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• Adobe Air Launchpad

  • Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010, 08:45 PDT (3 weeks ago)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  Greg Wilson has a post on the launch of Adobe Air Launchpad, a new tool for the desktop created to help Adobe Flex developers begin building desktop apps deployed on AIR. The ready-to-import Flex project that you can create with it is a starting point for your AIR application. There’s a detailed video also.(h/t JimRutherford)

• Flex 3 To Flex 4 Migration

  • Tuesday, 20 Jul 2010, 10:45 PDT (20 July 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  Renaun Erickson has an excellent, detailed article on Flex 3 to Flex 4 migration using a example application, covering CSS, Spark components, customs skins, embedding fonts, etc. He includes the source code for the original Flex 3 application and converted Flex 4 app.

• Android Tablet Running Flash And AIR

  • Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 10:51 PDT (5 May 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  Check out the demo of a prototype Android tablet running Flash and AIR applications, being demonstrated the at Web 2.0 Expo. Of course we all want to know what the hardware is, but it’s clearly a proof-of-concept device that Adobe got together, with help from Tegra 2 as it tuns out, to remind everyone that [...]

• Secure Flash Drives

  • Sunday, 2 May 2010, 08:45 PDT (2 May 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  Digital Media Minute did a post a while ago on how to reformat a thumb drive; check the video on how to secure flash drives with USB Safeguard, freeware that will turn regular unassuming, insecure flash drives into powerhouse encrypted flash drives (Windows only at this time). Note the virtual keyboard that you can use [...]

• Playing Well With IPad

  • Saturday, 10 Apr 2010, 12:48 PDT (10 April 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  IPad does not show the blue Lego icon that they formerly used to indicate that Flash is not supported on a given device. This may mean that Apple doesn’t see iPad’s lack of support for Flash as a shortcoming of the device, but instead as deficiency in the site you’re choosing to view on iPad, [...]

• HTML5 Video Element Usage Considerations

  • Monday, 29 Mar 2010, 12:51 PDT (29 March 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  Since Internet Explorer and older browsers don’t understand the HTML5 <video> element, developers have to serve viewers a Flash file version as well. And then there’s the .OGG format needed by FireFox. Bottom line, for now you will have to create three versions of your video if you want to make use of HTML5 for [...]

• Flash Vs JavaScript and Canvas

  • Sunday, 28 Mar 2010, 02:47 PDT (28 March 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  Mojombo (Tom Preston-Werner) rewrote Network Graph in JavaScript and Canvas over the course of about four days, and tells us his thoughts on doing a Flash-to-Canvas conversion. It is by no means a Flash bashing; he calls Flash clearly more refined in some ways. Just one man’s opinion on where where Canvas/JavaScript is better than [...]

• Localizing Flex Framework Components

  • Tuesday, 9 Mar 2010, 08:49 PST (9 March 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  DannyT documents, for others and for himself in the future as he says, how to get a flex framework localized. Provisions for this will be in the Flex4 SDK by default, but this tip still has value today.

• Doodle Online

  • Sunday, 7 Mar 2010, 00:46 PST (7 March 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  Check out this interesting Flash app for doodling online, by Mario Klingemann at Quasimondo. I sense that it’s about exploring possibilities in Flash as much as anything. There’s a lot more to it than meets the eye at first.

• Flash vs Apple Mobile Devices (And Their Increasing Market Share)

  • Sunday, 31 Jan 2010, 08:54 PST (31 January 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  When I watched the introduction of the iPad the other day, the first time my jaw dropped was when I saw ol’ Steve open up the New York Times site, showing an enormous blue box where flash content might otherwise have been. I thought “I can’t believe Steve Jobs is showing me this in 2010″. My [...]

• Actionscript Editor

  • Friday, 29 Jan 2010, 10:55 PST (29 January 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  If you’re a Mac user and looking for better Actionscript Editors, here’s one developer’s opinion as to why IntelliJIDEA 9 is the way to go rather than Actionscript programming environments like TextMate or Flex/Flash Builder.

• Best Ways To Optimize Flex SWF

  • Monday, 25 Jan 2010, 04:52 PST (25 January 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  Here’s a concise little list of ways to optimize the size of your Flex applications to reduce memory consumption and improve performance of Flex apps, from askmeflash.com

• Integrating Flex Into Portals

  • Sunday, 10 Jan 2010, 07:10 PST (10 January 2010)
  • By: Digital Media Minute, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  Here’s an excellent, detailed article from IBM’s developerWorks that tells you how to integrate Adobe Flex apps into portals, using an IBM WebSphere Portal portlet as an example. If you are an enterprise developer interested in combining Flex with WebSphere portal you might find it instructive.