Adobe Systems has started work to bring 3D to its Flash platform, and will preview the technology at the company’s upcoming developer conference in October.

A session titled “Flash Player 3D Future” will outline a future version of Flash that will be capable of playing 3D content, according to a program listing for the Adobe Max 2010 trade show, which will be held in Los Angeles Oct. 23-27.

The session will take “a deep dive into the next-generation 3D API coming in a future version of Flash Player,” according to the listing. The Flash Player is available as a browser plug-in that allows users to play games or view multimedia content. Google’s YouTube uses Flash for video distribution on its Web site.

The session is “going to be big,” said Thibault Imbert, a Flash product manager at Adobe in a blog entry.

“If you are into 3D development for games, augmented reality or just interactive stuff like Web sites, you just can’t miss the session,” Imbert wrote.

Adobe officials were unavailable for comment Friday on a release date for a 3D Flash Player. The company had closed for the day, according to a spokeswoman for A&R Edelman, Adobe’s public relations agency.

Adobe already offers tools for 3D animation in Flash, but the new platform could bring richer 3D experiences. This could be an important development as games and videos are increasingly produced in 3D.

At the Computex trade show last month, graphics chip company Nvidia demonstrated 3D video streaming live over the Internet using a video player based on Microsoft’s Silverlight platform.

Adobe has also engaged in a public spat with Apple, which does not support playback of Flash content on its iPhone and iPad devices. Apple prefers distributing video and multimedia content through the HTML5 standard, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs has publicly derided Flash for being buggy, slow and power hungry.

News Provider:  PC World

There are so many CMS or Blogging Platforms available in PHP alone. If you ever want to look for any other blogging platform other than WordPress , then surely you will have Drupal in everylist. Just like wordpress, Drupal is open source CMS , has big community and presence on internet. But drupal does not have big base and community or friends like WordPress has. There are so many reasons for it , One of the main saying about Drupal is that Drupal sites and themes are ugly, which is true to some extend.  In this post i am presenting some of the nicest Drupal 6.0 themes available for Free.

All these themes are Free and You can download these themes by clicking on the preview images of these themes.

1.  Absynthe

2.  Magazeen

3. Marinelli

4. Acquia Marina

5.  SandTiger

6. Scruffy

7.  AD Lemon Twist

8. Typebased

9.  Algaglas Theme

10. Orange Theme

Only use matching versions of themes with Drupal. Themes released for Drupal 5.x will not work for Drupal 6.x. To preview more free themes, visit the Drupal Themes OR third-party site ThemeGarden.org

Users of Google Chrome on Linux, Mac and Windows machines were automatically upgraded Thursday to a new browser version that addresses several security bugs and features a fully integrated Flash multimedia player for the first time. Google Vice President of Engineering Linus Upson believes browser users will benefit in several different ways from Chrome’s integration of Adobe Systems’ Flash technology for the web.

“When users download Chrome, they will also receive the latest version of Adobe Flash Player” as well as “automatically receive updates related to Flash Player using Google Chrome’s auto-update mechanism,” Upson wrote in a blog. “There will be no need to install Flash Player” or “manually download separate updates,” which “reduces the security risk of using outdated versions.”

Flash Player 10.1 Unleashed

Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 became available for desktops and notebooks on June 10. Among other things, the new version automatically shuts down content running in the player whenever the machine’s available memory runs low, Adobe Senior Engineering Director Paul Betlem wrote in a blog. Additionally, Flash Player apps will use significantly less CPU resources whenever the content is idle, consuming less power.

With Google Chrome’s integration of Adobe Flash, the two companies “have obviously done extra integration work here that other browser makers have not done,” said Al Hilwa, director of applications development software at IDC. “So outside of Chrome, people will get the standard Flash 10.1 plug-in.”

As an integral part of Chrome, Flash technology brings a lot of benefits, though realizing all of them fully may be a work in progress, Hilwa observed. “There is a potential reduction in complexity initially and potentially improved reliability and performance due to the combined testing and deeper integration,” Hilwa said. “In the long run, this type of integration is the only way to coordinate what the browser and the plug-in do together.”

Browsers don’t check Flash cookies or data storage when they tell users that their cookies and history have been deleted, Hilwa explained, because browser mechanisms don’t usually integrate with plug-in mechanisms. “With deeper integration of the two, they can potentially work in a concerted fashion to delete histories and cookies,” he said.

