01 Aug

Welcome, Adobe® Edge; Goodbye Flash?

Earlier today Adobe® Labs broke the silence and allowed Developers and fellow Lab members first look at the latest from the workshop: Adobe® Edge. A new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. It’s a nifty application still in it’s infancy phase with lots of potential.

Features

Intuitive user Interface

The user interface is based on a stage, timeline, and panels for elements and properties. It’s influenced by the adobe user community’s favorite features and functionality in class-leading tools like After Effects and Flash Professional, but innovates in its ease of use. Animations and timing can be controlled on a WebKit-based stage, or via precise property adjustments directly on the timeline. You can also make quick edits on individual or multiple objects.

Visually author animated content

Create new compositions from scratch using basic HTML building blocks, text, and imported web graphics. Manipulate objects with an array of transformation and styling options which Edge natively applies to our jQuery-based animation framework.

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22 Jun

RockMelt – Social browsing for all!

With so many browsers available today, it seems a bit overwhelming with the amount of choices. Well I am here to tell you that you don’t need to keep picking anymore. The definitive social browser experience is here. RockMelt is a chromium based browser which melds Facebook, social networking with Google searching and a webkit based browser experience all into one awesome package. Oh, and it’s for your Iphone too! Grab it on the App Store.

Just released a new version of RockMelt (v0.9.58.471) that lets you customize your Facebook.com experience to display Friend Requests, Messages, Notifications, and chat lists.

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17 May

Readability please!

Goodbye feed readers

Just got the Readability plugin for anyone who uses the Readability.com service. Readability turns any web page into a comfortable reading view right in your web browser. Readability makes it simple to save your favorite articles for reading later.

Here’s how it works: every time you use Readability on a particular article, a portion of your subscription fees go right to the content creators. You get a fantastic reading experience. Publishers and writers get compensated for the content you enjoy. Everyone reads happily ever after.

70% of all membership fees go directly to the publishers and content creators in your reading list. 30% of all membership fees go to improving Readability’s growing set of tools and services for readers.

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