Ebay on the desktop

Adobe has a new form of Web applications, the browser without directly on the desktop run. Among the first companies that this technique with the name Adobe AIR, heard eBay. In addition to the usual features of the Web site of eBay, allows the new desktop client also alerts and RSS feeds.

As long as the PC is online, the contents of the desktop window constantly updated. Apart from the usual "watch lists" can be their own RSS feeds for certain keywords to create. For purchase and sale transactions can be alarms with reminders about the impending end of an auction set up. Even if the window is closed, the program can continue in the background.

Besides eBay, the new technology also has AOL, the Nasdaq stock market, the New York Times, Yahoo and other providers. It is the goal of AIR, company a direct, continuous and multifaceted access to their customers, said Adobe spokesman Adrian Ludwig. The technique is similar to the widgets for the direct representation of Web content on the desktop, but allows a greater variety of functions.

AIR Showcase

An Experience with Adobe Media Player on Labs

Adobe released a media player application which can be run on Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) environment. I liked this appication

You can simply downlad AIR from (for Windows 9MB)
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/air/air_b1_win_061107.exe

or (for Macintosh 8MB)
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/air/air_b1_mac_061107.dmg

After AIR setup , you will download Adobe Media Player .air setup file from
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/mediaplayer/amp_p1_100107.air

After all setups, we can look some benefits and properties of that application. When I was downloading Adobe Media Player, I guess to see an application like windows media player. But it’s so different from Windows Media Player. Firstly, it is an application for watching videos from internet. Saying ”videos” is so simple for Adobe Media Player. After opening application, you can see the catalog button at the middle of the screen.



I call this application as “internet TV” :) because you can spend so much time with this application. All media can be chosen from catalog link or can be added by entering the feed file url. When you watch a video from your genre or show, the application automatically link it to downloads tab and you can archive your viewed videos and easily watch without downloading. Have Fun!

Max Speakers & Their Places on Internet

It might be useful for everybody, either join Adobe Max 2007 or not, to know the speakers on internet. The speakers are appreciated experts of Adobe world so all of us may learn lots of things at speakers' places with those links.

Ben Forta is the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books, including ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, JavaServer Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more.

• http://www.forta.com/

Grant Skinner is the CEO and chief architect of gskinner.com, a Flash development and consulting company.

• http://www.gskinner.com/

Mike Chambers has been creating applications integrating Flash with server-side technologies (ColdFusion, Java, ASP, and PHP) for a number of years.

• http://www.mikechambers.com/
  

Erik Natzke is an interactive designer who is constantly trying to blur the lines between design and technology.

• http://jot.eriknatzke.com/
• www.natzke.com/

Duane Nickull works as Senior Technology Evangelist for Adobe.

• http://www.nickull.net/

Raymond Camden is an independant contractor providing ColdFusion, AJAX, and Flex development.

• http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/
  
• http://www.fullasagoog.com/index.cfm?blogid=65

For detailed information about the speakers please visit Max 2007.

ColdFusion 8 Beta is released

You can download beta version of ColdFusion 8 Beta from Adobe Labs. High-quality, dynamically created on-demand multimedia presentations has been developed with this beta version. Ajax implementations are also added. Have Fun!

Adobe Flash Media Encoder

The Adobe Flash Media Encoder is now shipping and is available as a free download on Adobe.com. Since this version of the FME technology has been declared final, it is no longer available from Adobe Labs. See the product page on Adobe.com for more information about this technology.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, one of the first technologies to be featured on Adobe Labs, is now shipping and available for immediate purchase on Adobe.com. In conjunction with its commercial availability, Photoshop Lightroom is no longer hosted on Labs.

The first release of Photoshop Lightroom is billed as a toolbox for professional photographers that provides the ability to manage, adjust, and present large volumes of digital photos. Learn more or buy this new product from Adobe.

Take a look Adobe Labs I

Adobe Labs is continuation of Labs which is founded by Macromedia at October 2005. After combination of Macromedia with Adobe, this environment was kept getting new releases and beta versions of the products together with developers.
Adobe provides that users can get an experience with new technologies and the products trough Adobe Labs . Adobe Labs aims to encourage co-operative software development operation. Feedback from users absolutely maximizes user satisfaction and ability of products to approach the result.
From beta versions to little programs and open source libraries can be found at Adobe Labs before sales of products. Moreover products which have finished beta period and currently stand in sales, also can be found at a link as "formerly in labs".

to be continued...