Adobe Air 2.5

Nice summation from Mashable:

http://mashable.com/2010/10/25/adobe-air-2-5/

“Adobe is set to reveal the newest version of Adobe AIR at its MAX Conference in Los Angeles on Monday. The newest version will include major upgrades to bring the runtime platform to Android and mobile devices everywhere.”

Adobe Flash > Apple App Store

Adobe’s take on how to create submissions for the Apple App Store using Flash. I definitely want to try this.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/app_store_guide.html

 

40 Useful Online Generators For Web Designers

A nice list of online generators; some could potentially save a lot of coding time. Courtesy of Noupe Design Blog.

http://www.noupe.com/tools/40-useful-online-generators.html

“Generators can be a great way to save time in your web design projects. High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Below are some useful generators to help you speed up your web design process. There’s everything from color scheme tools to complete layout generators included.”

Microsoft Unveils Office 365: Productivity Heads to the Cloud

Wow, sounds like Microsoft is really moving to “Cloud City.” From Mashable:

http://mashable.com/2010/10/19/microsoft-office-365/

“Microsoft is doubling down on its commitment to the cloud with the launch of Office 365, a service that combines Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online with the cloud.”

jQuery: Slide Elements in Different Directions

A nice, “slidetastic” tutorial on learningjquery.com: “Slide Elements in Different Directions.”

http://www.learningjquery.com/2009/02/slide-elements-in-different-directions

 

Ai -> Canvas

Wow!

http://visitmix.com/labs/ai2canvas/

“The Ai->Canvas plug-in enables Adobe® Illustrator® to export vector and bitmap artwork directly to an HTML5 canvas element that can be rendered in a canvas-enabled browser. The plug-in provides drawing, animation and coding options such as events so that you can build interactive, well-designed canvas-based web apps.”

GotoWebinar WMVs - How to Edit the Content

GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar offer the ability to generate a Windows Media Player file at the conclusion of the broadcast. Nice feature, right? Except that GTM and GTW produce a file that requires their proprietary codec AND the file cannot be edited in programs like Adobe Premiere and Camtasia Studio. Thanks to a very useful post on geekfactor.charrington.com, here is a workaround that seems to do the trick

1.       Download the Codec:
http://www.gotomeeting.com/codec

2.       Download Microsoft Expression Encoder 4. Set the encoder to the highest output quality and create a new WMV. This should repair the file and allow it to be modified in your favorite video editing tool.

Microsoft Buying Adobe?!

Whoa. Interesting!

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN0721049120101007

The New York Times reported that Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer had met secretly with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen at Adobe's San Francisco offices "recently".

The two discussed Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) dominance in mobile phones and considered several options to counteract that, including Microsoft acquiring Adobe, the newspaper reported, citing employees and consultants involved in the discussions.

in XSL

Non-breaking spaces were breaking in my XSL output. Thanks to a comment on stylusstudio.com, I ran across this handy little method:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>

W3C: Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites

From an article ER pointed out on InfoWorld:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/w3c-hold-html5-in-websites-041

“The problem we're facing right now is there is already a lot of excitement for HTML5, but it's a little too early to deploy it because we're running into interoperability issues,” including differences between video on devices, said the official, Philippe Le Hegaret, W3C interaction domain leader. He is responsible for specifications like HTML and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).