Posted by: arunbluebrain on: February 24, 2009
Pixel Bender is an exciting new technology by Adobe which brings video and image processing capabilities to the flash runtime. It allows you to create and apply filters to ‘bend’ pixels and create compelling animations which have never been possible in an HTML environment. Because Adobe AIR uses flash to load any HTML content, we [...]
Posted by: arunbluebrain on: January 27, 2009
Adobe launched a new Peer connection service called Adobe Stratus into beta. The service allows 2+ Flash Player 10 clients (or AIR 1.5 clients or mixed) connect directly to one another using a new protocol in Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5 called RTMFP (UDP based). With a Stratus developer key you can now write [...]
Posted by: arunbluebrain on: December 19, 2008
A month ago, at MAX conference in San Francisco, Adobe announced the immediate availability of the Adobe AIR 1.5 runtime and SDK for Mac and Windows. However, since the beginning of the AIR project when the AIR runtime was originally known by its code name Apollo, it has been [...]
Posted by: arunbluebrain on: December 8, 2008
One of my favorite features in Flash Player 10 is the ability to stream live audio/video via RTMFP, including “client-to-client direct” streaming, and a sweet new voice codec, Speex. If you want access to these features, there’s a way to try it all out in your Flex apps, right now.
First, let’s talk a little about [...]
Posted by: arunbluebrain on: December 7, 2008
Text Layout Framework for Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR® 1.5. The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. The framework is designed to be [...]