Offline applications have often been a thorn in the side of developers. Adobe is coming to the rescue – the company has begun work on a project, dubbed Apollo, which would allow developers to insert hooks for portability to offline clients.

Businesses and individuals alike are constantly looking to find new ways to communicate for work related and entertainment purposes.

As part of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in France, Adobe will pair student filmmakers with professionals to create documentaries on their Cannes experiences.

Microsoft made a step this week towards working cooperatively with other applications, but it resulted in a decidedly less than a positive outcome. A patch for the Adobe Flash Player, offered through the Windows Update service, seems to create more problems than it resolves.

Adobe Systems Inc. is taking their Macromedia Flash Professional 8 on tour. The free “Roadshow,” reaching Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, will preview the software to creative professionals, and demonstrate how to use new features in the program.

For your perusal this morning: Google’s China ad, a short Flash movie introducing the GuGe brand name.

Macromedia Flash video has passed Apple’s QuickTime and RealPlayer from RealNetworks in delivering online streaming media.

Yahoo! has been promoting two new Yahoo! Maps APIs for AJAX and Flash that webmasters can work with to publish customized maps on their websites. The Yahoo! Maps team says each API has features that may cause one to “geek out.”

Staying afloat in the movement to make web content available more smoothly on non-PC entertainment devices, Oregan Networks unveiled a new web media rendering engine for content authored with Macromedia Flash tools.

As advanced consumer electronics like digital cameras, PDAs, multimedia mobile phones, and similar devices become increasingly affordable to the everyday user, we find ourselves having to keep track of more and more types of technology, which makes keeping all of our devices compatible with each other increasingly difficult.

Flash banners (those of .swf extension) are becoming very common in Internet promotion – they are so frequently used because Macromedia Flash is a rather simple tool for producing complicated animation effects of fine quality.

I still maintain the vast majority of Flash implementations on the web are awful.

Due to Microsoft’s patent fight with Eolas Technologies, Microsoft has an update planned for Internet Explorer that may hinder the way Flash content appears in IE browsers visiting certain websites.

Many webmaster know that Google can read the text in their Flash files.

The expanded availability of Macromedia Flash player on more mobile phones should lead to greater profits for Adobe.

Though much of the US Olympic performance left sports fans disappointed, the Olympic website has enjoyed a gold medal showing with the use of Flash throughout it.

My Yahoo news alert for “search engine optimization” sent me a link this morning to a Q/A article from USATODAY.com about SEO.

BenQ-Siemens branded cell phones, from Munich-based BenQ Mobile, are set to feature Macromedia Flash Lite technology after a licensing agreement struck with Adobe Systems. The mobile handsets will be marketed in Asia, Europe, and North Latin America.

Finnish based Nokia announced on Thursday the creation of Forum Nokia PRO: Flash Zone. It’s a support program put together between Nokia and Adobe with the intention of helping Forum Nokia PRO companies to develop Macromedia Flash applications for devices deployed by wireless operators.

With the online Flash movement just about done with, we’re left with a ton of visual enhancements that do little more than animate or entertain.

With the second post in his PR is dying series Tom Foremski is saying that the agency world has a future as bright as Larry Fortensky’s.