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Samsung Beats Apple in the Smartphone Market. Creator Of The IPod: Saving Energy Is Sexy. The world's first learning thermostat, created by Tony Fadell -- the man who sold Steve Jobs on the iPod -- may help lower your heating bill.NEST Labs Can the father of the iPod make saving energy sexy?

Creator Of The IPod: Saving Energy Is Sexy

Tony Fadell is the man who took the idea of the iPod to Steve Jobs, spawning a renaissance at the company and then overseeing successive products, including the first iPhones. He officially left the company last year (after a stint in a consulting role) to pursue green technologies, and today he's ready with his first introduction.

Dubbed Nest Labs, his post-Apple debut is a home thermostat. Star Wars: A New Hope script. Cinema 2 - Icetheme Premium Joomla Template. Android overtakes iOS in mobile app downloads. Android captured a leading 44 percent of all mobile app downloads in the second quarter, according to ABI Research, surpassing Apple's iOS, which grabbed 31 percent.

Android overtakes iOS in mobile app downloads

The research firm attributed Android's gain in part to recent shipment numbers. For the second quarter, growth in iPhone shipments fell to 9 percent from 15 percent in the first quarter, while Android's shipment growth rose to 36 percent from 20 percent. Android's total install base now outweighs that of iOS by a factor of 2.4 to 1, ABI said, a ratio that will reach 3 to 1 by 2016. But Android's open-source strategy is also driving app downloads, according to ABI. "Being a free platform has expanded the Android device install base, which in turn has driven growth in the number of third party multi-platform and mobile operator app stores," ABI research associate Lim Shiyang said in a statement.

Android easily outpaces iOS on mobile ad network. Android captured 56 percent of all ad impressions on Millennial Media's mobile network over the third quarter, outshining Apple's iOS, which accounted for only 28 percent.

Android easily outpaces iOS on mobile ad network

Looking at the third quarter as a whole, Millennial Media's latest Mobile Mix report crowned Google's OS the top platform in the Connected Device and Smartphone category, which includes both tablets and phones. Android scooped up the lead over the past year "due in part to their contrasting strategy to iOS, allowing multiple device manufacturers to have access to their platform," said the report. "Device manufacturers have created an Android device at every price point, resulting in rapid consumer adoption. " Though in second place overall, iOS scored the top spot in the Connected Device category, which covers only tablets and devices, such as the iPod Touch. Apple has experienced huge growth on the mobile ad network from last year.

View topic - Universal AIR Android + iOS template. Case study: Pixel City Skater, an iPhone game made with Flash. Template. Flash. Connor Ullmann. In this post, I’m going to show how to take a normal Flash project made in FlashDevelop and make it work for your iDevices.

Connor Ullmann

First, you’ll need to download Adobe AIR 2.6 and start a project using it. Then, you can simply copy-paste your game with all of it’s contents into this new project and compile. Starting with this new, AIR 2.6 compiled SWF, you can start the process of making it work for an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad device. At the very end of the tutorial, I will have packaging .bat files and an example XML app descriptor file.

Wireless Ad Hoc Distribution. ColdFusion Extension. Developer Connection. Photoshop Touch SDK drives three Adobe iPad apps. Adobe's traditional user base of creatives are some of the most computationally resource-intensive folk I can think of (along with hard-core gamers and scientists).

Photoshop Touch SDK drives three Adobe iPad apps

So how does a company like Adobe jump on the tablet money train without having to develop a host of new applications? Let others do it for them. And voila: the Photoshop Touch software developer's kit, which will make it possible to create an ecosystem of tablet-based products capable of driving Photoshop. Along with the SDK, Adobe's delivering three iPad apps designed to use it: Color Lava, Eazel, and Nav. Related links • Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 • Adobe's new subscription model • Adobe wakes to mobile world, Web standards.

Photoshop Touch SDK drives three Adobe iPad apps. Adobe Photoshop for tablets looms nearer. You can't download Photoshop for your iPad yet, but the technology is getting close enough for Adobe Systems to begin showing what it's got in mind.

Adobe Photoshop for tablets looms nearer

Yesterday, John Nack, the Adobe Systems program manager leading the effort , revealed some ideas of how Adobe envisions marrying its flagship image-editing software to tablet computers. Photoshop Developer Center. Imagine a creative environment in which the fun of touch, the potential of mobility, and the power of Adobe Photoshop software meet.

Photoshop Developer Center

With the Adobe Photoshop SDK developers can: Interact with Photoshop CC from applications on Android™, Blackberry, and iOS mobile and tablet devices, as well as Mac OS and Windows® operating systemsDevelop plug-ins that extend the functionality of Photoshop CCCreate Flash (SWF) panels to extend the user experience within Photoshop CC We believe that connecting devices and applications to Photoshop offers our developer partners new business opportunities by enabling the ability for them to deliver greater value to their customers. Developers may now offer new features that harness the power of Photoshop in ways never before possible.

With the Photoshop SDK, you can enable your apps to drive and/or communicate with Photoshop CC (version 14.0.0 or later) via a TCP connection. Adobe Photoshop CC allows for SWF files to run as a panel inside the application. Flash Platform in Action - Use Flash Professional CS5 to Develop Adobe AIR Apps for Android. Community Translation Your transcript request has been submitted.

Flash Platform in Action - Use Flash Professional CS5 to Develop Adobe AIR Apps for Android

Adobe TV does its best to accommodate transcript requests. It can take a few weeks for the transcript to become available in the Community Translation Project, so keep checking back. Develop Multi-touch Flash and AIR on the Dell Latitude XT2 Tablet. You know you've been drooling to playing with multi-touch apps at home, now you can with commodity hardware.

Develop Multi-touch Flash and AIR on the Dell Latitude XT2 Tablet

In this post we'll cover 3 things. Video of Flash multi-touch on Windows and Mac. Dell multi touch adobe flash. Giant iPad (Dell ST2220t) Multi-touch monitor - Dell - Search - Home & Home Office. Offers subject to change, not combinable with all other offers.

multi-touch monitor - Dell - Search - Home & Home Office

Taxes, shipping, handling and other fees apply. Valid for new U.S. online purchases through the Dell Home Electronics and Accessories site and for phone orders of electronics and accessories purchased without a system only. Multi-touch Table Development. Client: Myself Role: Interactive designer, developer, and fabricator Primary goal: Create an installation for use at a wedding reception showing photos from the wedding and the bride and groom as children. Tutorial – Multi Touch in AS3 / Flash Player 10.1 – Part 1. Setting Up.

Hi Everyone, I had the pleasure, although it was a strenuous experience, to work on Adobe Post. It is still a private project; undertaken by 80/20 Studio in NYC on behalf of Adobe. It was demonstrated (shortly) by Kevin Lynch at the Adobe MAX conference on Oct 14th, 2009. HowTo_stereolize_MannFilter.mov. Second Story, Interactive Design Studio—Workspace. Table demo with SUSHI and native Win 7. Sony studios 'begin PlayStation 4 projects' But PS3, Vita and Move games will remain the major focus for years.