Category: Adobe

Stream Live Presentations to your iPhone/iPad with Connect Pro Mobile

Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Mobile is now available for download from the iTunes store!

With Connect Pro Mobile, participants can watch and listen to live presentations including real-time meeting webcam video and screen sharing demonstrations. Mobile users can see who is in the meeting at any given time, and chat with others using the live text chat. VoIP meeting audio will broadcast straight to iPhone or iPod touch devices over a WiFi or 3G connection.  Meeting hosts also have the ability to give participants the option to join a telephone conference call.

Connect Pro Mobile was built using a pre-release of the next version of Flash and was published as a native iPhone application. In fact, it’s the first publicly available Adobe-authored application that uses the Packager for iPhone technology! Also, because it was built in Flash, it can be published as an AIR app and put on other devices. Last week at Mobile World Congress for instance, Adobe demo’d Connect Pro on a number of devices, including Android!

Flash Player on Tablet Devices

Imagine taking a Flash project and porting it to the web, desktop and even tablet devices.  The Flash platform has got you covered.

View on AdobeTV.com

Demos of Flash on Multiple Screens

Flash PlayerAdobe Flash Player 10.1 public prerelease is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised web browsing of expressive applications, content, and video across devices. Here’s a good article on some of the first demos and interviews.

Kevin Lynch Weighs In On Open Access to Content

Kevin Lynch
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch has posted his thoughts on Open Access to Content and Applications.

“Flash has been incredibly successful in its adoption, with over 85% of the top web sites containing Flash content and Flash running on over 98% of computers on the Web.”

Flash for the iPhone and iPod Touch


Monday at the Adobe MAX conference Adobe announced that Flash Professional CS5 will support creating rich, interactive applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The demo involved using Flash CS5 to export apps for the iPhone. It leverages the same source code used to deliver applications across desktops and devices for Flash Platform runtimes – Adobe AIR and Flash Player 10.

The iPhone apps shown were built with Flash and not Apple’s iPhone SDK. Adobe said they are native iPhone apps. “We made sure we focused on Apple rules. We believe we are in full compliance,” said Voltmer.

Adobe didn’t know whether Apple was aware the apps were originally made with Flash, saying it was up to the individual developers to submit the apps to the App Store.

Adobe also said it is submitting other iPhone apps including Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro.

Adobe Resources

Valuable Adobe links that don’t cost a thing:

Fall Adobe eSeminars

The 4th quarter Adobe eSeminar series for Web Professionals are now available! Register now! Especially for Architecting a Web Site in Flash since I’m giving it. And rembember, they’re free!
Advanced Dreamweaver Design
9/25/2007 9:00 AM PST

Use the new CSS starter pages in Dreamweaver CS3 and take using CSS to the next level. Learn how to choose and customize the right design for your project. You’ll learn how to optimize your content for different devices using CSS and the style rendering toolbar, as well as explore other CSS features, such as the unified CSS panel, Browser Compatibility Check, CSS Advisor, and more.

Search Engine Optimization for Flash sites
10/2/2007 9:00 AM PST

It is vital that your business appear on the first page of search results, and preferably in the top three listings. Red Brick Media will help you understand what makes rich Internet applications different from a search engine point of view, and how you can increase your search engine ranking.

Advanced Dreamweaver Design Case Study with Delaware.Net
10/9/2007 9:00 AM PST

In this advanced presentation, John McKown, the President/CEO of Delaware.Net, will give a walkthrough of how the Wesley College Athletics Division web site was rebuilt using Dreamweaver CS3. Topics will cover how Dreamweaver CS3 was used to integrate ColdFusion, SQL, and Spry applications into the updated web site. Application workflow, as well as project management will also be covered.

Architecting a Web Site in Flash CS3 – create a site in Flash
10/16/2007 9:00 AM PST

So you’ve created Flash graphics but are unsure how to set up an entire site in Flash? In this session, Paul Trani, an Adobe Certified Expert, will show you how to build a site in Flash using different methods, and the benefit of each.
You’ll even be able to walk away with sample files to help get your site online in no time!

Dreamweaver for traditional graphic designers
10/23/2007 9:00 AM PST

This engaging seminar will help traditional designers and production artists make the migration from print design to web design. Discover how the integrated tools of Web Premium CS3 can make your creative vision a reality in new media and formats.

Innovating the Adobe Flash CS3 / Flex Workflow
10/30/2007 9:00 AM PST

How can Flash and Flex live side by side in your Flash-centric workflow? Learn how to get the best of both worlds and use Flex 3 to code your Flash-based projects. Harness the strengths of Flash’s stage, timeline, and library and Flex 3’s ridiculously more advanced ActionScript 3.0 editor. Virtually eliminate the LONG compile times of mature Flash projects. Complete projects you’d typically create in just Flash in a fraction of the time using radical new work flows. The full source code & documentation will be given to attendees.

Advanced Flash CS3 Raster Graphics Design – Blitting
11/6/2007 9:00 AM PST

Learn to overcome the native graphical limitations of the Adobe Flash 9 player and unlock the power of a custom raster graphics engine. Dynamically animate and control literally thousands of items on-screen at once. In a code-as-you-go approach within Flash CS3 you will learn a new approach called ‘blitting’ to unleash amazing potential for your art, animation, applications, and advertising-game projects. Blitting is the process of rendering which converts your Flash vector graphics into blazing fast raster graphics at runtime. The full source code & documentation will be given to attendees.

Spry and Dreamweaver (for beginners)
11/13/2007 9:00 AM PST

Learn how to properly insert and customize Spry interface widgets within your projects, apply interactive effects to page elements for a rich user experience, and integrate XML-based data such as RSS feeds into your layouts using Dreamweaver CS 3 and the Spry framework.

Dreamweaver CSS Boot Camp (for beginners)
11/27/2007 9:00 AM PST

Come learn the basics of properly and semantically marking up your content, while styling it with CSS. Stephanie Sullivan, author of the CSS layouts included with Dreamweaver CS3, will give you a solid understanding of CSS basics. Learn the terminology and principles that give you a strong, stable foundation for your website. These include the document tree, page flow, the cascade, inheritance, specificity, box model, CSS selectors, floating and positioning. Learn to master the power of CSS and create lean, fast-loading pages.