Squiggly Now Available on Adobe Labs

Adobe has just released a new spell checker engine for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Air.
The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control. The distribution package consists of a utility for building your own spelling dictionaries, a sample English dictionary, an Action Script package that [...]

Still confused about CS4?

Adobe has just set up a channel on their Adobe TV site explaining what’s new in CS4. You can view it here: http://tv.adobe.com/channel/whats-new-in-cs4/

Web content looks darker in Snow Leopard

I found this interesting http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/09/why_your_web_content_will_look_darker.html
If you’re a Web designer, expect your CSS colors & your untagged/unmanaged images to look darker on Snow Leopard than on previous versions of the Mac OS. You’ll also seeless of a visible color shift when going from Photoshop to Flash or other unmanaged environments (e.g. Internet Explorer).
Why is that? Apple [...]

Flash CS4 rundown – list of up coming features

You can see the presentation demo of Adobe Flash CS4 here: http://tv.adobe.com/vi+f1556v1685
But if you’re too lazy, I’ve done a run through of the features.
Features of Flash CS4:

Object-based animation – Adobe’s new animation model, a.k.a ‘new motion feature’. Basically you can right click something and add motion tween. Not too exciting.
3d trasformation – new [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 4 – Announcement September 23rd

Adobe have just announced that they’ll be announcing the Adobe Creative Suite 4 on the 23rd of September.
http://adobe.istreamplanet.com/
This does not meant that they are releasing CS4 on that date, it just means that they are announcing that they are going to release CS4. Why they need to announce that they are announcing something I’ll never [...]

Flash 10 Beta 2 released!

The Adobe Flash 10 beta has entered the next phase. The enhancements in the Flash 10 Beta 2 include:
Rich Media

Enhanced Sound APIs — new with 7/2/08 build

Other Community Requested Enhancements

Linux WMODE — new with 7/2/08 build
Video4Linux v2 Support — new with 7/2/08 build
unloadAndStop — new with 7/2/08 build
Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access — new with 7/2/08 [...]

Google and Yahoo are now searching Flash

Great news for Flash developers!
Adobe is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently [...]

Flash development in education: Instructional Design and Process Improvement

I’m working in the Australian education system as a Flash developer. Recently I’ve been reviewing the processes that we go through when planning and developing a Flash application. Education projects have quite a few differences to commercial work, and generally in education the development process takes a lot longer than it should. Improving the overall [...]

Adobe Acrobat 9 is available

Adobe Acrobat 9 is out now, and you can buy it from:
Australia: https://store3.adobe.com/cfusion/store/index.cfm?store=OLS-AU&nr=0
New Zealand: http://adobe.com/go/buyonline_nz
Acrobat 9 allows you to build engaging PDF presentations that help you to communicate with confidence and style.
Bring together PDF, Flash, Office documents, images and many other file types into a single PDF container that is presented with a [...]

Adobe Media Player Brings New Content Online

Recently Launched Player Now Features 15,000 Pieces of Content, Including New Shows on CBS and a Selection of MTV Networks’ Most Popular Shows
SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 19, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that since its release on April 9, 2008, the new Adobe® Media Player now features 15,000 pieces of content with more [...]