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Build iPhone Apps with upcoming Flash CS5

jeremias — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:29:23 -0800

Upcoming Flash CS5 will allow you to publish iPhone Apps. Today at Adobe MAX, Adobe announced that the upcoming Flash CS5 will allow you to build and export Flash Content as an iPhone App. This is not the same as Flash coming to the iPhone, it just means that instead of writing apps in Objective-C, folks can use ActionScript 3. Designers everywhere are already buzzing:perhaps time to re-purpose all those old intro screens? Perhaps the real question is: Do consumers win or lose?

Adobe UI Gripes

nthdegx — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:28:34 -0800

Adobe UI Gripes

Adobecards

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:13:20 -0800

Adobecards - an aesthetic Flash-based advertisement for a new Adobe product

Dear Adobe,

sero_venientibus_ossa — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:04:09 -0800

Dear Adobe is a site that allows users to rant/rave (mostly rant) about all things adobe, and to vote the rants & raves of others up or down (top 25). Apparently Adobe is taking notice.

Annoying Software : A Rogue's Gallery.

Afroblanco — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:17:11 -0800

Annoying Software : A Rogue's Gallery. (single-page version). Software that makes us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented. High on their list : Adobe Reader, Java, RealPlayer, and Flash. #1 - Adobe Reader #2 - Apple #3 - Windows Update #4 - RealPlayer #5 - Java #6 - Yahoo #7 - Norton Antivirus #8 - Preinstalled software bundles #9 - Outlook/Exchange #10 - Flash

Buzzword

blue_beetle — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:40:53 -0800

Buzzword is a fancy new online word processor by Adobe. (flash based)

If You're Into Colors Check Out Kuler

rmmcclay — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:41:36 -0800

Everyone needs more Kuler. There a lot of color pickers out there...and I generally like all of them...but Kuler takes things a step further by making a community of color and color themes. Of course it's tied with their products but that doesn't distract from the usefulness of this free online application. It is also a beautifully designed website both in form and function.

Microsoft Expression

thisisdrew — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:39:17 -0800

Designing With Microsoft? Evidently this is Microsoft's attempt at competition with 'Macrodobe', the strange, hybrid beast (lumbering?) that is the combined Macromedia/Adobe merger. Microsoft has launched a full suite of products taking aim at Dreamweaver, (is it better?) Illustrator-Photoshop and Flash. For many designers who pretend to be developers (or vica versa) Microsoft's new "Expression" will be 3 or 4 orders of magnitude less relevant than that old Corel Suite. The central issue seems to be one of credibility: Can Microsoft escape the seemingly permanent "FrontPage" stigma, not to mention even more recent design community letdowns?

An open letter to John Warnock

DrJohnEvans — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:11:33 -0800

An open letter to John Warnock. "Please consider releasing eight to twelve core fonts into the public domain. The amount of revenue lost from a small core set of fonts surely can’t have a significant impact on Adobe’s bottom line."

Copy Detected

Pretty_Generic — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:31:22 -0800

dont pirate software cos if you do the cd will keep coming out of the drive and then you will look silly and injure your employer by making him trip over ADOBE RECOMMENDS GENUINE SOFTWARE THXBI [flash]

3D models for Adobe Reader 7

nthdegx — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:54:06 -0800

Some nifty 3D models for test-driving the Universal 3D capabilities of Adobe Reader 7.

Apple Takes a Swing at Photoshop

silusGROK — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:05:30 -0800

Apple announces Aperture: their answer to the professional photograph editing market. I wonder what the folks at Adobe think about this? I know I'm just aching for something, _anything_ to compete with Adobe — as its customer service went down the tubes a few years back.

Open Source Flash

Tlogmer — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:08:20 -0800

Open Source Flash

The 2005 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

tpl1212 — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:14:40 -0800

The 2005 Adobe Design Achievement Awards , which "celebrate student achievement that reflects the powerful convergence of technology and creative arts." You can also browse past winners from 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001 [via]...

