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Creativity

2011-01-25T00:50:00.000-08:00

I came across this awesome visual and thought its worth sharing.

Dont know if it is an Ad for a Mobile product or a proof of concept, but the visual looks great.
I wish i can own this product someday ;)

Adobe Flash Player 10.2

2011-01-13T00:57:00.000-08:00

Adobe has just released a near final version of Flash Player v10.2

The key features of this version of the player as given in the Adobe site are...

Stage Video hardware acceleration — A new method for video playback in Flash Player will allow developers to leverage complete hardware acceleration of the video rendering pipeline, enabling best-in-class playback performance. Stage Video can dramatically decrease processor usage and enables higher frame rates, reduced memory usage, and greater pixel fidelity and quality.

Internet Explorer 9 hardware accelerated rendering support — Flash Player takes advantage of hardware accelerated graphics in Internet Explorer 9, utilizing hardware rendering surfaces to improve graphics performance and enable seamless composition.

Native custom mouse cursors — Developers can define custom native mouse cursors, enabling user experience enhancements and improving performance.

Support for full screen mode with multiple monitors — Full screen content will remain in full-screen on secondary monitors, allowing users to watch full-screen content while working on another display.

MOLEHILL 3d API

2010-10-27T02:49:00.000-07:00

Thibault Imbert, product manager for Adobe Flash Player, previews 3D APIs for Adobe Flash Player and AIR (codenamed "Molehill"). Adobe is working on a new set of 3D GPU accelerated APIs that delivers advanced 3D rendering in Flash Player and AIR.

Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010 Bangalore

2010-09-01T04:01:00.000-07:00

@ Bangalore Adobe Flash Platform summit was held on August 25th & 26th.

I was so thrilled to attend the sessions, very curious to know new upcoming features & products.

Due to my office work I couldn't make it for both the days. I managed to attend the first day of the summit and it was fine. I heard from my friends that the 2nd day sessions where more interesting and engaging. Especially the session about BCI (Brain Computer Inteface) with AS.

Other key things i came to know from the event was

1. Stratus - For Peer-Peer communication with RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol)
2. Hero - The code name for the next version of Flex
3. Melrose - (codename) enables developers and publishers to distribute and make money with Adobe® AIR® applications through application stores. Melrose provides a repository that distributes applications to multiple application stores so that publishers can reach millions of users.

Here are the presentation slides from the speakers.

MultiScreen experiences with Adobe Flash Platform by Hemant Sharma:

Multiscreen with Flash Platform

View more presentations from Hemanth Sharma.

Visual Experience with Flex 4 by Saurabh Narula:

Visual Experiences with flex 4

View more presentations from Saurabh Narula.

Mechanical Designer by Deepak Pakhare:

Mechanical Designer2

View more presentations from Deepak Pakhare.

Flex 3 to Flex 4 by Yash Mody:

Flex 3 to Flex 4

View more presentations from modyyash.

UI Engineering Rebooted by Uday Shankar:

UI Engineering - Rebooted

View more presentations from Uday Shankar.

Adobe Flex + Paypal X = Monetization of RIA by Ganesh Hegde:

Adobe flex + pay pal x = monetization of ria

View more presentations from ganeshX.

Less Verbose Actionscript 3.0 – Write less and do more by Arul Kumaran

Less Verbose ActionScript 3.0 - Write less and do more!

View more presentations from Arul Kumaran.

Strobe Media Playback from Adobe

2010-07-28T07:23:00.000-07:00

Strobe Media Playback is built on OSMF, it comes with a predefined user interface.

Strobe Media Playback supports all the same video formats as OSMF, including Progressive Download, RTMP streaming, and HTTP Dynamic Streaming.

The interface can be controlled through HTML embed tags. You can control the player dimensions, set auto start and auto hide behavior, add full screen support, and much more.

The implementation is pretty simple, use Flashvars to set the values and you are on.

Ain't this easy? Keep reading about this @ Adobe

Flash Player 10.1 features

2010-07-01T05:34:00.000-07:00

The new release of Flash Player is very impressive and got lots of cool features for desktop & mobile devices.

I was spending sometime reading about the features of the new player.

Here are the ones that I thought of much importance.

Multitouch and gestures

With Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 using new ActionScript® 3.0 APIs one can create multitouch-aware content for a wide range of devices and multitouch-capable machines. Interact with multiple objects simultaneously or work with native gestures, such as pinch, scroll, rotate, scale, and two-finger tap.

Content protection

Using industry-standard cryptography, Adobe Flash Access 2 and Flash Player 10.1 provide a robust environment to protect content so it remains safe from tampering or capture throughout its lifecycle.

This is something that needs to be looked in again, as now it is available only for Desktops. Hope Adobe leverage this feature to all devices & OS.

Fast switch

Flash Player 10.1 is enhanced to improve Video streams to automatically adjust to changing network conditions by switching times between bitrates.

