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Last week, CS Review, a service to get feedback easily for creative jobs by Adobe, was shared at WRD.

And, with that service, a giveaway of 10 Adobe gift bags and 2 months of Lynda.com subscriptions was announced. Today, winners are selected but, before that, let's remember:

What is CS Review

It is a part of Adobe CS Live (a series of services for designers and developers) which makes creative reviews so simple.

For any number of JPG, PNG, .F4V and .FLV files, a new review process can be started directly from CS5 softwares or online, and e-mailed to friends, colleagues to get feedback for them

They can write their comments for each file and you or other reviewers can reply to each other's comments.

After all, you have all the feedback organized and stored under your hands.

Just like any other CS Live services (including the Adobe BrowserLab), it is free for 1 year once you sign-up by April 30, 2011.

And, the winners:

Here are the winners of 10 Adobe gift bags and 2 months passes to Lynda.com tutorials:

• Djurre (comment #218155)
• Alex (comment #218264)
• Johan du Toit (comment #219843)
• Rob (comment #218212)
• Federico (comment #218148)
• Jeremy (comment #218693)
• Eko Priyanto (comment #218472)
• saurabh hkirwal (comment #218206)
• Rogier (comment #218163)
• Yogeshnb (comment #218552)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for joining.

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After completing (or during) a design process, it is so common to ask friends, colleagues or the customer: "what they think about it?".

Adobe CS Review is an online service that helps you get an easy and organized answer for that.

It enables you to start a review online or directly from the CS5 series of Photoshop , InDesign , Illustrator or Premiere Pro.

You can add any number of JPG, PNG, .F4V and .FLV files, add your comments to each and share them with anyone via e-mail to get feedbacks.

It is even possible to let other reviewers invite others for a feedback with a bigger community.

Every invited user can reach the creatives by clicking a link in the e-mail and share their thoughts + reply to other's comments.

Within the application, it is possible to switch between creatives quickly and zoom in/out to them.

Adobe CS Review is a non-complicated service that is easy-to-use and gives you the feeling that "feedbacks are under control".

Just like any other CS Live services (including the Adobe BrowserLab), it is free for 1 year once you sign-up by April 30, 2011.

Giveaway of 10 Gift Bags By Adobe – How to Win Them?

Adobe is kind to giveaway 10 bags where each of them includes a $25 Best Buy gift card, laptop skin and a tumbler.

Also, Lynda.com, an online tutorial service that has detailed content on Adobe products too, is giving away two-months passes for their tutorials to all the winners.

All you have to do is to comment to this post with what you think of the Adobe CS Review service and winners will be selected randomly on 21October 2010 (1 week later) with the query below:

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1890 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 10

Good luck to everyone.

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Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), that is developed by Adobe, is a software framework for building feature-rich Flash video players and applications.

It can be integrated into custom applications using the simple API, or you can deploy the ready-to-run dynamic SWF player without compiling or writing custom scripts.

OSMF comes with standard player features such as playback controls, video navigation, buffering, and dynamic streaming.

Also, the ready-to-use plug-ins for advertising, reporting, and content delivery help extending the capabilities of the framework.

And, it has much more features like error handling, logging or buffer management that makes OSMF very promising.

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With the ease of development & multi-platform support, Adobe AIR is a getting-popular choice for creating desktop applications.

There are many beautiful applications built with it including the ones that are functional for the designer & developer community.

Months ago, a post published at WRD was sharing 27 Adobe AIR Applications – Handy For Web Designers. Since then, there are various great applications created.

And here they are, 16 Fresh Adobe AIR Applications For Designers & Developers:

ImageSizer

ImageSizer is a batch image processor tool which can resize, optimize and rename multiple JPG files.

Once the images are processes, they can be exported as a single .zip file.

JustResizeIt!

A batch image resizer that works with drag'n drops. It enables users to define different presets in advance & creates resized images instantly.

The application is great for anyone sending photos with e-mails, requires batch resizing & more.

Xe-IMG Editor

It supports multiple image types, image-from-URLs & SWF files as images to be edited.

With various effects like: zoom, image mask, sharpening, enhancing, embossing & more Xe-IMG Editor is a handy free desktop image editor.

.merlin – Font Organizer

This Adobe AIR based font organizer is very helpful for anyone with many fonts.

It scans a given folder, renames a font with its original name & places it in a folder with the first letter of the font which makes Georgia font to go to the "G" folder.

Contrast-A

The application enables interacting with a 3-dimensional RGB color space, experimenting color combinations, checking the contrast according to both WCAG 2.0 and 1.0. And, results can be seen in different types of color deficiency.

Custom color palettes can be created, printed and saved as Pdf to the user's desktop.

Dot3D

Dot3D enables drawing a 16*16px image an viewing it in 3D.

Images can be easily rotated withing the canvas and saved as PNG files. Also, any drag'n dropped image is automatically drawn as a pixel image.

It is a handy application specially for icon designers.

Fractal4D

A very interesting Adobe AIR application that makes it possible to draw fractal swirls.

By playing with the options like "points in use, line thickness, colors" it is possible to get very surprising results.

Drawn images can be exported as Illustrator files or saved as images.

Random Pattern

It lets you to create random patterns which you have control on some variables.

It is possible to define the "number of elements", "color scheme used", "width/height", "corner radius" of the objects.

Preset files can be loaded & results can be saved as .SVG files.

Adobe Fireworks – Auto Backup

For Fireworks users, this can be a real life-saver. It automatically creates backups of  .PNG files which they are modified.

An interval can be set for the backup. A nice solution specially for possible Fireworks crashes.

