savvas.malamas

Flex Builder, the bug and the video..

“remember.. all I am offering is the truth..”

Ok Flex Builder “has” this think that really bothers me. It is very annoying and makes me feed sad, first of all because of the money I gave and secondly because I can’t watching the best monitor ever, displaying my desktop like this. The “bug” is that after 30-40′ of FB (for Christ’s Sake, this does NOT stand for facebook!!) being opened and then I use expose or just close FB I can still see the Flex Navigator and the Outline panels on screen! This marvelous, hi-tech Fx is happening thanks to the new feature of my Apple Cinema 23″ HD called “ghosting“. As you may already figured out this has nothing to do with FB..What did you expect to say, that Flex Builder sucks? No, at least not for me. Flex Builder is my 455,9 MBs of paradise. Right now there are about 40 apps on my dock, do you want to know the one that I am really proud of being there? You don’t need to ask..  On the other hand I was thinking that maybe my lovely monitor has started to falling in love with Flex Builder.

Anyway I wanted to play a video in a specific area on my display just to see how fast these ghosts would go away. So I opened up my video folder and I came across this super video that you can see above. I have to say that I love collecting videos, especially related to Adobe and the above is one of the best of them. Considering all the super stars in there like Kevin Lynch (yes the CTO and Senior Vice President of Adobe!!) and Matt Snow and a lot of other cool Adobes and let’s just don’t forget that the video was (it seams to) recorded in Macromedia’s core building (and Adobe’s core building for me) I thought I should post it here, just in case there is someone out there that haven’t seen it. Watch it and have fun!

..here is the video:

The player will show in this paragraph

There is a lot of video stuff going on today.

To start with, the Adobe Media Player has been released for the Adobe Air v.1 runtime. ADM is a really well designed Air app that runs on windows, OS X and Linux. You can watch videos, subscribe to video channels, watch the videos in fullscreen and even choose the quality-size of the video you are about to download. Adobe Media Player is a really nice app, made for the Adobe Air runtime and created straight from the mothership. The install process is very easy and a lovely experience. You don’t have to care whether you have the Adobe Air runtime, to install AMP. Just click on the badge and there you have it.

Another big video related new for today is the Adobe TV website. Adobe TV is a well designed Flex application in which you can see videos related to Adobe products. Adobe employees and Community experts are giving tips, presenting products and other Adobe product related things. This is definitely a nice way to get informed and inspired. Adobe TV has a nice integration with the Adobe Media Player, of course, in which you can subscribe to the video channels presented there so you don’t have to browse the Adobe TV website all the time and of course there are ways to share a video from the Adobe TV, either by linking to the page of a specific video or by embedding it in your site, blog etc. Definitely worth a look. Here is a screenshot of a video from Adobe TV. Click on it to see Julie Campagna and Ryan Stewart giving a tour on the bus about the North American onAir tour which took place last year.

The last video new for today is not related to the Adobe. It’s about video in Flickr. Yes, you read it right. Flickr rollover a new feature today in which you can upload a video provided that you have a Pro account. Videos can’t be bigger that 90″ and or 150 MBs. The videos will be shown along with your pictures and people can watch and embed them in their blog (if you allow that). My feelings about the whole thing is not very good. I can’t see why someone would like to upload a video in a well known site synonymous to photography. If there was a separation between photos and videos that would work for me but meshing photos and videos seems just wrong. I just hope that Yahoo! won’t break the well established Flickr site. The only way in which I think video would really be nice in connection to Flickr content would be something like what Animoto offers, which is a lovely app in which you upload your photos (or importing them from Flickr and other photos repositories) add a music track and Animoto “remixes” them by analyzing the music. The result is a really nice video which really looks like a professional job. And their quote is than none of the videos they make is similar to another even if you use the same photos and music file, thanks to the random algorithms their system uses. In such case it would be really nice for Flickr to have video but I insist that they have to keep the videos separated from the photos somehow.  I love Flickr and that’s why I have paid for it and have a lot of my pictures living in there. I hope this new addition will not destroy my feelings about Flickr.

That’s it for today (I think..) 

Go Adobe!

Search tomorrow.. TODAY with Google’s gDay!

Another Animoto video!

My gadget-photos video made with Animoto!
I love this app!