Posts Tagged ‘Beta’

New version of Adobe Fireworks, Dreamweaver, soundbooth

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

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/]

Google RSS reader for iPhone

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Google released a new beta release of Google RSS reader for mobile. Mobile browsing has gone a long way but iPhone has gone way ahead. It not only Google RSS reader that have been launched for iPhone but previously Google also launched Google Gmail and other mobile apps specially for iPhone. Looks like iPhone is a new industry standard for who’s market share has grown to such a level that companies like Google convert it products specially for iPhone.

Google RSS Reader for iPhone

The Google RSS Reader for iPhone is in its beta release and thus to access it from you iPhone you would have to use the URL http://www.google.com/reader/i/ as the RSS reader will not automatically direct you to the iPhone reader version if you access it from you iPhone.

This new version is designed to offer many of the same features as the desktop, while making it quick and easy to act on items. If you’ve used list view, then it should be familiar to you. Scan the titles for an item that interests you, tap and it expands in place. Starring, sharing, and keeping unread are done in place, so you never have to leave the list view or refresh the page. We think it’s a very fast way to power through your reading list.

Source: [Google Reader Blog]