http://www.swamicharan.com/blog My personal blog... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:52:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Adobe Flash Lite for Digital Home is in news now-a-days. Recently Intel's Sodaville announced that they are going to use Flash. Now its TiVo, which announced its new Set-top box which uses Adobe Flash Platform. This device has several new menus with a very rich UI: TiVo Central TiVo Search Tivo Browser (Tivo Content ... http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/flash/fldh-flash/tivo-dvr-using-flash-lite-for-digital-home/ During this week's Intel Developer Forum, Intel has unveiled "Sodaville" a new 45nm system-on-a-chip based on the comapny’s Atom processor that’s designed specifically to bring interactive, Internet-based services and content to televisions, set-top boxes, and peripherals like DVD players and DVRs. The chipset supports both Internet and broadcast applications, and ... http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/flash/fldh-flash/adobe-flash-player-10-be-available-on-intel-sodaville-chips/ Its 2nd Birthday for ADOBE AIR. AIR was started on February 25th, 2008 and with  in this 2 years, it grew rapidly and adopted by many as better option for creating RIA for Desktop. You can see AIR Applications now everywhere in a wide variety of domains from Entertainment, News, ... http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/air/its-2nd-birthday-of-adobe-air/ Adobe Photoshop, the one tool used by all the designers across the globe, is nearing 20 Years Anniversary now.  The Official Anniversary is on Feb 19th. Here are the Logos of all the Versions of Photoshop till CS4...   Hope to see more of Photoshop in Future... http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/photoshop/adobe-photoshop-is-20-years-old/ Recently i needed to convert normal Time to Unix Timestamp in Flash. I couldn't get how to go about it intially. But when i gone through the definition of Unix Timestamp, its was clear for me. "The unix time stamp is a way to track time as a running total of ... http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/flash/unix-timestamp-in-flash/  A video featuring Jon Landau, Producer of "Avatar", describing how Adobe software was used throughout the production of the film.   Very proud to be part of ADOBE... http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/adobe/adobe-and-avatar/ Check out the video from ADOBE TV about new GPU Acceleration in Photoshop CS4. http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/photoshop/gpu-acceleration-in-photoshop-cs4/ Here are is the video series from ADOBE TV by Jay Middleton and Damien Bianchi  on Flash Search Engine Optimization. They talk about Flash content crawlability and keyword and website strategies for search engines. Episode 1   Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/flash/flash-search-engine-optimization/ This is a cool video tutorial from Adobe TV on how to take a 2D object and project it into 3D Space in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. Check it out... http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/photoshop/3d-astral-projection-in-photoshop-cs4/ As you all might have heard of many opensource ActionScript API's like APE, Away3D, Papervision3D etc. You can get all of such opensource APIs at one one place: http://actionscriptapis.com/ Nice to see all the API's at one place. Check them out... http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/flash/open-source-actionscript-apis/