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45+ Awesome Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials


ActionScript is an object-oriented language that was originally developed by Macromedia and is now owned by Adobe Systems. It is a dialect of ECMAScript, which means that it is a superset of the syntax of JavaScript. ActionScript is currently used for the development of websites and software that is targeted for the Adobe Flash Player. ActionScript 3.0 is the programming language for the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtime environments. To get a better understanding of some of the applications that you can build with knowledge of ActionScript 3.0, I have listed some tutorials below.
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Photoshop 6 Now Available In Free Public Beta


Adobe Systems has released a beta version of Photoshop before a formal product release for the first time in seven years. Photoshop CS 6 is available as a free download from Adobe Labs. The commercial release will follow soon after.
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Apple Hires Adobe Exec Todd Teresi To Run iAd

Apple has hired Adobe executive Todd Teresi to run Apple’s mobile advertising unit iAd.  Apple launched iAd in 2010 after acquiring Quattro Wireless.   Teresi is replacing Andy Miller and is reporting directly to Eddy Cue.  Miller is the founder of Quattro and developed the core of iAd.  Before Adobe, Teresi previously worked at Quantcast and Yahoo!

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Adobe Buys Digital Marketing Company Efficient Frontier


Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has acquired digital marketing company Efficient Frontier. The acquisition will help Adobe add multi-channel ad campaign forecasting, execution, and optimization capabilities to their Digital Marketing solutions.
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Adobe Says Flash Rejection From Apple Was A Major Reason For Ending Mobile Initiatives


Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) principal product manager for developer relations Mike Chambers wrote a blog post detailing one of the major reasons why the company has decided to end initiatives for mobile development of the Flash Player. Chambers admitted that Apple’s decision not to support the Flash Player on iOS was a major reason why the company ended mobile initiatives.
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Adobe To Stop Supporting Flash On Consumer Electronics


Adobe Systems Incorporation (NASDAQ:ADBE) announced yesterday that they would no longer be supporting Flash on mobile devices. The company has also revealed yesterday that they would no longer be supporting Adobe Flash on consumer electronics including web-connected TVs. Adobe plans to focus their energies on Adobe AIR and contribute to HTML5.
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Adobe To Cease Development Of Flash On Mobile Browsers To Focus On HTML5


Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced that they will be halting their efforts to develop and deploy Adobe Flash on mobile devices. Adobe has been delivering the Flash Player for mobile browsers to many different devices. However HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, exclusively on some devices like the iPhone and iPad. Adobe has officially announced that they will be working with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and RIM to drive HTML5 innovation.
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Adobe Launches Adobe Reader For iOS


Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has launched an Adobe Reader application for iOS. The application works on the iPhone and the iPad. Adobe Reader for iOS allows people to view, access, share, and print PDFs. The PDFs can also be sent to AirPrint-supported printers. [iTunes link]

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Adobe Showcases Anti-Blurring Feature [VIDEO]


Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) is creating a feature for Photoshop that helps you anti-blur photos. Adobe demoed the feature at the company MAX 2011 event. In the demo, Adobe showed how the anti-blurring feature works. The anti-blur feature uses advanced algorithms to calculate movements of the camera at the time the image was taken and allows the user to “fix” the image by un-blurring it. Check out the video below:
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Adobe Acquires Typekit


Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has acquired Typekit. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch made the announcement at the annual MAX conference as part of the company’s Creative Cloud strategy presentation. Typekit serves three billion fonts per month on over one million different websites including typefaces used by The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker. Typekit is making fonts available to broad audiences with platform integration in companies like WordPress.com, About.me, Posterous, and Behance. [Typekit Blog]

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