Caliper Project

A caliper for measuring objects pixel perfect. It floats over any other applications, can be dragged & rotated with hotkeys.

pixDIF

An application for:

• measuring the pixel distance/size of something when you're not in Photoshop
• testing how a new visual update would look in your websites

It floats an image over any other applications and makes imagining "how it would look" very easy.

Lita – SQLite Administration Tool

An SQLite admin tool that runs on the Adobe AIR platform.

It enables users to manage databases, tables, columns & records. SQL queries can be ran, databases can be encyrpted/reencryped & more.

htmlText Editor

Specially for Flex developers, it provides a shortcut to having htmlText generated in a WYSIWYG type editor.

It updates both ways: while updating the htmlText or the rich text. Optionally, it can wrap the htmlText in CDATA tags and what you copy to the clipboard will be wrapped in the CDATA tags.

Bolso

Bolso is an Amazon SimpleDB GUI which displays the data stored in the service.

It can run custom SQL queries, add/edit/delete/view items, import phpMyAdmin exported data & much more.

SQLFury – SQL Injection Scanner

An SQL injection scanner, using blind SQL injection techniques to extract information from a target database.

It supports, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle & Microsoft SQL Server.

De MonsterDebugger

An open source debugger for Adobe Flash, Flex & AIR.

It can trace strings, numbers, objects, arrays, xml and even custom classes, edit properties in runtime, explpre your live application & much more.

P.S. Alcon: another Adobe AIR based debugger for ActionScript developers.

And a healthy bonus:

RelaxMyEyes

For anyone who works with computers, eye health is something that requires attention. So, every x minutes, taking a break is a must.

This tiny application runs in the background & warns you when it is time to relax your eyes. Very handy for designers & developers, people who are ,clearly, very concentrated & don't realize how time goes by.

Books On Adobe AIR & Flex:

• Adobe AIR Bible (Bible (Wiley))
• Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers – (PDF Version)
• Flex 3 Cookbook: Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks for RIA Developers (Adobe Developer Library)
• Professional Adobe Flex 3 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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INSPIRE is an online publication of Adobe Experience Design Team which will attract anyone into software, web & graphic design.

The team shares valuable, real-life experiences both written & via videos.

To give a better idea about the resource, here are some of the recent content published:

• Collecting User Feedback: You’re Doing It Wrong
• Icons In Space

INSPIRE is updated regularly & you can find something new almost everyday.

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I am, kinda, well-organised developer and try not to code similar things twice and keep my code snippets within folders to reach them whenever needed.

Today I saw Snippely, a code snippet manager built with Adobe AIR by the Mootools development team (yeah, complicated).

With a very simple interface Snippely organizes your code snippets and can highlight coding syntax for easier reading. Best of all it is open source, which Adobe AIR developers looking for a good Mootools sample may find handy to dive into the code.

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Adobe AIR, as it is no longer beta, will be more popular for sure.

I had collected 10 Adobe AIR -Must See- Applications in a previous post which contained really cool applications.

Klok is another great Adobe AIR application which is built for personal time tracking. Projects, sub-projects (tasks) can be defined and can be attached to a customer. You can even make a "start & stop" to calculate the time of the task you worked on and Klok automatically adds it to the timetable.

Klok's UI works with the drag'n drop logic in general. You can send the items to the trash, manage the timetable and the projects hierarchy easily with dragging and dropping the items.

Klok is a very handy and easy to use application for freelancers & other individuals who want to keep track the time of tasks and projects they are working on.

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This free vector icon set is created by Monofactor and includes 25 lovely icons.

Icon set is suitable to be used in content management systems or other web project interfaces as it includes the standard add, edit, delete, e-mail and similar icons.

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kuler is a color community website created by Adobe.

There are 1000′s of color sets created by users which you can inspire & use.

With an easy to use interface, kuler users can create their own color sets & share them with the community. Plus, most popular, newest and highest rated color sets have RSS feeds that help users discover new colors everyday.

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Kevin Hoy is sharing 40+ Adobe AIR Beta 3 Ajax samples with us.

Samples include:

- Accessing data in the embedded SQLite database
- Updating data in the SQLite database
- Asynchronously reading text from a local file
- Creating basic custom chrome
- Connecting to the SQLite database
- Adding custom window controls to custom chrome
- Encoding a PNG using a Flash library
- Full SQLite database example (create, read, update, delete)
- Selecting a directory
- Encoding a PNG using a JavaScript encoder
- Selecting a file from the local disk
- Dragging files into an AIR application
- Applying Flash filters to HTML content
- Creating a full screen window
- Getting a list of files from the system clipboard
- Testing connectivity to an HTTP endpoint
- Save images of Yahoo! Maps to local disk as PNG
- Custom chrome example using assets from Meebo
- Selecting multiple files from disk
- Creating a new native window
- Drag complex content from AIR to native resource
- Putting files on the system clipboard
- Remembering user login with AIR encrypted local store
- Using Flash Remoting from JavaScript
- Scaling down a selected image
- Determining the dimensions of an image
- Capturing web cam images for a slideshow
- Testing connection to any socket endpoint
- Playing a sound file
- Simple stopwatch application with custom chrome
- Storing data in a SQLite database
- Synchronously reading a text file from disk
- Creating database tables in a SQLite database
- Creating a temporary file
- Dragging text from the system into an AIR application
- Extracting the EXIF thumbnail from a JPEG image
- Uploading a file in the background
- Creating a basic popup window
- Writing text content to a local file
- Reading XML data using XMLHttpRequest (XHR)

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