Blogging live from the front row at Adobe Max.
Sneek Peeks, MAX and People’s Choice Awards, Ignite
eBay took the People’s Choice award and the Rich Internet Application award. Nice!
Sneek Peeks
- Adobe Visual Communicator (yes, we’re already using it)
- VoIP Technology in the Flash Player
- Fully brandable
- Amazing sound quality
- Site creds self-stored
- Presence detection
- Demo’ed the software connecting to a mobile phone in the audience (sweet!)
- Flash Home
- access to web data
- boot phone directly into Flash
- build killer apps
- actionscript-able
- Online version of Photoshop
- Color, rotate, saturation, blemish removal, red-eye removal
- timeline of undo levels
- modeless (any edit, any place)
- non-desctructive
- various fun edits
- Fireworks
- Prototype and Preview in Flex / MXML
- Prototype and Preview in AIR
- ColdFusion – Creating Offline / Online App with AIR ad ColdFusion
- Auto synchronize data when you go offline
- Web 2 Print
- InDesign CS3 Server
- Flex integration
- Sweet customizations
- Theme switching
- For example, print daily specials on a menu
- Future Version of Flash
- New stage rendering core
- See your video wile your auhoring live on stage
- WYSIWYG (stage core built on player 10)
- Runtime reverse kinematics
- Flex on Linux
- Available on labs
- Many Flex 3 features (not all)
- Flash on C/C++
- xsl/xslt implementation
- C++ to ActionScript to SWF to Flash / AIR compiler
- Flat bitmap image manipulation
- Demo showed real time scaling of graphics with certain portions of the image retaining their size attributes.
- Flash “Next”
- Holy sh*t the next version of flash has reverse kinematics!
- A Flash Player 10 based stage (real time video etc)
Not mentioned in the sneek peeks because it was covered earlier was “Thermo” Technically, this should be a separate blog post but you’ll ear about it soon enough. So you know, it’s a designer’s tool for creating rich internet applications. A true designer’s tool with real Flex componentry. This will be a serious contender for designer’s time everywhere. Blew my mind and I think it will have a similar affect on yours. 🙂