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Adobe underestimates how much it benefits from piracy. If poor college students can't cut their teeth on the full Adobe suite, they're likely to learn how to use something else.

Adobe Creative Cloud: Student and Teacher Edition

$20/mo for access to every pro grade tool and service Adobe has to offer.

That would be an awesome point, except it's deflated by the fourth question in Adobe's Creative Cloud FAQ:

As a Creative Cloud member, am I required to install an upgrade to a desktop application when it becomes available?

No. You are not required to install any new version of the desktop applications available in Creative Cloud. You can continue using your current version of the product as long as you have an active membership. You have flexibility on when you install a new release to take advantage of new product features, if you choose to do so.

If you're a professional, then you're presumably using the $1200 "Standard" or $1800 "Pro" suites. That means if you upgrade just once every 2-3 years, you will have still saved money, and you will have had plenty of time to plan & test a transition to a "new version" of the software to mitigate against the risks of an upgrade.

Imagine that - it looks like Adobe has already considered the needs of its non-pirate customers.

I guess it depends upon how much photo manipulation and post-processing your wife and son are doing but Adobe Lightroom has pretty much all of the digital darkroom tools that you would want and has a couple neat features that are much easier to use in Lightroom than they are in Photoshop. In all honesty, outside of a occasionally having to remove logos from images for stock photography, I haven't found much need for anything more advanced myself.

FWIW, you could sell software and transfer licenses fairly liberally (compared to most software vendors I see). It was limited to 4x per license, but that's better than I can do with Office (which will allow you to transfer it only once).

Some details that people have been able to find so far.

1) The guy claimed to have hacked ColdFusion using some 0-day exploit. He could have just been going off this recent Adobe bulletin. But this bulletin was before the Linode announcement, so who knows. http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-10.html

This hotfix resolves a vulnerability that could be exploited to impersonate an authenticated user (CVE-2013-1387).
This hotfix resolves a vulnerability that could be exploited by an unauthorized user to gain access to the ColdFusion administrator console (CVE-2013-1388).

2) One of the files in the directory list that has a unique name is actually accessible on linode.com: http://www.linode.com/y_key_57284cb2de704e02.html

3) Looks like seclists (nmap people) were targeted by this hack: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/3

4) It is not clear if credit cards were compromised or not. While this "ryan" guy claims they were, we won't know unless the list is published or Linode admits to it.

I wouldn't know

Both work on Linux, although Amazon requires the Flash plugin (new Chrome-only Pepper API one will not work) with the HAL (there's a HAL package on Ubuntu: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/flash-player-11-problems-playing.html) The Adobe DRM for Amazon may come into a future Pepper API plugin but it is not currently implemented, which is why you need the old plugin Flash plugin + HAL. Hulu works with both, as far as I can tell. It's been a while since I've watched stuff on there, though.

Adobe didn't write Flash, they acquired Macromedia in 2005 who originally wrote Flash. The original intent of Flash was to provide an animation platform. It was during the video player codec wars where you needed to have RealPlayer, QuickTime, Windows Media Player and many more as every other website used a different format to play the video files. Flash added the ability to be a video player and started to be used by many sites to playback video as most users had Flash installed. At some point YouTube came on the scene and that sealed the deal, everyone switched in fast order to using Flash rather than to make users download different players and upgrade them. So this effectively ended the codec player wars. Then Adobe added DRM technology to Flash to encrypt and protect video streams.

Flash is horribly, horribly broken! From 6/2001 -> 3/12/2013 there have been 96 security patches released to fix vulnerabilities that could allow a PC/Mac/Linux computer to be compromised! http://www.adobe.com/support/security/#flashplayer

Flash is very inefficient and buggy, hence the serious flaws in it's design that are the root cause for all the exploits. It has got to be truly awful code under the hood! Flash never ran well on Mac's and once it was ported to Mac OS X (carbon) that didn't improve much. Flash had been identified by Apple as causing Mac's to crash and run poorly. The iPhone and iPad run iOS which is really Mac OS X recompiled to run on ARM instead of PowerPC/Intel. iOS is stripped down but it's still the base Unix system that came from NeXT. Not only would Flash kill the batteries of mobile devices, it would introduce extremely dangerous vulnerabilities to a very secure system.

