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A preview of Adobe Apollo in the works

adobe apollo live tourA lot has been said about the upcoming Adobe Apollo environment, good and bad. Some people don't like the fact that its another installable runtime, some think its great because of the possibilities. For certain though, this cross operating system runtime is going to be sparking up some very intuitive rich internet applications for the desktop in the next little while. Apollo is scheduled for release at the end of the year, but is currently available online in a public alpha mode.

Adobe's Mike Downey took the audience through Apollo at Sunday's FITC in Toronto, and showed off some very cool in-development projects, including a desktop application that is in the works for eBay, RSS reader, and the Adobe Media Player.

Designers and Developers will have fun with this application; it's built to handle all of the standard tools and code, including support for Flash, Actionscript and HTML.

Watch the presentation below.

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Take a peak at Flash CS3 straight from Adobe's mouth

adobe cs3 liveThe newest release of Flash CS3 brought with it many extremely cool new features. This was the first ground up rebuild of all of Adobe's products after the big buyout of Macromedia.

At the recent FITC event in Toronto on Sunday, Adobe gave a demo of the new Flash CS3, and went over a few of the major new upgrades to the tool. These include the ability to import PSDs straight into Flash, and, this is the real kicker, the ability to dynamically generate XML code for use in AS3 through timeline based animations.

From the very few demos of all the new applications in CS3 I have seen so far, it could definitely be the time to upgrade, for productivities sake. It still hurts the wallet though.

Take a peek of the video of the presentation.

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