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On August 11, 2008 Adobe has released Adobe Flash Player 10 Release candidate available for download on its Adobe Lab’s Website. Adobe Flash Player 10 introduces some new features that will help developers and designers to create rich and impressive web experience.

Adobe Flash Player 10 Features
3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while retaining full interactivity.  Fast, lightweight, and native 3D effects make motion that was previously reserved for expert users available to everyone.  Complex effects are simple with APIs that extend what you already know.

Custom Filters and Effects - Create and share your own portable filters, blend modes, and fills using Adobe Pixel Bender™, the same technology used for many After Effects CS3 filters. Shaders in Flash Player are about 1KB and can be scripted and animated at runtime.

Advanced Text Layout - A new, highly flexible text layout engine, co-existing with TextField, enables innovation in creating new text controls by providing low-level access to text offering right-to-left and vertical text layout, plus support for typographic elements like ligatures.

Enhanced Drawing API - Runtime drawing is easier and more powerful with re-styleable properties, 3D APIs, and a new way of drawing sophisticated shapes without having to code them line by line.

Visual Performance Improvements – Applications and videos will run smoother and faster with expanded use of hardware acceleration.  By moving several visual processing tasks to the video card, the CPU is free to do more.

Enhanced Sound APIs – Work with loaded MP3 audio at a lower level in Flash Player 10. The new APIs will let you do application-level audio mixing through ActionScript and even audio filtering with Adobe Pixel Bender.

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Download Adobe Flash Player 10
Source : Adobe Lab Downloads

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Microsoft is now seriously thinking about the Adobe Flash. Microsoft sees Adobe Flash is one of big concern for it’s Windows development. As Adobe Flash supports cross side platform development as well as deployment in the same way that Java has deliver the same thing a decade ago. If a large number of web application are developed using the Adobe Flash including critical applications, then there is no need for Windows for as a platform for developing web application. All major operating supports at least one version of Adobe Flash to run Flash applications.

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