Half a day ago new versions of Flash Player were released. I’m talking about Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 6, Flash Player “Gala” for Mac OS X 10.6.3, Flash Player 10.1 for Android and a few other versions.
Flash Player “Gala” introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3 which should reduce [...]
Adobe published a few numbers about Flash Player, numbers that we may already know:
98% of Internet connected PCs have Flash Player
85% of the top 100 websites use Flash Player (Alexa)
75% of web video is viewed using Flash Player (Comscore)
98% of enterprises rely on Flash Player (Forrester)
70% of web games are delivered using Flash Player (Evans [...]
Couple of days ago Ryan Stewart, Evangelist for Adobe, presented the latest version of Flash Player on Android. The versions we are talking about are 10.1 for Flash Player and 2.2 for Android (Froyo). He shows up the http://ecodazoo.com/ a full 3D flash site, Google Finance (http://www.google.com/finance?q=adbe), How I met your mother from CBS, etc. [...]
Kevin Lynch was speaking about the future of the Internet, Flash & HTML5 at Web 2.0 Expo and one of the many interesting things he said is this:
The technology issue, I think, Apple actually have with us is not that it doesn’t work, is that it does work.
The whole interview is great and I encourage [...]
Yesterday Steve Jobs posted an article on their website named Thoughts on flash where he expresses his motives for banning Adobe’s well known runtimes from any of their products. In response to Steve’s article, Kevin Lynch from Adobe, in his Moving forward article, stated that Adobe is moving forward concentrating on the Android platform. In [...]
Lee Brimelow, Platform Evangelist at Adobe released the 3rd issue of Flasher Magazine and you can watch it on his blog.
Just want to let you know a great quote by Ralph Huawert before letting you see the movie:
Flash is still all about the people who build the content
Enjoy it!
Two day ago, Mike Chamber, Principal Product Manager at Adobe announced that there will not be any future investment in iPhone based Flash development.
This is the response after Apple put out a new draft of its iPhone developer program license, which banned private APIs and required apps to be written in Objective-C, C, C++, [...]
As you know on 15th of April 2010 a new Flex Camp will take place in Bucharest. Now we have the registration and some agenda modification. Most important change is that it will start around 4:30 PM.
16:30 – 17:00 – Registration
17:00 – 17:45 – Keynote – Mihai Corlan
17:45 – 18:30 – 10 things you didn’t [...]
Yesterday, 5th of April 2010, Adobe has launched the Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate.
Designed for mobility – hardware acceleration of graphics and video and many other performance improvements, such as rendering, scripting, memory utilization, start-up time, battery and CPU optimizations
Global error handling – improved application reliability and user experience by catching and handling unexpected runtime [...]
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 [...]