I read this article recently about Apple’s new iPhone and the response it received when it was revealed to a crowd in Japan. “…barely a ripple” was the description, and a fitting one too. Reading about how much more advanced mobile technology is in Japan compared to here in North America makes […]

For those avid diggers (myself included), there’s a new way to digg for new stories.  Use this new Flash-based Digg mod, which presents all new stories in the “technology” section using a 3D Flash interface…neat!  Michael Battle created this application by tying the Flash front-end to the Digg RSS feed, thereby feeding the stories as they come.  […]

I came across this excellent post today about the “openness” of Flash.  It is by Duane Nickull*, rockstar and SOA-guru at Adobe, and he talks about how people still perceive Flash to be a proprietary technology.  It is definitely a great read for anyone using Flash.  I won’t re-iterate anything from the post because he […]

Adobe Flash Player, self-proclaimed as “the world’s most pervasive software platform” certainly can hold that title.  The results that I’ve given not only show the Flash Player to be ever-prevalent, but also (and more importantly) ever-growing.  With each successive release taking less and less time to reach 85%+ adoption worldwide is amazing, and I don’t […]

This is a quick glance at the worldwide usage of Flash Player across all versions.  A look at the graph below will tell you that the Adobe Flash Player is used on an approximate 96% of all Internet-connected computers!1  This is a staggering statistic.  A closer look at the graph will show that the Flash […]

Here is a simple look at the duration it takes for previous Flash Player versions to spread1…
Flash Player 5 - over 5 years to reach 96% or higher adoption
Flash Player 6 - over 3 years to reach 93% or higher adoption
Flash Player 7 - just over 2 years to reach 85% or higher adoption
Flash Player […]

Since starting at Adobe, I’ve been exposed to a lot of the new and exciting technologies that they are releasing…Flash 9, Flex 2 and Apollo!  What do they all have in common?  They all are based off of the Flash Player 9 run-time.  So, just as an experiment out of curiosity to see what kind […]

Adobe has just announced that Flash Player 9 for Linux is now available in the Download Center. Nothing much else to say about that…Linux users rejoice!
Keep up to date with more Flash Player announcements by following Emmy Huang, product manager for Flash Player at Adobe.
Charles

There are quite a few open source ActionScript 3.0 libraries that Adobe has…Flickr, YouTube, Mappr, Corelib, to name a few…and with the addition of the new eBay library (the one used in the San Dimas project), Adobe has decided to make the move from Adobe Labs to Google Code. There are a few reasons […]

The holidays are upon us and it’s about time for a Christmas post.  A team at Adobe has just created, and made public, a Flash Holiday Card Creator.  No instructions, in fact, no words at all.  Very intuitive site to creates some nice e-cards to send out to friends and family.  Enjoy!
Merry Christmas!
Charles