I'm very proud to announce that Adobe Fireworks CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques will be available October 20, 2008. It was a heck of an experience and I owe a big thanks to Kim Cavanaugh who was my tech editor.

You can learn more about the book here: http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321562879

I'm very excited about the book. I think it's a great introduction to Fireworks.

At 12:01 this morning, Adobe publicly announced the upcoming release of Creative Suite 4. Some very cool new features have been added to all our favorite software applications. Fireworks CS4 is - IMO - the most significant upgrade in a long while. And other apps like Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash are also chock full of new goodies.

For more details, be sure to stay tuned here at CMX, and also make sure to drop by Adobe's web site for a breakdown of the Suite packages.

Well, it's coming! Adobe has disclosed the the announce date for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 on www.adobe.com.

Details about Creative Suite 4 at will be made available at  12:01 A.M. Eastern Standard Time (USA) on September 23. You can register to hear the special launch webcasts at: www.adobe.com/go/somethingbrilliant