Three new beta versions are available for free download this month from Adobe: Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth. These three betas demonstrate the direction Adobe is taking with features and technologies to simplify and streamline workflow across all media. Specifically, users of the next Adobe Creative Suite may be able to mix and mash up the applications with online content and third-party tools. Bringing tools from CS to the desktop or the Web could lead to new ways of exploring Adobe’s software. A mashup, for example, allows users to do things like mash up Google Maps to display anything from apartment listings to UFO sightings. Developers will be able to write one set of code to create widgets that can be used throughout Adobe’s CS programs. Widely reported rumors that Creative Suite 4 will be released in October have been slammed by Adobe, saying the rumors are “just made up”.

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