Adobe

Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 Version 7.2

Updates for Flash MX 2004 were released on July 27^th to fix bugs and improve performance and stability. Originally available for English, French, and German language versions more local language versions are being added and, at the time of writing, Italian and Spanish versions had been made available.

It does appear that there are a couple of little hiccups associated with the new release:

Some Windows users are apparently being prompted to activate other Macromedia products they had already activated. This can lead to cycles of reactivation and relaunch. If this is happening to you, try the Product Reactivation Hot Fix.
Some Mac users using units with multiple Ethernet ports are apparently being asked to reactivate Flash after installing the upgrade. They are then seeing an alert telling them the product has been activated too many times. To sort this out users are being requested to speak to Macromedia Activation Support.

August 9, 2004 Ian Blackham

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General

GraFX Software Solutions Announces New BETA Version of Concurrent Versions System for Dreamweaver

CVS for Macromedia Dreamweaver new BETA version released providing more advanced features of CVS for Dreamweaver, adding new functionality to Macromedia Dreamweaver!

New version delivers redesigned GUI and enhanced commit and update features that enable users to increase productivity.

If you're using popular Concurrent Versions System, the dominant open-source network-transparent version control system, now you can use it inside Macromedia Dreamweaver!
CVS offers outstanding benefits for version and source code control. It's a useful tool for any professional developer - freelance, small to medium business or larger distributed teams.

July 20, 2004 Valics Lehel

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Win a copy of Beginning ASP.NET 1.1. Databases

In some of the entries to our last competition a number of people asked us about various aspects of ASP.NET. There were even those <gasp> who suggested they used Visual Studio alongside Dreamweaver.

In immediate response, and in conjunction with Apress, we're giving you the chance to read a sample chapter (available here) from the forthcoming Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 Databases book by experienced .NET authors Dan Maharry and Damien Foggon.

Of course we've twisted the publisher's arms on your behalf, and have five books to give away to registered DMXzone members. All we want from you is to know either which bits of ASP.NET you've found most useful, or which you've found hardest to get to grips with. Lucky entries will be extracted by a draw from the inbox on the 22nd July!

If you want to pre-order a copy from Amazon >>

July 15, 2004 Ian Blackham

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PHP 5 Released

PHP 5 has finally been released. A few small bugs were fixed from Release Candidate 3 and it's now official. What's in it – well for starters there's a new Zend engine, new XML support, a new MySQL extension, and you get SQLite (a SQL database engine that can be embedded directly into your applications) bundled in the download.

Check out Allan Kent's guide to installing PHP5 on Windows.

Win a copy of Web Standards Solutions, The Markup and Style Handbook

In conjunction with those lovely people over at friends of ED we've got five copies of their latest book – Web Standards Solutions, The Markup and Style Handbook – to give away to registered DMXZone members.

The author Dan Cederholm runs the SimpleBits website that not only carries a thought provoking blog, but also lots of stuff on standards-compliant design. Dedicated readers of our newsletter might remember that last week we featured the SimpleBits Web Standards link list.

To be in with a chance of winning a copy all you need to do is email us with your suggestion for a DMXZone article series that you'd really like to see. The best five suggestions will earn their contributor a copy of the book …. and might see their questions answered as we turn the ideas over to our skilled panel of authors.

To whet your appetite we've even got a sample chapter from the book you can download and read. For more information follow this link.

We'll announce the winners on July 8th, so get those suggestions in quick.

If can't wait until then there's always Amazon >>

June 30, 2004 Ian Blackham

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Bundle Specials Extended

Due to high demand

After many requests from our members, we have decided to extend the Christmas Specials. Our most popular extensions now together in three bundles: The Mega Bundle, Add-On Bundle and Advanced Bundle!

Imagine to be able to do all this:
1. Upload a zip file from your website
2. Unzip the zip file on the server
3. Resize images and create thumbnails
4. Delete files on the server or mail uploaded files
5. Display a list of files
6. Create a popup window with a larger image from a thumbnail or a slideshow!

January 16, 2003 George Petrov

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Windows 2000 Achieves Common Criteria Certification

Introduction

The dramatic increase in Internet and computer use has generated tremendous benefits for people around the world. Unfortunately, consumers' online activities can also be the target of criminal activity such as intrusion and theft. As a result, security is a primary concern for information technology (IT) consumers. They demand IT products and systems that are secure, and can protect data against loss or unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification.

November 1, 2002 George Petrov

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Due to high demand

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