H.264 video hardware decoding

Deliver smooth, high-quality video with minimal overhead across supported mobile devices and personal computers using H.264 video decoding. Hardware video decoding offloads tasks from the CPU, improves video playback performance, reduces system resource utilization, and preserves battery life.

Optimized SWF management for mobile (mobile only)

Instances are loaded or deferred based on developer-defined SWF priority, visibility, and available memory and CPU resources to enable more immediate browsing experiences without waiting for every SWF on a page to load.

SWF playback automatically pauses when not in view to reduce CPU use, battery use, and memory use. Ain't this cool?

Sleep mode (mobile only)

Reduce CPU and battery consumption on mobile devices by slowing down the Flash Player timer when the mobile device goes into screen-saver or similar mode, with no interruption in audio/video playback. Incoming phone calls pause Flash Player.

Support for mobile platforms

The full fledged Flash Player support gonna be included in Android, Windows Phone 7, Palm webOS, Symbian, and BlackBerry. A porting kit and Linux® based reference implementation is available to Open Screen Project partners to port Flash Player 10.1 to other platforms. Flash Player 10.1 also adds support for Microsoft® Windows® 7 and Mac OS X v10.6 (Snow Leopard) desktop operating systems.

Out-of-memory management

Automatically prevent out-of-memory browser crashes by shutting down instances where a SWF file attempts to allocate more memory than is available on the device.

Mobile text input

Detecting native device virtual keyboard if present or using TextField support for key in data.

Google’s Gundotra Goes After Apple @ I/O Keynote

2010-05-21T00:05:00.000-07:00

Good to see Google comes with do-or-die kinda attitude with Apple.

After all we are the beneficiaries as a developer/consumer.. ;)

My take was on Flash support on Android...will Apple rethink about so called Openness?

Here are the keynote videos

Flash On Touch-Based Devices

2010-05-12T03:12:00.001-07:00

Flash On Touch-Based Devices from Lee Brimelow on Vimeo.

Sony Rolly

2010-04-27T03:54:00.000-07:00

Adobe Photoshop bakes cookies

2010-02-19T04:25:00.000-08:00

OMG after nearly two months of time, here comes my first post of 2010.

Let me give my blog readers something to eat first ;)

HappY NEW YEAR 2010

2009-12-31T08:36:00.000-08:00

Wish You A Very Happy New Year!!

Let this year brings Peace, Prosperity, Unity to all Human Kind!!

Augmented Reality (AR)

2009-11-19T03:13:00.000-08:00

Augmented Reality?

Wiki defines it as,

Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with (or augmented by) virtual computer-generated imagery - creating a mixed reality. The augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements.

In short, Augmented reality is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data.

Unlike virtual reality, augmented reality does not create a simulated reality.

few eye-catching stuff on AR, check out the videos

Isnt it interesting?

for more info on this technology..continue reading
Tech-faq

How stuff works

www.se.rit.edu

Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.1 And AIR 2.0

2009-11-17T02:25:00.000-08:00

Flash Player 10.1

Lots of new stuff in Flash Player 10.1 including the multi-touch APIs, the performance gains, and some new networking APIs. The biggest thing with this release is the huge, huge memory improvements.

AIR 2 must be a great release with some cool new features include:

1. Support for the detection of mass storage devices.
2. File handling with its native application.
3. Multi-touch support.
4. APIs for access to raw microphone data.

To download AIR 2.0 & Flash Player 10.1

Sneak peek of new AS Editor

2009-11-12T04:40:00.000-08:00

AS Editor : Introduce from den ivanov on Vimeo.

AS Editor : Smart complete from den ivanov on Vimeo.

GO

2009-11-11T00:40:00.000-08:00

Google has announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go.

Google says 'GO' is experimental, and that it combines the performance and security benefits associated with using a compiled language like C++ with the speed of a dynamic language like Python.

iPhone Remote Controlled Car

2009-11-03T22:58:00.000-08:00

“Spirit of Berlin” is a project of the Artificial Intelligence Group, directed by Prof. Raul Rojas, at Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Isn't this interesting? To know more about this project check here

Phidget

2009-10-27T04:31:00.000-07:00

Phidget! What? Something new i heard today and i wanted to know about it..and a quick search gave me an idea about this interesting stuff.

So now i know what it is and why is it for. :)

A phidget is a physical representation and/or implementation of a GUI widget.

A phidget (physical widget) is attached to a host computer via USB. There are various phidgets available, each having a counterpart class in the phidget API. As each phidget is attached to the host computer, it is made available to control in the API, where its state can be accessed and set.
Phidgets arose out of a research project in 2001 directed by Saul Greenberg at the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary.

Phidgets can be programmed using a variety of software and programming languages, ranging from Java to Microsoft Excel.
The phidget API is what allows systems to access the phidget devices in a high level manner. The API allows the management of devices as they are attached, to subscribe to events and to access the state of the phidgets. The core API is originally written in C and has been extended to work in numerous languages including .NET and Java.

