Adobe Upgrades Flash Player, a.k.a. 'Astro'

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Jim Manico, OWASP Global Board Member

May 15, 2008

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Adobe Systems' Flash Player 10 browser plug-in has gone to beta with new features the company says will help designers and developers create special effects and cinematic Web experiences.Flash Player 10, code-named Astro, works on all of the major operating systems. It includes support for custom filters and effects, native 3-D transformation and animation capabilities, an extensible rich-text layout and graphics processing unit hardware acceleration. The tool also gives developers more creative control over device font attributes, more text layout options and variable bitrate streaming that adjusts video quality depending on bandwidth availability.

The general release of Flash Player 10 is expected later this year. The beta can be downloaded now from Adobe Labs.Computerworld

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Jim Manico

OWASP Global Board Member

Jim Manico is a Global Board Member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. OWASP's mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. OWASP's AppSecUSA<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/> conferences represent the nonprofit's largest outreach efforts to advance its mission of spreading security knowledge, for more information and to register, see here<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/?page_id=534>. Jim is also the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He has a 18 year history building software as a developer and architect. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications<http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Clad-Java-Building-Secure-Applications/dp/0071835881> from McGraw-Hill and founder of Brakeman Pro. Investor/Advisor for Signal Sciences.

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