Adobe Labs have released beta version of there upcoming Adobe Dreamweaver, Fireworks & soundbooth. The beta releases are available for download from the adobe labs page.

So whats new & what we can expect from the upcoming releases

Upcoming Adobe Dreamweaver
The new release of Dreamweaver comes with many exciting surprises some of which my most favorite are :

• Live View which included integration of the famous webkit enhancing dreamweaver with a new rendering engine that will help you view your web pages under real-world browser conditions.
• The Related Files feature displays all the documents associated with your current page, whether CSS, JavaScript, PHP, or XML, in a bar along the top of your document thus adding more flexibility to your work environment.
• A Code Navigator pop-up window has been added which will displays CSS rules, server-side includes, external JavaScript functions. Seems like Adobe understands the MVC and interlinked code structures and have enhanced more support to it.
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks means support for popular JavaScript frameworks including jQuery, Prototype, and Spry.
• Photoshop Integration Drag and drop an Adobe Photoshop® PSD file into a Dreamweaver page to create an image Smart Object.
• Subversion in Dreamweaver: integrates Subversion software for a more robust check-in/check-out experience with file versioning, rollback, and more
• Adobe® AIR™ authoring support Create multiplatform desktop applications from your Dreamweaver HTML and JavaScript sites with new Adobe AIR™ authoring support.

Upcoming Adobe Fireworks

Fireworks used for rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and faster than ever with the enhanced toolset. Demo your design live for your client, or e-mail an interactive PDF file. This version comes with

• New user interface > similar to photo shop / illustrator and easy switch between them
• CSS and Images Export > one click export of design into css
• PDF export >> finally pdf support arrives
• Adobe type engine >> Adobe True Type font support yaiii

For More [http://labs.adobe.com/]

Adobe on Monday released its Air Technology previously known as Apollo, for creating cross-platform hybrid Web & desktop applications.

The AIR runtime lets developers run applications on the desktop that they’ve built for the Web using standard Web languages like HTML, AJAX, and Flash. AIR is available for Windows and Mac OS now, with Linux to follow. Adobe also announced several AIR-based applications. Most notable among these for consumers are eBay Desktop, which allows eBay buyers and sellers to keep track of their auctions and get notified of activity; and AOL’s Xdrive Desktop Lite, an installed interface for accessing online-stored files without a browser.

“This is a major step forward for the Adobe RIA technology platform,” said Phil Costa, Adobe’s Director of Product Management for the Platform Business Unit, in an interview with PC Magazine last Friday. “We have been investing in rich Internet application technology for many, many years, but it’s really in the last 18 months that the market demand has recognized its value to improving the user experience.”

Top 5 Adobe Air Applications

1. Snitter for Air
   Snitter is “Snook’s Twitter”: an Adobe AIR-powered application for twittering. Twitter let’s you post small 140 character messages letting people know what you’re up to.
   http://snook.ca/snitter/
2. Digg Top Adobe Air
   DiggTop is an application for Windows and MacOSX that lets you view a blended list of your favourite Digg topic or keyword feeds. In addition to the full Digg submission information, it will also display a slideshow of images it can scrape from the linked articles
   http://www.gskinner.com/DiggTop/
3. AOL Top 100 videos Adobe Air
   Download the latest desktop widget from AOL Music featuring the top 100 hottest music videos, related artist videos and special features. This widget is available for free and currently works on both MAC and PC computers.
   http://music.aol.com/help/syndication/desktop-widgets
4. Google Analytics on Adobe AIR:
   This application helps you track your site traffic from the desktop. Currently it does not provide all the information and reports Google Analytics shows but does a good job of showing pretty basic ones.
   http://www.aboutnico.be/index.php/analytics-widget/
5. Flickr Dump on Adobe Air:
   (Flickr dump) is an AIR application that allows you to download all the public images from a Flickr Account to your desktop. Quite useful when you want to quickly download all the shared photos from your friends and save it to your desktop.
   http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/tour/2007/08/09/new-air-app-flump-flickr-dump/