FLASH PRO 9 Preview: FLASH PLAYER 9 : ON AIR!

Its a me too post.
Flash Player 9
FLASH PRO 9 Preview
Flex 2 is released!

AWESOME!

ADOBE-Ellison's Next Target , says FOOL.

An article posted by The Motley Fool predicts a possible takeover of Adobe by Oracle.And the projected reason is pretty much the same old stuff, Giant with slow organic growth swallowing smaller faster competitor and blah blah blah.. But the article contradicts in its own claims! It calls Adobe a "fast growing competitor" and then points at declining revenue. While Forbes says the declining revenue is a short term one, since [we] developers are waiting for the next release of flash IDE and other suits[ true in my case],the Fool article doesnt say anything about it. Looks like a quick assignment for Ryan Fuhrmann.

ADOBE BUSINESS

A great article that touches everything from current business slowdown to future perfect Apollo is here.

Flash in Forbes

With video content delivery booming,Forbes has published an article about Flash today.Eventhough Flash gets a good coverage, i dont think Adobe is going to get any advantage out of this.Its going to be RED5. {read the article here}

FlashLite has Moved!

Sorry about about this late notification ,but the flashlite part of this blog has a new home. Go there!!

Fun Cartoon To prevent Child Abuse??!!

Just came across this campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi for NSPCC to prevent child abuse. But i deeply suspect if it will ever serve the purpose. The campaign features a funny looking charachter, who behaves totally funny when he is being "abused".
The campaign resembles more to tom and jerry show where a rat is being "abused" sooo badly that all of us[we,12 yr olds!] laugh.I think this campaign will have almost the same impact.Its just a failure.Infact, it could even encourage someone try out the " funny side" of child abuse.

The Flashlite Business

Motley Fool has published a really cool article[by Bobby Shethia] on Adobe business, and talks a lot about Flashlite,the money involved and more.

Its here

Flashlite in S60 {WHITEPAPER TOO!}

s60.com has included a section on Flashlite alongside Java. And they have a white paper too !
The point worth noting is that, the white paper actually says :
"Flash Lite 2 will be available for wide implementation in devices starting with S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1.Also Nokia Series 40 plans to implement support for Flash Lite 2."
Aint that awesome??!!

BYHOOK

Just came across this site with some really cooool animation{video} Requires Flash 8

49 O - RIGHT NOT TO VOTE

49 O is the right by which, a person can decline to vote for any candidates that represent his locality.This is by far, one of the most extreme of all democratic rights.
This option is available in India, and is granted based on The Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961
Basically, its an Indian citizen's right to NOT VOTE.The bottom line is, if all the candidates in your area are the ones you don't prefer, you can really speak out and say NO to all !! Now thats what you really call a RIGHT :)

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SECURITY VULNERABILITY IN FLASH PLAYER

A press release from Adobe on March 14 says about a security flaw,that could allow a malicious user to take control of a computer. Flash player is installed in more than 97.7% of internet enabled computers. It was distributed with Windows XP SP1 and SP2 updates, which explains how widely it is available. But to find details about this security problem, you have to go to
Home / Developer Center / Security Topic Center / Security Zone /

First of all ,only content developers visit Developer center. This means that you have to be extra ordinarily security savvy and should keep track of these kind of security issues all the time.Does a normal computer user ever do that?? I dont think so.

Again , if you hear about this problem and go to MM site for an update, you have to hunt it down!
They have updated the downloadable player with the new fixed one,but says nothing about an update or anything.

Taking into consideration the penetration level of Flash player,Adobe should act in a more responsible way.They should put information about things like this in BIG BLOCK LETTERS.

Stand-Alone uninstaller for F 8.5

Here is a very interesting sequenze of events ,which almost lead to the release of F 8.5 standalone uninstaller .[Nah! Im just kidding! ]

FLEX FLEXY FLEXIER!

Flex 2.0 BETA released! And the spotlight..VIEW SOURCE.The much needed view source.Aint that cool ?? Get it here

MOZILLA NO:1 !

Might be not in the browser war,but in Google search!
Search for 1 on Google, and the top search result is Mozilla.We are loving it! In case you want to download Mozilla Firefox, use the "Get Fierfox" button on this blog (probably i will get a few freebies if you click on that! ).If you got a blog or something,get one of those buttons for you too!

32000$ DOG!

So how much does it cost you to feed a dog? Scott calculates 32000 USD! When he bought FARFEL through this classified ad ,he would have never expected that!

NO dot IN GMAIL!

The email service from the biggest dot com in the world dont recognize dot! If that sounds "interesting" take a look at this

OPEN SAUSE!

What will you do when you have absolutly no idea what open source is all about,and want to blog on it?Add to it the fact that you are "a small yapping dog frothing at the mouth after being scolded for crapping on the floor".Its there

Farris Hassan - Dumbass of the month

This too damn good! Its there.

VIDEO IN FLASHLITE 2.0

For those who havent yet listened to Bill Perry,here is a "shocking" news.
Flashlite 2.0 does not support flv!
Flashlite video support is dependent on device capabilities rather than the flash player capabilities.
Which essentially means that flashlite 2.0 content will support any format your phone supports.There is no phone with flash video support.Which means that ,if you have to provide flash content,make sure that the device has the codec support.
The safer side will be to provide content in 3gp/rm which is already widely availbale.
Video content in flashlite 2.0 can either be embedded into your file or it can be streamed from a server, in case the device support the specified streaming format.

Bill Gates in India.

I dont know what kind of genetic material he is made of but,he dared ask one question while visiting a slum.It goes like this:

"why are there no computers in this slum?"


Holy crap!! Is he really stupid or is he acting stupid?

[This is based on a speech he delivered while visiting India.The whole super human sentence goes like this: "Yesterday, I was with my wife in a slum. I looked around and asked why there were no computers. After all, there was electricity so why can't you teach those children simple computer skills and let them progress up the ladder?" ]