Flash Player 10 beta is available
Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named “Astro,” introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.
The Flash Player 10 beta is available in all supported languages; however, the beta installers are only in English . Flash Player beta downloads are available in the following forms:
- Windows ActiveX Control
- Windows Plugin
- Macintosh OS X (10.4 and above) Universal Binary Plugin
- Linux Plugin
System requirements for Flash Player 9 are available on Adobe.com. Flash Player 10 no longer supports Mac OS X version 10.1. Ubuntu support has been added.
Flash Player 10 includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes, including:
- Creative Expression
- Custom Filters and Effects
- 3D Effects
- New Text Engine
- Text Layout Components
- Drawing API Enhancements
- Color Management
- Visual Performance Improvements
- GPU Compositing
- GPU Blitting
- Anti-Aliasing Engine (Saffron 3.1)
- Vector Data Type
- Rich Media
- Dynamic Streaming
- RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol)
- Speex Audio Codec
- Other Community Requested Enhancements
- File Reference
- Dynamic Sound Generation
- Large Bitmap Support
- Context Menu
- GB18030 Compliance
- Ubuntu OS Support
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library
There are the books you read, and then there are the books that change your life. We can all look back on the books that have shaped our perspective on politics, religion, money, and love. Some will even become a source of inspiration for the rest of your life. From a seemingly infinite list of books of anecdotal or literal merit, we have narrowed down the top 100 books that have shaped the lives of individual men while also helping define broader cultural ideas of what it means to be a man.
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Whether it be a book on adventure, war, or manners, there is so much to learn about life’s great questions from these gems. Let us know in the comments which of these you loved, hated, and the books that meant a lot to you and should have made the list (you can even get really indignant about your favorite book). And without further ado, this is our list. ? Via Manliness ?
Blip: Twitter for Music
We share our ideas, tell friends what we are doing right now via Twitter. We get more communication via text, words. So how about sharing and listening to music via some app like Twitter. Blip may be the tool you want.
Blip is a quick way to tell your friends what song you’re into right this minute. You also find out what your favorite people are listening to in real-time — no need to refresh the page. It is a way to suggest music and share your thoughts about it with a network of contacts.
Blip was created by FUZZ, a new breed of music company — combining a powerful artist promotion platform, a feature-rich interactive community of artists and fans, and a next-generation music label. As an artist or label you can stream and sell your music, post stuff to promote yourself or your bands, including an artist profile, individual band member profiles, photos, reviews, press and news. As a fan, you can set up a personal profile on the site, include photos, invite friends, and check out awesome new music in a number of ways. (via Techcrunch)
Hostedwith.us:Free Web Hosting Service
Hostedwith.us offers totally free web hosting service for any business or personal site, blogs, forums, homepages and so on. All they need is a link at the bottom of your website back to them. You can get 100GB space, 100Gb monthly bandwidth, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, FTP access, file manager, PHP hosting, Web Statictics, no banners, 99.98% uptime and much more! Every account has a built in client File Manager system, user panel, website statistics and support ticketting system. When you choose your username, that is your address, eg: username.hostedwith.us - OR you can just use an existing domain name, ie. www.yourdomain.com!
You can host any website except for illegal files, or content that would be deemed unacceptable, such as copyrighted material (songs, video clips etc.) or illegal adult material. Legal adult material IS acceptable, and you are welcome to host an adult site here. One account, one website. If you want to build several websites, you can register more accounts.
You can delete the link back to Hostedwith.us if you pay them $15 a year. It is cheap. There is a forum where you can submit questions about the service.
PutPlace:A Safe Place to Put a Lifetime of Digital Memories
PutPlace is more than file backup. It gathers all the valuable digital stuff you’ve stockpiled over your lifetime — photos, documents, email, music and home movies. Then PutPlace protects and organizes it so you can find exactly what you need, wherever you are.
PutPlace is currently in beta, so you can test it for free. When it launches, they’ll offer annual subscriptions, presumably with rates varying based on the amount of storage used. This really isn’t big news for advanced users who are already on the offsite backup bandwagon, but there are still plenty of people who haven’t gotten there yet. If backup were easier, fewer novice users would have to go through the traumatic experience of losing everything to a hard drive failure. PutPlace might be able to help them by putting on a friendly, trustworthy face.
PutPlace Features
- Set and forget automated backup
- Access your files from anywhere
- Quick and secure
- Full backup of all your changes
- Works with all file formats
Yahoo releases Delicious plug-in for IE
Yahoo now offers a beta version of its Delicious browser plug-in for online bookmarking functions.