Got this info from Wiki

Flash on the iPhone

2009-10-06T00:22:00.000-07:00

Adobe has revealed at AdobeMax2009 that starting from Flash CS5 developers will be able to build applications for the iPhone and that those apps will be available at the Apple Store. So with ActionScript 3 use all the goodies from the iPhone like web access, multitouch, accelerometers, GPS and compass. Woo woo..wow

Adobe Squiggly

2009-10-01T05:22:00.000-07:00

Squiggly is a spell checking 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.

Adobe is just doing a preview release of this library for developer community. And this supports only the Flash 10 runtime environment.

Know and check about the Squiggly here.

Important Note from Adobe :- The spelling suggestion algorithm for this release is based on English phonological rules. As such, it should only be used with an English dictionary for checking English text. The plan is to address this limitation in a future release of this project.

ASE - Android Scripting Enivronment

2009-09-09T04:09:00.000-07:00

Here is the quick insight about ASE which I saw in Google labs.

The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to:

Handle intents
Start activities
Make phone calls
Send text messages
Scan bar codes
Poll location and sensor data
Use text-to-speech
And more

Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, and shell are currently supported, and we're planning to add more.

Webfinger

2009-08-15T10:54:00.000-07:00

WebFinger : Personal Web Discovery, making email addresses readable again.

WebFinger is about making email addresses more valuable, by letting people attach public metadata to them. That metadata might include:

--> public profile data
--> pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server)
--> a public key
--> other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each)
--> a URL to an avatar
--> profile data (nickname, full name, etc)
--> whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it's NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com
--> or even a public declaration that the email address doesn't have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as.

... but rather than fight about the exact contents of that file, WebFinger is about making that file discoverable at all. The community can explore and innovate within that discovery file later.

to know more about this check here

Rhonda 3D- Drawing

2009-07-28T02:39:00.000-07:00

Rhonda

Adobe Story

2009-07-14T04:41:00.001-07:00

Adobe Story! Na!!! its not the story of Adobe..its the new product in the labs of Adobe. :)

I'm quiet excited about this product. Wanna see how Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects and all other products are integrated with this Story to create a movie.

A brief insight of this product from Adobe labs.

What is Adobe Story?

* Adobe Story is a collaborative scriptwriting tool for film, broadcast, and rich media. Adobe Story enables the online pre-production workflow for those who want to collaborate and expand their ideas anytime, anywhere, with anyone.

What is Adobe announcing in regards to Adobe Story?

* Adobe Story is a versatile online and offline application for creating, editing, and optimizing scripts for films, broadcast, and rich media.
* Adobe Story enables you to turn scripts into rich data for a variety of purposes, including enhanced workflow across Adobe Production Premium.
* A public beta version is expected to be available on Adobe Labs in late-2009.

How does Story tie into the plan to playback workflow?

* Adobe Story will be part of the video workflow, tying into the pre-production phases of the process. It will be integrated with other Adobe products, streamlining the flow within the Adobe product family.

My new mobile : Samsung J800

2009-06-16T23:27:00.000-07:00

After a good time of readings & findings, finally I bought a new mobile SAMSUNG J800.

It has loads of cool features and is easy to use. The best feature is, 3G capability. :)

Prior to this I had used candy bar & flip models so wanna give a try to a Slide model and to me this is the best considering the features and good value for money.

Features

General
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Length (mm) - 49
Width (mm) - 15.2
Height (mm) - 99
Weight (g) - 100
Warranty (Months) - 12

Display Technology - TFT
Screen size - 2.2 in
Screen Resolution - 176x220

Multimedia Features
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Inbuilt Camera - Yes 2MP
Built-in Microphone ( Mobile ) - Yes
MP3 Player - Yes
Voice Recorder - Yes
Picture Viewer - Yes

Data
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GPRS - Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE - Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G - Yes, 384 kbps
Bluetooth - Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
USB - Yes, v2.0

Network Profile
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2G Network - GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network - UMTS 2100

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Messaging - SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, RSS reader
Browser - WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio - Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games - Yes + downloadable
Java - Yes, MIDP 2.0
Card slot - microSD (TransFlash)

Other Features
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- Mobile Tracker
- MP3/AAC/eACC+/WMA player (Can be synched with Windows Media Player)
- MPEG4/3gp player
- T9
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- RSS Reader
- Organizer (Can be synched with Outlook Express)

Microsoft unveils new controller

2009-06-02T08:11:00.000-07:00

Microsoft has unveiled its new control system for the Xbox 360 console, at E3 in Los Angeles.

Project Natal is a fully hands-free control system that will use face recognition and motion sensors to allow users to play games.

Steven Spielberg and Xbox's Don Mattrick on the 'revolutionary' hands-free control system

Lionhead Studios' Peter Molyneux shows a Natal character that recognises and responds to players' moods