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Adobe Flash leaves the development of mobile

One could be important news today and is one that directly affects IOS and Apple’s mobile products. For years we hear words against the iPhone and iPad by the inability of these to play Flash content, Adobe used this utility on many websites to submit videos or games. Apple in this regard seems to have been clear since I started in the mobile sector, and specifically that position was due to the clear conviction of Steve Jobs. Well, it seems Adobe would announce in a few hours leaving the development of Flash for mobile browsers HTML5 focusing its efforts on precisely the same way for years started in Cupertino.

If you are blog readers for some time, remember that was the same Steve Jobs who said the reasons why the apple company had decided not to support Flash in IOS, his words are immortalized in a page from Apple’s website :

The iPhone and iPad are two devices that allow the use of all open standards (HTML5, CSS and JavaScript) and Flash CS5 is not.

Many major media have decided to jump in and adapt to the formats required by Apple.

Flash security is not good and is one of the reasons why problems occur on a computer using a browser.

Flash duration and limited battery life.

It was created to be used on computers operated by a mouse rather than by multitouch technology.

Is an obstacle to the development of own ecosystem of applications, as the inclusion of Adobe Flash have allowed the creation of an external platform applications (the ultimate goal of course) that Apple had not relied on.

The point is that little by little these motivations just by convincing an entire industry that has seen much of their potential customers could view their products if used exclusively Flash. HTML5 is presumed to be the most suitable alternative and are mucos developers are focusing on this solution, including Adobe, this will be one of its strengths in the future, HTML5 boost in mobile environments. Does this mean that Flash will disappear completely? As a plugin for the browser itself, the report would stop developing Adobe Flash to Android and QNX (operating system BlackBerry tablet, PlayBook), but keep the above mentioned software package for creating applications that are then exported to any operating system using Adobe Air. The announcement would be submitted shortly following, as ZDnet:

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will focus on providing Flash developers a set of native applications with Adobe AIR applications for major stores. We’re not going to adapt Flash Player for mobile devices with new browsers, operating system versions or configurations of the device. Some of our source code licensees may choose to continue working on their own implementations. We will continue providing support to the current configuration for Android and PlayBook with error correction and critical security updates.

Too bad the good of Steve Jobs is no longer with us but I am convinced that today could not contain a huge grin.

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Adobe releases Carousel for IOS and Mac

Just over a month we were talking about Adobe Carousel , a new product from Adobe designed to manage our photos in the cloud can be a serious competition for streaming photos icloud. Now the company has just launched its development finally available to all through applications for Mac and for IOS .

But let’s memory, what do we mean exactly? Adobe has created a service to store our entire photo collection in the cloud, thus enabling the synchronization of images up to five devices. Thus, if personally have a Mac, an iPhone and iPad for example, there is no problem accessing our catches from these devices no matter where we are.

“But that does icloud” you may be thinking. But it’s not exactly, as you probably know, icloud now has a capacity to sync photos through our computers in the apple, but it is a limited service, as much up to 1000 photos and a maximum of 30 days can use these photos in the cloud giving us time to store them locally. However, Adobe does not put any limit to the space provided so that we will have our pictures in the cloud accessible forever.

Also, do not forget that Adobe is a company that knows how to develop good image editing tools, not in vain is the owner of Photoshop software, so the editing functions have been added to the application, with multiple effects and other changes promise to take advantage of this long experience. On this aspect we should not worry to retouch photographs, they always save the original Adobe on their servers for when you need it.

Finally, to say that Adobe Carousel is also a social product. Not only can send mail catches, Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr, but has thought about an option to create family albums, so many family members may add or view photos in the same folder. Remember, all this photographic synchronization solution in the cloud can be ours for $ 59.99 per year or 5.99 a month, although this is only an initial promotion, it will eventually cost you 99.99 per year or 9, 99 per month.

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Adobe Reader comes to IOS

So far there were multiple ways to read PDF files on mobile devices on the block. Even the operating system supports this format so we can see from the attachments to a mail for example. But there was a notable absentee in the panorama from the App Store and this was precisely the most important player in terms refers PDFs, Adobe Reader. It is true that Adobe does have other products in the Apple App Store, such as Adobe CreatePDF , but could not find a counterpart to its desktop application Adobe Acrobat Reader so far.

What can we do with this new app? We consulted a wide range of file types like PDF Portfolios PDF, PDF documents password protected PDF files and standard Adobe LiveCycle servers. Among the salient features of the tool could be numbered as follows:

Search for text

Use markers to draw a part of the document and so it quickly access this in future cases

Print wirelessly with AirPrint

Share PDF files via email or other applications that support “Open in …”

It has also worked on the interface to query information in large documents will not be a problem. For example, it allows you to move continuously through the pages by placing a sheet on the previous page to page or to move through thumbnails using a slider at the bottom. Anyway, perhaps the highlight of Adobe Reader for IOS whether the application is free, while the less pleasant it is not allowed the edition, as can be expected on the other hand, perhaps this can be included in a version Pro later.