Mike Chambers has posted an update about Apollo on his blog. He talk about general update in the developemnt of Apollo and present a simple example of write/read file system.
Some interesting quotes :
[...]Remember, that this is a full HTML engine (WebKit), so all HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc… is supported.[...]take an ActionScript object and write it [...]

Just read on DMXzone about the new presentation of Mike Chambers. After making a short introduction to Apollo, he speak about the “tentative timeline” of Apollo Developer Release. It will be early 2007 if the timeline is respected. In his presentation he also shown some example of Apollo app. but no new example (for 3 [...]

Are you a Java developers with no knowledge in Flex ?
Well it’s a shame ;)
But there is sometings you can do, in the Adobe Developer Center there is a great article about using Flex with a Java backend.
Read article from Christophe Coenraets at Adobe

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[…]Adobe is struggling to discover how to turn its applications into advertising supported free software over the Internet, with Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen explaining in German that Google’s success with Picasa is something they cannot ignore.
However getting Photoshop to work through a web based interface would simply be too slow at this stage, claimed Chizen. [...]

Here’s a new video tutorial about animating MovieClip with the Timer Class and how to get and set the properties of the MovieClip Class.
I’m finally happy with the video quality, next time I’ll try to increase the audio quality ;)
Watch video here or visit the AS3 tutorial page.
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Adobe release a new web based app to create and share color theme online. Really nice work and it’s working great. For non graphist like me it’s a great tool to get correct color theme ;)
Visit Kuler website.
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Nice selection of the best invention for year 2006. There are different category and really worth a look.
From Time

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Incredible but soon real!
[…]The concept exploits century-old physics and could work over distances of many metres[…]A simple copper antenna designed to have long-lived resonance could transfer energy to a laptop with its own antenna resonating at the same frequency. The computer would be truly wireless.[…]
Read more from BBC
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La première rencontre de l’AUGG (Adobe User Group Geneve) se déroule aujourd’hui à 18h.
Si vous êtes dans la région de Genève et que votre emploi du temps vous le permet, venez nous rejoindre pour le verre de présentation! La séance sera relativement courte et à pour seul but de nous presenter et de rencontrer les [...]

There is a lot of buzz about FoxyTag (free, collaborative system to signal radars (speed camera) on mobile phones. This freeware is develop at The Advanced Systems Group from Geneva University. It’s still in beta version but it works.
A German magazine (der Spiegel) even talk about Solidarity 2.0 to describe it.
This freeware work with a [...]