Adobe to buy Macromedia

jonknee — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:03:11 -0800

Adobe to buy Macromedia I almost choked when I saw this press release, Adobe is going to buy out Macromedia for $3.4 billion in stock. Adobe is paying about $9 over the current share price, which means the investors will make out nicely. With the two largest design software companies becoming one, the new Adobe will be a monopoly (if it isn't already with Photoshop). I just hope they remove the ability to make really annoying Flash movies...

A New Approach

knave — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:06:00 -0800

Unexpected Features in Acrobat 7: A company called Remote Approach offers a feature to PDF authors to allow them to track the dissemination of their documents. Linux Weekly News reports, "After doing a little research, we found that Adobe's Reader was connecting to http://www.remoteapproach.com/remoteapproach/logging.asp each time we opened the document."

Here we go again

jeremias — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:10:05 -0800

Adobe announces new round of design applications. Inspring groans from designers everywhere who just got used to the CS apps, Adobe announced today CS2, 18 months after the last version. Included in the updates are Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Golive and a new component called Bridge. The only hitch in the planned obsolescence model is that all the applications will now require product activation, thereby inspiring crackers everywhere to get busy.

Reading rainbow?

O9scar — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:21:05 -0800

There is nothing wrong in this whole wide world. Artist Chris Cobb convinced Adobe Bookshop in San Francisco to allow him to reclassify 20,000 books based solely on their color. The result is like something out of a dream. Here are some pictures, and here's an interview with him.

David, Herman and Mighty Mouse vs. Goliath

poopy — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:11:22 -0800

Developers gripe about IE standards inaction "Seeking to goad Microsoft into action, digital document giant Adobe Systems last week unveiled a deal to bolster support for CSS in its GoLive Web authoring tool with technology from tiny Web browser maker Opera Software..." ( via Stopdesign )

What software version numbers really mean

jeremias — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:14:58 -0800

What software version numbers really mean. Not sure who started the latest trend of dropping version numbers from software. We could always blame Microsoft with Windows ME . But Macromedia is at fault too with the whole MX thing. And MX doesn't even stand for anything. Now Adobe is getting into the mix. There will be no Photoshop 8 or Illustrator 11. Just CS . So is this a good thing? Version numbers may not be exciting but it sure did make it easy to keep track of the latest upgrade.

Adobe's Mac Support Wavering?

jonson — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:40:50 -0800

A study posted at Adobe's website describes how traditionally Mac-centric tasks (rendering using After Effects, Illustrator & Photoshop) are all faster on a PC. These kinds of studies are a dime a dozen; what's interesting isn't which platform is faster, but that Adobe would host a page proclaiming the PC is the "preferred" platform for such tasks. Given the notoriously fickle folks at Quark, I would have pegged Adobe as the biggest Mac boosters in the third party software market. Are times changing?

banished — Fri, 03 May 2002 02:22:56 -0800

Adobe has won 2.8 million from Macromedia for "patent infringements." Apparently Macromedia may be forced to pull Flash MX from their product line. As an avid Flash-developer I am personally affected. Is there something that we can do about this?

kirkaracha — Sat, 06 Apr 2002 14:36:52 -0800

According to Amazon, Photoshop 7 is shipping on April 20. The list price is $149 (same as direct from Adobe), and they've got a $20 mail-in rebate on Photoshop (and a bunch of other programs) until April 25. Plus, you can get free shipping if you select Super Saver Shipping. Can't wait...I just need this and Flash MX and I'll be all OS X, all the time.

dilok — Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:43:58 -0800

Photoshop 7.0 for OS X finally released!

Su — Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:24:05 -0800

Scriptographer is an Adobe Illustrator plugin that allows usage of Javascript to extend the functionality of the program. Looks really interesting. Short on examples right now, but the documentation and whatnot is all there. [Note: Major dHTML usage on the page. No stupid window resizing and such, though.]