Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Creativity

I came across this awesome visual and thought its worth sharing.

Dont know if it is an Ad for a Mobile product or a proof of concept, but the visual looks great.
I wish i can own this product someday ;)

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Adobe Flash Player 10.2

Adobe has just released a near final version of Flash Player v10.2

The key features of this version of the player as given in the Adobe site are...

Stage Video hardware acceleration — A new method for video playback in Flash Player will allow developers to leverage complete hardware acceleration of the video rendering pipeline, enabling best-in-class playback performance. Stage Video can dramatically decrease processor usage and enables higher frame rates, reduced memory usage, and greater pixel fidelity and quality.

Internet Explorer 9 hardware accelerated rendering support — Flash Player takes advantage of hardware accelerated graphics in Internet Explorer 9, utilizing hardware rendering surfaces to improve graphics performance and enable seamless composition.

Native custom mouse cursors — Developers can define custom native mouse cursors, enabling user experience enhancements and improving performance.

Support for full screen mode with multiple monitors — Full screen content will remain in full-screen on secondary monitors, allowing users to watch full-screen content while working on another display.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

MOLEHILL 3d API




Thibault Imbert, product manager for Adobe Flash Player, previews 3D APIs for Adobe Flash Player and AIR (codenamed "Molehill"). Adobe is working on a new set of 3D GPU accelerated APIs that delivers advanced 3D rendering in Flash Player and AIR.