• Familiar syntax that is based on GLSL, which is C-based
• Allows the same filter to run efficiently on different GPU and CPU architectures, including multi-core and multiprocessor systems
• Abstraction of the complexity of executing on heterogeneous hardware
• Supports 3rd party creation and sharing of filters and effects
• Delivers excellent image processing performance in Adobe products
  

• Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer
• Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and add productivity enhancements to language features like data binding
• Framework Evolution: take advantage of new Flash Player capabilities and add features required by common use-cases

• 3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while retaining full interactivity. Fast, lightweight, and native 3D effects make motion that was previously reserved for expert users available to everyone. Complex effects are simple with APIs that extend what you already know.
• Custom Filters and Effects - Create and share your own portable filters, blend modes, and fills using Adobe Pixel Bender™, the same technology used for many After Effects CS3 filters. Shaders in Flash Player are about 1KB and can be scripted and animated at runtime.
• Advanced Text Layout - A new, highly flexible text layout engine, co-existing with TextField, enables innovation in creating new text controls by providing low-level access to text offering right-to-left and vertical text layout, plus support for typographic elements like ligatures.
• Enhanced Drawing API - Runtime drawing is easier and more powerful with re-styleable properties, 3D APIs, and a new way of drawing sophisticated shapes without having to code them line by line.
• Visual Performance Improvements – Applications and videos will run smoother and faster with expanded use of hardware acceleration. By moving several visual processing tasks to the video card, the CPU is free to do more.
• Enhanced Sound APIs – Work with loaded MP3 audio at a lower level in Flash Player 10. The new APIs will let you do application-level audio mixing through ActionScript and even audio filtering with Adobe Pixel Bender

This beta release of the update framework for Adobe AIR Applications provides APIs to assist developers in including good update capabilities in their AIR applications. The functionality present in update framework assists developers in the following:

• Periodically checking for updates based on an interval or at the request of the user
• Downloading AIR files (updates) from a web source
• Alerting the user on the first run of the newly installed version or performing data migration
• Confirming that the user wants to check for updates
• Displaying information to the user on the new available version for download
• Displaying download progress and error information to the user

• Tools to create color themes from a base color and harmony rules, with a color wheel and sliders for ultimate customization.
• Color extraction that generates themes from images using quick mood presets or movable markers to target specific colored areas on the image.
  • New! Use Flickr images to create themes.
• Fast search of thousands of themes created by the kuler community. Search by tag word, title, creator, or hex color value.
• Browsing by newest, most popular, and highest rated themes. Or view themes in a random order.
• Access to kuler themes three ways: through any browser, via the kuler desktop, and from within Adobe Illustrator® CS3 software.

Download here.