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From FITC Toronto 2008, Richard Galvan from Adobe demonstrates the new Flash CS4 3D tool. For more info on other new features in Flash CS4 and Flash Player 10, check out my blog about the Adobe key… Related topics you may like to read Flash 411 - Video Encoding Basics Learn S...
In this lynda.com special edition Adobe CS4 video podcast, check out some new features of Adobe’s Flash CS4 Professional and After Ef… Related topics you may like to read Learn Soundbooth CS4 - Working with Soundbooth and Flash
Somes the many built-in components in Flex doesn't meet your needs. Sometimes you will have to develop your own, custom Flex components. For instance, for some types of data visualization, like calendars, special charts, animations etc. there are no built-in Flex components that can...
Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4B. Why? Ballmer was shocked and stunned. Adobe doing flash for TV coming. Apple app store makes no money. Win 7 starter kit is nuts. New Apple-PC ads coming out shortly. Fox news uses citizen journalists now. Digg dumps Microsoft. 3G upgraded . [...
May 2009 Twitter Giveaway! The March 2009 Twitter MackBook Air Giveaway went so well that I’m being asked for more!  So this time I’m giving away a Free Flip Mino HD Video Recorder, suited for quick and easy capture and upload of videos to the web. But you have to be in i...
Got an email from   http://groups.adobe.com. Here's the text of the email:Hello my dear.My name is blessing,i am a female I was impressed when i saw your profile at groups.adobe.comand will like to establish a long lasting relationship
Spring is one of my favourite frameworks. It's an open source framework that helps a lot the developers' life to make it easier. Thanks to the Inversion of Control (IoC) pattern that Spring uses, it will save a lot of time in developing. Luckily SpringSource and Adobe started a partne...
The Mac is finally getting some seriously awesome, native clients. Say what you want about TweetDeck or Seesmic Desktop - these are all based on Adobe's AIR platform, which is notorious for eating up memory and CPU cycles, along with weird window placement quirks. Earlier this mont...
Late last year I received a phone call from McKinsey & Co in regards to helping provide some insights into the cost benefits of moving to a cloud computing environment. For one reason or another we were not able to connect to complete the discussion, which after the last couple day...
The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting experiences of the author using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on his current Flex project.read more
Continuing its quest to bridge the world's of broadcast television and the Web, Syndicaster is adding several online distribution options for local TV stations, including the ability to publish video clips to YouTube, AOL (via Brightcove), Yahoo and other sites. Syndicaster is an on...
Roger McNamee and I have two things in common. One: I desperately need a haircut. Two: I’ve officially given up on the dream of one-device-that-can-rule-them-all. In this video, McNamee shows off his famously unruly locks and his famous Batman-like utility belt, in which he carries at...
Beechcraft King Air By LESLIE WILLIAMS NaplesNews.com FORT MYERS, FL — It could have ended so differently. Five people on board a plane that took off from Marco Island Executive Airport Sunday got back on the ground safely after the pilot of their private plane died mid-air. O...
Coming Thursday (April 16, 2009) evening I speak on tuning Flex applications for superior performance at the Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group. If you are in Chicago and are a member of this developers group then I hope to see you then. If you are in Chicago and are interested or c...
Here’s how it works:1. Somehow, O'Reilly acquisition editor decided that all progressive mankind needs a specific book about enterprise development with Flex and you got an email...2. You immediately forget your own promise that you’l
Adobe AIR is the technology that causes a revolution in the history of the internet. With Adobe AIR, you can view high dynamic information right on your desktop browserless. This provides an easy access to your favortie shows, application and wbe sites.
Welcome to PragueCrunch II, Prague’s foremost party to held in Prague every year around the time TechCrunch writers feel like going to Prague to drink great beer and talk start-ups, tech, and gadgets. We’ll be streaming live through Qik and posting images throughout the day...
Adobe Flex Builder 3 software is currently available for free for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed. https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/ Of course there are three restrictions. You must attest that you are: Unempl...
I'll be in Ukraine on a private visit. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems made arrangements, and I'll be presenting on their join meeting reviewing technologies for RIA development (AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX). This event will take place on
Workload migrations and portability don’t have to be limited to moving active workloads. Workload flexibility is a key function of workload optimization solutions that allow rapid provisioning of new workloads. iSCSI and workstation consolidation have been the latest trend to provide m...
