Category Archives: AIR

would the REAL iPhone killer please stand up?

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

Certain defenders of Apple’s stance on excluding the Flash platform from Mobile Safari, such as Daring Fireball have been trying to flip the argument, saying that Flash is an outdated technology, the concept of browser plugins is outdated, and that … Continue reading →

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Web to Print: Client Side PDF Generation from Adobe Flex / AS3

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

Generally when the question of PDF generation from Adobe Flex applications comes up, the defacto answer has been ‘use LiveCycle’ or some other server-side technology to handle the PDF generation. But sometimes we don’t have the option of using a … Continue reading →

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review: Balsamiq Mockups

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Fuad Kamal

It took me, as a ‘first time ever’ user of Balsamiq, about two hours to complete a wireframe I had sketched up on paper in a few minutes. That’s a plus – I doubt anyone besides myself can read the wireframe I sketched by hand, much less make heads or tails of it, while the one I made with Balsamiq is quite legible, while still lo-res such that it should impress upon the client that this is indeed a mockup not meant to communicate any sense of the look & feel of the application. My other thoughts for this particular wireframe were to do it either in FIreworks or in Flash Catalyst. Continue reading →

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Adobe MAX ’08 Sneak Peaks on Flickr

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Fuad Kamal

I just posted my photos of the Sneak Peeks session from San Francisco to Flickr from Lightroom 2 using Jeffrey Friedl’s plug-in again (how useful it is!). The sneak peeks (and other general sessions) opened with a video DJ performance … Continue reading →

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Best Adobe MAX Sessions

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Sean Glasheen

I attended my first Adobe MAX in San Francisco last month. As a former Java programmer and current Flex RIA and component developer, these are the sessions I found most useful, in no particular order: Creating New Components in Flex … Continue reading →

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Adobe MAX Awards on Flickr

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Fuad Kamal

I used Jeffrey Friedl’s plugin for Adobe Lightroom 2 to export my photos of the MAX Awards to Flickr rather than outputting yet another Lightroom web gallery. While the metadata is included in the images, I don’t have time to … Continue reading →

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Unconference Schedules @ MAX

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Fuad Kamal

It would have been nice if we had more information about the unconferences ahead of time, so we could have planned what to attend around our sessions and labs. Nowhere that I know of were the schedules posted except at … Continue reading →

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Durango

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Fuad Kamal

Durango is drag and drop of live widgets from one AIR application to another. A swf doesn’t have to be Durango enabled to enable a mashup. The components autoconnect. Also allows you to edit properties of an application while its … Continue reading →

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MAX Sneak Peeks

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Fuad Kamal

Check my twitter (@abunur) for up to minute updates on the Sneak Peeks. I will post the images here later.

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Anaara.com just went LIVE

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Fuad Kamal

Well this has been a month of new things being implemented; Barack Hussein Obama won the presidential election, Adobe MAX SF is around the corner, and our web site is finally live! For ages now we have only had our … Continue reading →

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