What is amazing is during the battle between Apple and Adobe, Flash was supposed to ship on other non-Apple mobile platforms. Well lately, Adobe has completely killed Flash for all mobile platforms! Apparently, the facts caught up to the hype.

Today, Apple doesn't ship Flash nor Java for that matter on new Mac's as both are security risks. Oracle's had it's share of Java security issues lately as well. Apple literally blocks Flash and Java in Safari by remotely updating Mac's outside of the Software Update utility using their proprietary anti-malware system. Say a new vulnerability on Flash or Java is discovered, Apple quickly sends an anti-malware update to all online Mac's which then proceed to disable the plugins for Safari until the version is newer and that version hasn't even been released yet by Oracle nor Adobe. This has happened repeatedly over the last year.

As to Kevin Lynch, he was acting as a spokesman for Adobe and was following the companies party line. Yep, he was very much like Bagdad Bob! Spewing out company propaganda. Executives, come and go all the time. Mark Hurd was terminated from HP but ended up at Oracle.

Er? Photoshop has been available for OSX since version 7 as far as I remember. The current version is CS5 or 13.

Prime video can be watched simply by installing Flash Player.

This will work, provided that:

1. Adobe doesn't remove the page listing archived versions of Flash Player from its web site.
2. One of the archived versions of Flash Player supports a particular device and operating system. An Android system update may break applications; the update from 4.1 to 4.2 broke a few applications on my Nexus 7 tablet.
3. The device allows the installation of applications from unknown sources. Some AT&T devices used to hide the checkbox until Amazon Appstore became popular, and I'm told some Nook devices still do.
4. Firefox and other third-party web browsers continue to support Flash Player. The Chrome browser included with the Nexus 7 tablet does not.
5. Amazon doesn't install something on its video streaming server to distinguish Flash Player for Android from Flash Player for desktop PC operating systems.

How should I build faith that these five assumptions will continue to hold into the foreseeable future?

ah, so pentax cameras are on the list. Nikon isn't and Canon's EOS cameras aren't listed either.

Nod32 may be good antivirus software, and perhaps the best, but when you buy something directly from their web site you get an e-mail that isn't even from eset.com but from netsuite.com spoofing eset.com, saying:

Please open the attached file to view your Cash Sale.

To view the attachment, you first need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have it yet, visit Adobe's Web site http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html to download it.

WTF?

Another WTF is the summary here.
"[...] says Gene Spafford, a Purdue University computer science professor and security expert."
Since when did Spaf need an introduction? That's like saying "Steve Wozniak, a computer scientist and electronics engineer".

Yes, you might need that clarification if you submit articles to Vanity Fair or Reader's Digest, but here on Slashdot?

Every document stored in iCloud (music, tv shows, movies, contacts, apps, books,pages documents, etc.) are downloadable. If you couldn't, it would make for a shitty cloud (you can upload all you want, but you can never access your files? How does that even make any sense).

This is incorrect. What is actually stored on the Apple servers in Virginia is metadata. This includes device keys for devices authorized on the account, and rights certificates to RE- download already downloaded content from the content distribution network.

While there are some aspects of cloud storage for user-generated content, the tv shows, movies, apps, and books are neither user generated, nor are they stored with your account. They are stored in encrypted content form in the Content Distribution Network (historically, for iTunes, Apple has contracted with the Inktomi CDN in order to make this encrypted content available).

Within the CDN itself, music is also encrypted so that someone can't just rape an Inktomi server and get an unencrypted copy of all the music in the iTunes Music Store.

When you "restore" a tv show on your device from iCloud "backup", what actually happens is that iTunes is contacted and provides the knapsack key http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle–Hellman_knapsack_cryptosystem , which is then used with the device ID of the authorized device in order to generate an encrypted device key, which can then be used to decrypt the data from the CDN, and that's what gets downloaded to your machine. For music, the data is not reencrypted, for the other media, including TV shows, it's reencrypted as part of the streaming download so that the tv show or other media is tied to your authorized device.

