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What is Adobe Creative Cloud?

"Adobe® Creative Cloud™ is an ongoing membership that lets you download and install any of the new Adobe Creative Suite® 6 desktop software, including features like the amazing new Content Aware Patch in Adobe Photoshop® CS6. You also get other creative software like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® 4, plus online services to help you sync, store, and share files online. Best of all, you get the latest software and features as soon as they're released."

The following video describes how you can efficiently grow up your skills. The liberty of choosing your favorite tools is come into prominence at Adobe Creative Cloud. There are many opportunities for Teachers and Students. You can see the plans from here.


 

My New Blog About Software Quality Assurance

Nowadays the hot topic is the software quality assurance within the teams in software developing companies.  And I fired up a new blog for this kind of subjects. Being an Adobe user is the possibility of considering about software issues. And this is why i post here this new blog's link. Feel free to ask any questions about this subject. It will be taken into account in new posts via my new blog.

Basically the main subject is quality of software development projects. There are many tools around web and there is no specific way of doing best. I share my experiences and best practices about using a tool, a process or any other issue about the software quality. Consequently, follow me if you are interested...

Free eSeminar: The evolution and impact of digital skills in higher education

"Unlock your students potential"

Wednesday, February 16
10 a.m. PST; 1 p.m. EST

Join the Adobe Education team and Ellen Wagner of Sage Road Solutions to explore volving expectations for digital proficiencies in today’s higher education students and faculty. Learn how competencies once primarily expected of art and design professionals now are expected of professionals in disciplines such as journalism, education, and medicine.

Register Here

2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

I absolutely advice this competition. Reference from Adobe:

"The Adobe Design Achievement Awards recognize innovative students and faculty members who AMAZE the world. Finalists will receive Adobe software and a trip to Taipei, Taiwan, where they will be honored in an awards ceremony during the 2011 IDA Congress set for October, 24-26, 2011. Category winners also will receive a cash award of US$3,000.

Competition is FREE to enter and open to all students, faculty and staff of higher education institutions around the world. Participants may submit up to 2 times in 15 different categories and 3 faculty categories. All student categories except for Web Analytics and Mobile Analytics* will be judged throughout the competition year. Students are able to submit in three judging sessions and semifinalists will be selected during each judging session. Students are advised to submit their projects for every academic term from May 2010 through June 2011.

2011 Judging* Schedule:

1. November 30, 2010 — January 28, 2011 — Semifinalists announced in February 2011

2. January 28, 2011 — April 29, 2011 — Semifinalists announced in May 2011

3. April 29, 2011 — June 24, 2011 — Semifinalists announced in July 2011

"

view detail: http://www.adobeawards.com/us/

Battlefield Play4Free PRE-ORDER available

EASY (http://battlefield.play4free.com) and i3D.net (www.i3d.net) bring you the best Battlefield Play4Free experience!

Pre orders for Battlefield Play4Free Official Ranked game servers are available for 9,90 Euro a month in Frankfurt (Germany), Amsterdam, Paris, London, Tokyo and Sydney. The Battlefield Play4Free Official Ranked game servers will be setup on launch day.

Visit our website to order: http://www.i3d.net/gamehosting-pricing.php

Our advantages:

• Complete debranded servers (own hostname!)
• Full support of the BFP4FCC tool!
• Support in English, Dutch and German!
• Direct access to Punkbuster screenshots!
• The lowest pricing
• The best hardware: Dell QuadCore Xeon servers
• Complete control of the gameserver through the controlpanel (start/stop/restart/reinstall/support)
• 1000 mbit connections with the internet
• Flexible support - expansion, need help, we take care of all of it
• Flexible support - phone, mail, live chat and through tickets
• You can rent a cheap all-codecs Teamspeak or Ventrilo voiceserver
• Stability: i3d is one of the larger game providers worldwide with 11,000 game servers online

iPhone: What's Next?

As gizmodo says: "You are looking at Apple's next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing, and here are all the details."

Also there is a mail published by gizmodo. That seems to be real and I think Apple will announce this new iPhone in recent days. The other possibility is that Apple may use the power of word of mouth.

Never Seen iPhone Accessories

Iphone has never been amazing till this accessories

There are many iPhone accessories around web and some of them are fascinating to use. I wanna introduce some of these tools to you.

