Adobe(r) Acrobat(r) Connect(tm) Pro Mobile for iPhone

Wow…if this works well at all, it would certainly be nice for attending webinars….

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id338279127?mt=8

 

Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on Nexus One

An interesting article on the Flash Mobile Blog: “Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on Nexus One.”

Happy 20th Birthday, Photoshop

I didn’t realize yesterday was Photoshop’s birthday! Adobe posted a nostalgic video as part of their efforts to commemorate the event. Is that Deborah Norville hosting?

“In this documentary, the founders of Adobe Photoshop - John Knoll, Thomas Knoll, Russell Brown, and Steve Guttman - tell the story of how an amazing coincidence of circumstances, that came together at just the right time 20 years ago, spawned a cultural paradigm shift unparalleled in our lifetime.”

Augmented Reality Tattoo

Interesting idea!

Bing Maps Presentation at TED

Pretty cool! Courtesy of Engadget:

“Blaise Aguera y Arcas' TED Talk where the Microsoft Live Labs architect and co-creator of Photosynth gives a sweet overview of the project as the foundation for a pretty robust augmented reality setup.”

Adobe AIR on Mobile Devices

Pretty cool: Adobe will be providing AIR for mobile devices! From the Press Release:

“BARCELONA, Spain. — Feb. 15, 2010 — At Mobile World Congress™ 2010, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced advancements to the Adobe® Flash® Platform including the unveiling of Adobe® AIR® on mobile devices, a consistent runtime for standalone applications to come out of the Open Screen Project™, an industry-wide initiative led by Adobe that has grown to close to 70 ecosystem partners. With support for the Android™ platform expected in 2010, AIR provides developers with a feature-rich environment for delivering rich applications outside the mobile browser and across multiple operating systems via mobile marketplaces and app stores. AIR leverages mobile specific features from Flash® Player 10.1, is optimized for high performance on mobile screens and designed to take advantage of native device capabilities for a richer and more immersive user experience.”

Siri

Siri seems like it has the potential to be a useful iPhone app! Downloading….

“Just like a real assistant, Siri understands what you say, accomplishes tasks for you and adapts to your preferences over time.”

http://siri.com/

 

Kevin Lynch on HTML 5

Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, posted an interesting blog entry: “Open Access to Content and Applications.” It’s a pretty thoughtful perspective on the whole iPhone/iPad closed ecosystem and the subsequent uproar about HTML5 as a Flash killer. Here’s an excerpt:

 

Longer term, some point to HTML as eventually supplanting the need for Flash, particularly with the more recent developments coming in HTML with version 5. I don't see this as one replacing the other, certainly not today nor even in the foreseeable future.

Adobe supports HTML and its evolution and we look forward to adding more capabilities to our software around HTML as it evolves. If HTML could reliably do everything Flash does that would certainly save us a lot of effort, but that does not appear to be coming to pass. Even in the case of video, where Flash is enabling over 75% of video on the Web today, the coming HTML video implementations cannot agree on a common format across browsers, so users and content creators would be thrown back to the dark ages of video on the Web with incompatibility issues.

The productivity and expressiveness of Flash remain advantages for the Web community even as HTML advances. The Flash team will drive innovation over the coming years as they have over the past decade to enable experiences that aren't otherwise possible. With the ability to update the majority of Web clients in less than a year, Flash can make this innovation available to our customers much more quickly than HTML across a variety of browsers.

SharePoint Calculated Field Formulas

I saw this nice list of various kinds of formulas for calculated fields mentioned on Twitter by @ ShareThePoint (who offers quite a few useful SharePoint tidbits).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862071.aspx

 

I Make My Case

I thought this was a nice use of Flash – in addition to being a fun product:

http://imakemycase.case-mate.com/

Rumor: Steve Jobs says Adobe is lazy, and Google is evil

According to Wired, Jobs thinks Adobe is lazy, and Google is evil!

“About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.”