The “Break it Down” Blog

Acrocrap, POSbat?

So your cruising the internets, up pops that annoying ”Do you want to update acrobat now?” box. After clicking yes 500 times, you finally get your resource hogging, bloated, holier-than-thou PDF reader running again…. for the 5th time this month. On the heels of the latest news of the zoneback acrobat trojan causing havok on [...]

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Adobe Captivate Review and Screencasting Alternatives

Adobe Captivate (Buy $699, Upgrade $299) I met Captivate 3 years ago when it was RoboDemo 5. At that time I thought it was slick as hell to have a piece of software that would essentially capture your screen as screenshots as “slides”, and then capture any mouse or keyboard input as actions done during that [...]

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Flash 9 for Linux Early 2007

Over on the Adobe Flash/Linux blog it looks like more definitive times have been given for the final stable release: Early 2007. The team mentioned they are planning a Beta before that for later 2006 I assume which will be welcome after they are done fixing all the known issues with the plugin (which was the [...]

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