While casually scanning the constant flow of Twitter topics this afternoon, something caught my eye–a quick promise of a free collection of Adobe CS4 keyboard shortcuts brought me to the Adobe Student Hub. It seems that Adobe is offering substantial discounts on their software to qualifying students — "Adobe Student Editions software is for use by higher education students only." Fair enough.
The site is annoyingly noisy (IMHO), and you can turn off the crazy electronic throbbing noise by clicking on the tiny speaker icon on the left (whew).
Front and center is the Adobe Shortcut App. You can try this handy device live on the sight, as the site's whole 3D interface is Flash. Adobe Shortcut App contains keyboard shortcuts for ALL CS4 Apps! This is beyond convenient, since we tend to specialize in a program or two, but sometimes need to work with one of the suite's other programs.
Click the CS4's individual program's icon at the top of the Shortcut App, and you are presented with appropriate keyboard shortcuts! Here's the best part: this cool application can be downloaded as an Adobe Air application! For me, this one's a keeper. Poke around at the site's other features. There's a Job Feed App to help you find a job using Adobe's awesome tools too.
What's the catch? Well, the cool, free Adobe Shortcut App is a billboard which will always remind you of Adobe's terrific student pricing on the app–no big deal, considering how useful this free download can be!
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