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AIR, ActionScript, Adobe, Android, Apple, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 11, News
Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 Launched
Andrei Ionescu | 04.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Now that MAX 2011 Conference is started, Adobe just launched the Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. Take a look at the features introduced by each of them.
Flash Player 11 features

Native 64-bit support (Flash Player desktop)
Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering
Adobe Flash Access content protection support for mobile
Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) support
G.711 audio compression for [...]
Adobe, Android, Flash, Flash Builder 4.5, Flash CS5.5, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4.5 SDK, Flex SDK, Flex news, News
Adobe Annouced Creative Suite 5.5
Andrei Ionescu | 12.04.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday, 11th of April, Adobe announced Creative Suite 5.5.

Besides all new features and improvements introduced in the new CS5.5, part of them presented in the previous video and some listed bellow, another new thing introduced with Creative Suite 5.5 is the “Pay as you go” subscription. Besides buying the whole product now the products [...]
Adobe, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.2, Mobile
Flash Player 10.2 is Launched
Andrei Ionescu | 11.02.11 | Permalink | Comment?

On 8 February 2011 Adobe launched the new Flash Player 10.2. The best new thing in this new version of the Flash Player is Stage Video, a full hardware accelerated video pipeline for best-in-class, beautiful video across platforms and browsers.
Additional features are:

multiple display full screen support in Flash Player 10.2
custom native mouse cursors
sub-pixel text rendering [...]
Adobe, Android, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex SDK, Flex news
Adobe Announced New Flex Framework Technologies
Andrei Ionescu | 27.10.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe has announced new technologies on Flex Framework. These are:

Adobe Flash Builder “Burrito”
Adobe Flash Catalyst “Panini”
Adobe Flex SDK “Hero”
Mobile Application Development with Flex and Flash Builder

Each of them have new features, improvements and integration work-flows added and you can test all these new technologies on Adobe Lab. If you like to see some samples go [...]
Adobe, Android, Apple, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, News
Adobe Is Resuming Development on The Packager for iPhone
Andrei Ionescu | 14.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

In the previous article Apple let us know that they are relaxing the App Store Review Guidelines. This is great moment and Adobe could not miss it. Adobe’s Packager for iPhone is already available in the Flash Professional CS5 and Adobe is resuming development on it.
Although this is a big step forward, Apple’s restriction on [...]
Adobe, Android, Apple, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, News
Apple Starting Love Adobe by Relaxing App Store Review Guidelines?
Andrei Ionescu | 09.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Previously Apple restricted the application development for iPod, iPhone & iPad and excluded a number of technologies like Unity, Titanium, MonoTouch, and Flash CS5, but no limited to these.
See the following articles that explains the limitations:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/apple-puts-another-nail-into-flashs-coffin/6554
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/04/20/on-adobe-flash-cs5-and-iphone-applications/
As a result to this restrictions Adobe has stopped the development for the iPhone.
Apple implied about Adobe…
They are lazy. [...]
Augmented Reality, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Flex 4 SDK
Augmented Reality for Online Shopping
Andrei Ionescu | 06.09.10 | Permalink | 9 Comments

Today I came across the following video…

The application in the video is a virtual dressing room! You can try out the clothes you want to buy in your living room and then purchase them if you like how they fit you or send the image to your friends on Facebook. What [...]
Flex 4 SDK, Flex in the world, Flex news, Mobile, Spark
Meet Hero… The Next Flex SDK Release
Andrei Ionescu | 14.07.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

The next release of Flex SDK is code-named Hero. It has three main goals:

Multi-Screen Development: Allow developers to build applications that target the web, desktop or mobile devices using a single unified framework.
Spark Maturation: Polish and grow the Spark architecture by adding new Spark components and capabilities.
Large-Application Development: Support developers building large applications by improving [...]
AIR, Adobe, Apple, Flash
Moving Forward – in Reply to – Thoughts on Flash
Andrei Ionescu | 30.04.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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 [...]
Flash, Flex in the world, Flex resources, Fun, Magazines
Flasher Magazine Issue 3 by Lee Brimelow
Andrei Ionescu | 23.04.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

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!
Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Fun
Incredible Flash Viral Ad – “And Then There Was Salsa”
Andrei Ionescu | 05.03.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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 [...]
ActionScript, Events
Flex/Flash Keyboard Key Codes
Andrei Ionescu | 20.12.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

If you need to know the key codes when implementing a keyboard event use the following application that displays some info about the pressed key. First you need to click on the application to have focus on it then you can start trying out different key strokes.

Some key codes, ASCII codes [...]
AIR, Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flash Builder 4, PHP, ZendAMf
Webinar: using PHP and Flash for developing Rich Internet Applications
Stelian Crisan | 01.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Our friend, Mihai Corlan, will host an e-seminar about PHP and Flash Platform, but let me quote him:
“On December 2nd, together with Roy Ganor from Zend Company, I will host an e-seminar about PHP and Flash Platform. We will show you how you can create a Rich Internet Application using the Flex framework, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, [...]
Components, Flex resources
Flex/Flash Pivot Table and Charts component
Stelian Crisan | 10.11.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I was recently presented a component that I find interesting and useful at the same time, this is Flex/Flash Pivot Table and Charts component.
The Flexmonster team made a nice multidimensional data visualization, reporting and analysis tool for any BI solution. A few of most important features are:

Display large amounts of information the friendly way
Pivot [...]
Flash, Flash Player, News, Uncategorized
First Full Flash Player for Mobile Devices and PCs from Adobe
Andrei Ionescu | 05.10.09 | Permalink | Comment?

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 [...]

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