On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (GMT+0200) will be available online an interesting web seminar hosted by Adobe Systems.
Join Piotr Walczyszyn for this 30 minutes e-seminar followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Learn how to define mutitouch, how to support it, and how you can handle multitouch events. [...]
A few friends showed me this ad. Incredible! Wonderful made. Please look how the background moves away to give space to the add and at the end the jar is zooming back in the movie. This is why Flash Player will evolve even more. I don’t think HTML5 will be able to do this (at [...]
A new version of Flash Player 10.1 has been released: Flash Player 10.1 beta 3. I summarized what’s new from the release notes bellow.
Support for new platforms
Designed for mobility
Developer productivity
Enhanced browser integration
Expanded options for high quality media delivery
Lots of fixed bugs are included in this release, bugs from graphics, networking, audio/video, text input, etc. More [...]
Today, Apple just announced the new iPad device. Great peace of work… and a better news is that the developers will be able to develop applications for iPad using the Flash Pro CS5. You may already know that we are able to develop applications for iPhone using Flash Pro CS5. Following that path, making applications [...]
Today, Adobe unveiled Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are.
A public beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and [...]
Recently Adobe launched a new component: Squiggly. What is Squiggly? As they are saying…
Squiggly is a spell checking engine for Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR®. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control.
Worth mentioning that the distribution package consists of a utility for building [...]
In this article from Google Webmaster Tools is presented the way Google manages Rich Media Files and Formats.
Some important points:
Google can index text in any flash content
sIFR is indexed as text by Google
Google is continually working to improve our indexing of Flash files
Google still have problems accessing the content of other rich media formats such [...]
Yesterday, Adobe released a new version of Pixel Bender. Now the last version released is 1.5.1.
If you don’t know what is Pixel Bender, this is in short words….
An image and video processing infrastructure with runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware.
You can get it from Adobe Labs (about page and download page) and now there is [...]
Last end of the week has been a busy time for Adobe. They released quite a few updates to Flash and AIR platforms and some security updates for Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Acrobat.
Now the last public version of Flash Player is 10.0.32.18 and can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. The update refers to this security [...]
This is a good thing for us, developers. We will have the possibility to access this good resource free and easy. To quote their press release:
Since September 2009 FFD Magazine becomes online magazine. What is important – it will be also FREE of ANY charges. The only thing you need to do is to sign [...]
The last week I have been working on a Flash/Actionscript 3 project and everything worked well. The project got in an 75% finalized. Meanwhile I needed to install a software product and it crashed my Windows Vista. Saved the important data and tried to fix it without having to reinstall the whole OS and all [...]
If your Flash CS4 crashes when you try to edit some text object is because there is a problem with the font – it may be corrupted or may contain ambiguous data or there are more than one font with the same name or the font symbol name is identical to the Postscript name of [...]
On 18th of June Google announced that now they support Flash indexing with external resource loading.
Quoting Janis Stipins, Software Engineer at Google:
This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file – whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc. – we can index this external content too, and associate [...]
Yesterday (10.06.2009) at Adobe Systems Romania offices took place the Adobe User Groups Tour – Bucharest Pit Stop event. The event was a success – great things presented. Even all tickets were sold out long time before the event only 40 persons showed up at the event.
The event was about new beta products that [...]
Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]