I think these usefull accessories worth to see and buy if you have an iPhone. Many examples will be given in different shopping web sites and different accessory types which i tagged as "Crazy" :)

Conice 6x18 Zoom Attachment for iPhone

iPhone zoomer is the first accessory that i will explain. With this small gadget; optical zoom is possible with your iPhone. it is working with high quality but its case does not fits some of the iphone versions like 3Gs as customers says in dealextreme site.

Some of the customer opinions;
- It works and works very well,zooms quite far and is very clear.
- Case does not fit my phoneclip for holding the lens broke as soon as i used it.
- Good to buy, for price can't be better.

$11.37 - Buy from DealExtreme

The Spiderpodium flexible dock

Frightening spiders around there and they are holding iPhones. Breffo has a creative iPhone accessory that designed for holding iPhone at many different places and surfaces. I think it is worth to buy with this price.

$19.99 -> Buy from Breffo

Handwoven Series iPhone Protector

A little bit expensive choice but this iPhone protecter is a stylish way of making an impression. I changed my decision this is not expensive. You are protecting your iPhone. Thus this price is not so much for its duty. If you like it go and get it.

These are the outstanding specialities of the product:
- Compatible with Apple iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS
- Available in 4 classic colors: Crystal (Clear)/Midnight (Black) - I Like This - / Raspberry (Purple)/Marine (Blue)
- Semi-transparent soft polymer case with frosted coating
- Crystal Screen Protector included (1pc.)

USD $22.90 - Buy from More-Thing

iPhone Tripod Mount

Desktop holder for your iPhone rotating iphone tripod mounts and holders for the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS. Based on the company's previous PED3 iPhone mounts, the TriPhone is made to attach to any standard quarter-inch tripod mount for steadier video and pictures, and allows for the rotation of the device from vertical to horizontal orientation. Here are some specialites;

- All USA made solid steel construction for weight and stability (over 5/8 pound)
- Rotate infinitely 360 degrees
- Two angled positions
- Cable management, using the center split base (see photos)
- Gripping protective vinyl fingers also allow full use of ports/controls
- Baked on hard anti-scratch coating
- Patent Pending #61053494
- Versions for iPhone (Original, 3G, 3G S) and iPod Touch (1g, 2g)

Around $40 - Buy from Thoughtout

Steve Jobs Announced Apple Live

Some of iPad's features;
has built-in calendar and address book.
has map application powered by google.
"Awesome" for movies and TV shows =)
much more intimate than a laptop, more capable than smart phone.
weighs 1.5 pounds ~0.68 kilograms
has 9.7 inch display
powered by 1 Ghz Apple chip, 10 hours battery life
run virtually all iphone apps without modified
looks like a giant phone =P
has 16 to 64 GB of flash memory.


Apple Announcement Live: Coverage Of Apple Event (27th January 2010) – This is the day for all gadget lovers, and there will be a lot of news will be written by many sites on the Apple Tablet Announcement. Features, specification, prices and all other details are mostly the highlights. And off course, now people are Googling to find out on willtheApple tablet been announced, what will be announced at the Apple event and more. Apple will reveals new product today (27th January 2010 at 6pm GMT,) on Apple Announcement. Apple boss Steve Jobs will take to the stage to announce his company’s latest new product.

Google Flu Shot Finder

Google has designed a tool to determine the flow of the swine flu. May be it helps you to avoid H1N1. You can track it from flutracker web site.

Adobe couldn't enter Businessweek's 'world's 40 best companies'

Nintendo, Apple and Google are the world's top three best companies, according to a new BusinessWeek top 40 chart.

The World's Best Companies/Global Top 40 list was compiled for BusinessWeek by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.

Innovation, expansion, leadership

The top 40 is based on a number of factors, primarily "a commitment to innovation, diversified portfolios, aggressive expansion, strong leadership, and a clear vision for the future" with the top 40 coming from 18 countries.

Companies in the top 40 also come from a wide range of different industries "ranging from chemicals and contracting to software and shipbuilding."

However, it is notable that there are six tech and telecoms enterprises in the top 40 that have "tapped into continuing demand for mobile-phone services and new digital hardware and services", three of which are right at the top of the chart.

