Adobe Carousel, the lightweight app for Macs, iPhones, and iPads that lets people edit photos and share them with contacts, has been renamed Adobe Revel.
Adobe announced the change today on its Photoshop blog, hinting that the new name better represents broader plans the company has in store:
Revel means to take great pleasure or delight…and that’s what we hope to do in the future as we continue to (more…)
. While most of them were optimistic about the developments happening in the HTML 5 scene, many Flash enthusiasts were unsurprisingly not pleased with the decision.
Mike Chambers, Product Manager for Flash at Adobe, has penned a 2000 words long post on his personal blog outlining the major reasons Flash as a web platform didn’t gain critical mass on mobile phones leading to Adobe’s decision.
He acknowledged that Flash wasn’t going to be ubiquitous (more…)
Adobe today formally announced that it would discontinue development of Flash on the mobile browser. In a post on Adobe’s conversations blog titled “Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5,” Danny Winokur of Adobe, confirmed the news, which was first reported by
.
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR (more…)
Need to read PDFs on the go? Adobe announced the availability today of Adobe Reader for iPhone , iPad, and iPod Touch.
When you search for a word, Adobe Reader highlights it in the document. Hitting the arrows moves on to the next usage.
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Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)
Adobe says that the app works just like the desktop version, letting you read and interact with the widest variety of PDF files (more…)
Adobe has finally released a PDF reader for iPhone , iPad and iPod touch. There are a number of
available in the App Store like GoodReader that allow users to open PDF files, which was quite ironic when you consider that Adobe had created the digital document standard in the early 90′s.
Adobe Reader however appears to be the first app that will allow users to view password-protected PDF documents and Adobe LiveCycle rights-managed PDF files on (more…)
Need to read PDFs on the go? Adobe announced the availability today of Adobe Reader for iPhone , iPad, and iPod Touch.
When you search for a word Adobe Reader highlights it in the document. Hitting the arrows moves on to the next usage.
(Credit:
Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)
Adobe says that the app works just like the desktop version, letting you read and interact with the widest variety of PDF files (more…)
for iPhone , iPad and iPod touch.
As the name suggests, allows users to convert documents, photos etc. into PDF files right on their iOS device. Adobe claims that they’re using the same technology used in Adobe Acrobat.
Adobe achieves this by uploading the documents to their servers, which is where the documents are converted into PDF files, thus making the conversion process independent of the iOS device. Adobe has also clarified that they do (more…)
Though Apple 's decision does not seem to have been influenced by its stance on Flash for Mobile devices, the move has nevertheless triggered the debate on Flash performance once again. In a recent article reviewing the new Macbook Air, Chris Foresman from
. Foresman wrote:
“Having Flash installed can cut battery runtime considerably – as much as 33 percent in our testing. With a handful of websites loaded in Safari, Flash-based ads kept the (more…)
After receiving considerable feedback, Adobe seems to have made initial mockups and demos of the potential features that would appear on the Photoshop companion app for the iPad.
At last week's Adobe MAX conference, Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch showcased a content-aware fill tool running on a Samsung Galaxy Tab.
For iPad users, there was an interesting color-mixing paint palette application, which was used to mix colors with (more…)
According to anonymous sources quoted in the newspaper, one of the major point of discussion was about taking on Apple in the mobile segment where the company wielded significant control. The proposed solutions are noted to have ranged from a close partnership between the two companies to even a possible merger of the two technology giants.
in recent times after the latter's refusal to support Flash on the iOS platform. It may be worth noting (more…)
