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Flash Player 10 has now been officially released, well done Adobe!

*cracks open the champagne*

Check out this cool intro video link.

Today, Adobe have released their first public beta of Flash Player 10 on their labs website. Code named “Astro”, Flash Player 10 introduces a whole fist full of compelling new features. It’s headline feature being a new range GPU utilization’s; from accelerated compositing to custom filter rendering. 3D is also introduced and bumped up to a first classes citizen with the introduction of the Z axis to all display object. On the coding side, we see the welcomed introduction of typed arrays which mean iterating over data just go a whole lot faster. Add in a new text layout engine and we’re only just touching the surface!

Player 10 is indeed an sneak peak into the future of Flash. If they can do this much with just one version release, just imagine what is going to happen in 11 and 12. Dynamic VM scripting languages FTW!

Why are you still reading this? Check it out: labs.adobe.com

I don’t know how old this is or where it came from .. but it’s made my day :)  

http://www.kirbycove.com/matrix_believe_achieve.html

[UPDATE] Video pulled .. see first comment.

As I’m sure you’ve already seen and read many blogs now (link, link, etc), Adobe AIR has a new logo!

One small thing I wanted to bring up about this new logo is it’s hole.  To me, it seems to coincidentally mirror the hole found in the new Photoshop logo.  And what’s even more interesting is that they look kinda cool linked together as I’ve mocked up on the picture below.

Is this a sign on things to come for Adobe branding or just an random coincidence?