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Adobe really wants web designers to kick things up a notch. Not satisfied with where Edge has gone so far, it just released a full-fledged Edge Tools & Services suite to cover the bases for polished desktop and mobile pages on most any modern platform. Motion tool Edge Animate (formerly Edge Preview), automated previewing tool Edge Inspect (formerly Shadow) and mobile app packager PhoneGap Build have all arrived in the suite as version 1.0 releases, and come with both Edge Web Fonts as well as TypeKit to spruce up text. A pair of pre-release utilities, Edge Code (Brackets) and Edge Reflow, are also joining the group to tackle the nitty-gritty of editing web code and layouts. Any of the apps will readily cooperate with third-party software, although they won’t always be cheap: while most of the Edge suite is free to use in at least a basic form as long as you have a Creative Cloud membership at any level, Edge Animate is only free during its initial run and should eventually cost either $15 per month or $499 in a one-time sale. For pros that want to burnish their corner of the web to a shine, the result just might be worth the expense.

Continue reading Adobe Edge swells to include Tools & Services, streamlines the designer web

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Adobe Edge swells to include Tools & Services, streamlines the designer web originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Qualcomm’s Vellamo app has been a part of the furniture in our Android benchmarking suite for a while now, providing a fun little test of browsing and networking speeds on almost any Android device. Version 2.0 adds something extra, however: a section called “Metal” that is all about putting your processor and memory through the wringer.

As a quick taster, we ran the new HTML5 and Metal tests on the HTC One X (both global and AT&T) and the Galaxy S III (global and Sprint), settling on the average of three consecutive results. Conspiracy theorists who think that Qualcomm’s app favors its own processors will only find further ammunition in the CPU results, however the HTML5 scores actually give the QCOM devices much less of a lead than the old Vellamo did, scoring all four handsets roughly equally. You’ll find the table overleaf, along with a publicity video that explains the update.

Continue reading Vellamo benchmark adds CPU and memory tests, here’s how it rates the One X and GS III

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Vellamo benchmark adds CPU and memory tests, here’s how it rates the One X and GS III originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign (twice) and a month or so beta period, the highly anticipated Chameleon launcher is finally available for Android tablets. In case you were at your summer home and out of reach, check out our Insert Coin post concerning this home screen replacement that promises a dynamic environment, capable of responding to its user’s location, connection or time of day. Its claim to fame are some slick HTML5-powered widgets, and the developer API site has also been updated to help third party sources become a part of the action. Even at 1.0 there are still some rough edges and the team’s blog post mentions problems with the Gmail, Google+ and calendar widgets as known issues. Pre-orderers and Kickstarter backers can keep the beta app they’ve been using as it will continue to be updated and tied to their Google Play profiles, while those who were or are still on the fence should check out a video preview embedded after the break. If you opt to buy, it’s in the store ready to roll on tablets running 3.2 and above for $10.26.

Continue reading Chameleon Launcher for Tablets v1.0 available on Google Play for $10 (video)

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Chameleon Launcher for Tablets v1.0 available on Google Play for $10 (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s hard to keep up with whether Grooveshark is in the Google Play store, or out again, but now it doesn’t matter. The music streaming service has decided to ditch its yo-yoing app, and instead opt for a flashy new HTML5 website for all devices. It’s gone live in the US with an international launch “in the coming months”, although this London-based editor didn’t have any trouble using it. If you’ve been missing your favorites list, then jump over to Grooveshark.com and get listening — after all, you might see it disappear again soon if a fresh lawsuit from EMI has any impact.

Continue reading Grooveshark circles back again, swaps app for HTML5

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Grooveshark circles back again, swaps app for HTML5 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Atari has decided that it’s time to give some of its classic games a fresh coat paint, launching the new Atari Arcade. Eight of Atari’s classic games have been updated using HTML5 and are playable in your browser for free. That’s not the end of it though, as Atari has also teamed up with Microsoft to bring these games to Windows 8 tablets.

Though these games can be played in your browser, it seems that Atari is attempting to make the Windows 8 version of Atari Arcade really stick out. The arcade was built with Internet Explorer 10′s touch-based interface in mind, and the legendary Nolan Bushnell says that Microsoft was a “natural partner” for a project like this. While the announcement of these remakes is cool enough, there’s even more: developers can make games for Atari Arcade, and can earn money by displaying ads in their games or by offering in-game purchases.

It’s definitely nice to see classic Atari games Combat, Pong, and Asteroids get updated visuals, but the idea of another developer-friendly platform is even more exciting. Naturally, since Atari Arcade just launched, there aren’t any indie dev-made games available yet, but hopefully those are coming soon. The brains behind this project have come together to give users a behind-the-scenes look at Atari Arcade, which you can check out below.

In all, there are 8 games that can be played in the Atari Arcade right this very minute: Pong, Asteroids, Yar’s Revenge, Combat, Missle Command, Lunar Lander, Centipede, and Super Breakout. With Windows 8 just around the corner and a slew of new Windows 8 tablets announced at IFA 2012 this week, expect to hear more about Atari Arcade soon. In the meantime, you can always head over to the Arcade and play these games in your browser. Stay tuned.

Atari remakes gaming classics in HTML5 for browsers and Windows 8 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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