Silverlight 4 BETA New Features Guide
Silverlight 4 BETA was announced as released at Microsoft Professional Developer Conference.
This BETA release is happening just 3 months after release of Silverlight 3. Silverlight 4 BETA has a comprehensive list of features. This BETA is a developer preview release.
This preview is for the developers to understand the new features and they can review them and can give feedback as well.
Here is the list of features that are part of this BETA Release:
Features
- Tooling
- Printing API
- Right-Click Event Handling
Get to know FlashLite for Digital Home (FLDH)
As you all know, FlashLite for Digital Home refers to Flash on IPTV's and SetTopBox.
Dale Rankine talks more about what exactly FlashLite for Digital Home is, its Limitations, Best Practices, Capabilities etc. in this video.
This video will help us in understanding what FlashLite for Digital Home is!!!!
Check it out....
Adobe Flex Builder 3 For Linux Aplha 5 Released
Flex Builder Linux is a plugin-only version of the Flex Builder that you can use to build Flex applications on Linux. The Alphs 5 Version of Flex Builder 3 is released and is available on Adobe Labs.
As we dont have Flex Builder 3 for Linux Desktop, This alpha version is based on many of the Flex Builder 3 features including project creation, code coloring, code hints, compilation, the Ajax Bridge, Find All References, and debugging. Please note that not all features in Flex Builder 3 are supported for this Linux Version.
Check out the Release Notes to know more about the features included and which are not supported.
Try it out and you can send feedback or comments about it on Adobe Labs.
Cool Photoshop Plugins
As the name suggests, Photoshop Plugin's are add-on's to photoshop like extensions which can add some new functionality. There are many Photoshop plugins available freely now.
I came across some nice Plugin's which can make some tasks easy and fast. Here I am going to list out some plugins, which we can use in day-to-day designing.
This plugin can be used to modify the Image color. It has some preset color effects as well. This can be very useful in color retouching of Photos.
HYPE Framework for Flash
As you all know, Flash with ActionScript 3.0 is very powerful in creating Flash applications. But its a bit tough for newcomers to get used to it so fast in case of coding and creating something very exciting.
To make things simple for Flash beginners, HYPE Framework is introduced.
"HYPE is a creative coding framework built on top of ActionScript 3. A major goal of HYPE is to allow newcomers to Flash and ActionScript to creatively play and express themselves while they are learning how to program."
Inorder to start with it, you just need to know basic programming concepts like loops, variables, conditional and functions etc.
Here is just a quick demo of HYPE:
Google Chrome OS Demo
Google Chrome OS is a project by Google Inc. to develop a lightweight computer operating system devoted to using the World Wide Web. Announced on July 7, 2009, it is set to have a publicly available stable release during the second half of 2010. The Linux-based operating system will sport a graphical user interface based on Google's Chrome web browser and will run on systems with either x86 or ARM processors.
Mastering WordPress Theme – Hacks and Techniques
For people using WordPress on your website or blog, its important to know how to modify or customize the WordPress theme. While going through different resources, i came across a very useful article about Hacks and Techniques we can while modifying/customizing the WordPress theme.
This article was posted on Noupe.com.
Check it out as it talks about all aspects in WordPress.
9 Most Common IE Bugs and their Fixes
As you all know, Internet Explorer is the most widely used browser across. But while designing a web page, you might have encountered many issues which are specific to only IE. In that case you might be wondered how to fix them as that fix might make CSS to behave differently on other browsers like Firefox etc.
Anyway we are not going to talk about the Fix across all browsers now. We will resort to finding out some commonly found errors while using CSS on IE. Actually i faced couple of such issues and had no clue in figuring out the fix for them.
While seaching for Fix, i came across a post in ActiveTuts+ which talks about these errors and their Fixes for IE. It helped me alot. So thought of sharing with you all...
This post talks about errors commonly found like:
- Centering Layout
- Staircase Effect
- Double Margin on Floated Elements
- Inability to have elements of Small Heights
- Auto Overflow and relatively positioned items
- Broken Box Model
- Misbehaving Floated Layout
- Space between Listed items
Hope these tricks might help...
Adobe Flash Catalyst Designer/Developer Workflow Videos
Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code.
Using Flash Catalyst, we can use any artwork created in Adode Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Fireworks and can convert into an interactive application with minimal effort.
Flash Catalyst can be used effectively with Flash Builder 4. Once we have converted artwork into an interactive application. We can import this into Flash Builder to integrate this application with services and servers to convert it into a complete application.
Currently BETA 2 of Flash Catalyst is out.
Adobe Labs has posted Videos for Designer and Developer workflows using Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4. Check these video to get a complete overview of how we can convert an artwork into a fully functional interactive application.
You can Download Flash Catalyst BETA 2 from Adobe Labs.
Check it out and if you have any doubts/queries using it, you can post it in Flash Catalyst Forums.
Sample AIR Apps for New Features of AIR 2 BETA
Y'day Adobe has released its BETA versions of AIR 2 with a bunch of incredible new Features. These new Features help us build a wide vairety of new applications with new capabilities which were not there in AIR 1.
By this time you might all be knowing all the new Features that are part of AIR 2 BETA. Still to know more about new Features, check out Christian Cantrell's post.
There are some very good Sample apps in Adobe Library which were built based on these new capabilities and features.
MultiTouch Support: This is perhaps the most exciting feature as AIR 2 and Flash player 10.1 is going to support multi-touch on platforms like Windows 7 and MAC's Snow Leopard. Here are some apps which demonstrate the support for multi-touch: