog within weeks. She is not alone.

Those are probably false positives of the Blogger’s spam-prevention robots.

Solution? Submit the form and pray. Chances are your blog will be removed from the spam blog list.

My two cents

Although Blogger.com is my choice of Free blog hosting, this is another reason why you need a self-hosted blog over a free one.

Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team) revealed his latest desktop setup of 3 monitors: 30″ Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP monitor + two 24″ Dell monitor!

Matt is running Windows XP (left & center monitors) and Ubuntu (right monitor). The total display pixels of 30″ + 24″ + 24″ is more than 8.7 million pixels!

Matt’s previous desktop setup is similar to my current workspace, 2 x 24″ displays. He added a 30″ Dell 3008WFP UltraSharp monitor (cost RM4,699 in Malaysia).

I am drooling on the 30″ display but my lovely iMac can only connect to 1 external monitor… The alternative solution is to use the Matrox DualHead2Go but the input is VGA (analog), not DVI (digital).

Anyway, I have more than enough display pixels than needed with my dual 24″ displays, plus Mac OS X Spaces.

If you think Matt’s 3 monitors desktop is great, then take a look at this 3 x 30″ + 23″ displays desktop!