Behind the scenes
I didn’t go to Adobe Max this year (yes I’ve kicked myself) but I think some of the news and tools that were announced there have me extremely excited! One of the more exciting items was RIM’s announcement surrounding the Playbook and Adobe AIR. The coolest part of the announcement, the free PlayBook for any [...]
So i’ve been playing with DailyMugShot.com for the past couple of months. DailyMugShot is just that – you take 1 picture every day of your mug. Well I wanted all my mugshots and there wasn’t a direct way of downloading them from the site. They have an RSS feed for your shots, but it only [...]
After working on a little automation tool for video encoding process we ran into an interesting issue with AIR applications and command line arguments. Here is the scenario: Encoding process ends. The encoding process passes a file path to the waiting AIR application via command line. If the AIR app is not running, it starts [...]
While working on a presentation about Native Windows & Adobe AIR I ran into the Screen class. The screen object provides information about the display screens available to an application allowing you to position applications/windows on different screens. I say screens and not monitors because of a little caveat that the livedocs have in them: [...]
Adobe has just announced the Open Screen Project. The Skinny: Restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications will be removed The device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player will be published The Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services will be published Licensing fees will be removed [...]
