Flash content doesn’t have to be bloated
I keep hearing from friends and colleagues that Flash is notoriously slow and the content it produces is hopelessly bloated. Of course this simply isn’t true but recently I’ve been finding out the hard way that it’s not easy to convince many of them otherwise. Now I’m not attempting to turn this into a Flash […]
Build an app in a week recordings
Last week saw a series of free live webinars presented by Adobe technology experts showing users how to create RIAs using the Flash platform. If you missed out or simply want to cover the material again then fear not as you can find links to each session below. Rapidly build, deploy, and maintain Internet apps […]
Adobe AIR 2.0 Released
Not content with giving us lucky people Flash Player 10.1, Adobe has also very generously announced the release of AIR 2.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Billed as the most significant update of AIR since its original release, it consists of dozens of new features and hundreds of new APIs for developers to take advantage […]
Flash Player 10.1 Released
Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux is finally available. It’s so packed full of new features and has had such a significant architectural change that’s it’s hard to believe Adobe hasn’t just labelled it Flash Player 11. And with Flash Player 10.1 for Android scheduled for release later this month it really is […]
Flash Camp Manchester
I’ve been told that all the cool kids will be heading to Manchester on the 8th of July for Flash Camp. Kindly organised by Flash Midlands the event will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School for an afternoon and an evening of presentations, discussions and demonstrations of all things Flash. It sounds like […]
Innovation through Flash
With all the recent hype surrounding HTML5 it’s easy to forget how innovative the Flash platform continues to be. Flash video in particular has taken a bashing of late from the Apple camp and with Adobe so eager to defend video in Flash many seem to have forgotten that Flash can do so much more. […]
Windows 7 Slate with Flash Support
I gotta take my hat off to Apple. In the three years since the iPhone’s launch the other mobile OEMs are still desperately trying to play catch-up. Even the impressive Android OS doesn’t quite managed it. Android handsets are already suffering the terrible fragmentation issues (different OS versions, screen resolutions, user interfaces) that Apple has […]
Adobe’s WIRED Magazine makes it to iPad
Remember that incredibly impressive interactive WIRED Magazine demo Adobe showed off a few months back? The one that was built using AIR and was intended ultimately for iPad until Apple banned all Flash-related content from their mobile devices? Well against all the odds Adobe announced the release of the WIRED Reader for iPad the other […]
Adobe CS5 Road Show
Edinburgh is such a beautiful city and was an ideal location for the first stop of Adobe’s CS5 Road Show. It gave me the opportunity to appreciate some great architecture as well as feasting my eyes on the new features that have made it into CS5’s range of products. Being primarily a developer I tend […]
Flash: A Victim of its own Success?
This year’s Google IO event was pretty exciting, especially for those interested in the future of Flash. It has certainly been a long time in the making but Flash Player 10.1 finally made its public appearance on Android 2.2 devices, promising to bring the ‘full web’ to mobile. If that wasn’t enough, Adobe also revealed […]