What’s more, Flash Player 10.1 is supposed to automatically manage stored data according to the private browsing settings in Chrome, Hilwa observed. “So when someone activates private browsing in Chrome, it is also activated in Flash Player,” he said.

HTML5 Versus Flash

Adobe’s collaboration with Google on Flash also extends to Android-powered mobile devices, with both companies seeing the benefits of working together to counter Apple’s Flash ban on iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch. Though Apple CEO Steve Jobs has stressed his preference for HTML5, which can help improve experiences for text-based content, some analysts don’t see HTML5 as a viable alternative to player-based technologies for designing rich, highly functional user experiences.

Still, Google sees the merit of harnessing the power of HTML5 in a browser that also fully integrates Flash. For example, Google’s Chrome development team has been working to incorporate a number of HTML5 features into Chrome, such as geolocation APIs, app cache, web sockets, and file drag and drop.

“For a taste of HTML5′s powerful features, try browsing through web sites developed in HTML5 such as scribd.com, dragging and dropping attachments in Gmail, or by enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps,” wrote Chrome Product Manager Brian Rakowski in a blog.

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YouTube weighed in Wednesday on the question of whether HTML5 is ready to replace Flash Player as the preferred video-distribution vehicle for the web — an idea first proposed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in April. According to a new YouTube blog post, Adobe Flash currently provides the best platform for meeting the video-distribution requirements of the online service.

Though the video support built into HTML5 enables YouTube to deliver most of the service’s content and features to computers and other devices that don’t support Flash Player, YouTube software engineer John Harding observed that HTML5 has substantial shortcomings.

“We’ve been excited about the HTML5 effort and video tag for quite a while now, and most YouTube videos can now be played via our HTML5 player,” Harding wrote in a blog. “This work has shown us that, while the video tag is a big step forward for open standards, the Adobe Flash platform will continue to play a critical role in video distribution.”

Flash Player Advantages

According to Harding, one of the drawbacks of HTML5 is that the next major revision of the HTML standard currently under development does not address video-streaming protocols. By contrast, Flash Player provides fine control over buffering as well as dynamic quality control, Harding wrote.

“Flash Player addresses these needs by letting applications manage the downloading and playback of video via ActionScript in conjunction with either HTTP or the RTMP video-streaming protocol,” Harding wrote.

Furthermore, Harding observed that Flash Player’s ability to combine application code and resources into a secure, efficient package has been instrumental in enabling YouTube videos to be embedded in other web sites. “While HTML5 adds sandboxing and message-passing functionality, Flash is the only mechanism most web sites allow for embedded content from other sites,” he wrote.

Other Flash Player advantages over HTML5 include the ability to enable the viewing of high-definition videos in full-screen mode, which Harding noted has not historically been possible with pure HTML.

“While most browsers have a full-screen mode, they do not allow JavaScript to initiate it, nor do they allow a small part of the page — such as a video player — to fill the screen,” Harding explained. “Flash Player provides robust, secure controls for enabling hardware-accelerated full-screen displays.”

Customer Experience Advice

Customer experience professionals also need to be aware of HTML5′s shortcomings when it comes to designing rich, highly functional user experiences, noted Ronald Rogowski, a principal analyst at Forrester Research.

The downside to using HTML5 right now “is that it could lead to inconsistent experiences across today’s browsers,” Rogowski cautioned in a blog. HTML5 also “compromises performance for graphics-heavy experiences, [and] will require that users download a browser that supports the technology,” he wrote.

One big advantage of Adobe Flash is that the technology is already ubiquitous. “Over 99 percent of all Internet users have downloaded it into their browsers, often to view video content,” noted Al Hilwa, director of application development software at IDC.

Rogowski sees a few places where HTML5 can help improve user experiences today, such as providing an improved experience for people with disabilities. At the moment, however, Rogowski doesn’t think HTML5 is a viable platform for delivering next-generation rich Internet content and functionality.

“Forrester recommends using HTML5 as a way to enhance text-based content experiences while looking to more established technologies like Flash and Silverlight to build high-functional applications,” Rogowski wrote.

