ADOBE Buzzword – Online Word Processor
Adobe® Buzzword® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser on Acrobat.com, so there's no installation required.
Buzzword is part of Acrobat.com. Once you create documents here, you can access them from anywhere, no need to tackle with email attachments.
All you have to do is to create an Adobe.com user account and get started here.
The User Interface is build in Adobe Flash Platform, which is very cool and rich.
Some useful Adobe AIR Apps you should know
Adobe AIR , as you all know, is platform-independent runtime with which web developers can use their expertise in RIA development to create Applications for Desktops.
There are some thousands of AIR applications available now for use.
HONGKIAT listed out some nice AIR applications which can be useful in our day-to-day activities. I found some applications which i dint knew about from this article.
Install and use these applications. Make this world full of AIR 
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Creating IPhone apps using Flash CS5
It was announced in MAX 09, that its possible now to create native IPhone Applications (ipa) using Adobe Flash Professional CS5 using ActionScript 3.0. These applications can be delivered to Apple IPhone or IPod touch Apple App Store.
You can see the some of the applications and gams that were demoed in MAX 09 that were created using prerelease version of Flash Professional CS5 at Adobe Labs.
InsideRIA has posted a nice article about the best practices, new IPhone specific feature APIs which need to be taken care while developing applications using Flash CS5.
Check these resources and start developing applications for IPhone using Flash...
Photoshop.com Mobile on IPHONE
Adobe has released Photoshop.com Mobile for IPhone. This app is free, which provides access to your account in Photoshop.com. It also has the capabilities to edit images on Iphone and upload to Photoshop.com.
Here are some of the capabilities of this app:
- Crop, Rotate, Flip
- Several effects like Rainbow etc
- Changing Hue, Tint, Saturation
- Artistic Sketch and many more...
Official MAX 2009 Sessions available Online
2009, as you all know was pretty exicitng with many new updates for us like creating Iphone apps using Flash CS5 etc.
People who could not attend need not worry, as you all know the sessions are available online at many sites.
You can watch those sessions officially hosted online at ADOBE TV.
Enjoy the sessions and share this to ones you know
AIR 2.0 Enhancements – Overview
As you all know that information about AIR 2.0 and its new enhancements is released recently.
People who are already working on AIR 1.0 will find it very useful to know what new enhancements AIR 2.0 is going to offer.
Elad Elron made an excellent post about these new enhancements and capabilities.
I am sure this information is useful to all RIA developers.
Free Photoshop Brush Websites
Irrespective of whether a designer is a beginner or an experienced one, Photoshop brushes will make your design attractive and simple. Using brushes will reduce your work to a much greater extent and the outcome will be great if you use them in an efficient way.
You can get as many kinds of brushes now for free. Installing a Photoshop Brush is simple. Mostly brushes are available in .ABR formats.
Follow these simple steps to install those brushes in Photoshop CS4:
- Download and Copy the ABR file to 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Presets\Brushes' folder.
- In Photoshop, select Brush Tool(B).
- Click the drop-down button besides the brush to show the different brushes.
- Click 'Round Button' with arrow besides the Brush Size Filed to show a menu.
- Select 'Load Brushes' and browse to the folder where ABR file is present.
Once you are done with above steps, you can see the brushes from that ABR file under Brush Tool.
Here are some nice locations where you can get some great Free Photoshop Brushes:
- DeviantArt
- DesignFruit
- Brusheezy
- GetBrushes
- Photoshop Brushes
- PSBrushes
- Magurno
- obsidiandawn
- easyelements
You can get many other resouces for brushes as well. Enjoy designing....
40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
Adobe Illustrator, as you all know is one of the vastly used Vector Designing tool. Though it not easy for beginners to start working on it, it needs a bit of practice and experience to enhance your vector designing skills.
Smashing Magazine has come up with some 40 Excellent Tutorials using which you can start practicing your design skills and can enhance them. You wont regret taking on these tutorials at all.
Even though some of these tutorials are simple, the tips they give can come in handy for you while you are designing something complex.
Enjoy these awesome tutorials....