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo stands proudly at the top of the 2009 chart, with BusinessWeek noting that: "Its sales have risen 36 per cent annually over the past five years, while its value growth averaged 38 per cent. Despite the hard times of the past year, Nintendo's continued emphasis on innovation has helped the company develop must-haves such as the DS handheld game machine and the Wii console, which outsold rival offerings from Sony and Microsoft.

"Nintendo's strategy is emblematic of the tech companies on the list. Like Nintendo, American technology giants Google (No. 2), Apple (No. 3), and Amazon.com (No. 17) have continued to invest heavily in innovation, commanding large market share with new products even as consumer spending and confidence have declined sharply."

You can see the top 40 companies and stats; businessweek.com

via businessweek.com

An Additional Dimension With CS4

Adobe Flash acquires one additional dimension with CS4. I mean, 3D operations can be done with Adobe Flash. I know it sounds good for any Flash developer that knows limited environment of Flash before CS4.

Acoording to the flash article, the additional features of Flash are can be listed as below;

• 3D Rotation and Translation tools that enables rotating an object around x and y axis simultaneously and moving an object on x, y and z axes respectively.
• Property Inspector tool box enables you to set 3D values of an object. Like changing perspective, skewing, manipulate etc...
• Motion Tweens with 3D Objects
• Action Script 3.0 3D Programming
• And 3D Samples in Flash

Animations will be more exciting with Flash CS4. Please inform me about clever tips and tricks in Flash CS4.

A Review of Rich Islands for Adobe Flash

As an industrial engineer, I'm glad to see that SAP and Adobe are in collaboration to enrich interfaces of SAP applications. I've seen some of the examples at Adobe and immediately I find myself post here.

Firstly I want to explain how SAP and Adobe works together. I found an image that shows it in a simple way. Flash and Flex works are combined in a Flash SWF file and imported into Web Dynopro Component. Furthermore, application server can communicate with another Dynopro control and, data and event packages can move in two ways by using Rich Islands for Adobe Flash.

SAP Rich Islands for the Adobe Flash Platform

And now let's see the capabilities of these applications and how can visualize the SAP applications.

Interactive Data Visualization: You know flex graph are so dynamic and visually smart. But there is an interesting view of doing daily jobs. I think this sample is worth to take your time.


Production Monitoring is a real time simulation of an assembly line. Yes, you can see which job is bottleneck in this period of time. What an exciting project will it be...

Adobe Flash Platform

"Innovation tha stands out, technology that fits in"

Nice slogan that fits on Adobe Flash Platform. Let's see what is up coming ideas with these bunch of tools...

Clients : Flash Player, Air
Tools: Flash CS4 Professional, Flash Catalyst, Flex
Framework: Flex
Servers: BlazeDS, Flash media Server Family

You can go further.

Intel and Adobe Collaboration

Adobe and Intel are working together to port and optimise Adobe's Flash technology to the Intel Media Processor CE 3100. The aim is to bring Flash content to devices such as set-top boxes, digital TVs and connected audio-visual devices.

The two companies claim to be uniquely positioned to support consistent internet content across both traditional PC systems and TV platforms. The move is intended to provide better video and web content across the full breadth of consumer devices.

Adobe's Flash Player and Flash Lite will be optimised for the CE 3100, and Intel expects to ship the first CE 3100 with Flash Lite before mid-2009.

"Our effort with Adobe will provide consumers with access to a growing number of Flash-based applications that will ultimately be enjoyed across a number of screens seamlessly, from the laptop to a mobile internet device and now the TV, " said William Leszinske, general manager of Intel's Digital Home Group.

Announced in August 2008, Intel's CE 3100 is a system-on-a-chip combining an 800MHz Pentium M core with graphics functions and video decoder circuitry.

The chip enables developers to target growth areas such as consumer electronics using the familiar Intel architecture.

Daniel Robinson

vnunet.com, 05 Jan 2009

Download Adobe Air for Linux

Adobe Air Linux edition is released. You can download it from here. Some ideas about it ;

As of today there have only been releases of Adobe AIR for Windows and Mac but Adobe is committed to also delivering a version for Linux. This is great news for developers like me who use Linux as their primary desktop operating system.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said in a statement: “This could enable a whole new frontier of applications for Linux. We’re actually looking for Linux users to help us test it.” He said that the Linux version of AIR is currently in an alpha format.