I've been tracking the progress of Vienna, Austria-based music startup tunesBag for a while now. It's essentially a social music player that can best be compared to the likes of Lala, imeem and Anywhere.fm in the sense that it allows you to upload your entire MP3 collection, stream it ...
And so, my friends, it's time to Czech your worries at the door and enter into the warm embrace of PragueCrunch 2 which will start at 2pm on Saturday, April 11 to be held at the magnificent Hergetova Cihelna. We'll have a few five-minute presentations from up-and-coming web services i...
TheStreet has a juicy rumor that Barnes & Noble, a store where physical "books" in "paper" form are sold to "customers" who stand in line to pay with "cash" or "forms of credit" is working on an eBook reader, possibly in partnership with Verizon. The rumor has all the makings of ...
Michael and TechCrunch writer Leena Rao are currently at Tesla's showroom in Menlo Park, CA for a special event showcasing Tesla's new Model S sedan, which was unveiled last month. They're streaming live using Qik. They took a brief test drive - the first, the company says, with any p...
Server, storage and site migrations have always been the elephant in the room. IT managers know that it is necessary to reduce costs and improve workload management but cringe over the potential impact to production. In the past, migrations have usually required significant planning, d...
Here is Cramer's only option left to save his TV reputation on the controversy which won't go away. Jim Cramer needs to stop talking about his charitable trust stuff, but he needs to put his portfolio online. He needs to buy and sell stocks (doesn't matter, make believe portfolio is ju...
Obama Admin Considers the Use of Air Pollution to Cool off the Earth
WASHINGTON (AP) - The president’s new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth’s air. John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last mon...
Yesterday, Loïc Le Meur announced a TweetDeck rival dubbed Seesmic Desktop that not only looks a lot like the popular AIR application (more popular than any other desktop client according to statistics) but also heavily competes with it on a feature level. TweetDeck founder Iain Dod...
Social micro-payments enabler Tipjoy is releasing an API today that allows charities but also companies and individuals to handle relatively small payments over Twitter. This opens up a lot of opportunities (and possibly also a can of worms) for applications that can benefit from small...
When I started to write for the communitymx.com, I got controlled with my big love of Flash. Thus, I started to write about the most sparkling new features in Flash CS4. A tutorial article for each feature. Below are a collection of these tutorials: Motion Tweening in Flash CS4 - Thin...
I'm live blogging from video conversation platform Seesmic's headquarters, where Seesmic's founder Loic Le Meur, is previewing a new Twitter client. We reported earlier about the unveiling of the site. Le Meur says that this is still a work in progress and ongoing changes will made t...
In this post, I collected useful Adobe Photoshop brushes sets that vary in style and you can use it in different designs. Drearetro Brushes (14 brush) Way cool casual brushes with an open variety of shapes. Download here Fractals photoshop brushes (40 brush) Amazing fractal style br...
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been personally inundated with hundreds of requests for free Flex Builder licenses from developers who have found themselves unemployed due to the current economic climate - whilst no one wants to be in that situation, I’m glad that weR...
Beazer Homes Announces “Private Sale” April 17-19 with Reduced Pricing, Closing Costs Paid by Seller, Big Discounts on Select Homes in Seven Jacksonville-Area Communities JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Beazer Homes will offer home buyers substantial
Adobe is providing free copies of adobe Flex Builder 3 for developers that affected with the current economy crisis to help them improve their skills and open new opportunities by learning more about the new technology. The main two requirements to be eligible for the software request ...
Event: XBRL and Automated External Reporting Participate: Register for this FREE event Start Date: 4/23/2009 2:00 PM ET Length: 1 hour Venue(s): Online Sponsor(s):  Clarity Systems Description: Attend this webinar to see a product demonstration showing how an Integrated XBRL solution a...
The 3D industry is a huge field and got alot of specialties. If you see the team behind any 3D movie in theater, you would be amazed. Modeling is one of these specialties that needs special skills. 3D models can not be only used in 3D projects, you can also use 3D with Adobe Photoshop ...
I've just found this interesting review by James Ford from the FlashMidlands event. The Flash Catalyst and Flex 4 presentation was given by Adnrew Shorten and he showed some of the Flex 4 new features: * Flash CS4 support * Event handler autogeneration * Declarative graphi...