Adobe Thermo – New screenshots

Ted Patrick has posted a nice bunch of Thermo screenshots.  Thermo is an upcoming Adobe product that makes it easy for designers to create rich Internet application UIs. Thermo allows designers to visually create working RIAs. Applications created in Thermo are Flex applications that can be loaded directly into Flex Builder, providing a great roundtrip workflow for designers collaborating with developers. Here are the screens.

Hoping to see a lot more at Adobe MAX 2008 !!

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Flash Player 10 – What does it pack?

Flash Player 10 public beta, code named named "Astro" was released a few days ago. You  can get it from Adobe labs. This new release has a ton of new stuff that’s gonna blow the minds of anyone who is playing around with Flash because it spans things like Rich-text (finally, right to left!!), 3D effects, Dynamic streaming, more Hardware acceleration, and custom filters that you can create yourself with Pixel Bender. Unfortunately we don’t have any tooling support for the beta yet, so if you want to dig in you’ll have to wait a bit.

• Custom Filters and Effects
  • This feature is pretty cool. Portable Filters, created using Pixel Blender which happens to be the same technology behind After Effects CS3. And adobe claims that custom filters will not make a big impact on the size of the app.
• 3D Effects
  • This was very obvious. I’ve been expecting this for a long time. PaperVision 3d, Sandy, Away 3d, everyone is in the game.
• New Text Engine
  • A brand new flexible text engine. And yes, right to left text flow and a whole lot more in here.
• GPU Compositing
  • Utilizing the processing power of the graphics card, Astro will accelerate compositing calculations faster than would be performed in software mode on the CPU. Open GL 2.0 video card with GLSL capabilities required for this feature to work.
• Dynamic Streaming
  • Video Streams that can automatically adjust to changing network conditions.
• File Reference (finally !!)
• Ubuntu OS Support

Download Flash Player 10 beta from here and Pixel Blender from here.