Riva FLV Encoder
Need an easy way on converting your movie files (WMV,MPG,AVI) into Flash Video format (FLV) so you can distribute them online? then you should try using Riva FLV Encoder which is free of course (and i don’t mean free trial) because it’s really free (and that’s why i like it) beside it’s really easy to convert your video files using this tool
As you can see the main interface of FLV encoder is self explained, you just simply open your video files and choose from the available presets (DSL, DSL DV, ISDN, or Offline) to encode your movie files into FLV format
For advanced user, you can configure desired video frame rate and video bitrate, audio bitrate and sampling rate and many other options. Although the built-in presets already sufficient for most users (if it’s for me i’d rather choose ISDN because it’s already gave you a good ratio between it’s quality and the output filesize, beside most Youtube viewer doesn’t really care about video quality) 
So do you want to try it too or not ? if you want to try it then you can go to the official site of Riva FLV Encoder
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NAPP Updates Lightroom Learning Center
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) has updated their Lightroom Learning Center with new content and updated tutorials.
Takahashi An innovation from Zink: photographs without ink
Source: SiliconValley.com
By Dean Takahashi, Mercury News
Think about a world where you can print photos without ink, a printer cartridge or a big printer sitting alongside your computer. That’s the promise of Zink Imaging, a Waltham, Mass., start-up whose name suggests its bold goal: zero ink.
Zink is just one of 68 companies presenting new products at DEMO, a conference in Palm Desert that starts tonight and runs through Thursday. But its potential for shaking things up makes it stand out from the companies that have briefed me on their announcements.
A spinoff from Polaroid, Zink is today announcing a novel printing technology that could lead to a new category of devices. The company’s scientists have been working for about five years to develop a special kind of photo paper that needs no ink. That means they don’t need expensive printer housings or cartridges, either.
That would allow Zink to embed printers into portable devices such as digital cameras or into accessories for cell phone cameras.
Zink printers work differently from inkjet and laser printers. While inkjet and lasers form colored dots on paper by passing over spots several times, Zink printers heat up a printing element and roll the plastic paper past the print head just once.
Zink prints a 2-by-3-inch picture in 30 seconds — somewhat slower than inkjet printers — that comes out dry. It brings back the instant gratification of 1970s-era Polaroid picture, without forcing you to wait for it to develop. And it’s a much better quality print than Polaroids were.
With Zink devices, the plastic paper has layers of plastic in the middle with millions of tiny crystal dyes that can be activated by heat. If you heat the paper a certain amount, the dyes melt and you get yellow. If you heat it less but for a slightly longer time, you get magenta. If you heat it a little less and slightly longer, you get cyan. Those colors can be mixed to print any color. If you think of microwaving a frozen dinner, you get the idea.
Adobe?s Narayen sees growth in video, mobile
Interview: Adobe’s president discusses the importance of providing developers with tools that work across several platforms
Source: InfoWorld
Written by Elizabeth Heichler, IDG News Service
With its acquisition of Macromedia in late 2005, Adobe Systems won control of the Flash technology that has become a nearly ubiquitous way of authoring and viewing interactive and multimedia content on the Web. Now, the 25-year-old software company with deep roots in creative applications and an iron grip on electronic documents thanks to its de facto-standard PDF document format, has its eye on development and content presentation across all sorts of platforms and devices.
President and COO Shantanu Narayen recently sat down with a group of IDG journalists to talk about the opportunities that mobile platforms and digital video present for Adobe. Joined by David Mendels, senior vice president of the enterprise and developer solutions business unit, Narayen also described the company’s hopes for its multiplatform runtime environment, code-named Apollo, that is designed to run Web applications using Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, and PDF and is due for public beta release later this year.
IDG: What are the key areas of growth for Adobe?
Narayen: Clearly, the creative customer is still a very important customer to us, and there what we’re trying to do is enable them to create content across print and the Web, but also increasingly video and wireless. We’re seeing a tremendous explosion of digital video, which we think is a huge growth area for us. And also wireless because creating content for wireless devices is very hard. So in the next version of our Creative Suite applications, we’re going to be looking to dramatically expand how we can help people create content. This year, we’re going to be releasing Creative Suite 3, which will be the first generation of applications that combines products like Photoshop and Illustrator from Adobe and Dreamweaver and Flash from Macromedia.
