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Some more SILEX – usage statistics & new ressources (en / fr)
Statistics to go!
In September SILEX has been installed in the following countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Korea, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia.
Also in September, on the 1405 downloads, 141 installations have been made online and about 400 on local computer. For the online websites: Europe 60% – North America 30% – (27% France – 26% USA)
Over 30% of these installations have been made by webdesign agencies.
In October SILEX has been downloaded 2454 times, 75% increase as of September and 173% increase as of August.
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OSFlash – Open Source Flash Development
Following up on the release of Adobe CS4 and the Flash 10 “Astro” beta, a great resource for Open Source developers is the OSFlash website, which hosts a large number of ongoing development projects. The site includes Flash IDE alternatives, such as the excellent online authoring environment built in Ajax at Antimatter that allows you to create Animated GIFs, SWF (Flash), SVG Animations, and other formats for free. The site is definitely worth a look at:
Ajax Animation:
http://antimatter15.110mb.com/ajaxanimator/build/
There are numerous projects involving command line tools, compilers, and format converters at OSFlash, as well as Eclipse plug-ins, ActionScript libraries, and frameworks for Flex, Flash, and ActionScript. To see the full list, including Flash applications and utilities, visit:
New Developments at Adobe – CS4 is Released
One of the best articles on web development I have read lately is an interview with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch at eWeek. Since merging with Macromedia, Adobe has continued to release new software and innovations at a rate that is difficult for most designers to keep up with. The interview covers subjects ranging from Adobe’s main product line, competition with Google & Microsoft, and Open Source development related to the company’s services. Lynch speaks at length about Adobe Air and the advances it is enabling in cloud computing, as well as a new product named Thermo, which looks to make user interface design more creative and simple. The full text of the interview can be found on eWeek.
Adobe Creative Suite – CS4:
Lynch calls CS4 “the biggest software release we’ve done in our history of 25 years in business.” The package brings together all of Adobe’s core software packages: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, Premier, Illustrator, Fireworks, AfterEffects, Acrobat, Encore, SoundBooth, and many others, packaging them in various suites for office, development, and production studios. They have also included more tools designed to assist those who are working collaboratively in distributed offices on the web, as well as for the development and testing of mobile applications. Adobe CS4 is scheduled to be released next month to the public.
A number of videos are available at AdobeTV with extensive overviews of the features.
Adobe CS4 is priced in distribution packages ranging from $999 to $2499. Full details on the release can be found on the Adobe website.
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