You can also store all of Apple's iCloud documents in other services. Gmail contacts, Amazon Music Locker, Dropbox, etc. I'm not sure you are aware of how iCloud works from the user's point of view.

And I'm positive that you are not aware of the implementation details for the iCloud. Yes, for user generated content, which is the vast minority of content on an iPhone/iPad/iPod, that actually gets replicated off into the "iCloud" servers in virginia, along with the other metadata for the "more important" media content (it's more important because Apple gets $$$ from you for access to that content).

The practical upshot is that Apple doesn't care if you store that minor account of content on their servers in Virginia, or spread it to hell and gone all over the Internet, so long as you pay for the content stored in the CDN in the first place, and can't access it without authorization keys to decrypt the CDN contents, said keys being stored in the metadata. Having to store a pissy number of key/value pairs in XML so that your address book contents replicate to all your devices you purchased from Apple is nothing, compared to the amount of data they are carrying around in X.509 certs containing FairPlay keys in them to secure the CDN contents from unauthorized access.

People seem to believe that all cloud services are "the cloud", and that they can all just automatically "share data" between these services, when in fact, there is a huge amount of back end tying with the cloud content and the front end device, and the amount of user generated data is tiny, at best, compared to, for example, the same thing happening for YouTube or Amazon paid content (both secured by Adobe Access http://www.adobe.com/products/adobe-access.html , or any of the other protected content out there protected by other systems, such as Apple's.

So how would this be more open that Flash? While the Flash Player (AVM) is closed source, the entire AS3 library is open source.

I know that everyone's hatred of Flash often gets in the way of facts and reality, but everything regarding Flash -- the SWF format, the AVM2 bytecode, the communication protocols -- has been open-sourced except for Adobe's Flash IDE.

95% of users of Photoshop didn't pay for it either.

Hardly surprising, considering how blatant some of the warez sites are getting nowadays:

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

yes Adobe hasn't got even a good much less great security track record but one thing that have an EXCELLENT record on is letting you run it anywhere

Apart from Linux platforms based on these processors:
* Intel Pentium III Coppermine
* Intel Pentium III Tualatin
* Intel Celeron Mendocino
* Intel Celeron Coppermine-128
* Intel Celeron Tualatin-256
* Intel Pentium M
* AMD Athlon XP

Source: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3161034

You seem to think Android devices are locked to the Google Play Store.

They're not. But every time Slashdot posts a story about Android malware, someone posts a comment claiming that it would be best practice to stick to Google Play Store: "If you'd just leave Unknown sources turned off, you'd be fine. But in practice, people end up not leaving Unknown sources turned off, and they end up trojaned."

Adobe still offers Android Flash player through their own website

I wasn't aware of this. So essentially, you need to turn on Unknown sources, go to this page, download the Flash Player version that matches your Android version, and then somehow find a browser that supports plug-ins (the Chrome browser included with the Nexus 7 doesn't, but Firefox does).

As far as I can tell, the Flash updater only bothers to check for an update when the computer first boots.

Because everyone here constantly reboots their computer, right? I mean, it's not like most computers have sleep modes, and that most people just leave the OS running so they don't have to wait for it to boot. Clearly everyone constantly reboots their computer, once per day, to allow the Adobe Flash Updater to check for updates.

My Media Center hasn't been rebooted for at least a week and it's been updated. Read the Adobe Flash Player Administration Guide

Here's the relevant part:

Background update is disabled by default. To enable it, edit the mms.cfg file, as shown below:
AutoUpdateDisable=0
SilentAutoUpdateEnable=1

If background updates are enabled, the task or LaunchDaemon check for an update once every 24 hours. However, if
no network or internet connection is available at the time of the check, the check occurs again every hour until a
connection is detected. After the next successful check, another check does not occur for 24 hours.

Or you can get CS2 for free. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

Doesn't anyone know how to use a search engine..

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html

also why other pro apps will not be in other app stores.

adobe CS 30% cut is way to high and sand boxing.

autocad 30% is to high as well.