We think Apollo is going to enable a new generation of applications that combines the power of the desktop as well as the interactivity and connectedness of the Internet.
Adobe’s Narayen sees growth in video, mobile
Interview: Adobe’s president discusses the importance of providing developers with tools that work across several platforms
Source: InfoWorld
Written by Elizabeth Heichler, IDG News Service
With its acquisition of Macromedia in late 2005, Adobe Systems won control of the Flash technology that has become a nearly ubiquitous way of authoring and viewing interactive and multimedia content on the Web. Now, the 25-year-old software company with deep roots in creative applications and an iron grip on electronic documents thanks to its de facto-standard PDF document format, has its eye on development and content presentation across all sorts of platforms and devices.
President and COO Shantanu Narayen recently sat down with a group of IDG journalists to talk about the opportunities that mobile platforms and digital video present for Adobe. Joined by David Mendels, senior vice president of the enterprise and developer solutions business unit, Narayen also described the company’s hopes for its multiplatform runtime environment, […]
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Written by PhotoShop News.Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization
AIIM to Facilitate ISO Standards Process for Leading Electronic Document Format
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 29, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
PDF has become a de facto global standard for more secure and dependable information exchange since Adobe published the complete PDF specification in 1993. Both government and private industry have come to rely on PDF for the volumes of electronic records that need to be more securely and reliably shared, managed, and in some cases preserved for generations. Since 1995 Adobe has participated in various working groups that develop technical specifications for publication by ISO and worked within the ISO process to deliver specialized subsets of PDF as standards for specific industries and functions. Today, PDF for Archive (PDF/A) and PDF for Exchange (PDF/X) are ISO standards, and PDF for Engineering (PDF/E) and PDF for Universal Access (PDF/UA) are proposed standards. Additionally, PDF for Healthcare (PDF/H) is an AIIM proposed Best Practice Guide. AIIM serves as the administrator for PDF/A, PDF/E, PDF/UA and PDF/H.
“Today’s announcement is the next logical step in the evolution of PDF from de facto standard to a formal, de jure standard,” said Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief software architect at Adobe. “By releasing the full PDF specification for ISO standardization, we are reinforcing our commitment to openness. As governments and organizations increasingly request open formats, maintenance of the PDF specification by an external and participatory organization will help continue to drive innovation and expand the rich PDF ecosystem that has evolved over the past 15 years.”
Adobe will release the full PDF 1.7 specification as defined in the PDF Reference Manual available at www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html to AIIM for the purpose of submission to ISO. The joint committee formed under AIIM will identify issues to be addressed, as well as proposed solutions, and will develop a draft document that will then be presented to a Joint Working Group of ISO for development and approval as an International Standard. AIIM holds the secretariat for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 171 and 171 SC2 for Document Management Applications, and is the administrator for the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ISO TC 171 that represents the U.S. at international meetings.
“As the administrator for several specialized ISO standard subsets of PDF, AIIM is pleased to receive this proposal from Adobe,” said John Mancini, President, AIIM. “Over the last several years we have seen and in many cases helped facilitate a range of ongoing market and customer focused efforts around PDF. These efforts have grown so broadly that it now makes sense for Adobe to let the full specification serve as a unifying umbrella and submit it for approval under the formal ISO standards process.”
About AIIM
AIIM, the international authority on Enterprise Content Management (ECM), is leading the way to the understanding, adoption and use of ECM technologies. These technologies, tools and methods are used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content across an enterprise in support of business processes. As a non-profit association for more than 60 years, AIIM provides industry news and information, educational events and professional development, market analysis, industry standards development, publications, regional chapters, and executive networking. Complete information about the AIIM, is available on the Web at www.aiim.org .
About Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com .
A Very Cool Language: Clean
In reading an article about Haskell I came across a reference to another functional language: Clean.
Although it appears to be yet another language designed by academia, there are some cool features.
A Functional Programming Language like Clean is based on the concept of mathematical functions. Clean is a pure functional language, there is not such a thing as an assignment. This has a big advantage: a function cannot have a side-effect. A Clean function is referential transparent: the result of a function only depends on the value of the function arguments and on nothing else.
Another great feature is that there are few runtime errors. The syntax takes a bit getting used to, as it is with most functional languages when approached by someone with a procedural background. In some ways it reminds me of APL, where a lot of power can be expressed in very little syntax.
I hope to spend a little time playing with Clean. It supports most of the major operating systems.