(Credit: Yahoo)
Delicious, Yahoo’s “social bookmarking” site that lets people archive, tag, and share Web site addresses, got its start closely tied to the Firefox open-source Web browser. Now Yahoo is branching out to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, too.
The company released a beta version of the IE plug-in Tuesday (available on Download.com). Though there are differences, the IE version is similar, offering users the ability to add and tag bookmarks and to search their own bookmark collection.
“We’re very excited about this release, as we have many users who use Internet Explorer as their primary browser,” said Nick Nguyen, senior product manager for Delicious, in a Delcious blog postint Tuesday.
The software works on IE 6, IE 7, and the IE 8 beta on Windows XP and Vista, Yahoo said.
30 recently created exceptional ajax javascript techniques
This article show you a list of over 30 hand-picked Ajax and javascript techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs. (Via Noupe)
- Growl 2.0 with Mootools- Daniel Mota has created Growl 2.0 with Mootools, that is easily integrated into our web applications.
- Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery- An incredibly easy way of achieving tooltip like bubble popups that appears when you roll over link or a thumbnail.
- Sliding top panel using mootools- Antonio Lupetti explains how to release a simple sliding top panel (top/down) using mootools, some line of css code and JavaScript.
- Sliding top panel using mootools- How to recreate the menu on MooTools with the same effect … but in jQuery!
- Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery- How to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript, and then finally doing the same thing using the jQuery library.
- Custom JavaScript Dialog Boxes- Leigeber has put together a lightweight (~4.5kb) JavaScript dialog box library. The script currently offers four dialog styles: alerts, warnings, prompts and success.
- Facebook Sliders With Mootools and CSS - A very simple 3-slider system that allows a user to modify the height, width, and opacity of an image using just sliders!
- Making a Javascript Video Player- How to create a pure (non-flash) JavaScript video player.
- Ajax mosaic builder- The function will load multiple images as a color pallet using BinFileReader and then arranged them in such an order that those images would look like one of the images in the pallet.
- jQuery flipv()- Accessible way to display vertical text line.
- Drag. Drop. Lock.- A nice tutorial for making quick drag and drop features in PHP.
- WebAppers Simple Javascript Progress Bar with CSS- WebAppers has created a simple and brilliant Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar which is inspired by Bare Naked App
- moowheel- The purpose of this script is to provide a unique and elegant way to visualize data using Javascript and the <canvas> object.
- noobSlide- A Smooth Mootools Slide Show Image Galleries.
- Mocha UI- Mocha is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework. The Mocha GUI components are made with canvas tag graphics.
- ddMenu- ddMenu is a simple MooTools-based script to create you’re own context menus.
- googleDrive- googleDrive is a little google maps mash up that allows you to drive a little car around on the maps.
- GlassBox- GlassBox is a compact Javascript User Interface (UI) library, which use Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some effects. With GlassBox you can build transparent border, colorful layouts and “Flash-like” effects.
- ProtoFlow- ProtoFlow is a coverflow effect written in Javascript. It uses Prototype, Scriptaculous and also uses Reflection.js to do bulk of the work and it uses Reflection.js to do all the image reflections stuff!
- ASP.NET AJAX AutoComplete Control (Facebook look)- An ASP.NET AJAX extender that can be attached to any TextBox control.
- ADamnIT - JS error notification- A free reporting service that emails you when a JS error occurs in your webpages.
- Flexigrid- Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.
- prettyPhoto a jQuery lightbox clone- A jQuery lightbox clone with tons of features you would love to have.
- JavaScript Color Fading Script- This lightweight JavaScript allows for easy color transitions. Add fading effects to tables, divs and more. You can target an elements background, border or text color.
- Rotator- This small Javascript class, serves as a generic rotator for different kind of collections.
- Kotatsu - a simple html table generator- A nice tool to help create a table and throw in column classes quickly.
- jQuery virtual tour- This virtual tour plugin has the particularity to be accessible and can run even if javascript has not been activated.
- Usable directory listings with a little Dojo- A tutorial by Sam Foster to create directory listings with keyboard shortcuts. Just tab over to the box on the top right, and filter your selections.
- Cuzillion’- The tool lets you test out different techniques for optimizing performance in browsers, and these tests can be saved and shared by the community.
- The Sliding date-picker- GlassBox is a compact Javascript User Interface (UI) library, which use Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some effects. With GlassBox you can build transparent border, colorful layouts and “Flash-like” effects.
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