So, that means they won't be in the Windows App Store, either, nor will they ever be in the Google Play Store.

Yes, the Windows App Store goes down to 20% after so much volume (which Apple would do, too, if there were actually any pressure to do so); but I'm pretty sure that won't be sufficient to both of those TRULY money-hungry publishers.

Interestingly enough, both of your example companies actually have plenty of touch applications.

In fact, speaking of Autodesk, the long-standing Mac-centric Architectural site, Architosh, in a review of the Autodesk app "Formit", said the following:

"We are getting deeply impressed by Autodesk’s commitment to Apple’s mobile iOS platform. No other CAD or 3D company has gone so far this fast in creating a stable of interesting “apps” for Apple’s platform–targeting both iPhone and the newer iPad."

So, not exactly sure where you're getting your "lack of interest", especially in regard to iOS, by these companies.

You don't need to be anyone important to find most things yourself. For Adobe Photoshop Deluxe from 2000, go to ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photodeluxe/win/. Most sites you get software from are ftp in nature. And a "geek" to me is an Apple loyalist. Spend, buy the latest gadget and complain when others don't fall into the Borg collective.

It still falls short a bit of having a usable Photoshop on a tablet. The latest Photoshop is not touch-aware, and is (from experience) very difficult to use on a touch-only device. Adobe needs to do some work there, and their efforts thus far are toys, meant for dressing up tablet camera photos, not serious content creation.

This is, incidentally, the same issue on Windows 8 tablets. Yes, you can use the latest full version of Photoshop. (Assuming intel-based tablets, because on ARM you have the same issue -- there's no version compiled for your device.) Yes, the experience still sucks, unless you attach the optional keyboard and mouse and use it like a laptop. But then, why not just use a laptop? And if you're going to use a laptop anyway, why put up with the funky Windows 8 interface when you can continue to use the more KVM-friendly interface of Windows 7?

So, kudos to samzenpus for figuring this out -- it's pretty cool. But it's more an interesting gimmick than the thing everyone -- including me -- have been looking for.

Er, I use a non-WebKit browser - Firefox Beta - on Android (on my Nexus 7) and I do three things to make it actually nice to surf:

1. Side-load the Flash Player apk - yes, you can officially download it despite not being on Google Play any more.

2. Install the Phony extension and set it to Desktop Firefox mode (because you want desktop versions of sites on tablets, not the mobile versions).

3. Install the Adblock Plus extension.

This gives you the best Android tablet browser experience by some considerable distance (and probably a lot better than any iOS browser can manage).

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/01/update-on-cs2-and-acrobat-7-activation-servers.html

"Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers."

It's rather fascinating and somewhat indicative of a completely dysfunctional company. It reads almost like the head of support wrote an apologetic explanation that tried to downplay the issue a bit to the rest of the execs who then didn't quite understand the issue itself or the gravity of it. The solution, obviously, was to then just forward it directly to PR who then faithfully published it letter for letter. Wow.

I'm thinking http://warez.adobe.com/ could host this.

If it makes you feel any better, it took me over a decade of fulltime employment before I could just throw away £104 on a piece of software to support one of my hobbies.

(price taken from http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop-lightroom/buying-guide-version-comparison.html so you may get it cheaper elsewhere)

Compared to the £40/year for photo hosting and the £2k in camera equipment that I walk around with, it's not exactly extortionate. But if you're short on funds, the camera should take priority, of course :)

> The most recent GIMP release lacks important high-end photography features that even ancient CS2 has:

I concur 100%! I have a .PSD file I created back in ~2006 and sadly GIMP 2.8 _still_ can't open it properly. Every year it gets a little closer though!

GIMP 2.8 is still incomplete / broken WRT:

* nested layer groups is partially broken - doesn't show Layer Effects as sub-groups
* no native Layer Styles (FX Blend Modes) - they still don't properly work when loading a .PSD file that uses them
    see: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-789ba.html
* no native option to set the default hotkeys to Photoshop
* stupid English name

Note: While GIMP has a layer blend modes that PS lacks, namely: Subtraction, Grain Merge, Grain Extract, Value) that is not the same as the Layer Styles.

