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Imminent Death of Adobe Flash

My fellow Flash developers, this post’s title and the post is not to start a new flaming war on the subject, it’s just an opinion which you may or may not agree with. I posted some of the following ideas in a private forum, so I thought I’d just save some typing and add some more thoughts in original forum post(s) and publish here on my blog. This post is …

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Icon Maker for BlackBerry PlayBook is now live!

If you are following my recent tweets, you might have noticed that I am working on some applications for upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. So far, I am having fun developing for PlayBook using AIR SDK. I noticed that the icon requirement for BlackBerry PlayBook AIR SDK are a little complicated. Developer have to make an icon of 86×86 pixels PNG, but he must not fill the entire area with graphics. …

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Quick Workaround: AS3 gotoAndStop Nasty Bug

Okay, I admit it. I am old-school. I use Flash Pro CS5 as my only Flash development tool. I do all my coding on timelines and I like it that way. I have been working with AS3 for few months now, and I have to say, I have to write twice the code to actually do what I was able to do using AS2. I miss those good old days. …

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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Update – Thanks Adobe for removing ugly installer

Today I got another update notification for Adobe Flash Player 10.1. The first thing I noticed that the notification looked prettier than the last update. I really hated that ugly Adobe Download Manager or ADM in short. Take a look how it was in previous update:   In installation process, ADM was downloaded first which was almost the same download size of the Flash Player itself, so I don’t get …

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Photoshop Express FREE!

Yes, thats true. 2GB of free space from Adobe. Plus an online version of Photoshop to fix / enhance your photos. Update: New screenshot So far it feels like a great service. On some blogs I read an impression maybe its too late for such service where there are already number of other services with similar features. Well, I think coming late in scene have its disadvantages, but the biggest benefit …

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AIR is LIVE!

Finally its time for some business. AIR, short for Adobe Integrated Runtime is just released as v1.0 final product by Adobe. Its a runtime to make RIAs for desktop, even one can create just old desktop only applications with it as well. The main hype for this runtime is that it runs on Windows and MAC OS without any change to the code. Linux version will be released later. While …

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Adobe goes Open Source!

Adobe launched on online website for its Open Source projects. The first projects available on the new community website are: BlazeDS Flex 3 SDK Flash Ajax Video Component Generic Image Library Adobe Media Gallery Adobe Source Libraries Tamarin Webkit XMP (eXstensible Metadata Platform) Adobe Open Source Home: http://opensource.adobe.com This is very good step forward, as most startup companies are now adays adopting Open Source software. With Adobe’s OS technologies, we …

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Microsoft’s answer to free Adobe Flex. The DreamSpark!

Microsoft has recently been quite active with big announcements, updates to developer tools and Windows OS. On Monday, MS announced they will give away VS, Expression and Windows Server absolutely FREE to students worldwide. Read more here, and here. Very impressive move to get crowd stick to MS, seems quite workable idea :) Adobe also recently made available Adobe Flex Builder free to students. MS following the same idea making it …

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Adobe DevNet Reloaded!!! (my review)

Wow, it looks so sexy! more contents area, better section management, and eye-catchy JS animations. It simply rocks!!! I have sent many requests to Macromedia (now Adobe) about changing layout of DevNet. But the wait is over. The new DevNet is also renamed to Adobe Developer Connection, ADC in short :) The main sections are expandable, showing main categories links. as soon as you click the section heading, it expands …

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MS Surface vs Flash Surface?

(via RIApedia) This video preview of NUI’s Flash Surface seems too cool, it almost mimics all features of MS Surface, except wireless media transfer between devices, and automatic device recognition. This project is using Flash 9 with AS3, and it will be open source. So far it looks direct competitor to MS Surface. I think Flash is best option they used. The latest Flash 9 performs better, and have accelerated …