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WidgetCast turns you into a Flash/AIR widget design wizard

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WidgetCastIf you’re a webmaster, designer or even a social media markter, you probably have used and/or know about the power of dynamic and interactive applications for your website. But building those types of apps, even a little widget isn’t trivial. Enter WidgetCast.

WidgetCast is a development environment that lets you piece together media of your choice – images, video, audio, RSS feeds, even PowerPoint slides – and create widgets for your site that can even then be embedded in other sites.
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Adobe Flash coming to a TV near you

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Adobe plans to bring its Flash technology to your TV screens by having TVs and set-top boxes built with support for Flash. Flash is the format used for roughly 80% of video online as well as many online video games.

This will certainly make it easier for studios to create content that is viewable on both TV and the Web.

I think that one of the things that needs an update is many of the interfaces and remote controls for the set-top boxes. Why? Because one of the powerful uses of Flash is building applications that are interactive. Take games for example. If Adobe would really like Flash to be used to its fullest, then those set-top boxes need to improve their current horrible non-intuitive interfaces as well as their power (I’m looking at you Motorola).

Adobe expects Flash-supported hardware to begin selling late this year.

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