Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available. The company announced today that the latest version provides new support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing, and GPU hardware acceleration. It also provides more text layout options and better creative control. Developers can now use these filters, blend modes and fills to animate effects or change the effect on rich media content at runtime. Flash Player 10 also enables new capabilities and performance improvements in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. This includes easy-to-use 3D More»

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Adobe today announced its Creative Suite (CS) 4 software package. CS 4 includes Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design editions, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, as well as 13 point products, 14 integrated technologies and seven services. CS4 is supposed to provide the design and development tools for cross-media technologies.
“Designers and developers are shaping the way that people consume information, share ideas, sell products, tell stories and create memorable experiences — in print, online and via mobile handsets” according to Shantanu Narayen, President More»

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Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Google has improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology. In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find. More More»

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Adobe announced today the launch of Acrobat 9 which includes native support for Flash and new collaboration capabilities. Users can now include Flash Player compatible video and application files into PDF documents.
Acrobat 9 also includes the ability to unify a wide range of content into a single document with the new concept of PDF Portfolios. PDF Portfolios enable users to assemble multiple media types into one, compressed PDF file that can be customized with several professional layouts and specific branding.
In addition, Acrobat 9 provides access to capabilities for collaborating live within a PDF document, enabled by working with More»

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Target is being targetted for allegedly forcing users to navigate the web blindly. A lawsuit filed in ‘06 claims that Target has violated the California Disabilities Persons Act in that its website, Target.com, does not provide full and equal access to blind users.
The Target suit claims that alternate text and accessible image maps are missing which screen readers depend on to read through the page content and vocalize it to the user; and, the website requires the use of a mouse to complete certain functions. The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) More»

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