I've had a chance to talk to Adobe folks about the switch to the CC and why they dropped the perpetual license. For the most part, Adobe claims they were caught off guard by how people gravitated to the CC. While they didn't provide actual numbers, they did claim the vast majority of people who upgraded did not purchase CS6. Rather, they bought into the CC. Adobe started preparing CS7, but at a certain point they realized that the cost of preparing two versions of the same software—one that would be updated and one that would not—was going to not be a wise use of their resources. Ergo, drop the less popular option.

On Monday, April 23rd, Adobe made a double announcement regarding Creative Suite 6 (no surprise) and the Creative Cloud (also no surprise). There was no surprise because Adobe has been presenting us with sneak peaks of upcoming features for some time, and the Creative Cloud was informally announced back in October at the Adobe MAX in Los Angeles. Now that details are coming in, this cloud has a very silver lining.

iSkysoft is offering their DVD Creator for Mac application (normally $49.00) for free until November 2. This is the full version of the application with a registration keycode - not a crippled demo

Manage your music, sync your library, build playlists. Browse, search, sort. Songbird makes it simple. Songbird also does video

Macvide today announces VideoFlash Converter 3.3, an update to their video to Flash conversion utility for Mac OS X. VideoFlash Converter allows conversion of QuickTime compatible video files to Adobe Flash. All of the most popular formats are supported, and helps bridge the gap between many video standards. VideoFlash Converter offers an easy-to-use interface that guides the user through the conversion process

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedias files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols

Flash Player preview release, code-named "Gala," introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3, the most recent release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Gala allows developers to preview Flash Player with hardware acceleration of H.264 video on supported Mac computers equipped with the following GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M. The hardware acceleration functionality in the Gala preview release of Flash Player is expected to be included in an update following the release of Flash Player 10.1

Washington based Eltima Software is pleased to announce SWF & FLV Player for Mac version 3.8. SWF & FLV Player is a Flash movie and video player that makes watching them on a Mac more convenient. It is available in two versions: Free and PRO, with the Pro version featuring a number of extra options. SWF & FLV Player also offers creating and managing playlists. Version 3.8 features greatly improved downloading online Flash movies and videos

iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And you can add to your collection anytime, 24/7

Digiarty Software today announces WinX DVD Ripper for Mac. Specially designed for Mac users, WinX DVD Ripper for Mac allows anyone to effectively rip protected DVDs to iTunes or various video formats that are playable on Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple-TV, PSP, and more. It also empowers users to extract audio from the DVD video files and save as MP3 format. It provides an ideal DVD backup solution to prevent DVD from scratch or any loss

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols

Cocoamug Software has released CosmoPod 4.3.2, an update to their bright application for Mac OS X. CosmoPod is a one-click simple extension to Apple Safari browser that helps you saving and converting internet media content to a Mac/iPhone friendly format. It's just like an extra Download window for your media. CosmoPod supports most popular web video formats, including FLV, DivX, WMV, MMS and RTSP. This update mainly improves the application reliability and memory usage