Adobe CS4 available for preorder

Today Adobe has released the new Creative Suite 4 (CS4).
Adobe offers 6 different packages with different prices / applications included.

More info on Adobe Creative Suite CS4 page.

Fantamercato 2008/2009

This reply to notify my new mobile application: Fantamercato 2008/2009 for mobile phones with flashlite player 2.1 or better.

With Fantamercato you can manage your Fanta football with all Serie A team lists and statistics of previous season.
Additionally, you can create your fanta football team and manage your expenses.

This new version was improved with many new functionalities and bug fixes, to better manage your fanta football season.
Fantamercato is updated with all Serie A scores and statistics in the previous season.

Fantamercato 2008/2009 is available only in italian.

Purchase Fantamercato 2008/2009 for just 3.99 EUR.

More info about Fantamercato 2008/2009 for mobile phones with Flashlite (english version)

More info about Fantamercato 2008/2009 for mobile phones with Flashlite (italian version)

Softimage XSI 7 on 30 Sept 2008

(Via CGSociety) Softimage has announced SOFTIMAGE|XSI 7, the latest version of its professional 3D animation software for games, film and television.
XSI 7 introduces ICE (Interactive Creative Environment), a groundbreaking technology that transforms XSI from just another 3D product into a powerful and flexible open platform.

ICE greatly improves collaboration between artists and technical directors, allowing them to create custom tools and effects visually, see the results interactively, and do it all without scripting, or writing a line of code. Effects built or modified in ICE are performance tuned and multi-threaded, so they perform at maximum efficiency across all available processors.

XSI 7 will be available before September 30, 2008.

CGSociety Softimage XSI 7 Article

Flash Lite 3.1 on Q4 2008 ?

Via Biskero ( and --> Blocketpc), looks like Flash Lite 3.1 is on the way to OEM, here some more infos:

• H.264 support
• Improved web browsability with support for most Flash 8 content
• Object oriented extension mechanism for device APIs
• Red Hat Linux reference port
• Flash Lite 3.1 was released to OEMs on March 31, 2008
• Flash Lite 3.1 devices are expected to hit the market towards the end of 2008.
• Flash Lite 3.1 includes H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players and HD web videos. Playback of H.264 video is dependent on the device’s capabilities for seamless play back existing H.264 web video content.

Create your own Search Engine, with Yahoo! BOSS

Yahoo! Search Blog annouces BOSS is a new, open platform that offers programmatic access to the entire Yahoo! Search index via an API. BOSS allows developers to take advantage of Yahoo!'s production search infrastructure and technology, combine that with their own unique assets, and create their own search experiences. While search APIs have been available for some time, BOSS removes many of the usage restrictions that have prevented other companies from using them to build innovative new search engines.

Here's a quick summary of what's available today:

• Ability to re-rank and blend results -- BOSS partners can re-rank search results as they see fit and blend Yahoo!'s results with proprietary and other web content in a single search experience
• Total flexibility on presentation -- Freedom to present search results using any user interface paradigm, without Yahoo! branding or attribution requirements
• BOSS Mashup Framework -- We're releasing a Python library and UI templates that allow developers to easily mashup BOSS search results with other public data source
• Web, news and image search -- At launch, developers will have access to web, news and image search and we'll be adding more verticals soon
• Unlimited queries -- There are no rate limits on the number of queries per day

Via

Lively: Second Life by Google

Google releases Lively, a 3d multichat social network.
In Lively, you'll have an experience in which you can communicate and express yourself using avatars in your very own space.



Lively requires Windows Vista/XP with Internet Explorer or Firefox.

Google Talk for iPhone and iPod Touch

Google releases a GTalk (Google Talk) special version for IPhone and Ipod Touch.
With this gadget you can chat with your friends without installing any application, but simply using Safari.
However, at this moment this gadget is available only for US resident users:

http://www.google.com/talk/

Another particular "problem": as you can see in the link above, you must enter your phone number, to receive a link from Google.

Via Motoricerca.

Google learns to crawl Flash contents

From the official Google blog: Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites.
Now (and finally!) indexing full flash websites and/or flash contents will be easier, so we can develop websites also for those customers with low budget for web marketing / web indexing.
Ok, now we have to do some tests... :-)

Create you own home online

PlanningWiz is an Online Room Planner Software for Furniture Retailers and Manufacturers, Building Contractors, Realtors and more...
With this web based application you can build your apartments, creating rooms, walls and so on, and add your furnitures taken from multiple libraries.
Additionally, you can save, email and print your projects. Cool!

http://v3.planningwiz.com/

Flash player plugin required.

PlayNES: Online NES emulator

http://www.playnes.net/

contains many playable NES games (java runtime required to run).

It also contains many nice flash games.