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BrowserLab provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web. Also, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4 software users have access to additional functionality such as testing local and active content.

The latest update includes the ability to save locally.

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WorkflowLab is a new AIR application that provides an easy way to learn about, track and share workflow best practices. It provides designers, developers and project managers with a common way to learn, build, annotate, share and track workflows for designing and developing projects. WorkflowLab includes a number of workflow starting points and enables users to easily share and track workflows.

The new beta is now available to try.

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Adobe Pixel Bender technology delivers a common image and video processing infrastructure which provides automatic runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware. You can use the Pixel Bender kernel language to implement image processing algorithms (filters or effects) in a hardware-independent manner. The Pixel Bender graph language is an XML-based language for combining individual pixel-processing operations (kernels) into more complex Pixel Bender filters.

Pixel Bender moved to the Adobe Developer Connection on January 11, 2010 and is no longer hosted on Labs.

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Squiggly is a spell checking engine for Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR®. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Adobe Flex® 3 or Flex 4 based text control.

Squiggly prerelease 2 update includes support for the Flex 4 Spark components that are based on the Adobe Text Layout Framework (TLF). We have also added support for user dictionaries, which allow individual users to augment the spell checking dictionary with the words of their choice. Please see the release notes and updated ASDoc for more details.

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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 now available for PCs and netbooks and realizes the promise of a consistent, cross-platform runtime across desktop and mobile devices. With support for a broad range of mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks and other Internet-connected devices, Flash Player 10.1 allows your content to reach your customers wherever they are.

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The ColdFusion Builder development team is happy to announce an update to the ColdFusion Builder beta 3 that includes an Eclipse based IDE for ColdFusion development that is deeply integrated with ColdFusion 9. This release provides additional editing features, extension enhancements, fixes and performance improvements over ColdFusion Builder beta 2.

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Furthering Adobe's commitment to the Linux community and as part of ongoing efforts to ensure the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, an alpha refresh of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux operating systems was released on December 8, 2009 and is available for download. This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux distributions and removes the need for 32-bit emulation. Learn more by reading the 64-bit Flash Player 10 FAQ.

Release versions of Flash Player 10 for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux are now available from the Flash Player Download Center.

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The Distributable Player Solution beta has ended and the program has been cancelled. The solution is no longer available and will not be brought into production.

If you are interested in continuing to develop mobile applications, we recommend taking a look at developing applications for the iPhone.

For mobile web app and content development, we recommend you participate in the Flash Player 10.1 beta program.

Adobe® Story, a collaborative script development tool designed for creative professionals, producers, and writers working on or with scripts and screenplays. This preview version will let you try out a few of the scriptwriting tools that will be part of the overall features in the final version of Story.

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Flex Builder Linux is a plugin-only version of the Flex Builder that you can use to build Flex applications on Linux.

The Flex Builder Linux alpha download was updated on 11/24/2009 in response to user feedback and incorporates an Eclipse plugin version of the Flex Builder software that you can use to build Flex applications on Linux.

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