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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Guinness World Records – “Most software downloads in 24 hours” – that’s the record Firefox wants to break with the launch of Firefox 3 – Gran Paradiso.
You cannot actually download anything yet, but you can pledge that you’re ready to help them break the record. Over 383,000+ people have already pledged, and I bet this number would double in a month. There is even a cool flash map which shows how many people have pledged so far, from each countries. The US is in the lead, with Poland and Brazil holding the second and third place. 4579 Indians have pledged till now.
The actual date of the launch is, unfortunately, yet to be announced, but when it comes, you better be ready.
Adobe recently gave a demonstration, at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, of "Creative Suite Next" (or CS4), code-named “Stonehenge”, which adds GPU and physics support to its existing multi-core support.
TG Daily reports on this presentation by Adobe.
We saw the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image on an 8-core Skulltrail system. Changes made through image zoom and through a new rotate canvas tool were applied almost instantly. Another impressive feature was the import of a 3D model into Photoshop, adding text and paint on a 3D surface and having that surface directly rendered with the 3D models’ reflection map.
Also part of the demo was Photoshop 3D accelerated panorama which lets artists to work inside a spherical image and fix any artifacts on the fly.
All of these new features are part of Photoshop CS4, which should be a part of the “CS Next” suite. The package is expected to be released on October 1 !!
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.
Download Flash Player 10 beta from here and Pixel Blender from here.
Data Portability seems to be a hot topic this week with Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Portability and Google Friend Connect, each letting their respective users to share their data over to other web sites.
Today we are announcing Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect is the next iteration of Facebook Platform that allows users to “connect” their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any site. This will now enable third party websites to implement and offer even more features of Facebook Platform off of Facebook – similar to features available to third party applications today on Facebook.
MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, alongside Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter, today announced the launch of the MySpace ‘Data Availability’ initiative, a ground-breaking offering to empower the global MySpace community to share their public profile data to websites of their choice throughout the Internet. Today’s announcement throws open the doors to traditionally closed networks by putting users in the driver’s seat of their data and Web identity. The launch of the Data Availability initiative marks the first time that a social Website has enabled its community to dynamically share public profile information with other sites.
Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s Campfire One), any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
The idea sounds good but we gotta wait till its actually implemented.
Arvi 10:16 am on June 11, 2008 Permalink |
i solemnly swear to eradicate IE
check out the updated map..it’s increased to a million pledges:-)