Photoshop CS2 and Other Products Free for Download?

Adobe is giving away free copies of CS2 products such as Adobe Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite, Acrobat, etc to public. Anyone can download the setup files along with a genuine product key to install the full version of products.


Actually following webpage at official website of Adobe is providing setup files and product keys of various CS2 products:

Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Other CS2 Products Free Download Page

The news was first posted on some well known websites such as cnet, gizmodo, forbes, etc. As soon as the news started spreading all over the net, Adobe had to make following official announcement about it:
Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.

So got the point? Adobe didn't release these products free to public. They actually provided those download links and product keys to help their customers who have already purchased these products in past.
Following message from Dov (an Adobe staff member) will also clear the things:

Adobe is absolutely not providing free copies of CS2. What is true is that Adobe is terminating the activation servers for CS2 and that for existing licensed users of CS2 who need to reinstall their software, copies of CS2 that don't require activation but do require valid serial numbers are available. (Special serial numbers are provided on the page for each product download). You are only legally entitled to download and install with that serial number if you have a valid license to the product!

So Adobe is not providing these products free to download and if you didn't purchase licenses of these products, downloading and installing these products using the above mentioned page will be considered as illegal.

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Google Adsense - The Easiest Money To Make Online?

For the last couple of months, Google Adsense has dominated forums, discussions and newsletters all over the Internet. Already, there are tales of fabulous riches to be made and millions made by those who are just working from home. It seems that Google Adsense have already dominated the internet marketing business and is now considered the easiest way to making money online.

The key to success with Adsense is the placing of ads on pages that are receiving high traffic for high demand keywords. The higher the cost-per-click to the advertiser, the more you will receive per click from your site. Obviously, it does not pay to target low cost-per-click keywords and place them on pages that do not receive hits.

With all the people getting online and clicking away everyday, it is no wonder why Google Adsense has become an instant hit.

For some who are just new to this market, it would be a blow to their pride knowing that their homepage is buried somewhere in the little ads promoting other people’s services. But then, when they get the idea that they are actually earning more money that way, all doubts and skepticism is laid to rest.

There are two major, and clever, factors that some successful webmaster and publishers are learning to blend together in order to make money easier using Adsense.

1. Targeting high traffic pages on your website. If you check on your logs, you will discover that many of your visitors are taking advantage of the free affiliate marketing resources and ebooks that you are offering on your site. In simple words, your ads are working effectively and are generating more clicks. It also means more money for you.

2. Placing Adsense links on pages that are producing little, or better yet, no profit. By placing Adsense on a free resources page, you will reduce the amount of potential customers being lost to other sites. Tricky, but effective nonetheless.

When learned to work effectively, these two factors are actually a good source of producing a minimal amount of revenue from a high traffic page. Many people are using this strategy to pick up some extra and cash with Adsense. This is also especially rewarding to informational sites that focus their efforts on delivering powerful affiliate link free content to their visitors. Now they can gain a monetary return on their services.

With the many techniques that people are now learning on how to make the easiest money by their Adsense, it is not surprising that Google is trying everything to update and polish their Adsense in order to maintain their good image.

The possibility of adding is 2nd tier in Adsense is not impossible. With all the people spending more time in their Adsense now and still more getting into this line of marketing, there is no doubt about the many new improvements yet to be made. Imagine the smiles on the faces of the webmasters and publishers all around the world if ever they sign up for sub-affiliates and double or even triple the amount that they are already earning.
The one particularly handy money-making feature that is available with Adsense now is the ability to filter out up to 200 urls. These gives webmasters the option to block out low value offers from their pages as well as competitors to their websites. Talk about taking only those that are advantageous and discarding the ones that seem “useless”.

With Google Adsense, the possibilities are limitless. Yet there is also the possibility of someone taking advantage of the easy money process that this internet marketing is doing. If you think more about it, these negative factors may force Google to break down and thrash Adsense in the process. If that happens, people would have to go back to the old ways of internet marketing that does not make money online as easy as Adsense.

For now, however, Google Adsense is here to stay. As long as there are people wanting to earn some easy cash online just using their talents, the future ahead is looking good. Besides with all the strict guidelines that Google is enforcing over Adsense, it will take awhile for the Adsense privileges to be spammed and even terminated.

31 Risk in Offshore IT Outsourcing Contracts: Or Buying Promises

Making a decision on contracting with an onshore or offshore IT service provider is much like buying promises.  To some extent you are going to have to trust in your selected partner to be committed to providing your company with the high quality services that they have promised.  Your lawyers will surely not agree but offshore contracts are only worth the integrity of the company that you are contracting with.  Dun & Bradstreet does not include this metric (integrity) in corporate profiles yet and it is not on a credit report either.  One of my partners in Brazil would often tell me “Henry we are highly motivated for this opportunity”, but I did not fully understand the value of that statement until we got into the trenches together. 

Here are a few of the promises you are accepting or questions you may have doubts about when signing that offshore IT staff augmentation or support contract:

1.    Will I really get the hours I am paying for?
2.    Is my intellectual property and information secure?
3.    Am I really going to be provided with qualified professionals?
4.    Will billing rates go up after I train the new team in my business?
5.    Can I reach this vendor when I need immediate support?
6.    Will this vendor work with me when the going gets rough?
7.    Is this a stable country politically, socially, and economically?
8.    Are currency exchange rates an issue?
9.    Is this a safe country for business travel?
10.    Is this vendor’s location in a safe part of town?
11.    What is the cost of business travel to this location?
12.    What is the cost for offshore professionals from there to travel to the U.S.?
13.    Can professionals at this location get a U.S. passport and visa for U.S. visits? 
14.    Are U.S. contracts legally binding in this country?
15.    How long does it take to get a visa and passport for team members to make training and onsite orientation trips to my location? 
16.    What will it cost for visas and passports for your offshore team?
17.    Will the offshore team have someone full time who is experienced in managing offshore projects?
18.    Is this a stable company, i.e.  good credit and strong experienced management?
19.    Does this vendor’s company have the interpersonal skills to work with my company?
20.    Does this offshore vendor have executive management that speak English and will be responsive and share your since of urgency?
21.    Are this vendor’s team management and executive management going to be available in your workday time zone on short notice when you need them?
22.    Can this vendor grow with your companies needs?
23.    Do they have commercial liability insurance, errors and omissions insurance?
24.    Can they buy commercial liability insurance in their country?
25.    Will they work in your workday time zone?
26.    Does this company have a secure network infrastructure?
27.    Is their network infrastructure professionally designed and firewall protected?
28.    Is their facility physically secure?
29.    Are extreme weather conditions a factor affecting travel, security, or work schedules in this country?
30.    Does this location pose natural disaster risk to your business?
31.    Is this vendor going to be flexible as your needs change?

No matter how much time on money you spend developing a clam tight contract with an offshore outsourcing provider you never want to have to consider international litigation or international arbitration for contract disputes.  Unless your needs are well defined and static, which I have never seen, the requirements better be very general in that contract or they will need review and changes before the ink gets dry.

In any offshore project establishing good relationships are key to clear communications.  Vision TRE has been nurturing relationships with our offshore partner locations in Brazil and Panama for years.  We have business relationships in South and Central America that have been proven dependable over the years.  Integrity, trust, mutual cultural respect, and a shared since of urgency make these relationships valuable to any company that contract with us to establish an offshore team.