Whoa. Phonegap in CS6 looks really wild!

Our fabulous instructor Lawrence just showed me what he’ll be covering in the continuation of his PhoneGap course. We’re holding off until CS6 is out, and we can demonstrate some of what’s featured in this preview from Adobe. Wait till you see QR Code at the end. How weird is that?!?  Maybe I’ll start pointing [...]

Flash CS6, the new Sprite Sheet maker / HTML5 exporter?!

Well the Adobe CS6 line is getting ever closer to release, so I guess its time I start looking into what’s ahead.  To be honest, I grimace a little every time there’s a new version because I can’t avoid the inevitable spend,  its hundreds straight out of my pocket, regardless of whether the upgrade is [...]

The Big Adobe News Today

A couple people wanted to hear my thoughts on this…. http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html … and I’m an optimist, so I think its a really good thing from an innovation standpoint. It does sound like the War is over and Adobe is conceding defeat, but I’ve been on an iPhone for years now, and its felt that way to me [...]

Adobe Edge Preview hits the Labs

Well this is darn easy to use. I just downloaded it and within a couple minutes moved an image around a bit and saved it as an HTML5 animation. All you do is hit Save and you’ll get a whole slew of files .css, .js, .html, some Edge include files and an Edge project file [...]

Flash 11 Beta is in the Lab!

Lab link here. And whats awaiting you in this version… Stage3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering Flash Access Content Protection Support for Mobile Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Support G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony Garbage Collection Advice Cubic Bezier Curves Secure Random Number Generator Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) and Flash Access Enhancements Socket Progress Events Native [...]

Adobe Nav. Huh.

Okay, this is just odd to me. Adobe has made an iPad app called Adobe Nav which will let you choose your most used Photoshop tools, and then…(wait for it)…select them in Photoshop on your desktop computer. Right. So instead of using a hot key or selecting those same tools with the mouse, you can [...]

ADT command. AIR 2.6. Troubleshooting. I’m on a Mac Sigh.

First off. I’m not that bright. And I’m definitely not classically trained with old school computing like using command lines. Command lines scare me. Everytime I open a command prompt I feel like I’ve entered The Matrix and immediately gone blind and died. Anyway, here’s whats up… Adobe just updated the AIR 2.6 runtime, which [...]

AIR 2.6 Update (pay attention Android developers submitting to Amazon)

For those of you making AIR to Android apps , you might want to head over and download the latest runtime (AIR 2.6) and read the official word from Adobe. It sounds like the packager for the iOS has some big improvements regarding playback (which was definitely very sluggish before) And this update to 2.6 is [...]

Adobe, the Cable Guy?

Maybe but not really. This is something my dad and I have talked about for years, which is this idea of “TV/ movies everywhere”.  For example, he and I have both bought the Big Lewbowski and Groundhog Day on every format possible (including those now dead non-blue-boxed HD DVDs).  Which the studios obviously love because [...]

Flash to HTML5 Converter

Awwww yeah, its about time right?? Actually, I think Adobe is WAY ahead of the game in releasing this converter. Here’s the official words from the officials at Adobe labs… “Wallaby” is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML. This allows you [...]