Shortly after Adobe announced the latest version of flash, a leading graphics companies like NVIDIA, ATI and Intel have entered their names to support these technologies. Do not want to miss, Broadcom also helped provide support to the device hardware.
As quoted from liliputting, Thursday (19/11/2009) video accelerator Broadcom is not a graphics card that is 'standalone'. Thus, users do not need to buy it separately.
Although not dedicated to playing games, but the graphics card is claimed to optimize the quality of High Definition video class at netbook. So the video is showing would have outstanding qualities.
The first netbook to use this graphics card is the HP Mini 110. But what happened, some owners of these netbooks instead 'mempreteli' this graphics card to be installed on the netbook brands.
In the Adobe forum and MyHPMini, mentioned also that with a combination of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 with this graphics card, it can optimize the embedded Atom processor in a netbook for smooth high-resolution video playback.
Broadcom 'Running' Pursuit of Adobe's Flash 10.1
Adobe Flash Coming Soon to Mobile
Today, Adobe released the prerelease version of Flash Player 10.1 for computers and netbooks running Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (linux). Adobe has also updated some of its mobile demo videos and documents and it looks like a beta of Flash Player 10.1 for the Palm Pre is right around the corner.
Flash Player 10.1 utilizes GPU and hardware acceleration for H.264 and AAC media whenever possible. The big hurdle with Flash on mobile or low-powered devices is that Flash isn’t compiled to offload the decoding tasks to the graphics processor, which can often do the heavy lifting with better performance with with less power consumption.
Even if you aren’t running a netbook or lower-powered system, you might just benefit from downloading Flash Player 10.1 prerelease. Mac OS X users have had a lot of issues with Flash slowdowns — even on the fastest machines. My own iMac with an Intel i7 and 8 GB of RAM still suffers more slowdowns than it should. The prerelease reduces CPU usage to a significant degree, according to AnandTech’s benchmarks and I saw immediate improvements in Hulu (Hulu) full-screen playback.
It was great news!
Free Flash Interactive Calendar Components
Calendar Date Component
You may edit .fla file to customized look and feel of the calendar and customizable the color of all elements. It is fully resizable to suit your needs.
Download flash calendar files here.
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Interactive Calendar
This Interactive Flex Calendar component was created by Ely Greenfield, Adobe Flash developer. It is fully commented, what makes it much easier working with the application.
The possibilities of this Calendar component are really enormous. You may - click the month/year/day buttons to change the view.
- click on the small calendar to go right to a day.
- shift click on a different day on the small calendar to select a range.
You may also set events, move them to another days, change their duration and start time, and much more.
Download flash calendar with source files and documentation here.
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SPARK Events Calendar
This Event Calendar is fully compatible with Flash 8/AS2. It is designed for displaying events that occur in a variety of different patterns including once-off, weekly, monthly and yearly recurring. The design is easily reskinned, and the event data easily extended.
Component can also be used as a date selection component.
Download flash calendar files here.
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Fake Adobe Flash Player Install - Don't Be Fooled
You are surfing along and when you land on a site that contains any type of flash movie (and some that don’t!), you get a popup box that says your Adobe Flash version is out of date and needs to be updated.
Since it appears real enough, and because most computer users know they have Adobe installed, many will click on it. Don’t. It is Malware.
Malware often use many techniques to manifest itself onto their host, including these fake warnings to update something on your computer. This piece of malware masquerades itself as a flash player plugin for the Firefox browser (detected by Sophos as Troj/FFSpy-A, and TrojanClicker.VB.395 as detected by TrojanHunter ).
To Repair Your Machine
Take these steps to clear your machine, and remember, a daily complete virus scan by reliable scanning software can save you a lot of grief.
First, since this is a FireFox Addon, open FireFox –> Tools –> Addons
You are looking for an addon that looks something like the one above. Remember it has undergone revisions over the years, so it might not appear exactly as shown. Uninstall this nasty little guy.
Next, the extension works in conjunction with a trojan executable. In the recent past it was smc.exe, though there are probably others by now. And if you are running SyGate as your firewall, smc.exe is a legitimate file! You will need an up to date virus and Trojan scan to remove the rest of the malicious software from your machine. TojanHunter is not a bad tool to add to your arsenal. You can download a free 30 day trial at that link.
To Determine Your Real Version Of Flash
When in doubt, you should always visit the Adobe site for your downloads. In fact, this is true for ANY legitimate software or extension you have installed. Just like the fake email’s from PayPal or your bank, don’t trust the direct link. Type it into the address bar or closely review the link you are about to click. It should not have any extra characters in the link (for example www.AdobeX.com).
To determine the exact version of the flash player you have installed on your computer, you can visit Adobe’s Version checker at http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
Flash is Belong to Adobe
So when Adobe contacted Envato, an Australian startup that operates a set of popular marketplaces for digital creative goods to change one of their marketplaces names, Envato had no choice. Envato operates a property called FlashDen, which sells Adobe Flash and Flex files like preloaders, galleries, site templates and utilities. Files are created and sold by a huge community of authors from all over the world.
Last week Adobe contacted Envato and asked Envato to change the name and URL of FlashDen so that it would no longer contain the term ‘Flash’, which is a registered trademark of Adobe. With little time, Envato changed the name from FlashDen to ActiveDen.
Seeing this change, we reached out to Collis Ta’eed, the CEO of Envato, and he mentioned that Envato received a letter from a law firm representing Adobe asking to change FlashDen’s name. Envato followed through, not wanting more legal problems with Adobe. Ta’eed also mentioned that “FlashDen” was filed as a trademark in Australia in January 2008 and entered on the Australian trademark register in August 2008. Envato is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Toggling _focusrect
Rather than Flash lite 2.x, you can not modifications its _focusrect property. By default _focusrect be yellow box around.
You can toggle _focusrect by using
_focusrect = false;
Using the SetFocusRectColor command within your Flash Lite 2.x and 3 applications is easy, as there is a custom fscommand2.
fscommand2("SetFocusRectColor", 0, 0, 0);
Selection.setFocus(any_mc);
You need to set the color to replace 0,0,0.
Memory Limitation for Flash Lite Game
You may have flash lite application on your project which need to be so an adventure-like game. Ever wonder how many Megabytes are acceptable for Flash Lite applications?
A Flash Lite application should be in the kilobytes range not megabytes. Remember everything runs in memory. Test using Device Central and look at the memory consumption.`Usually is around 2MB for S60 phones.
On the phone you will get a prompt asking to access the network. Usually only once.
If you are not distributing your application to the public you really do not need to go through the Symbian singed process.
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