Flash to deliver video via BBC’s iPlayer
As said in Mike Downey site, Adobe and BBC has entered a strategic relationship to use Flash in the up-coming iPlayer. The new BBC iPlayer will include a free parts of TV series and will use Flash streaming technology. The new player will be supported by Windows, MAC and Linux.
Read more about the new player at Mike site, and here is the official announcement at Adobe site
Adobe Developer Connection
The Adobe Developer Connection is a new site connects the developer community around the world. it gives you the opportunity to connect with other developers and designers with the same interest using a database that collect from each member what he/she skilled in and what he/she can offer to others.
Creative Links updates
A new category has been added to the Creative Links page, the new category include a list of Adobe Team blogs on the web. View the new updates here:
http://www.graphicmania.net/?page_id=7
Aggregating Graphic Mania to MXNA
I am happy to announce that Graphic Mania has been aggregated to MXNA (Macromedia XML News Aggregator), The Adobe’s most famous aggregator. You can always check for updates here.
Graphic Mania is a new graphic, web and animation site . The site is frequently updated with graphic, web and animation resources such as tutorials, reviews, articles, and downloads for graphic tools such as Flash and Adobe related products.
Who does not use Photoshop!
I myself can not give up using Photoshop, and who can. Since more than 7 years, I have never seen such a widely known and famous between professionals and non-professionals software like Photoshop is. Many of the computer users needs Photoshop on different levels starting from the non-professional who like to edit his/her own digital camera photos to the creative person who is sinking in Photoshop to the depth.
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Adobe shows off 3D camera tech
Say Welcome to images with 3D depth. Yesterday, Dave Story, vice president of digital imaging product development at Adobe, has presents a new technology of lens that allow cameras to take a multi-angle shots that allow the images to get a depth and allow software to indentify the perspective in the image. The technology is built on the idea if insect complex eye. The new technology open the dreams to a new era of Photoshop that allow designers to edit images on the 3D concept.
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Flash 3D Tilt Viewer
When I was in beedigital.net I found this interesting application for a 3D tilt viewer that was made in Flash, the viewer is very interesting and I am sure you will enjoy it here:
Workaround available for vulnerability in Adobe Acrobate
Adobe has provided a workaround to avoid the hack attacks that may occur for Windows XP with IE users. The flow allow hacker to a malicious code added to PDF documents to take control of Window XP computers.
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Adobe Share Beta
Share is a new acquired web application by Adobe, the new Share allows you to easily share, publish and organize your documents. The Share web based application unclude the following features:
Microsoft Expression around the clock
A couple of days ago I intended a session for Microsoft’s new graphic application, Expression Blend. This application that is suppose to compete Adobe Flash, the most known application for creating rich media and Rich Internet Applications.
Only 25% of the whole day session was a real cover to what can a design can do with Expression Blend, it was an example done by one of Microsoft designers. Anyway, my main concern is to see if this new software will really compete Flash or not. So, I asked the speakers why should the design who uses Flash for 7 years to migrate to Expression Blend. They all replied one answer The Designer/Developer Integration model. Actually, and this is the word that the session is built one, the Integration between designer and developer.
I told the speakers that if this is the case, I, as a designer, got 3 types of integration in Adobe products:
Adobe MAX Chicage 2007 Videos
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I have gethered here some of the interesting videos for Adobe MAX 2007 in Chicage, you can see I collected the videos especially who talk about the upcoming new features and Sneak Peaks. I hope you enjoy these new features like I did, especially the Flash Player 10 Sneak Peak:
Adobe Max 2007 Ben Forta
Ben Forta, Adobe Max intro, from the Adobe Max website