News Provider : Mark Long From News Factor Network

People, other than designers and photographers , know photoshop  just because its Photo Manipulation abilities and features.  This is a well known fact that photoshop is used mostly for photo manipulation. Photo Manipulation is a art form which can be called an ever evolving collaboration between photography and graphic designing.  Creative minds have no limits and Photo Manipulation shows that. It gives realistic view to totally unrealistic  pictures and ideas.

This is the presentation of some of the best manipulated photoshop photos of Human body. Some are scary,some are fun and some are really master piece. I hope you will love these photos.  We are just sharing these amazingly creative photos , all the credit goes to its creators and designers.

In One of our previous posts, we tried to present 32 best social bookmarking icons that you can download and use on your websites or blog and here is new set of social icon which is first freebie created by us for our visitors and readers. We are trying to provide some quality freebies graphics, designs or Web 2.0 goodies each month, which can help you to make your site or blog more elegant.

Here is our first release of freebies :  Crystal Ball Social Icons – 30 Social Bookmarking Icons For Free

Below you can download all these social icons. 30 Social Icons are in three different sizes of 46×42 , 52×64 and 75×85 .

3D Text Effects are everywhere nowadays On movies posters, all over TV Channels, on covers of new products and on popular web brands.

3D Text Effect not only throw the meaning of its text it also make text looks like a brand logo or brand introduction.Here are some top 3D text effects images and their tutorials which i managed to put together after searching for best ones on the internet.

1. Super 3D Text Scene With A Natural Background (Desert Background)

2. How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text

3. 3D typographic effects in Photoshop

4.  Creating a Beautiful 3D Text Composition Effect

5.  Stunning 3D Effects for Text

6.   Create an Elegant 3D Flowery Text Effect

7. Creating A Floral 3D Text Effect

8.  Fantastic 3D Text Art in Photoshop

9. Dramatically 3D layering Text Effect

10.   3D Colorful Text Effect in Photoshop

HTML 5 – The new markup language for cyberspace. We are on the edge of next step of the internet evolution. As you know HTML is the core language of online world. Every basic thing on web development starts from HTML and its templates. HTML 5 is next major upgrade of HTML. But, stop that is not it. HTML 5 is making and breaking some major things on Web, So watch out…….

What is HTML 5 ?

HTML 5 is the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. This new revision of HTML incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Google Gears. HTML5 introduces a number of new elements and attributes that reflect typical usage on modern websites.

Battle Begins Flash Vs HTML5 On iPad

Header, Footer, Navigation Menu and Main Content - These are the common parts of every webpage or website you see on your browser today. So here HTML5 Comes which has element for almost every common thing of modern websites. Here are Some new elements that are being introduced in HTML5

New Elements Added in HTML5 Forms

article, aside, audio, canvas, command, datalist, details, embed, figcaption, figure, footer, header, hgroup, keygen, mark, meter, nav, output, progress, rp, rt, ruby, section, source, summary, time, video

New Methods Added in HTML5 Forms

PUT and DELETE   (Previously there was two : GET and POST)

To see more Additions and changes of HTML5.  Please Visit Wikipedia Here

Why HTML 5 is needed ?

There are certain expectations of website interface today and modern web pages usually end up rehashing a lot of the same code to do navigation, searches and other functionality that every website has. HTML5 abstracts much of this functionality to save us time and bandwidth. New features include integration of video and audio without any java scripting or fancy tricks. You can also now pull off tricks like drag and drop interfaces, online document editing and much more without costly custom coding that may not be compatible across the board.

Youtube and HTML5

HTML5 has several goals which differentiate it from HTML4.

The primary one is consistent, defined error handling. As you know, HTML purposely supports ‘tag soup’, or the ability to write malformed code and have it corrected into a valid document. The problem is that the rules for doing this aren’t written down anywhere. When a new browser vendor wants to enter the market, they just have to test malformed documents in various browsers (especially IE) and reverse-engineer their error handling. If they don’t, then many pages won’t display correctly (estimates place roughly 90% of pages on the net as being at least somewhat malformed).

So, HTML5 is attempting to discover and codify this error handling, so that browser developers can all standardize and greatly reduce the time and money required to display things consistently. As well, long in the future after HTML has died as a document format, historians may still want to read our documents, and having a completely defined parsing algorithm will greatly aid this.

