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 With the arrival of .NET 3.5, WPF and the RTM of Silverlight 2, .NET developers have more choices than ever for designing, developing and deploying compelling applications with rich user interfaces. However, there are other mainstream alternatives that don’t fall into the .NET camp. Wh...Jul. 2, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 481 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and uti...Jul. 2, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,072 |
 Having used both sites for about two weeks, there is still a great deal I am learning to do with both Ulitzer and Ning, but a reader asked if I would do a quick comparison, so I will.Jun. 30, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,390 |
 HTC has showed off its third Android phone, a little anti-fingerprint touch screen gismo called Hero that will surely be a hero to Adobe since it’s the first Android phone to support Adobe Flash. Flash Lite 3.1 to be precise, which should give users a more complete web browsing experie...Jun. 29, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 844 |
 Having built/architected/developed/consulted many Adobe Flex applications and being one of the first certified Flex instructors in the world, I've seen a lot of Flex applications. Some good, some bad. But no matter how many applications or who I'm talking to, I always stress the import...Jun. 26, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 581 |
 In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York, the speaker l...Jun. 22, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 80,361 |
3 dimensional web is all about interacting with the content provider about their contents. The ability ask questions and clarification while checking a product from an online retailer. Jun. 19, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 399 |
 Acrobat.com, Adobe’s nascent, still-evolving online productivity software, moved out of public beta Monday and into its first foray into commercialization, ahead of any similar move into the cloud by Microsoft. The base widgetry will still be free but Adobe has created two paid subscri...Jun. 16, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,180 Replies: 1 |
 I've missed the Flash Camp Keynote in San Francisco where Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch mentioned that AIR reached over 200 million installs. The Adobe AIR Team blog wrote that the Acrobat.com application provided with Adobe Reader continues to be one of the most popular applications.
Unf...Jun. 16, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 529 |
Did you notice our subscribers list update? Now, you can receive Graphic Mania all posts and and free resources updates right to your email address, in full HTML and images. You can save the images and backgrounds you need directly to your computer and get the free resources download l... Jun. 16, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 423 |
 “Acrobat.com is poised to become the online destination for team collaboration, with the tools business people need to get work done faster, together, from anywhere. Our customers have moved from e-mailing multiple versions of documents back and forth to collaborating on documents dire...Jun. 15, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 765 |
 If you still can not adopt reading books from your computer screen, or do not like to waste your laptop battery charge for just reading a book, then I think Amazon Kindle is the best solution for you. I myself still can't give up reading from paper books as it is much comfortable for e...Jun. 14, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 650 |
 Awareness of the ISO standard for long-term archiving, PDF/A, has spread throughout Europe to the point that it is considered in nearly all projects. This was revealed in a survey performed by the PDF/A Competence Center at the end of 2008. A comparison with the results of the 2007 sur...Jun. 12, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 453 |
 I just read SYS-CON's response to the recent attacks in Fuat Kircaali's Social Media Terrorists blog entry. I realized the email quoted at the end of Kircaali's blog was also copied to Ted Weissman of Lois Paul & Partners, a public relations firm with clients in technology.
If this...Jun. 12, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,967 |
 Morgan Stanley have launched a comprehensive online trading tool called “Matrix” which allows their customers to get closer to the trading floor than ever before; the application enables them to view live pricing, get informed opinions for market professionals, review histo...Jun. 9, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,298 |
 Learn how to digitally sign your applications on Adobe® AIR™ with a VeriSign® Code Signing Digital Certificate, which verifies the authenticity of the publisher and the integrity of the product.