Basically this page lists all the ways that GIMP functionality is lacking compared to PS.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/03/8-handy-tweaks-to-make-gimp-replace-photoshop/

The fact that you GIMP doesn't work out-of-the-box the same way PS does and you need half a dozen plugins to get the equivalent functionality already built into PS CS2 tells me that GIMP is still immature.

Hoping one day GIMP will become a viable PS replacement.

References:
Blending Modes supported in PS and GIMP
* http://emptyeasel.com/2008/10/31/explaining-blending-modes-in-photoshop-and-gimp-multiply-divide-overlay-screen/

I can not comprehend of anything worse

That's not much of an imagination. You can embed Javascript in PDF...

It's turtles all the way down.

They are also giving away Premiere Pro 2.0 and Acrobat Pro 8.0. See for yourself.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662#4974662

It's 'free' for people with currently active subscriptions to the product, not every Tom, Dale, and Hates the Gimp, alas.

If I ever decide to pursue a career in Gimpdom, I'll name myself Hates (or just Hate)

It's 'free' for people with currently active subscriptions to the product, not every Tom, Dale, and Hates the Gimp, alas.

Try using a 10.x version from Adobe's Flash Player Archive.

You appear to be unaware of the details of protected content vis-a-vis Flash; I shall try to lay it out for you:

Protected content sold by Amazon, and also by Google Play, is protected via Adobe Flash Access.

Adobe Flash Access relies on a unique machine identifier to implement the key escrow in order to lock your content to the download machine so that it can not be re-uploaded in a digital form without having to use the analog hole in order to degrade the content.

The way it obtains this unique machine identifier is by synthesis of a lot of different machine information via libhal (a library with an associated daemon, intended as a Hardware Abstration Layer). As you can easily see here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal libhal has been deprecated since May of 2008, yet Adobe chose to require it anyway.

This four-year-out-of-date library is not installed by default on Ubuntu systems, and doesn't give the answers Adobe Flash Access wants in order to be able to successfully run on 64 bit systems. Even when hacked up, there are typically symptoms during video playback, such as the video playing fine up to the first commercial break, and then after the commercial, the audio continues working, but the video is nothing but a black screen.

These problems do not occur on a 32 bit Linux, as they do on a 64 bit Linux running 32 bit software. The need to support multiple Linux platforms, combines with the Jan 31st 2012 rollout of the new version of Adobe Flash Access protection on content by Amazon no doubt influenced the decision, announced Feb 20 2012, to drop Adobe Flash Support for Linux outside official Google Chrome builds: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html

Now that you have the context, do my earlier comments on 64bit vs. 32 bit make more sense?

cough Edge cough

Oh well done - you got the joke.

cough Edge cough

Since Adobe products can't be exported to Iran, it probably wasn't done with Photoshop.

Possibly GIMP. I hear the Iranians are big on OSS.

Who knew? And it's only 9.99

Why do you think it hasn't kept up? Even if something isn't available within the coldfusion function set, there are there tons of addons like CFC's or custom functions . And if you can't find what you are looking for there, you can always use pure java inside a coldfusion application.

And if you don't like the idea of using commercial software, there are a bunch of open source coldfusion servers now.

Why would you need a replacement? That would defeat the purpose. I apologise if I'm wrong, but it looks like you interpreted a comment about the Flash browser plugin as being about Flash Professional. You seem to like Adobe software, so just upgrade to Flash Professional CS6 which can output to HTML5+Javascript instead of flash objects and you can continue to develop your vector games the way you're used to.

I run Win2k and Flash can't be upgraded any more anyway. And I use Acrobat 4. I don't want any later version. I don't want to be nagged to upgrade things. I know what I have and I know what I need.

Actually, when you look at the Archived Flash Player versions, it seems that the 10.x line (the last one compatible with Windows 2000) still gets some kind of minor updates.

if we pushed Adobe to open the format

This is a fairly common criticism of Flash, and it's also an invalid one. Flash is an open format, you can download the specification here on Adobe's website. There are even open source players available, see Gnash, Swfdec, and Lightspark. Unfortunately none of them are feature complete, and most are lacking some major features.

