In a financial mankind where your house is deserving half of what you paid for it , your 401 K has mislay 65 percent of its value , and the nation ’s Treasury Secretary is hoping to make off with your kid ’s piggy bank , what ’s another $ 2,499 ? If you ’re a creative designer , that nearly-$2,500 could be one of the year ’s smarter investment if you require the recent and large Adobe practical app .

I write , of course , of the of late declare Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection — a collection of conception tool that includes InDesign , Photoshop Extended , Illustrator , Acrobat , Dreamweaver , Flash Professional , Fireworks , Contribute , After Effects , Premiere Pro , Soundbooth , OnLocation and Encore .

Macworld.com executive editor in chief Philip Michaels and senior editor program Jackie Dove witnessed Adobe ’s announcement of CS4 , interview some of Adobe ’s CS4 cardinal players , and lend back the audio evidence of their work to partake in with you .

Later in the show , Rogue Amoeba’sPaul Kafasis and I discuss Apple ’s App Store — specifically return where Apple has rejected some perfectly useful apps , quote “ duplication ” of existing functionality . Kafasis freeze off these rejections , discuss why seemingly whimsical rejections may not make for a proportionate business organisation relationship , and suggests option for iPhone coating distribution .

And in my News & Commentary monologue I extol the virtue of Apple ’s Remote software and discuss how you could put it , iTunes , an AirPort meshwork , and multiple speakers to unspoilt use .

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Show notes

My talk about Apple ’s Remote and a house covered with music is based on this Playlist web log : iPhone + Remote App = Houseful of Music . It ’s the goodness .

Just a day after the proclamation of Creative Suite 4 , Macworld has covered a mean mountain of it . Check out our first looking at at Photoshop CS4 and InDesign CS4 ( with more to come afterward this week and next ) . We ’ve also got news reports on Illustrator , Dreamweaver , Flash , and Fireworks , plus extra information on Adobe ’s video applications .

In the Adobe segment , Philip Michaels mentions a webcast of the CS4 launch event . As this podcast went live , a inter-group communication to that webcast had n’t appeared yet — we suspect that it will at some point on either theCreative Suite 4 pageorAdobe ’s home page .

In addition to running Rogue Amoeba ( which produces such terrific audio applications asAudio Hijack Pro , Fission , Radioshift , andAirfoil ) , Paul contribute to O’Reilly’sInside iPhone blog . For his thoughts on the sometimes jolting road Apple and developer journey , check off out hisA Bridge Too FarandOne lilliputian clause

Be sure to see more insurance coverage of the App Store ban smackdown . On Wednesday , Jason Snell and Dan Moren each take Apple to task over its policy .