Flash 10rc now available

Flash 10rc is now available to download. Some improvements in this release are:

• Camera input works a lot better;
• Software fullscreen performance is vastly improved;
• Faster, more stable windowless mode;
• Important stability fixes.

Flash content to be searchable

Adobe announced that they are teaming up with major search engines to make content in SWF files searchable.

Flash Player 10 | Public Beta available

This was announced on June 18th

Direct access to hard disk in Flash Player 10

If you missed the announcement, Adobe is releases Flash Player 10 code named Astro. As i spent time to read through some of upcoming features there is one feature that I am very excited about. Since the day I started to work with Web Applications, I have been missing this one – You can now directly access the Hard disk to save files.

Now that you have done pinching yourself, believe it. In ActionScript 3.0, we had “FileReference” object that allowed you to read files from local hard drive. But, if you wanted to save the changes back to the hard-disk, you then needed to make a round-trip to the server. With Flash player 10, we get some new functions on FileReference that eliminates that need and simplifies the task. You can see the video.

One good thing is that there is no direct communication to local hard drive. All interactions (I/O) operations would need a manual intervention which keeps the local file system secure.

Flash player 10

Code named Astro, Flash Player 10 beta was released. Some of the key features

• 3D effects
• Custom filter and effects
• Advanced Text Layouts
• Enhanced Drawing APIs
• Visual Performance Improvements
• Direct access to local file system – read more
  

Release notes.