What Flash is not is an open standard. Meaning only Adobe gets to advance the standard, and I don't believe the licensing allows for there to be a fork of their standard. They'll tell you how to interoperate, but only they get to guide the technology and decide what to include.

Don't worry, they've clearly learned... "Through this process we learned a great deal about current issues with code signing and the impact of the inappropriate use of a code signing certificate."

(Yes, they did actually say that. In public, amidst a deluge of smarmy understatement and the passive voice.)

As far as I can tell, apart from the Adobe version of the small 'i' looking less attractive and their comma being more vertical, they are identical.

The ubuntu font was introduced last year.

How would sites that drop Flash in favor of HTML5 canvas convince users of older versions of Internet Explorer to install Google Chrome Frame?

How much is a IE user that can't or won't install Chrome Frame worth compared to a tablet user? (and consider that Flash is deprecated on Android too).

What audio codec would be used with the sound that is synchronized with the vector animation? Chromium, Firefox, and Opera support only freely licensed codecs, while Internet Explorer and Safari support only MPEG codecs.What audio codec would be used with the sound that is synchronized with the vector animation? Chromium, Firefox, and Opera support only freely licensed codecs, while Internet Explorer and Safari support only MPEG codecs.

Both. Storage is cheap.

What tool would be used to make animations that would be played by a Canvas-based player? Keying in vector coordinates frame by frame isn't fun.

Adobe Edge Animate.

The game uses Adobe AIR, which is a bad cross-platform choice because Adobe discontinued it in June 2011 on the Linux platform. They also ludicrously never released a Linux 64-bit version of Adobe AIR, so trying to install a dead 32-bit package on a 64-bit clean Linux system is such a nightmare that I gave up and never got to see the game on Linux after all. Even the instructions to do so mention Fedora Core 11, which is a 3-year-old distro 6 releases out of date, ho hum.

oh, a newbie ...

long time it was just oss. then came sounddemons like artsd (which actually worked quite fine even via network), esd (quite crappy). they had tools like artsdsp and esddsp to transparently proxy the sound of different programs, which worked not so good most the time. Then alsa came, brought its alsadsp tool and tried to replace the backend of esd/artsd. Drivers were ported to alsa, and alsa got imporant features, which were missing from oss (multiple programs could play sound). Distros adopted alsa, in many cases you could just use alsa without a sound demon with only a small piece of config to enable multiple channels. even kde4 complely dropped artsd.
Meanwhile pulseaudio came out and replaced esd. pulseaudio was much crappier, and had no useful new features.

Now the current situation is: you have almost only pulseaudio, sitting on top of alsa, hiding all the interesting stuff of alsa (an example: alsa provides for a typical soundcard about 10 different audio channels, where you can control the volume. pulseaudio hides this all and provides ONE volumecontrol. you cannot say the front jack has another volume than the rear one).

Many applications use an intermediate framework, such as gstreamer, to abstract the painful details. which of course adds latency and sources for trouble.

it looks like this: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguinswf/files/penguinswf/linuxaudio.png

Heh don't hold back... ;) Adobe's feedback forms just in case you want to let them know how you feel.... don't forget to read and agree with their feedback T&C's. Eh, WTF feedback T&C's- seriously Adobe? Are you attempting to out do The SCO Group when it comes with alienating customers? T&C's on feedback.... geez... Adobe have you hired the twat Paul Christoforo of Ocean Marketing infamy as your head of PR or something? T&C's... wow. just wow.

all known crack /keygen/patch for adobe software relies on HOSTS file CS4 Serial number gets invalid serial number message when ... : kb407408 Error "You entered an invalid serial number..." when you ... : kb401677 "Licensing for this product has stopped working" on Windows : kb405970 "Licensing for this product has stopped working" on Mac OS : cpsid_51260 creativesuite 4 /5 http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-licensing-product-expired-cs4.html

I think it's for backwards comparability. But they now allow you to bundle AIR in your apk if you wish.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS901d38e593cd1bac-4f1413de12cd45ccc23-8000.html