Archive for November, 2008

Adobe Flash Catalyst Alpha Released

22 November, 2008

Adobe Labs released the Alpha build of Flash Catalyst, previously codenamed “Thermo,” and distributed it at Adobe MAX last week. Flash Catalyst is a new design and development tool that lives halfway in between Photoshop/Illustrator/Fireworks and Flex Builder.
These days most applications are created by two separate teams: design and development. As applications increase in complexity, [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Changes The Game

21 November, 2008

Earlier this year I wrote a post speculating that Adobe intended to add content aware resizing A.K.A. “seam carving” to Photoshop CS4. Well, now that CS4 has been released I can proudly announce that I was right and it is indeed a “game-changing” feature. However, now that I’ve had the opportunity to pore over all [...]

Where are all the cool WPF applications we were promised?

3 November, 2008

Ina Fried, a reporter for CNET that provided great coverage of IdentityMine’s EventPhotos Windows 7 / Surface application at PDC, asked a question in her live blog:
“why aren’t we seeing more of these Windows Presentation Foundation applications? They look super cool, but I only ever see them at Microsoft developer conferences.”
Great question, indeed, but there [...]