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    Flash on the iPhone followup

    May 9th, 2008

    This is a folllow up to last weeks post on Open Screen and the lack of interest from Apple.

    I was watching Kevin Lynch’s presentation on the goals of Adobe for future deployments of AIR and he demonstrated the desired path for Adobe. He talked about the new Open Screen alliance and the goals of a unified flash player and a unified AIR runtime deployed across the many partners and devises.

    Kevin specifically mentioned that Adobe would imagine a workflow where developers would build an application for a mobile devise running within the AIR runtime and be able to deploy the same application to a pc as well. The mockup images below show the Adobe media player running on a devise and then the same application running on a Windows desktop.

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    ImageDropr Public Beta

    April 30th, 2008

    The ImageDropr public beta has begun. To try the beta please install here.

    Here are some new screen shots:

    The application on load after dropping a few images.

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    Do a Screen Capture with Adobe AIR

    April 24th, 2008

    I have created a sample AIR application that takes screen shots and saves them to disc. Impossible? Well yes it would be impossible if I were only using AIR. However, thanks to the Merapi Java bridge, we have new functionality exposed to AIR. Yes, it is true that currently there is no shell execute functionality from AIR to start up the Java service. Hopefully, this will change with future versions of AIR.
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    Digital Primates Merger

    December 6th, 2007
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    I just wanted to offer my congratulations to my friends Michael Labriola, Mike Nimer, and Jeff Taper on their recent merger of Digital Primates and Taper, Nimer, & Associates.

    I am sure we are in for some amazing work being done by these outstanding developers. Best wishes for tremendous success!


    Apollo - Best Examples Correction

    May 17th, 2007

    Whoops :-( My apologies, there was a bug in the comments screen. All is working now and you may post your Best of Apollo apps using the comment sections of the posts below:

    Best Example using the File API

    Best Example using the Windowing API

    Best Example using Transparency

    Best Example using the HTML Controls

    Best Example of Mashups

    Best Example using Rich content