Tag: MACROMEDIA

It looks like Adobe is looking at getting a slice of the desktop media player pie, but they insist that they are playing on neutral ground. Adobe has just entered into the market with a flash based media player that is plainly not aimed at competing. The Adobe Media Player (formerly Philo) will work both online and on the desktop without a web browser using the Flash platform. The player has a ...

Microsoft is busy completing its first crack at knocking on Adobe's door by developing a suite of web and graphic design software called Expression Studio. The scheduled launch date is for the middle of 2007, and it will be selling for about $599 as a package. The software suite will include Expression Web, a revamped FrontPage, Expression Blend which is an interactive design tool previously ...

At long last, Linux users can finally get a version of Flash Player 9 that runs natively in their OS. Yesterday Adobe released a beta version of Flash Player 9 for Linux. Linux users have been waiting a very long time indeed for this release, having suffered with Flash Player 7 for years while Windows and Mac users got to play with Flash Player 8 and then 9. So, have any of our Linux brethren ...

I found this really intriguing video via kottke's remaindered links of a photographer who took a pic of himself every day for six years, and then threw all the images together into a movie. But this post isn't about the cool video - it's about Vimeo's Flash player controller. After pressing play, mouseover the video again and note the timeline controller that pops up. Now click anywhere in that ...

More than one blogger on the Download Squad team has privately bemoaned the fact that while Flash Player for Windows is up to version 9 (which includes handy features like multiple simultaneous file uploads), Flash Player for Linux has been stuck for some time at version 7. Believe it or not, Adobe hasn't forgotten about you Linux folk, and there's an entire team dedicated to bringing Flash up to ...

Yesterday we brought you Flickr Leech, a website built with Flickr's API to allow you to see 500 thumbnails at once. Today we bring you FlickrStorm, another web application built on Flickr's API, but this time built in Flash. FlickrStorm is in some ways more polished than Flickr Leech, but presents far fewer thumbnails - for raw browsing horsepower, Flicker Leech still wins. But where ...

During last week's Adobe Live event, Adobe announced that it would halt development of Freehand and GoLive, according to Macsimum News. The programs are the first to be axed since Adobe's acquisition of the company late last year. Their elimination is not unexpected, though, since the products overlapped Adobe's Illustrator and Macromedia's Dreamweaver, respectively. Though the programs' ...

Adobe has released a beta version of Flex 2.0, its "complete solution for building cross-platform Rich Internet Applications within the enterprise and across the web." What the heck does that mean? Basically it's a development environment for creating Flash apps. While I'm rather skeptical of the idea of creating enterprise apps that run in Flash Player (yes, that Flash Player), I admit ...

Flash Lite 2 was released this week, making it one of the first new products out of Macromedia since it became one with Adobe early last month. Flash Lite is intended to work on mobile and embedded devices and Adobe claims it has shipped on 45 million devices, and yesterday Adobe released an update to Flash Professional 8 that allows users to create Flash Lite 2 content. [Via O'Reilly Radar] ...