There are some great PDF to Word converters out there. PDF to Word Converter Facebook edition allows users to convert from PDF documents to Word document inside Facebook. Users are able to upload files after logging in to Facebook and the software will do the rest.
PDF to Word Converter is completely free and just requires a Facebook profile.
Click here to check out the Facebook converter applications.
ScaleNine is a great new service that showcases free themes for Adobe Air and Flex applications. Currently there are 80+ themes on ScaleNine and the majority seem to be very high quality.
If your looking for some inspiration or design help for your Adobe Air application, then I would check our ScaleNine.
Adobe are just about to launch three new iPad applications that tie into Photoshop. The three apps are called Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop, Adobe Eazel for Photoshop and Adobe Nav for Photoshop.
The pricing for the apps has been revealed at $1.99 to $4.99 and they will launch early in May 2011.
Wallaby is the tool which can end much of the supremacy defined by Adobe Flash. It will allow developers to re-use most of the elements from their projects and transforming those easily in HTML5. Here’s a demo.
Wallaby exports from an Adobe Flash project some key elements like graphics, masks and animations into a HTML file:
This tool won’t export all of the elements, but it will for sure automate a lot of the process developers can perform to achieve their animations to work with, for example, iPhones and iPads.
The interesting about this, is that Adobe posted this information in their blog. Cheers to that.
The NY Times published recently a surprising event that took place in Adobe’s offices. A secret CEO’s meeting, Steve Ballmer from Microsoft and Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen, where they discussed the possibility about a possible merge and Microsoft taking over Adobe’s company.
Both of these technology monsters share a common enemy: Apple. Microsoft never had the chance to enter the mobile world and Adobe’s is struggling for not be forgotten since Apple decided they were not going to support Flash in their iOS (iPhones and iPads operating systems). And these are two big reasons for unifying and beat the same dragon.
NY Times also gives some details about this meeting, even though there’s nothing official, here are some of the topics of the meeting that took a little more than an hour: Adobe’s possible acquisition by Microsoft and possibilities for Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash can co exist in the same operating system.
Specialists said that this acquisition could cost Microsoft 15 billion dollars.
What do you think? Can you see these two fighting against Apple?
In the last couple of years, Lindsay Lohan did not appear in the papers or in TV because of her acting talent or a lovely personality (?); her personal life with thousands of scandals around it did the entire job. And why not having a game about the latest news around here? Lindsay Goes To Prison, the game.
The game developed in flash is based on the recent news about the Lindsay: Her life in jail after a few drugs abuse. The game is pretty simple: You are Lindsay, you need smokes and there’ll be several other prisoners trying to stop you.
My record if 14 smokes, who can top that?
And be careful of those mean prisoners!
The Apple vs Adobe round is far from getting to the end, and with the iPad sensation all around us, people is paying a little more attention; meaning that they are also buying a little bit more. Shirt Woot also is taking advantage with this cool T-Shirt “Poison Apple”.
We’ve recently talked about a project that is coming up which can replace Flash with JavaScript/HTML5; this could be the end of Flash?
The only thing for certain is that the solution must appear for the final user, and not transform this in a fight of interests where we, as users, are the only ones giving up quality and usability with our devices and computers.
Smokescreen is a new product from RevShock new mobile ad startup based in Austin and San Francisco, which can lead to a revolutionary concept: Convert Flash into HTML5 directly without using any plugin or having to re tool any code.
The software in charge of getting this done has not been released, but here are some of the facts:
Can you imagine the impact this can make into the iPad’s fresh market?
“Many people still want to use their existing Adobe tools for developing ads, and retooling to support a single platform seems silly. As an ad network, we believe that dynamic, interactive ads are much more fun than boring static ads and thus, we were faced with two options: live in a dark, desolate world of boring mobile ads or do something about it”, the guys say about their new vision.
Here’s a very interesting demo:
Mike Chambers, one of the most important persons inside Adobe and Flash development, posted about the iPhone compatibility. They are suspending indefinitely the development of Flash to work with iPhone.
Not only that, Chambers also says that they are going to focus their attention in the Android platform: “Personally, I am going to shift all of my mobile focus from iPhone to Android based devices (I am particularly interested in the Android based tablets coming out this year) and not focus on the iPhone stuff as much anymore.”
Adobe is definitely not happy regarding the treatment they’ve received from Apple, and Mike also has some comments about it:
Clear enough?
Apple’s going to focus in HTML5, that’s probably the main reason of this dispute; but in the meanwhile I guess we are going to have to get use to those blue legos.
Nothing has changed the way we watched TV more than TiVo has. When the TiVo was first released it was truly revolutionary for the viewing audience. Time controlled TV; no longer were we to be enslaved by the powers that be and their scheduling practices. Even if we were watching something scheduled, we could record on another channel. The many iterations of TiVo over the years has seen increased offerings and versatility, but now with the release of the Premiere, we might see a new era for the TiVo…or will we?
The new TiVo Premiere ($300) takes full advantage of the many new HDTV models and their ability to connect to the internet. By accessing the internet TiVo can now not only surf the digital channels, but also content across sites like YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, On Demand, and Blockbuster. The new standard version of the Premiere can record up to 45 hours of HD quality content. The larger version of the Premiere XL ($500) can record a whopping 150 hours of HD quality content.
The new interface for this TiVo is built on the Adobe Flash platform. You know Flash, the one Apple is so afraid of. Is this any good? Will this crash on us constantly? It’ll be interesting to see how things work out, but this TiVo is a heavy contender for in-home set top boxes.
