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it's time to sign up for a subscription to everything I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNN update you can no longer simply buy the full Photoshop program or any other software from Adobe's Creative Suite Adobe announced that now customers must subscribe to the Creative Cloud to get updated versions of Adobe's full software suite getting the whole suite cost $50 a month whereas buying the whole suite at once used to cost twenty five hundred dollars in this subscription model customers might be more willing to pay that $50 monthly fee for the chance to use all of the software and it's the equivalent of paint it off over the course of four years and four years is probably when you want to upgrade again anyway if you just want an individual program it'll cost $20 a month this subscription cloud service was first introduced as an option last year and Adobe says customers prefer it so now the company made subscriptions the only option although if you use something like Photoshop Elements which is a lite version with less features you can still buy that with a flat one-time fee this subscription stuff only applies to the full versions of the Creative Suite now we branded as the Creative Cloud we're seeing many software companies slowly switch over to subscription models Microsoft Office began pushing a subscription option and so our other productivity and storage apps like Evernote and Dropbox with subscriptions software updates are rolled out continuously to users rather than having one big update you pay for every year or two and YouTube wants to collect monthly fees from you as well we're expecting to hear something soon about YouTube launching a paid subscription service the Financial Times is reporting that YouTube will introduce a new ala carte service this week first luckam four channels that require viewers to pay two dollars a month to access the videos YouTube confirmed it is working on this subscription model but it's just unclear exactly when it will launch and if you've been thinking about getting a fitness tracking gadget the Fitbit flex wristband is out now and our CNET review says this is the best fitness tracker you can buy and that's because it's comfortable to wear and has a good variety of health tracking features the unit tracks your steps sleep and calories burned of course that's an estimate of how much are moving your arms around the day right now it only offers direct blue suits syncing with the iPhone the Samsung Galaxy s3 and the Galaxy Note but if you don't have those phones you can just sync it to the computer to analyze your stats the Flex also has this little LED screen at this place how far along you are at meeting your daily step goal with little dots so you can quickly check if it's worth taking the stairs or the long way home to meet that goal you can also see how restful your sleep is it tracks how much you move around the night it costs $100 and comes in several colors although you have to pay extra for those fun colors that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet.com slash for more studios in New York I'm Bridget Cara