The secondary goal of HTML5 is to develop the ability of the browser to be an application platform, via HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Many elements have been added directly to the language that are currently (in HTML4) Flash or JS-based hacks, such as <canvas>, <video>, and <audio>. Useful things such as Local Storage (a js-accessible browser-builtin sql database, for storing information beyond what cookies can hold), new input types such as date for which the browser can expose easy user interface (so that we don’t have to use our js-based calendar date-pickers), and browser-supported form validation will make developing web applications much simpler for the developers, and make them much faster for the users (since many things will be supported natively, rather than hacked in via javascript).

There are many other smaller efforts taking place in HTML5, such as better-defined semantic roles for existing elements (<strong> and <em> now actually mean something different, and even <b> and <i> have vague semantics that should work well when parsing legacy documents) and adding new elements with useful semantics – <article>, <section>, <header>, <aside>, and <nav> should replace the majority of <div>s used on a web page, making your pages a bit more semantic, but more importantly, easier to read. No more painful scanning to see just what that random </div> is closing – instead you’ll have an obvious </header>, or </article>, making the structure of your document much more intuitive.

How Html5 Document looks ?

Below is the image of basic format difference between html4 and html5.

Basic HTML4 And HTML5 Differences

Social Bookmarking and sharing is getting bigger and bigger. Social sites provides tons of traffic to many nice and resourceful blogs and sites. Just take a look on the best 32 social bookmarking icons that work like eye candy for visitors. All these icon sets are collected at this one place from all over the web. I hope you will like some icon sets for your site or blog

Click On the images to go to download page of these icons .

1.  Round Web Social Icons Set

2.  Cafe Icons Set

3. Extended Social Icons Set

4. Web 2.0rigami

5. Glossy Social Bookmark Iconset

6.  Color Stroked Free Hand Social Icons Set

7.  Cheers Social Icons

8.  Heart: A Free Social Icon Set

9.  13 free social bookmark icons

10.  Social Post Stamps Icons

11.  Fresh Social Website Icons

12.  Wooden Social Icons Set

13.  Leather style social icon

14.  Social Icons By Scoial.me

15.  IconTexto WebDev Social Bookmark

16.  Social Networking Icons Set

17.  Fly social icon set

18. DelliCake Social Icon

19. Vector Social Icons

20. Icecream Social Icons set

21.  Polaroid Icons

22. Bottle social icons set

23.  Basic web 2.0  Social Icons

24.  Wooden Social Networking Icons Set

25.  Square Bookmarks & Social Icons Set

26.  Hand Drawn Social Icons Set

27.   Social Bookmark Sketchy Icons

28.  Handy Social Media Icons

29.   Social Web Buttons – WebFruits Blog

30.  Handycons

31.  Glowing Social Icons

32.  Social Icons Sticker

Every Web 2.0 site is all about sharing and socializing which points large amount of traffic to these sites.  Millions of Visitors or users keep returning to these sites. Web 2.0 sites try to encourage participation and that is what drive all designers and developers to try and  make new flashy-Glossy website logos and designs. Different type of fonts are used and being used to make nice web 2.0 logos. Here are some popular web 2.0 sites and their respective content and logo fonts, that provide new look all together.

	Content Font : Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif Logo font: Alternate Gothic No. Two
	Content Font: lucida grande,tahoma,verdana Logo Gont : Klavika (customized)
	Content Font: sans-serif Logo Font: Hoefler Text
	Content Font: verdana,arial,sans-serif,helvetica Logo Font: Arial Rounded Bold and Bell Gothic Black
	Content Font: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif Logo Font: Helvetica Rounded Bold
	Content Font: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif Logo Font: Digital Sans Medium
	Content Font: Arial,sans-serif Logo Font: Trade Gothic Bold
	Content Font: “Lucida Grande”,Arial,Sans-serif Logo Font: PICO Alphabet
	Content Font: “Helvetica Neue”,Helvetica,Arial Logo Font: Neo Sans Medium
	Content Font: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif Logo Font: Frutiger Black
	Content Font: arial,helvetica,sans-serif Logo Font: ITC Officina Bold
	Content Font: “Lucida Grande”,Arial,Verdana Logo Font:FF Meta Bold and Book