Ever wanted to make a lazy susan/carousel?

This is a great resource to do just that.

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=32

Answer: Adobe® BrowserLab

Adobe BrowserLab is an online service that allows web professionals to test their websites on popular browsers and operating systems. Screenshots of actual browser renderings are generated in real time, with multiple viewing options to help pinpoint issues.

BrowserLab is ideal for professional web designers and web developers of all sizes, to help simplify and expedite browser compatibility testing.

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/BrowserLab

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I found a great AIR app that works as well.

http://funkatron.com/spaz

Here's the link to the Adobe AIR product page:

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

And here's the link to the AIR Developer Centre:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/

Kirpa has some good info on helping you figure out your latest Flash hurdle.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm

Lucas Adamski from Adobe has posted a great article on security and AIR.

Adobe AIR allows developers to use their existing web development skills in HTML, Ajax, Flash, and Flex to build and deploy desktop applications. Although these applications may be based upon web technologies, it is important to keep in mind that the end result is a desktop application, and as such the primary security model for AIR is that of a desktop application, rather than a web application.

Read the rest.

Watch what you want, when you want.

Adobe® Media Player software provides control and flexibility to view what you want, when you want — whether online or offline. You can queue up and download your favorite Internet TV content, track and download new episodes automatically, and manage your personal video library for viewing at your convenience.

Get it: http://get.adobe.com/amp/
Find out more: http://www.adobe.com/products/mediaplayer/
Tune in: http://tv.adobe.com/

New AIR application for Color Hounds
Adobe® kuler is a web-hosted application from Adobe Labs for generating color themes that can inspire any project. Whether you¹re creating websites, interior designs, scrapbooks, fabric patterns, graphic identities, or any visual, you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse
thousands of themes from the kuler community.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/kuler/

Adobe released a security update for Flash Player 9 (Flash Player 9,0,124,0) on April 8, 2008, to strengthen the security of Adobe Flash Player for our customers and end users, and to provide further mitigations for previously disclosed vulnerabilities. The Flash Player security update provides further mitigations for issues listed in the December 2007 Security Bulletin ABSP07-20 for DNS rebinding and cross-domain policy file vulnerabilities, and Security Advisory APSA07-06 for cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in SWFs.

Customers are advised to review the following Flash Player updates to determine if their content will be impacted, and to begin implementing necessary changes immediately to help ensure a seamless transition. This document provides an overview of the upcoming Flash Player changes, links to TechNotes, and relevant documentation to help you better prepare.

If any of the following situations apply, you should read this article in detail:

• You use sockets or XMLSockets, regardless of the domain to which you are connecting

• You use addRequestHeader or URLRequest.requestHeaders in any network API call when sending or loading data cross-domain

  or

  You provide access to content on remote domains as a web service provider

• You have SWFs that are exported for Flash Player 7 (SWF7) or earlier that communicate with the hosting HTML by any means
• You use "javascript:" through network APIs to communicate outside a SWF

Adobe also recommends that customers subscribe to the Security Notification Service to receive e-mail notification for the final security bulletin and advisory releases.

READ IN FULL...
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player9_security_update.html

READ MORE...
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The Google Analytics Reporting suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. It uses it’s own custom API to interact with Google and nearly implements all features of Analytics. See the feature list for more info.
http://www.aboutnico.be/index.php/google-analytics-air-beta-sign-up/

Adobe Prerelease Programs are your chance to experience, evaluate and influence upcoming products & technologies from Adobe within a smaller, more focused user environment. Prerelease Programs facilitate a symbiotic development process allowing Adobe to share products in the development stage to gather early feedback. In the process you get a chance to shape the upcoming products and adapt to the new products faster.

Multiple engagement channels are available Prerelease participants at Adobe:

• Access to download Prerelease software/technologies and technical documentation
• Ability to report bugs & request features for the Prerelease software
• Access to the Prerelease User Forums for sharing ideas directly with Adobe product teams and other like-minded folks of the product’s community
• Opportunity to participate in various product-related surveys

A Prerelease program is an endeavor to engage the real users of the product – YOU – early in the development cycle of the product, to listen and learn from you on how the product is working for you.

Current Prerelease Opportunities

As of now, the following Prerelease testing opportunities are available:

• Adobe Reader - Preview exciting new functionality including collaboration and rich media capabilities!
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• Adobe LiveCycle ES Update 1 - Preview exciting new functionality!
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• 64-bit ColdFusion Updater - We have a large number of beta testers doing a great job for us, but we still need some more help testing the 64-bit version of the ColdFusion Updater Beta on RedHat and SuSE Linux, as well as JBoss and WebLogic application servers. If you are planning on using any of these Operating Systems or Application Servers on 64-bit in the future, we'd really appreciate if you could spend some time checking it out now to ensure we deliver the highest quality release possible!
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