In case you missed it — AIR 2 beta 2 is now available on labs.adobe.com. Most expected printing features is now available. Don’t miss the interview Ryan Stewart did with Rick Rocheleau, one of the engineers on the core technologies group who made this possible.
Discussing New Printing Features in the AIR 2 Beta 2 from Ryan Stewart on Vimeo.
More details @ http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flexbuilder_linux.html
Two researchers from Japan’s Keio University (which yours truly attended just until recently by the way) have developed a kitchen appliance aimed at the total web geek in you, a YouTube-powered microwave. The so-called Castoven [JP] is based on a conventional, unbranded model of “good quality” but sports a 10.4-inch LCD screen in the door panel.
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Needless to say the researchers didn’t forget to build a set of speakers into the microwave, too. It’s connected to a Mac, but I suppose this would work with Windows computers as well. The concept, first made public in a research paper published last year [JP, PDF], is to make people’s everyday lives a little more worthwhile through mashing up web contents with electric appliances.
The main idea is to display a YouTube video whose length depends on the time you need to heat up what’s inside the Castoven. Say, you want to prepare a lunch box that takes 3.30 minutes to be ready. The Castoven would then automatically pull a video from YouTube with that length and display it on the screen until the meal is finished.
The Adobe AIR 1.5.3 runtime and SDK are now available for download. This release includes an updated version of Flash Player, security updates and several bug fixes. The developer release notes include critical information that all developers building AIR applications should be sure to read including important information related to certificate renewals (see earlier blog post) as well as bug fixes.
Highlights of some of the important changes in this release:
* If you have deployed an existing Adobe AIR application using AIR 1.5.2 or earlier and you want to update your application to use the 1.5.3 namespace, you will need to specify the old publisher ID of your application in your descriptor. Instructions on how to find your publisher ID and specify it in your descriptor are described in the release notes.
* The process for changing certificates in an update to a deployed application has changed. Beginning with AIR 1.5.3, certificate renewals will no longer be handled automatically and you will need to use the migrate feature of ADT. Please learn more about this topic by reading the release notes.
Critical issues fixed in this release:
* When an intermediate certificate expires, it is no longer possible to sign an application with a renewed certificate (fixed by removing the publisher ID).
* The AIR application installer crashes on Linux systems using AMD Phenom processors.
Adobe AIR 2 Beta on Adobe Labs.
AIR 2 includes several highly-requested features. Some of the prominent features of AIR 2 are:
* Server sockets
* Open documents with the user’s default application
* Microphone data access
* .rpm and .deb packages for Linux
* Launch native executables
* USB mass storage device detection
* Global Error Handling
* UDP sockets
* TLS/SSL sockets
* DNS lookup
* Packaging an AIR application in a native installer
* Database transaction savepoints
* Screen reader support (Windows only)
* Printing enhancements
* Increased maximum size of NativeWindow
* Multi-touch events (Windows only)
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Adobe Wave is an Adobe AIR application and Adobe hosted service that work together to enable desktop notifications for web publishers, large and small. It helps you stay connected to your community and lets users avoid the email clutter of dozens of newsletters and social network update messages.
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