AdobeAIR Alpha on Ubuntu 64 Bit installation can be found here.

I'm very excited with this news. Thanks to Adobe... :)

"Linux lovers do not see below .net codes. I'm also a mac and linux lover but nowadays using .net in a project :("

Image Processing II : Two Ways for Grayscale

There may be many ways to process grayscale but I want to give two examples for it. One of them is very easy like taking average of colors. And the other one is better but uses color matrix. You must define a color matrix to use as image attribute. I like the second algorithm. Anyway, Let's see codes...

'--------------------Code--------------------
Public Shared Function GrayscaleAverage(ByVal img As Image) As Image
Dim rslt As System.Drawing.Image
Dim btmpImg, btmpRslt As New Bitmap(img.Width, img.Height)
btmpImg = DirectCast(img, Bitmap)
btmpRslt = DirectCast(img, Bitmap)
Dim rC, gC, bC, lum As Integer
For i As Integer = 0 To btmpImg.Width - 1
For j As Integer = 0 To btmpImg.Height - 1
rC = btmpImg.GetPixel(i, j).R
gC = btmpImg.GetPixel(i, j).G
bC = btmpImg.GetPixel(i, j).B
lum = Math.Round(0.3 * rC + 0.59 * gC + 0.11 * bC)
btmpRslt.SetPixel(i, j, Color.FromArgb(lum, lum, lum))
Next
Next
rslt = DirectCast(btmpRslt, Image)
Return rslt
End Function
'--------------------Code--------------------

Second function realized with color matrix. You can use another color matrix. may b

'--------------------Code--------------------
Public Shared Function GrayscaleMatrix(ByVal img As Image) As Image
Dim rslt As System.Drawing.Image
Dim btmpImg As New Bitmap(img.Width, img.Height)
btmpImg = DirectCast(img, Bitmap)
Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(btmpImg)
Dim cm As ColorMatrix = New ColorMatrix(New Single()() _
{New Single() {0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0, 0}, _
New Single() {0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0, 0}, _
New Single() {0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0, 0}, _
New Single() {0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, _
New Single() {0, 0, 0, 0, 1}})
'You can use other color matrix

Dim ia As ImageAttributes = New ImageAttributes()
ia.SetColorMatrix(cm)
g.DrawImage(img, New Rectangle(0, 0, img.Width, img.Height), 0, 0, img.Width, img.Height, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, ia)
g.Dispose()
rslt = DirectCast(btmpImg, Image)
Return rslt
End Function
'--------------------Code--------------------


Also we can see the difference between two algorithms here.

image taken from here

The other color matrix is here.

'--------------------Code--------------------
'Gilles Khouzams
Dim cm As ColorMatrix = New ColorMatrix(New Single()() _
{New Single() {0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0, 0}, _
New Single() {0.59, 0.59, 0.59, 0, 0}, _
New Single() {0.11, 0.11, 0.11, 0, 0}, _
New Single() {0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, _
New Single() {0, 0, 0, 0, 1}})
'--------------------Code--------------------

I will continue with edge finding and background extraction. Like Photoshop, isn't it?

Image Processing I : Invert Colors

Hi all,

I'm starting with a basic image processing algorithm. After a while, the whole solution and sample files will be published. I'm also developing this library and sharing with you. Anyway, you can see the algorithm below. All basic colors are converted by subtracting from 255 and founded new Red, Green and Blue color codes. All converted pixel is set to a new image instance. See you at harder image processing algorithms later. Let's See;


'--------------------Code--------------------
Public Shared Function InvertColors(ByVal img As Image) As Image
Dim rslt As System.Drawing.Image
Dim btmpImg, btmpRslt As New Bitmap(img.Width, img.Height)
btmpImg = DirectCast(img, Bitmap)
Dim rC, gC, bC As Integer
For i As Integer = 0 To btmpImg.Width - 1
For j As Integer = 0 To btmpImg.Height - 1
rC = 255 - btmpImg.GetPixel(i, j).R
gC = 255 - btmpImg.GetPixel(i, j).G
bC = 255 - btmpImg.GetPixel(i, j).B
btmpRslt.SetPixel(i, j, Color.FromArgb(rC, gC, bC))
Next
Next
rslt = DirectCast(btmpRslt, Image)
Return rslt
End Function
'--------------------Code--------------------