Jun. 4, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,253 |
 Adobe has planned three free online seminars next week that will walk through the new features of Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst. (thanks to Mike Potter for the news) Here's the schedule of the events: Jun. 3, 2009 05:39 PM EDT Reads: 453 |
 Broadcom and Adobe Systems announced an engineering collaboration to enable hardware accelerated playback of high definition (HD) Adobe Flash technology based video content on platforms powered by Intel Atom processors. This collaboration paves the way for rich, seamless entertainment...Jun. 2, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 514 |
 NVIDIA, and Adobe Systems announced that they are collaborating as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and enable Adobe Flash Player, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, to leverage GPU video and graphics acceleration on a wide range of mobile Internet devices, includi...Jun. 2, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 370 |
 The PDF format allows creating groups of mutually exclusive layers where showing one layer will automatically hide the other. These are called radio-button groups and defined using the RBGroups PDF keyword. One can also define which layers are visible by default and which are hidden, f...Jun. 1, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 514 |
 Today, we announced that the first public beta releases of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder (previously known as Flex Builder) are available on Adobe Labs. “Design in Mind” was one of the core themes for this release, and these tools, together with the updated Flex 4 SDK, deliver on th...Jun. 1, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 424 |
 Pushing the boundaries of integration and productivity New Adobe Creative Suite 4 software features radical workflow breakthroughs and hundreds of innovations to advance the creative process across print, web, mobile, interactive, film, and video production.Jun. 1, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 584 |
 New entrants, however, have a great opportunity to leverage UI and user experience to make their management apps more sticky and to appeal to a broader market. For example, the Bluebear guys have built a snazzy, intuitive multi-hypervisor virtualization management tool written in Adob...Jun. 1, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 585 |
 Many Flex and Flash developers were waiting for these news for a year. The public Beta 1 of new Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Flex 4 SDK (previously codenamed Gumbo) has been released by Adobe. First, about the name change. What used to be known as Flex Builder is Flash Builder n...Jun. 1, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,119 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR software for Linux® operating systems is available on Adobe Labs (www.adobe.com/go/airlinux). The Linux community of developers can now use proven Web technologies, such as HTML, Ajax, Ad...Jun. 1, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 970 |
 “People are now expecting the same richness and ease of use in their workplace applications that they have in their daily Web experiences, but companies today are faced with strained development resources and less time to create intuitive applications,” said David Wadhwani, general man...Jun. 1, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 599 |
 Yesterday, my colleague and I received notifications from MAX 2009 (the main Adobe annual conference) organizers that started with words “We regret to inform you…we were forced to make difficult decisions, which topics wouldMay. 30, 2009 08:06 AM EDT Reads: 553 |
 Following on from the success of the previous Flash and Flex Camp events held in London, it's great to see that the forthcoming event, to be held on the 16th June, is happening outside of the capital, in Birmingham.
Flash Camp is a community run event, supported by Adobe and a number ...May. 28, 2009 05:08 PM EDT Reads: 288 |
 I've just discovered (don't know how old it is) this new presentation web tool released by Adobe on Acrobat.com Labs. Acrobat Presentation is a Flex application that adds to Adobe's online collaborative offerings (with Buzzword). Presentation allows you to create slides using the Power...May. 28, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 669 |
 This advanced Flex workshop has been very well received in New York City and Boston. The next destinations are Toronto (July) and London (September). These are some of the topics covered during these two days of immersion into the Flex and AIRMay. 28, 2009 01:14 PM EDT Reads: 287 |
 Adobe announced that House of Fraser, a premium U.K. department store group with 62 locations across the U.K. and Ireland, has achieved higher conversion rates, increased average order size and greater customer retention with the Adobe® Scene7® hosted rich-media platform.May. 28, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 944 |
 Three days of the best conference for Flex developers went by fast. I’ve been attending this great event for the first time, and in the future, I’ll try not to miss this #1 gathering for Flex developers. While Adobe MAX is a lot larger... May. 22, 2009 05:25 AM EDT Reads: 486 |
 Being a big fan of streaming media, I have quite a selection on my desktop from RealPlayer, to Windows Media, to YouTube favourites, to Adobes quite interesting Media Player and even Miro. I would have Hulu too if it supported content streaming outside t...May. 15, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 748 |
 This article is the first of two that will look at some of the challenges faced by developers and non-developers who work with PDF technologies and who are curious about what causes fonts in a PDF to render incorrectly or even go missing. Specifically, these documents provide an overvi...May. 14, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,430 |
 I'm happy to be able to disclose today that the Federal Government of the United States released its cloud computing RFI earlier this afternoon. Enomaly was fortunate to have been included in recent consultations with the government, and we've been impressed by the vision of this admin...May. 14, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 787 |
 During my recent visit to Ukraine I made a presentation in the local offices of Microsoft on various RIA technologies.After that, I've given a couple of interviews about outsourcing, careers of immigrant programmers in the USA and more.May. 12, 2009 05:09 PM EDT Reads: 989 |
 Today, the New York Times Company and Adobe launched a new version of the Times Reader—the electronic version of the newspaper with online/offline capabilities, powered by Adobe AIR. The enhanced version of Times Reader 2.0 resembles the printed paper even more closely, and content is ...May. 11, 2009 02:20 PM EDT Reads: 508 |
 Anark Corporation has announced that it has been accepted as an Adobe Systems Incorporated Solution Partner. Adobe's Solution Partner Program is designed for companies that provide solution-based sales, system integration, services, or extended products based on Adobe technology. May. 5, 2009 10:05 AM EDT Reads: 418 |
 Even with these impressive first stats, Ulitzer users for the next 12 to 24 months will only be a fraction of the early adopters of tomorrow's social media tools. Ulitzer offers quality content under a managed environment. Google News keyword alerts are already contaminated with meanin...May. 1, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,130 Replies: 3 |
 Today I've discovered my new home page on the brand-new Ulitzer platform: http://marcocasario.ulitzer.com It's a new service (still in beta) that allows users to create their own magazine. Goggling on the net I found the following information about the service: Ulitzer titles will be p...Apr. 24, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,315 |
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