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There have been a couple of announcements over the last few days from Adobe and Google - one announcement from Adobe (with Google included) and one announcement from google (with Adobe included).

First up was the Adobe announcement about a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Extended that allows designers to "take further advantage of the software’s powerful compositing, painting and image-editing toolset for editing 3D content." You can read the press release here, and download the plug-in here.

Next up is the Google announcement about Google Gears. The press release can be found here.

There has been some discussion over the last few days as to whether Google Gears is a competitor to the Adobe Apollo project. As Kevin says: "We're very excited to be collaborating with Google to move the industry forward to a standard cross-platform, cross-browser local storage capability. The Gears API will also be available in Apollo, which enables web applications to run on the desktop, providing developers with consistent offline and local database solutions."

Ryan Stewart provides a very clear overview of how the Google and Adobe technologies complement each other on his ZDNet blog, here.