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Recently Google announced its Google Chrome netbooks aka Chromebooks. They have great features like 3G support, boot time of seconds, automatic updates, review of core files integrity on every boot and more. With all these new functionalities on netbooks the security is extremely important because they have no experience with this set of technologies and they don’t know how people will take these changes and how “hackers” will take this new challenge.

Let’s review some of the security concepts and possible cons within the Chromebook.
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In Adobe MAX I could attend many many conferences and I’d like to share the info.
In this first post I will tell you about the new features that are coming with AIR 2.0

New webkit features: Now the engine has a module that supports CSS3 , custom styles can be applied to scrollbars, we can break up text across columns, and more.

As you may know there were discovered some critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Adobe AIR, Adobe Reader and Acrobat. These were important and forced Adobe to update the products as soon as possible.
If you want to know the details of these vulnerabilities, you can read the next article http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-10.html

A new version of Flash Player was released the last week. Actually there were two versions: Flash Player 10.0.32.18 and 9.0.246. Both of them can be downloaded directly from the Flash Player Downloads page. There, you can get debug and projector versions of the Flash Players. As you can see, Adobe also updated Flash Player 9 instead of just updating Flash Player 10, this was because if you can not have Flash Player 10 installed in you machine for any reason, you will also be protected if you install the new Flash Player 9.
Adobe also released a new version of Adobe AIR, the 1.5.2.8870 version. You can download this version directly from Adobe web site. Besides the fixed vulnerabilities in this new version, there were released more features like the isPerUser property in LocalConnection instances and, for Flash Player 10.0.32.18 and 9.0.246, the modification made to FileReference.save when running Internet Explorer in protected mode. You can see the details in this page http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/497/cpsid_49735.html.
Talking about AIR 1.5.2 if you want to use the new features and code hinting you should download the new SDK also released (1.5.2) and change it in Adobe Flex/Flash Builder and Adobe Flash installations. You can get the SDK here http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=airsdk. Also don’t forget to change the AIR version in the XML descriptor file of you new AIR application.
That’s all for now.Regards.

Personally I like working everything I can on the Internet. One of my favorites applications is Buzzword and my favorite Service is Google Apps.
Well, today Adobe announced another of its services, this time called, “Presentations” and will be hosted on Acrobat.com. But, in the meanwhile, it is hosted on Acrobat.com labs.
Acrobat.com Presentations lets us create presentations that can be shared across the web, can be edited by multiple users at the same time and, obviously, can be viewed anywhere in the world because it lives in the Internet and because you only requires Flash Player 10.
All you need to test this new service is an Adobe account. With your account, go to https://acrobat.com/ and Sign in, then go to the address bar and enter https://labs1.acrobat.com/ this is the labs site of Acrobat.com. Ready!!! you can start playing with this amazing service.
There you’ll find a sample presentation that will show you how to use this service. I think, I will create a presentation for a new course.
The Official can be found here http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090526005256&newsLang=en and you can find more information about this service in Adobe Labs.
Well, enjoy it!!!

Yesterday I decided to create a Twitter client for mobile devices. This new client will be created in Flash and you will be able to use it if you have Flash Lite 3 installed on your device. Flash Lite 3 can be installed in many many devices and actually there are some of them that have Flash Lite 3 preinstalled.
Right now I’m in the planning stage and, with this post, I’m asking for feedback and some functionality that you’d like to see in this new client.
Some people already told me what they would like to see.I’ll list what I have today.

If you have any other functionality that you want to add to the client, please comment in this post.
Kind Regards.