Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide

By Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt

This book explains how you can use AIR to build and deploy HTML and JavaScript-based web applications to the desktop, using all of the tools and technologies with which you are already familiar. Everything you need to know about this platform is right here, so you can start building applications with AIR right away.

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Dynamic Learning: Flash CS3 Professional

By Fred Gerantabee, Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI)
First Edition September 2007

Written by product experts and trainers who have produced many of Adobe’s training titles, Learning Flash CS3 is organized into lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions and a Digital Classroom DVD with video tutorials and all of the graphics files needed for the lessons. Covers what’s new in Flash CS3, using the drawing tools, modifying graphics, working with symbols and the library, getting started with ActionScript, and more.

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Adobe Illustrator CS3 review (by Rafiq Elmansy)

Adobe illustrator is an essential member in the CS3 family. It is also an essential point in the design workflow. The new Adobe Illustrator CS3 increases the integration between other CS3 family especially Adobe flash. The noticeable feature that you will see from the first time you run Illustrator that its UI interface unify with the other products in the CS3 packages, which allows much more flexibility, space saving and ability to customize the look of the interface according to your own needs (figure1).

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Join Graphic Mania community on Facebook

Graphic Mania has a new group on Facebook.com, This group is to share ideas, tutorials, resources, advices, consultations, tips and tricks about Adobe graphic, web and animation tools especially Flash and Photoshop. The group name is Graphic Mania and you can find its profile here.
See you there!!

New update in Graphic Mania software page

Now, you can download Adobe Players such as Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Adobe AIR player from our download page. Also, you will find links for Adobe latest software trail such as Adobe Flash CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended…etc.
visit our software page here and keep your eye for more updates

on AIR Tour Europe (Mar. 31: Madrid, Spain)

The on AIR Tour Europe 2008 is a 11-city train tour through Europe where you can learn how to bring your web applications to the desktop with Adobe AIR. (Upcoming: Apr. 2, Paris; Apr. 4, Amsterdam; Apr. 7, Brussels; Apr. 9, London).
Find more on the tour official site here

Inspired CSS: Styling for a Beautiful Web

By Andy Clarke
Published Mar 10, 2008 by New Riders.
URL: http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321545621

In Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design (New Riders), renowned designer and author Andy Clarke set the stage for the development of progressive Web site design using XHTML, CSS and other Web-standards technologies. In this new video, Andy follows up on the core principles of transcendent CSS, taking you even further along the path to creating beautiful and accessible Web sites using minimal, semantic markup. In Inspired CSS: Styling for a Beautiful Web, Andy Clarke shows you how to take your design to the next level using typography, microformats, advanced CSS selectors, layout techniques employing floats, positioning, and margins, and CSS3. Throughout the video, Andy demonstrates these concepts using examples from a fictitious Web site he created. Files are included so you can follow along.

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Moment It Clicks, The: Photography secrets from one of the world’s top shooters

By Joe McNally
Published Jan 23, 2008 by New Riders.
URL: http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321544080

THE FIRST BOOK WITH ONE FOOT ON THE COFFEE TABLE, AND ONE FOOT IN THE
CLASSROOM
Joe McNally, one of the world’s top pro digital photographers, whose celebrated work has graced the pages of Sports Illustrated, Time, and National Geographic (to name a few), breaks new ground by doing something no photography book has ever done—blending the rich, stunning images and elegant layout of a coffee-table book with the invaluable training, no-nonsense insights, and photography secrets usually found only in those rare, best-of-breed educational books.

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Create a web photo gallery

1-(Optional) Select the files or folder you want to use in Adobe Bridge.
Your images will be presented in the order in which they’re displayed in Bridge. If you’d rather use a different order, change the order in Bridge.

2-Do one of the following:

-In Adobe Bridge, choose Tools > Photoshop > Web Photo Gallery.

-In Photoshop, choose File > Automate > Web Photo Gallery.

3-Choose a style for the gallery from the Styles pop‑up menu. A preview of the home page for the chosen style appears in the dialog box.
4-(Optional) Enter an e‑mail address as the contact information for the gallery.
5-Choose the source files for your gallery from the Use menu.

Selected Images From Adobe Bridge Uses images you selected before opening the Web Photo Gallery dialog box.

Folder Uses images from folders you select using the Browse (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS) buttons. Select Include All Subfolders to include images inside any subfolders of the selected folder.

6-Click Destination, and then select a folder in which to store the images and HTML pages for the gallery. Then click OK (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS).
7-Select formatting options for the web gallery. Choose from the Options menu to display each set of options.

8-Click OK. Photoshop places the following HTML and JPEG files in your destination folder:

-A home page for your gallery named index.htm or index.html, depending on the Extension options. Open this file in any web browser to preview your gallery.

-JPEG images inside an images subfolder.

-HTML pages inside a pages subfolder.

-JPEG thumbnail images inside a thumbnails subfolder

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About Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript

You use ActionScript to add programming logic and interactivity to your Adobe® Flash® Liteâ„¢ applications. The version of ActionScript in Macromedia® Flash® Liteâ„¢ 1.0 and Macromedia® Flash ® Liteâ„¢1.1 software from Adobe–referred to collectively as Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript–is a hybrid of Adobe’s Macromedia® Flash® 4 ActionScript, plus additional commands and properties specific the Flash Lite player, such as the ability to initiate phone calls or text messages, or get time and date information from the device. Read more »

BRIO

Welcome to a preview of the next generation of Adobe Acrobat Connect, codename “Brio.” Brio is a web meeting service designed for small collaborative meetings for individual professionals and small businesses. With Brio, you can instantly communicate and collaborate through an easy-to-use, easy-to-access online personal meeting room.

Built on Adobe’s Flash platform, Brio operates inside most popular web browsers, so you can start a meeting without worrying if others have a compatible system or the right software.

Brio beta allows you to:

-Host unlimited online meetings with up to 3 meeting participants.
-Interact with easy-to-use screen sharing, chat and whiteboards.
-Access your meeting instantly with a personalized, easy-to-remember URL.
-Distribute documents and files to meeting participants.
-Use integrated VoIP, teleconferencing and multi-point video.

Whether it is an ad-hoc meeting with remote colleagues or a sales call, Brio gives you the tools to conduct a meeting as if you were in the same room. See how you can reduce travel costs, save time and increase productivity by using Brio today.

Need web conferencing for eLearning, Online Marketing & Sales, or Enterprise-wide Collaboration? Consider Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional.

Follow these steps to get started with Brio:
1-Go to the Brio beta sign-up page

Note: You may be asked to join the waiting list if no beta invitations are available at this time.

2-Create an Adobe ID and name your personal meeting room.

The Adobe ID is the same ID used throughout Adobe.com and here on Adobe Labs—it is typically your email address (e.g. janesmith@email.com). Your personal meeting room is the personalized URL where you and your meeting participants will go to meet.

If you already have an Adobe ID click on the “Log in” button, enter your login information and name your personal meeting room.

3-Read and agree to the Brio Beta Services Agreement and the Adobe Online Privacy Policy.

Note: This is a technology preview, not a final release. Neither the quality nor the features are complete yet. We want to show you our direction and get your feedback so that we can incorporate it into future releases.

4-Click on the “Start a meeting” button to access your meeting room. You will need to download a small Brio add-in in order to share your screen.
5-Ask questions and share your feedback in the Labs forum for Brio.

Please note that your submission of comments, ideas, feature requests and techniques on this and other Adobe maintained forums, as well as Adobe’s right to use such materials, is governed by the Terms of Use.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/brio/