Posts Tagged ‘Adobe’

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Adobe Flash in Windows Mobile to get as good as possible sooner than later

September 29th, 2008

image

Flash Support is something that Windows Mobile users have enjoyed even if by forcing it for some time now. the “even if by forcing it” part involves serious tinkering from the user unless they are willing to buy the new Opera Mobile in order to enjoy good support for it. even with good support. that only meant being able to see flash 8 and low end Flash 9 video and games. this don`t allows you to be able to enjoy high end flash 9 or Flex 3.0 apps yet. (unless you are running SkyFire of course but that is not via the device). good flash is meant to happen sooner than later if you believe what JkOnTheRun are reporting from Adobe:

“During the current Mobilize panel, we’re hearing from Gary Kovacs, the VP and General Manager of Adobe. He knows how important it is these days for Flash support in the browser and says that we will see Flash in an upcoming Windows Mobile browser for sure. Native flash support has been bounced around for years, but it sounds like it’s coming to fruition sooner rather than later.”

While that may sound vague. i can actually state that flash should indeed coming to Windows Mobile users. just with a catch. it comes in to ways. one from a better way to install the Flash Plugin from Adobe to those using WM5 and WM6. and one that should come to those using WM6.1 or with what looks to be a one of a kind update for WM users. there will be a update for WM 6.1 users that will bring a new IE browser(IEM) for Windows Mobile 6.1 and that should come with the new Flash. why?. because if memory serves me right. Microsoft has already officially licensed Flash for WM from Adobe. so there is a 90% chance i am right on that second part.

This of course means that now all Flash Widgets will work while browsing in a WM device. but it will still requires you to have either a good device or only be running the browser since Flash will still be resource hungry.

via jkOnTheRun

2 comments »

Posted in Mobile

Tags:

Adobe Reader 9 with Flash support is released. now you can have Widgets inside your PDF files

July 3rd, 2008

image

Gotta hand it to Adobe. they  truly know how to protect their products. with the advent of PDF readers and writers superior, easier and cheaper to Adobe Reader like Foxit Reader, Adobe knows the only way to protect the PDF business is not only to add better support and more options with the tools but add interesting features.

So now you can have the pricey but really most advanced PDF reader and creator. series 9 brings all kind of security, support, DRM but more important Flash and Flex inside documents. you can images, video, animations, games, widgets (yes, quite cool)  ,add Flash or Flex apps inside the documents with 3D object support and native set of controls for your apps. hell, you can even place Ads inside your documents now,get remote printing, make online forms and submit them right away or collaborate with other via Adobe Connect with it.

Insane set of features. but if what you care about is to check the new Flash support then just download the Free Adobe Reader 9

Adobe Reader 9

1 comment »

Posted in Misc

Tags:

Adobe announces that flash can now be indexed by search engines,widget makers rejoice

July 2nd, 2008

image

Up to this moment. all Flash driven websites and Flash widgets out in the web are not search engine friendly. that means that in terms of SEO and SEP. all of that is invisible. but soon it will be very visible

Adobe has announced that they have released a SWF file specification to make possible for search engines to read the text and identify  the text in Flash files. This don`t means all Flash will be indexed. just the most obvious and important parts. this will allow flash files to be identified  and indexable  by search engines.

FLV files are not included into this new searchable flash future at the moment.

Google say it is ready to go

Google has already entered into the fry with this new SWF file specification and have developed a algorithm just for it that should start running very soon. they have also provided a FAQ for what this all means:

Improved Flash indexing via Google Search Blog

Adobe has also said that Yahoo will be using that new specification soon. and also enhances that this makes the future of RIA web even better, etc.

What About of Flash Widgets?

In the term of Widgets this is going to be a big thing too. Widgets getting SEO and SEP friendly can generate interesting scenarios where if you search for “Media player widget” in a search engine. you will be greeted with the page for widgets like that in the first page of results and that pretty much all the results in a first page can get to lead to widget pages depending the case. that enhance the theory of the “Website in a widget” theory. This is because now the flash files can carry text and keywords for the search engine to identify and even get associate a widget with a page. install widget pages would then turn the main search result depending on the widget popularity. at least that would be the best possible scenario.

Adobe Press Release – Adobe Flash Technology Enhances Search Results for Dynamic Content and Rich Internet Applications

via ReadWriteWeb

No comments »

Posted in Web 2.0

Tags:

Acrobat.com launches, Adobe consolidates digital document strategy and Adobe Share aims at Scribd iPaper

June 3rd, 2008

tmp149

A move that was 2 whole years in the making and it is finally here. Adobe launches Acrobat.com. the site that will serve as the central operations for Adobe whole online strategy and where it will extend their own version of Software + Services right now.

Acrobat.com is also serving as the perfect stage to offer Acrobat 9 and announce that it will now support Flash and later if announcements from one year ago don`t evaporate it will support the embedding of 3d objects, Advertising and even contextual controls inside a document allowing PDF documents to be 100% Internet Aware and work offline with whatever they had cached from the web (if you got a good version of Acrobat 9 of course).

Many have gone to the lengths of calling a Webtop and a Web Office competitor. this is still not true. Acrobat represents a new kind of beast of its own.

At this Launch Acrobat comes with 3 components:

  • Buzzword
  • Connect Now
  • Share

Widgets should come from the last one and they will be going for the Digital Document market as i had already stated before, so they are going after scribd and docstoc.

But Share and Share Widgets are not yet a competitor to the already quite advanced iPaper and neither have a document repository like scribd. it would be possible that Adobe may want to speed things up and acquire a start up in this area to dominate head on and from the start. so that is the thing to look for.

I hope this move forces Microsoft to accelerate their pace in Office Live and release their own Digital Document Widget given that such object already exist in prototypes.

But at least this means the start of  Flex web widgets showing up online. sea of changes in 2008. no doubt about it.

 Acrobat.com

1 comment »

Posted in Web 2.0

Tags:

Website maintained by Happy Shoe Media LLC