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Plugins for the Flash Player?

December 15th 2008 | Jens C Brynildsen

Ever since Macromedia started developing Central back in 2003, there's been a "hook" in the Flash Player to install software. This feature is used by AIR, Acrobat Connect as well as other Adobe products. Recently it's also been used to install a third party software called Octoshape and this had us a little puzzled, so we though we'd look closer at Octoshape and their deal with Adobe.

Plugins for the Flash Player?

Whirled Flash Game Developer Challenge

December 10th 2008 | John Dalziel

Fancy making some money for developing Flash games? The Whirled Flash Game Developer Challenge is a quarterly contest offering cash prizes for games developed on the Whirled platform.

Whirled Flash Game Developer Challenge

Diffusion Curves, a new Vector primitive

December 05th 2008 | Jens C Brynildsen

There are those Wizards that can make vectors look photo realistic, but it requires an incredible amount of work. The limitations of the vector drawing tools is the problem - you can only do linear or radial gradients. Diffusion Curves is a new technique demonstrated at Adobe's Advanced Technology Labs that looks really impressive and could change your perception of Vector artwork.

Diffusion Curves, a new Vector primitive

Tofino - Flex authoring in MS Visual Studio

December 04th 2008 | Jens C Brynildsen

Do you use both Flex and Visual Studio in your daily workflow? Tofino is a free plugin that allows you to author Flex content from withing Visual Studio. The plugin allows you to set breakpoints for debugging and Intellisense is next on the list of features to be implemented.

Tofino - Flex authoring in MS Visual Studio

600 job cuts at Adobe

December 04th 2008 | John Dalziel

Adobe has announced 600 job cuts throughout the company. The news was buried half way through their recently released Q4 2008 fiscal results. Mike Downey, principal evangelist for the Flash, Flex and AIR products is believed to be one of those laid off as part of the cuts.

600 job cuts at Adobe

Ribbit $100.000 killer app challenge

November 27th 2008 | Jens C Brynildsen

We've formerly written about other Flash to Phone solutions, but Ribbit was actually doing this long before the others. To get more mindshare with developers, they've now put on a competition with a total of $100k in prizes. The Grand Price is a massive $30.000 so if you have the time and an idea of how to use telephony in your app, check this out.

Ribbit $100.000 killer app challenge

A peek at the Flash Player 10 features in Papervision

November 25th 2008 | Jens C Brynildsen

Ralph Hauwert just released a series of demos featuring the upcoming Flash Player 10 version of Papervision and it sure looks good! 3600 faces with an environment reflection shader that plays at more than 40fps is unheard of with today's engines. This is a nice peak at what's to come and there's more in the pipe!

A peek at the Flash Player 10 features in Papervision