Adobe has added support for InPrivate browsing in Adobe Flash Player 10.1. Most modern browsers including Internet Explorer 8.0+,Mozilla Firefox 3.5+,Apple Safari 2.0+ and Google Chrome 1.0 supports InPrivate browsing. Integrating with your web browser, Flash Player 10.1 will automatically clear stored data in accordance with your browser’s private browsing settings. Prior to Flash Player 10.1, the player behaved the same whether the browser was in private browsing or not. Browsers could clear browser data temporarily stored during a private browsing session, such as cookies and history, but they were unaware of the data stored in Flash Player local storage (also known as local shared objects or LSOs). To keep your information safe, information in Flash Player local storage is stored on a site-by-site basis—so that one website can never see information from another website. However, storing information on a site-by-site basis can leave a history of previously visited sites that have used local storage.
Starting with Flash Player 10.1, Flash Player actively supports the browser’s private browsing mode, managing data in local storage so that it is consistent with private browsing. So when a private browsing session ends, Flash Player will automatically clear any corresponding data in local storage.
Additionally, Flash Player separates the local storage used in normal browsing from the local storage used during private browsing. So when you enter private browsing mode, sites that you previously visited will not be able to see information they saved on your computer during normal browsing. For example, if you saved your login and password in a web application powered by Flash during normal browsing, the site won’t remember that information when you visit the site under private browsing, keeping your identity private.
The Settings panel lets you change settings for a specific piece of content running in Flash Player (also known as a SWF file) or the site where that content came from.
In June 2009 Adobe has announced a limited developer preview of BrowserLab. BrowserLab is online hosted service by Adobe that enable web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web.
New Features
Save Locally: Save screenshots generated by BrowserLab in either 1-Up or 2-Up views. This lets you capture renderings of your web pages in different browsers, to save for easy reference or sharing with clients and colleagues. Added January 14, 2010
Additional browser support: Preview web pages in more browsers: Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4, Chrome 3.0 (XP) and Firefox 3.5 (XP and OS X). Each of these additional browsers can be added to existing Browser Sets.
Rulers and Guides: Pinpoint the exact location of any area within a screenshot. Rulers on the X and Y axes show you precise pixel dimensions, with optional guidelines for added accuracy.
Move and Pan: Move to any area of a screenshot by simply clicking and dragging your mouse, or using the arrow keys.
Onion Skin Registration: Tackle precise layout issues within specific areas of your designs, with custom registration of the screenshots in BrowserLab’s Onion Skin view.
Screenshot Delay: Pause the rendering of a screenshot by up to 10 seconds, so you can preview content that needs time to generate.
Supported Browsers and Operating Systems
Firefox 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 (Windows XP and Mac OS X) .
Internet Explorer 6.X, 7.X, and 8.X (Windows XP) .
Safari 3.X and 4.X (Mac OS X) .
Chrome 3.0 (Windows XP).
Viewing and Diagnostics Tools
Screenshots can be viewed in a single view, side by side view, or as an overlay view with variable transparency. Each viewing option features a zoom function. We’ve also added measurement tools like Rulers and Guides, custom Onion Skin Registration, as well as the ability to move quickly to specific areas of a screenshot. You can also save screenshots in 1-Up or 2-Up views.
Browser Sets
Browser Sets allow designers to customize, edit, and save a combination of browsers to test.
The BrowserLab free preview is available to a limited number of users, while we monitor its performance. Please visit our service status page for updates.
Adobe Pixel Bender is a technology that delivers a common image and video processing infrastructure with an automatic runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware. Pixel bender kernel language can used for implementing image processing algorithms in a hardware independent manner. The Pixel Bender graph language is an XML-based language for combining individual pixel-processing operations (kernels) into more complex Pixel Bender filters. The Pixel Bender Toolkit includes the Pixel Bender kernel language and graph language, the Pixel Bender Toolkit IDE (an integrated development environment for Pixel Bender), sample filters, and documentation.Pixel Bender is best suited for the kind of algorithms in which processing of any pixel has minimum dependence on the values of other pixels. For example, you can efficiently write a kernel to manipulate brightness of the image because brightness of each pixel can be changed independently. You would not want to use Pixel Bender to compute a histogram, because a histogram requires the values of all the pixels in an image.
