Are you addicted to the news lately? Here in the U.S., it’s election season which means that easy access to live news coverage is a must-have these days. There was a time when you could only get the news via TV, radio, or paper, but now the web offers a number of different ways to watch the news. Whether it’s your favorite news web site, up-to-the-minute blog coverage, streaming video, citizen journalism, or even desktop apps like Livestation , there are a million ways to feed your news addiction when you go online. Today, you can add one more app to your news-gathering arsenal: an Adobe AIR app delivering 12 live streams from FOX News.
Even if FOX News isn’t your cup of tea, the FOX News app is worth a look. Through this desktop video player, you have access to 12 simultaneous live streams from FOX News. However, it should be noted that all the streams are not necessarily live all the time. Sometimes you’ll only see a handful, but what they deliver is com...
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ay the MAX Conference in San Francisco brings up so much cool stuff and I tried to summarize a but to give an overview of what is all anounced and released.
Adobe AIR 1.5
Adobe DevNet article
New: Encrypted local database, Flash Player 10 and WebKit update
CoCoMo beta
“Codename “Cocomo” is a Platform as a Service that allows Flex [...]... more
Welcome to the beta release of the Text Layout Framework for Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR® 1.5. The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative ...
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Check this out Tour de Flex application done in Adobe AIR … Cool
As per the website http://flex.org/tour
Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.
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While it’s not official, SanDisk is getting ready to launch a new mid-market PMP called the Fuze. Aimed at the 3rd generation iPod Nano, the Fuze will be an SSD-based tiny-screen having PMP that appears to have almost all the same features as the iPod Nano, plus an FM radio, but with more storage, possibly up to 16GB.
So far, SanDisks PMPs have been pretty decent, I’ve had a Sansa for awhile and it’s a great alternative to the iPod. You contrarians should have love in you... more
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The Rock Band drum kit continues to attract modders of all stripes, and we’re loving the crazy directions people are taking it -- like this beatboxing kick drum mod from Kevin Child. It’s a simple hack -- Kevin simply used a Thumper vocal-percussion mike to activate the pedal trigger -- but it’s pretty sweet in action, responding to nearly any noise he makes. We’d love to see this thing filtered through a computer with the different pads as... more
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Man, Qtrax just can’t stop lying about those label deals , can it? The company issued a press release over the weekend saying it has (finally) signed up with Sony / BMG, Universal, EMI and Warner, but Wired did a little bit of digging and found out that Qtrax isn’t being exactly honest -- spokespeople from all four labels flatly denied that any deals were in place. Apparently there have been some experimental licenses and older deals m... more
As if it wasn’t enough that your Nano was counting your every step through the chip in your Nike+ shoes, now it can track every mile you pretend to bike at the the gym. Ellipticals and such, too. They’re teaming up with 24 Hour Fitness and some Virgin thing to provide machines that track your use, assuming you have the time and inclination to plug your gear into the the thing’s port. You can then take it home and plug it in at home, at which point it will upload its data to... more
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