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HP Slate – Flash Player & AIR Demo

Hemanth Sharma — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:58:39 +0000

HP released a video introducing its tablet called the Slate that will run Windows 7 operating system and support Adobe Flash. To demonstrate that, HP posts a video with Adobe’s Alan Tam. He shows Adobe Air and Flash in action on the device.

Alan Tam from Adobe showcases H.264 video running on Flash Player (on Windows 7) on the HP slate smoothly, playing online games, music application using Flash and AIR, etc.. He also showcases Photoshop.com running on Flash Player running on the device. Finally, the well popular NYTimes reader is showcased in the video.

Watch the demo of Adobe Flash Player & AIR and read more about the gadget on the HP blog.

HP released a video introducing its tablet called the Slate that will run Windows 7 operating system and support Flash

Flash Symbian Packager – Helisso

Hemanth Sharma — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:36:16 +0000

As AIR 2.0 is down the line ticking time for the release, the current BETA AIR 2.0 has got one of the best examples a developer can build. Helisso – A Symbian Packager developed in AS3 for AIR 2.0.

Mark Doherty, platform evangelist has posted complete details of the app Helisso on his blog. Also demonstrating a video walkthrough.

If you want to get your content packaged with custom svg icon for S60 v3 and v5, this might be the tool for you.

Building iPhone Apps in CS5

Hemanth Sharma — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:18:12 +0000

Presentation by Mike Chambers, Principal Product Manager, Adobe. Very informative and useful if you are seeking help in improving performance of your App using CS5 for iPhone (for future use of course).

5 Years at Adobe!

Hemanth Sharma — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:17:30 +0000

Completed 5 years at Macromedia-Adobe!

India Game Dev Summit 2010 Pics

Hemanth Sharma — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:28:58 +0000

Find the pics below of today’s summit. It was good overall. My presentation was taken well. Responded well. I am not planning to post the source files of Labyrinth (with Accelerometer) online. Please wait for CS5 Then probably I will post all these…

Preparing last moment slides for the presentation

Harish presenting "Create, Distribute and Monetize your Games using Adobe Flash Platform"

My presentation - "Building Gaming Experiences for Mobile & Devices"

Me again...

I am trying to create simple Labyrinth in my presentation using Accelerometer (CS5 for FP10.1 & FL 4.0)

Emulating Labyrinth with Device Central CS5 using Accelerometer simulator (new)

Wrapping up my presentation with last slides...

India Game Dev Summit 2010 Slides

Hemanth Sharma — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:22:54 +0000

Here are my slides for India Game Developer Summit 2010 (today’s session).

Pics to follow…

Mobile World Congress 2010 Summary

Hemanth Sharma — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:08:07 +0000

Mark Doherty has posted the summary of MWC 2010.

FP10.1 Beta 3

Hemanth Sharma — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:59:23 +0000

Don’t forget to download Flash Player 10.1 Beta 3 on your desktops (Win ActiveX, Win Plugin, Mac Plugin, Linux Plugin from Adobe Labs.

Below are the list of bug fixes for Beta 3 as per the release notes in the page -

Installation:

Installers require administrator rights and should never launch on restricted user accounts (with UAC off) on Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Graphics:

DisplayObjects with overlapping strokes sometimes disappears when redrawn
[FP-3621] Removing and re-adding a Flash movie from the DOM using removeChild and appendChild causes display issues in Internet Explorer
[FP-2290] PerspectiveProjections have problems with click events
3D Facebook game renders incorrectly in Beta 1 and Beta 2 (http://apps.facebook.com/dealornodeallive/)

Networking:

The Settings dialog doesn’t correctly allow Local Storage requests. (2485167)

Audio/Video:

[FP-3567] Firefox Crash/Hang when running music on Playlist.com
[FP-3921] Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 crashes Internet Explorer 8 in 32bit mode on Playlist.com
In Firefox, clicking quickly on the stop music / play music button before it has completed loading the music, causes a crash (Bugzilla 542164)
[FP-3675] Windows energy saving does not work after viewing video in full-screen mode
Support for the Broadcom BCM70015 (“FLEA”) hardware decoder support is not yet enabled.
NetStream.Buffer.Full event is not fired correctly. Site in question – http://www.cracked.com/video_18108_the-battle-h-town.html. (2501240)
On Broadcom graphics accelerators, NetStream.Step.Notify event doesn’t fire when seeking backwards on video playback.
Video loads slowly or crashes on Internet Explorer when using Nvidia graphics card.

What’s New in FP10.1 and AIR2

Hemanth Sharma — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:11:23 +0000

Here is an informative presentation by Serge Jespers describing new features of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.

For more information and source files of this presentation, visit the original blog entry.

Flash Player – How We Test…

Hemanth Sharma — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:47:00 +0000

For people who comment/write about Flash Player crashing on their machines, do report a bug in our Bug Management Tool.

For more information on the Flash Player stability, Kevin has written a note that’s worth reading just to know the effort taken to make it stable.

Via Mark.

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_content_and_app.html#comment-2137153