Tutorial: Effects with the Pixel Bender Toolkit
Get an overview of what you can do with the Pixel Bender Toolkit by following this tutorial series by Kevin Goldsmith, engineering manager for the Adobe Image Foundation team in the Core Technology group:
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.
Adobe Flash Catalyst is a new product from Adobe labs for converting Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files in interactive flash (SWF) without coding. With Adobe Flash Catalyst designers can create user experience and make it functional without coding. Designers will be able to show functional design instead of static screenshots. Adobe Catalyst output files in Adobe Air and SWF format means you can easily publish these file over internet also or designers can pass the SWF files to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.
Adobe has released Action Script 3.0 client library for Facebook platform API and most importantly this library is fully supported by Facebook and Adobe. This will help developers to use the power of Flash in their Facebook applications. Flash defiantly make Facebook applications more interactive and rich as compare to applications that are not using the Flash technology.
Some days Apple iWork 09 hits the Torrent websites and spreading the Trojan horse. Computer attackers bundled the Trojan software with pirated copies of Apple iWork 09 and Mac users downloaded these pirated copies may become infect their computer. Now another Trojan horse is found bundled with copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac. The actual Photoshop installer is clean, but the Trojan horse is found in a crack application that serializes the program
Adobe labs has made XMP library for Action Script from their Adobe Labs website. Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling technology that allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata, into the file itself. XMP is an open technology based on RDF and RDF/XML. Adobe has developed XMP to establish a industry wide standard for sharing metadata information among the various applications, file formats and devices. Most importantly XMP is free and open source that means any one can download and start using the Adobe XMP action script and also developers can also modify the source code according to their requirement.
Intel and Adobe are working to bring Flash to TV. Intel is working closely with Adobe to optimize Flash technology for Intel Media Processor CE 3100. This effort is expected to provide consumers with richer and more seamless Web-based and video viewing experiences through advanced Intel-based cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail connected AV devices. Intel plans to ship the first CE3100 with support for an optimized implementation of Adobe Flash Lite before mid-2009.
In Sanfrancisco, Adobe system has announced that – AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) technology will be associated with the Linux Desktop. Currently AIR technology is available for Windows and Macintosh, but users will be able to get this AIR technology to Linux desktops from Thursday. AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) technology is available free for users. Even you can Download the free Adobe AIR SDK & AIR development tools also.
The Adobe AIR runtime lets developers use web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems.Now Users will be able to build AIR applications by using Web development technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, ActionScript and Adobe Flex. The same AIR installer runs on all three platform Linux, Windows, and Macintosh.
Adobe Pixel Bender is a technology that delivers a common image and video processing infrastructure with an automatic runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware. Pixel bender kernel language can used for implementing image processing algorithms in a hardware independent manner. The Pixel Bender graph language is an XML-based language for combining individual pixel-processing operations (kernels) into more complex Pixel Bender filters. The Pixel Bender Toolkit includes the Pixel Bender kernel language and graph language, the Pixel Bender Toolkit IDE (an integrated development environment for Pixel Bender), sample filters, and documentation.Pixel Bender is best suited for the kind of algorithms in which processing of any pixel has minimum dependence on the values of other pixels. For example, you can efficiently write a kernel to manipulate brightness of the image because brightness of each pixel can be changed independently. You would not want to use Pixel Bender to compute a histogram, because a histogram requires the values of all the pixels in an image.
Adobe labs has made XMP library for Action Script from their Adobe Labs website. Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling technology that allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata, into the file itself. XMP is an open technology based on RDF and RDF/XML. Adobe has developed XMP to establish a industry wide standard for sharing metadata information among the various applications, file formats and devices. Most importantly XMP is free and open source that means any one can download and start using the Adobe XMP action script and also developers can also modify the source code according to their requirement. 
Intel and Adobe are working to bring Flash to TV. Intel is working closely with Adobe to optimize Flash technology for Intel Media Processor CE 3100. This effort is expected to provide consumers with richer and more seamless Web-based and video viewing experiences through advanced Intel-based cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail connected AV devices. Intel plans to ship the first CE3100 with support for an optimized implementation of Adobe Flash Lite before mid-2009.
