Glad to see our licence fees aren't a complete waste of money. The BBC will start streaming BBC One and BBC Two live from the 27th of November.
BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC News are already broadcast on their channel websites.
Director of BBC vision Jana Bennett said this "completes our commitment" to make channels available online.
You will also continue to be able to watch any programs for up to 1 week after they have broadcast using the BBC iPlayer.
noneThis may not seem so interesting to most people but it is I promise. Adobe officially released Flash Player 10 on October 15th.
The new version of flash has some major improvements over Flash 9. One of the main improvements includes full-screen HD which should help for them specialist sites you like to go on.
The other features include:
Create more intuitive, engaging interfaces using built-in support for 3D effects. Get started quickly without being a 3D master by designing in 2D and easily transforming and animating in 3D. Fast, extremely lightweight, and simple-to-use APIs, along with 3D tools in Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional software, make motion that was previously accessible only to expert users via ActionScript® language or custom third-party libraries available to everyone.
Create high-performance, real-time effects for cinematic experiences that quickly engage users. With new Adobe Pixel Bender™, the same technology behind many filters and effects in Adobe After Effects® software, these dynamic and interactive effects can be used both in production with After Effects CS4 and live with Flash Player 10. The Pixel Bender just-in- time (JIT) compiler can also be used to process other types of data, such as sound or mathematical functions, asynchronously in a separate thread.
Take advantage of a new, flexible text layout engine that brings print-quality publishing to the web, building on more than 25 years of Adobe expertise in typography. Gain more control over text layout using an extensible library of ActionScript 3.0 text components to flow text and sophisticated typographic elements such as ligatures across multiple columns, around inline images, bidirectionally, vertically, or chained together. Create multilingual rich Internet applications (RIAs) using device fonts that can now be anti-aliased, rotated, and styled, or build your own unique text components.
Use enhanced sound APIs to dynamically generate audio and create new types of audio applications such as music mixers and sequencers, real-time audio for games, and even audio visualizers. Work with loaded MP3 audio at a lower level by extracting audio data and supplying it to the sound buffer. Process, filter, and mix audio in real time through the Pixel Bender JIT compiler to extend creative freedom beyond the visual experience.
Perform runtime drawing more easily with restyleable properties, 3D APIs, and a new way of drawing sophisticated shapes without having to code them line by line. Developers can tweak parts of curves, change styling, replace parts, and use custom filters and effects, delivering improved throughput, creative control, and greater productivity. Enhancements to the Drawing API add the z dimension, real perspective, textured meshes in 3D space, a retained graphics model, read/write rendering, and triangle drawing with UV coordinates, while adding memory and improving performance.
Use the hardware processing power of the graphics card to paint SWF files into the browser and accelerate compositing calculations of bitmaps, filters, blend modes, and video overlays faster than would be performed in software.
Use the new typed array class for better performance, efficiency, and error checking of data.
Show exceptional video with streams that automatically adjust to changing network conditions. Leverage new quality-of-service metrics to provide a better streaming experience.
Take advantage of the new, high-fidelity and open source Speex voice codec, which offers a low-latency alternative for voice encoding. Flash Player also supports ADPCM, HE-AAC, MP3, and Nellymoser audio.
Bring users into the experience by letting them load and save files from your web application. New file reference runtime access allows local processing of data without roundtripping to the server.
You can download it here
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We started the process late last night after a long day at work and due to our stupidity and sleepiness we screwed up the testing process so it has led to the site being down for a few hours! Sorry.
Once all the hosting is sorted out we will be trying to make an active effort to keep the blog as up to date as possible. We have had numerous issues with un-reliable bloggers which we are hoping to rectify. We have a coupe of very delayed posts to make including a review of a Toshiba Qosmio.
Hopefully everything will be running smoothly in a few weeks!!
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