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Apple throws Adobe a bone — on the Mac

brad_strickland — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:30:16 +0000

Adobe’s Flash Player has never performed as well in Mac OS X as it does on Windows-running PCs. The traditionally poor performance of Adobe’s plugin on the Mac has led many iPhone and iPad users to support Apple’s decision to keep Flash off of its mobile devices. While the upcoming Flash 10.1 does boast some significant performance improvements over its predecessors, the performance is still pretty terrible compared to h.264, which has access to hardware-accelerated video decoding via the GPUs in Macs.

(Read the rest of the article via tuaw Apple throws Adobe a bone — on the Mac.)

Adobe Photoshop CS5′s Content-Aware Tools

brad_strickland — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:49:33 +0000

Adobe has released a video on the new content-aware feature in Photoshop. Wow! If you do a lot of photo retouching this is a feature worth paying for.

Flash Player 10.1 running on a Nexus One “Google Phone”

brad_strickland — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:39:38 +0000

Flash running on the Nexus One is no real surprise. Google has been working with Adobe for years to make Flash more indexable in it’s search engine. Everything performed well in the video, but it’s a video it’s suppose to perform well.

Will Apple start to allow Flash on the iPhone? Maybe?

Google is a huge advocate of web standards. Their search business model depends on an open and indexable internet. Perhaps they feel that the Adobe Flash 10.1 Player finally meets the minimum standards for a good net citizen? Or perhaps they have much less controller over the Nexus One, than Apple has over the iPhone and this is a concession to HTC? Both questions are speculation at this point. What isn’t speculation is that Apple has a worthy competitor to it’s iPhone and it runs Flash.

Deep linking for Flash and Ajax

brad_strickland — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:38 +0000

SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax. It’s a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a website section or an application state. SWFAddress enables a number of important capabilities which are missing in today’s rich web technologies including:

Bookmarking in a browser or social website
Sending links via email or instant messenger
Finding specific content with the major search engines
Utilizing browser history and reload buttons

Check it out at http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/

Search engine optimization for Flash

brad_strickland — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:57:10 +0000

I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Flash. Flash came along at a time when web development felt very restrictive for a creative person. Now in a world where web standards are spoken as gospel. Flash seems to have less and less of a role to play. Its biggest obstacle is the lack of good SEO optimization. Adobe, Google and Yahoo have been working to change that. As described in the below article excerpt.

This article contains excerpts from Search Engine Optimization for Flash, which dispels the myth that SWF-based websites won’t show up in a web search by demonstrating exactly what you can do to make your site fully searchable. You’ll learn best practices for using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—as well as SWFObject—for building sites with SWF content that will stand tall in search rankings.

Check out the article in its entirety at Adobe’s Developer connection.

How to Convert a PSD to XHTML

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:22:00 +0000

How to Convert a PSD to XHTML Screencast.

Check out the excellent screencast over at nettuts.com

Ask Adobe Why?

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:27:03 +0000

If you work in the web/print or video fields then you use adobe products. In the creative end of the computer industry they are the 800 l.b. gorilla in the room. Every wanted to ask Adobe why they did this? Why Photoshop does that? or just generally tell them to take a flying leap? Well have I found the site for you.

Dear Adobe

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