Why I still love AIR
Upon Adobe’s PR aftermath regarding the future of Flash player on mobile, I wanted to write a long piece and detail how great AIR is and why developers should love it. Half-way through it, I gave up. Instead, I grabbed my camera and after a few hours of preparing, shooting and editing, I came up with this image:
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Adobe CS5 just around the corner
You may remember that Adobe had promised a public beta of Flash CS5 for December 2009 but they changed their mind, leaving everyone to guess when the new suite will come out and what new features it will have.
After a long wait, hints are being dropped left and right for an imminent release of their next Creative Suite.
Just this morning, John Nack hinted that CS5 will be released within the next 30 days:
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Flash exported as native apps on iPhone? Didn’t see that coming
Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.
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Money for Nothing and Flex for Free
if you intend to buy or upgrade Creative Suite Web Premium or Creative Suite Design Premium from Adobe’s North America store, you can receive Flex Builder for free. Read on to learn how.
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RAW Heavyweights: Lightroom, DxO and Capture One
This post has moved to our Design dedicated blog – Twin-Pixels.com
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NET Framework version penetration?
One of the things I’ve always loved about Flash was the transparency regarding the player version penetration, adoption rates, geographical data and so on. The way we could relatively easy decide what Flash version to target, e.g. “should we use AS3/Flash9 for this project considering that it’ll be completed in 4 months?” Is there something [...]
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Adobe Store for Eastern Europe Opens
As I previously reported the new Adobe store for Eastern European countries has opened. The whole site isn’t fully updated and I actually missed it the first time. Go to the store. Prices seem fine to me. Happy shopping.
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New Adobe Online Store for Central Europe
I just got word that on May 17, Adobe will open a new online store for 10 Central and Est-European countries, from Croatia to Ukraine.
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Adobe Flex-ing their muscles at Microsoft
By now, it’s everywhere in the news: Flex SDK, along with the related technologies, is going open source! This includes everything needed to build Flex applications, including the core libraries and components from the SDK (which were already free), the source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, and the ActionScript debugger. Moreover, Adobe will [...]
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