Siva Ganeshanandan, Director, Digital Marketing Suite, Adobe APAC The first time I looked at Alexa it was 2000. I was living in London and I got a bit of a shock that the number one website in the world was not Yahoo!, but in fact Daum. I was already looking at moving... Read more
SELECT character_set_name, collation_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema = “test” AND table_name = “course” AND column_name = “name”; [mysqld] character-set-server=gbk [client] default-character-set=gbk SET NAMES ‘gbk’; SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘char%’; ... Read more
After discussing optimizing and debugging cross-compiled ActionScript I would like to take a look at testing cross-compiled ActionScript. The short answer I can offer is: testing cross-compiled ActionScript is not much different from testing JavaScript. But of course there is more to it. There is always more… Testing your patience Be warned, this is a long... Read more
[Warning: Probably of zero interest to non-nerd bloggers, and even then…] I like sharing links quickly via Twitter (and thus Facebook), and later–time permitting–I copy, paste, and sort those links into groups that I can share here. Other times I’ll use Instapaper to capture links that I’m not quite ready to... Read more
Today, Adobe joined forces with over 50 key industry leaders to launch an initiative to promote a standard video delivery format based on MPEG-DASH (ISO/IEC 23009) that will help reduce video delivery fragmentation to enable broadcasters and video publishers to bring more video online. PRESS RELEASE: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/major-industry-players-unite-to-promote-new-adaptive-streaming-standard-2012-02-22 The online video industry is... Read more
Are you interested in learning more about Digital Publishing Suite from people who use it? Want to see some inspiring examples from strategic businesses that are building well designed publications? Join us at the Publishing Expo conference next week in London, as well as its sister conference, Technology for Marketing... Read more
Adobe GRAPHiti Contest: Life & TechComm Represented Mathematically Dear TechComm Community, Here’s announcing GRAPHiti – the first Facebook contest for TechComm people. Just draw, click, upload and market – and you can be among three lucky and skilled people to win an Apple iPad! Contest Instructions To enter into the contest click here: Adobe... Read more
Also, Cmd-J duplicates multiple selected layers & layer groups; woo! (“JDI,” for the uninitiated, stands for “Just Do It.”) ... Read more
Unicode Version 6.1 was released on 01/31/2012, and now includes 74,617 CJK Unified Ideographs, along with 1,002 CJK Compatibility Ideographs. 732 characters were added, and there are now a staggering 110,116 characters in the standard. Speaking of staggering, as Unicode grows, it becomes more important to keep track of what character... Read more
Meet the Photoshop hall-of-famer with his own fan club: [Via Andrew Kavanagh] ... Read more
Today Google introduced Chrome for Android Beta. As we announced last November, Adobe is no longer developing Flash Player for mobile browsers, and thus Chrome for Android Beta does not support Flash content. Flash Player continues to be supported within the current Android browser. Adobe is committed to innovating with Flash. We’ll... Read more
As discussed in the just released Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes, Adobe has been working closely with Google to develop a single modern API for hosting plugins within the browser (one which could replace the current Netscape plugin API being used by the Flash Player). The PPAPI, code-named “Pepper”... Read more
Peleus here. In December of 2010, I wrote a blog post describing the first steps towards sandboxing Flash Player within Google Chrome. In the blog, I stated that the Flash Player team would explore bringing sandboxing technology to other browsers. We then spent 2011 buried deep within Adobe laying the groundwork... Read more
A new Flash Player Incubator preview release is available. The current build provides access to Flash Player Protected Mode for Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7 and Windows Vista systems. Download Flash Player Incubator preview Discuss Incubator features ... Read more
Background save, anyone? How about massively faster Liquify? Both of these features have been in the team’s sights for a long time, but they kept getting derailed by things like the Carbon-to-Cocoa conversion effort. Nice to have that behind us. ... Read more
He writes, “Your photos look better processed in Lightroom 4. Period… The improvements in Lightroom’s Development module are so significant, and so much better than what we’ve ever had before, that I think you’ll be hard-pressed to find most anyone still using Lightroom 3 in just a few months from now.” As... Read more
Lea H., VP of Design and Web Product Management at Adobe, has experienced a variety of twists and turns in her 23 year-technology career. She’s been a consultant, product manager, application developer, marketer and more. But now she’s taking on one of her biggest challenges yet: heading up a brand... Read more
Today, a Security Bulletin (APSB12-03) has been posted to address critical security issues in Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, Adobe Flash Player 11.1.112.61 and earlier versions for Android 4.x, and Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.5 and earlier versions for Android 3.x and 2.x.... Read more
Typography is just one element of design, however, typography is also an art form itself. Good fonts blend in seamlessly, and complement their surrounding design with ease, while conveying the proper message to the viewer. We scoured through some typography posts on Behance to pull together a collection of some terrific... Read more
Coldfusion 7.0.2 added flex feature support, hence you can access your cfc service from flex app. See a good article by Kyle about how this works at here. The above article described how to access cfc using RemoteObject in flex app when your cfc and mxml pages are both on... Read more
As we know, flex Builder 2 (FB) is an Eclipse based IDE that will make creating/editing/debugging flex code very easy for flex developers. For those developers who come from java background, Eclipse may already be the favorite IDE for coding. For those who are not familiar with Eclipse,... Read more
Today, we’re launching Flash Player 10.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We’re especially excited that this release introduces Stage Video, a full hardware accelerated video pipeline for best-in-class, beautiful video across platforms and browsers. Additionally, this version of Flash Player offers all the new capabilities previewed in our beta release,... Read more
Adobe MAX is here, and we’ve got a lot of news to share. Today we’re releasing Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 — you can download the release starting at 9:00 PM Pacific today. As we announced previously, there are lots of new features in Flash Player 11 and AIR... Read more
The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta for Android 2.2 is now available for download on Android Market for the Google Nexus One and other devices that support Android 2.2. Flash Player 10.1 beta for Android enables your device to access the full web – which includes all your favorite videos,... Read more
Do you find that the flash remoting code you developed using Flash MX doesn’t work with Flash MX 2004? If you do, you are not alone. The following explains why it is not working and how to make it work again. Basically, the reason your code doesn’t work in Flash MX... Read more
Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 Now Available We are pleased to announce that Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 are now available for download. Flash Player Desktop and Android: 11.0.1.152 AIR Desktop and Android: 3.0.0.408 AIR SDK (including AIR for iOS): 3.0.0.4080 For additional information including detailed information on new features, please see our release... Read more
Flash Player 10.2 is now available for download on Android Market. This is a production GA (General Availability) release for Android 2.2 (Froyo) and 2.3 (Gingerbread) devices and an initial beta release for Android 3.x (Honeycomb) tablets that include at least Google’s 3.0.1 system update.* To see if your device... Read more
We are tracking and actively investigating the issues reported with Flash Player 10.3 and Internet Explorer 9. Users are reporting that SWF content is being displayed in the upper left corner of the screen. We want to give those of who are encountering these issues an update. First, we apologize to... Read more
With the availability of Adobe Acrobat X solutions this week, a reminder to be cautious when receiving email messages purporting to offer a download of a new version of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader sent by entities claiming to be Adobe. Many of these emails require recipients to register and/or provide... Read more
