While MAX is asleep i just downloaded Adobe digital Editions from the labs. The installation is extremly easy – exact the same thing as the express install feature of the flash player. Right clicking on the app shows that it`s flash. Than i downloaded an ebook and this came as a pdf! So we have the first app that combines pdf and Flash. Adobe just calls the technology a lightweight rich internet application – no word of apollo. Maybe later.
Check out Adobe digital Editions at the labs.
Month: October 2006
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Adobe Digital Editions == Apollo App?
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Waiting for Apollo
It`s like the days before christmas. I`m impatiently checking the labs every 20 minutes. It has to happen now! Why else should there be a session at MAX called “Getting started with apollo“?
I think the beta is just 2 (MAXimum) days away. Come on release the beast! -
Janus = New Offline Tool for Flex
While waiting for Apollo check out Janus. It`s a tool similiar to zinc but on the first look much more stable and powerful. Currently it`s in beta and you can download a trial.
- Janus let’s you create powerful multiform .NET 2 Windows applications adding a huge set of ActionScript 2/3 packages.
- Project settings are stored in a manually editable XML file.
- Janus supports skins and re-skinning at runtime.
Skin-Builder tool distributed with the application.
Adobe Flex™ and FDT™ users:
- Janus compiles your projects as external tool from within Eclipse IDE.
The interesting thing is that it seems that Janus first was a project in the MDM space. A while back there was a beta forum were an application was listed called Rebus. It seems that this has now become Janus and is now independent from MDM.
Anyway i have a feeling that Apollo will soon be in the labs (do i hear MAX…)
