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Adobe Feeds: MXNA Relaunched
Yesterday Adobe replaced their aging and sometimes slow MXNA feed aggregator with a new and improved Adobe Feeds.
Upon visiting you notice immediately that is a heck of a lot faster than it used to be. According to Ted Patrick MXNA went from a single server architecture to one with 7 servers with feeds.adobe.com.
It's really nice to have it back up.
On April 14 Infoworld released an article titled "Curl moves to take on Adobe Air in offline RIA business".
The article introduces Curl as "the latest vendor looking to garner part of the expanding offline RIA business". Curl also claims to provide an engine that "provides high performance, rich graphics, enterprise security constraints that enterprises need to run RIAs on the desktop."
Curl further claims that they offer stronger performance than AIR. Typically claims like this are substantiated in some way with either technical white papers with fancy benchmarking graphs or with executions times and what not.
I decided to head over to Curl and nose around a bit
I noticed a post this morning from Ajaxian about a free downloadable Adobe Air Javascript Developers Guide.
Adobe announced today at the NAB show in Las Vegas the organization of a Foundation centered around the new CinemaDNG (digital negative) format.
CinemaDNG will be an open standard, the idea is to eliminate incompatibilities between different hardware and software manufacturers with differing file formats thereby streamlining digital cinema creation.
Yesterday, April 9th, Adobe announced the release of their new Media Player. The player is capable of playing FLV (Spark or VP6 codec) or MPEG-4 (H.264 codec) format videos.
On April 3rd Adobe updated their Terms of Use for the online Photoshop Express service. The terms have been greatly modified from their original and now are more in line with what is "expected" from a photsharing service.
The language has also been substantially "dumbed down" and while it still contains "legalease", laymen language has been added in parentheses to provide clarity.
Adobe also moved the important parts into the first terms of service page (instead of breaking it up into two separate locations).
I have cut out the new section and bolded and underlined the important changes below:
Lightroom 2.0 Beta is now available for download on Adobe Labs.
For all you photographers out there that prefer to work with your images in RAW format you can download a trial version from the Adobe Labs website.
There was a lot of focus the last couple of days on Adobe Elements express as well as the release of the Linux AIR Alpha but the release of Alpha 3 Flex Builder slipped by relatively unnoticed (at least by me).
Some new features have been added but I still have some bad news...the list of unsupported features is, in my opinion, still pretty big.
Happy Coding...
Today Adobe released the alpha of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for Linux based operating system. AIR was released in February for the Microsoft Windows and Mac operating systems.
Before you start uploading all of your beloved images to Photoshop Express online it may be worthwhile to read the fine print.
The short version of the terms and conditions are quite short and mention nothing about ownership of the content that you upload to Photoshop Express.
