pptPlex adds functionality to PowerPoint 2007 allowing you to Zoom in and out in sections of power point slides. With all of the slides visible at once you could easily pick up a slide so you could discuss its points, then put it down and grab another, or even hold 2 slides side-by-side so you could easily compare them. pptPlex gives PowerPoint this flexibility; you can move to and from slides easily with transitions so smooth that you can jump all over your presentation without ever getting lost.
Adobe started two new open source framework projects to help media companies and publishers to build rich Adobe flash Applications. On Tuesday Adobe announced the availability of Open Source Media Framework and Text Layout Framework.
Open Source Media Framework
Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) is an open software framework for building robust, feature rich video players and applications based on the Adobe® Flash® Platform.
OSMF reduces the complexity of player development, allowing the developer more time to focus on the overall user experience. OSMF’s flexible architecture allows the developer to easily customize their player for the browser or the desktop, incorporating plug-ins for advertising, reporting and content delivery along with standard player features such as playback controls, video navigation, buffering, and Dynamic Streaming. The OSMF media framework can be integrated into your own custom applications using the simple API, or you can deploy the ready-to-run dynamic SWF player without compiling or writing custom scripts.
Open Source Media Framework version 0.3 is now available.
Please review the Downloads page for an explanation of the different downloads available.
The Text Layout Framework is an extensible ActionScript library, built on the new text engine in Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. The framework is designed to be used with Adobe Flex® or Adobe Flash Professional and is included in Flex 4, code named “Gumbo”. Developers can use or extend existing components, or use the framework to create their own text components.
The Text Layout Framework and source are bundled with the Flex 4 SDK. See the Flex SDK page
Today adobe released flash player update to address security vulnerabilities found in Adobe Flash player that can allow an attacker to take complete control of victims computer.
A malicious SWF must be loaded in Flash Player by the user for an attacker to exploit this potential vulnerability. Additional vulnerabilities have been addressed in this update. Adobe recommends users update to the most current version of Flash Player available for their platform.
Windows 7 is the upcoming operating system by Microsoft and it has very cool features related to touch screen. CNET has posted a very good video about the windows 7 touch screen features
Microsoft has made some changes in IE8 installer, now if you running IE8 installer on a machine that is already have some other browser then in this case you will find that IE8 installer will offer you an option to set IE8 as your default browser and import settings from other browser.
The goal of the IE setup experience is to put IE users in control of their settings and respect existing defaults. IE will never install, or become the default browser without your explicit consent. However, we heard a lot of feedback from a lot of different people and groups and decided to make the user choice of the default browser even more explicit. This change is part of our ongoing commitment to user choice and control.
Specifically, users who install IE8 and have another browser set as the default will now see this panel as part of their first run experience:
A new Corporate Citizenship Study was just released by Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, Burson/Marsteller and Landor. When asked to rate which companies they see as the best corporate citizens, survey respondents put Microsoft and General Mills at the top of the list.The citizenship report urges companies to associate their CSR efforts with their brands in order to maximize the investment in CSR reporting and compliance.
Windows XP SP3 users reported that CA Antivirus falsely identified Windows XP system files and placing them in quarantine. Windows XP home office and small business users have reported the following files were affected.
CA Internet Security Suite users should restore affected files from quarantine using the GUI. CA Threat Manager customers should search local hard drives for files with the extension .AVB and manually rename to their original file extension by removing the appended text on the original file name.
This is a false positive due to CA Anti-Virus Update #6604 and has been corrected with CA Anti-Virus Update #6606 or later.
Please update the CA Internet Security Suite software to avoid getting these alerts again.
Once the product updates are over you would need to restore quarantined items by following the article below:
Amazon launched a new website called Amazon Wireless that offers cell phones and wireless plans. Currently Amazon wireless website is in beta and Amazon is testing features and adding more and more feature to their website.
Amazon Wireless currently offers more than 130 phones from AT&T and Verizon Wireless as of now, these cell phones includes wide range of smart phones that fits into your budget. Amazon Wireless offers a number of options for shopping cell phones like carrier, phone feature, price, color, and brand. Amazon Wireless shopping cart will guide you through each stage of the purchase process, where you will find familiar Amazon features like bestseller lists, detailed product descriptions, and customer reviews.
Amazon wireless service is only available in USA. All cell phones purchased via Amazon Wireless need to be purchased for a 22 year contract. Amazon Wireless also offering a free 2 day shipping for all phones.
AmazonWireless is owned and operated by Amazon.com. So You can use your Amazon.com account on AmazonWireless, and you benefit from Amazon’s world-class service and security.
Google has added a more secure and reliable option in Gmail for retrieving Gmail Password. Gmail is now allowing uses to recover their Gmail password via SMS.
To turn this on for your account, just sign in into your Google Account, select ‘Change Password Recovery Options’, enter your cell phone number and click ‘Save.’ Next time when you go to Forgot password page Google will send a recovery code on your mobile phone.
Adding SMS support makes Gmail more secure and password recovery is easy and reliable also.
Amazon is looking for hottest and coolest startup or startup ideas for their AWS startup contest for year 2009. Developers and entrepreneurs from United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel are eligible for entering in AWS startup challenge contest. AWS startup challenge winner is going to win $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, mentoring sessions from AWS technical experts, and AWS Premium Support Gold for one year.
How to Enter in AWS Startup Challenge?
By filling this online application form before August 26, 2009 you can enter into AWS startup challenge. The judges will review all applications and choose 5 finalists based on the following criteria: originality and creativity of the idea, likelihood of long-term success and scalability, how well it addresses a need in the marketplace, implementation of payments functionality, quality of presentation, and implementation of AWS infrastructure services and/or other paid services.
In October, the finalists will be announced and Amazon is going to post a video of each finalist on AWS Website where the community can vote for their favorite start-up as they prepare for the final judging round.
New Bonus Award for 2009
The AWS Start-Up Challenge finalist with the most creative monetization model using Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) or Simple Pay from Amazon Payments will receive $5,000 in cash and $5,000 in Amazon Payments credits. Also, all finalists using these payment services will receive $2,500 in Amazon Payments credits and will be included in various promotional activities.
