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I LOVE food! I also LOVE cooking! So you can imagine my excitement when I got a beta invitation to Punchfork: The Best New Recipes from Top Food Sites (or as I like to refer to it... Punchfork: The Sexy Recipe Aggregator) today!

The site definitely has a sleek design. It contains recipes from The Food Network, Martha Stewart, the ever so famous Epicurious, etc... I signed up via my Facebook account. It has a robust feature set, including: Favorites, easy to share link, Facebook Like, Twitter Tweet button, etc...

What I like is what appears to be the use of the social media sharing buttons to give the recipe a rating.

Check out the app, blog or their Facebook page!

Well it appears Steve Jobs' comments about Android during Apple's 3rd quarter earnings calls were a bit off base...

Here is Iain Dodsworth's responses (CEO of TweetDeck):

RESPONSE 1 - Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? Errr nope, no we didn’t. It wasn’t.

RESPONSE 2 - We only have 2 guys developing on Android TweetDeck so that shows how small an issue fragmentation is.

I personally like Andy Rubin's comment:

the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make”

The Fred Wilson makes a post in regards showing he thinks Android is becoming a good option, then it seems that a bunch of Apple fanboy haters didn't really share his sediments about the Android OS.

So what gives? Why all of the drama?

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Get the next free edition of Flash & Flex Developer Magazine: AIR for AppUp

Here is a sampling of what is inside...

• Intel Atom Developer Program: Million Dollar Development Fund

  Intel recently released a new App Store specifically for Netbook Apps: Intel AppUp (http://www.appup.com/). Included in this program is a partnership with Adobe (Melrose SDK … NOW in Public Beta!), a Million Dollar Developer Program Accelerator, and the Intel Developer Challenge 2010.

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  - Lee Graham

• NET FRUGALITY

  We Flash and Flex developers and for that matter, anyone developing Web 2.0 content have enjoyed a free ride on the bandwidth bandwagon. While fiber optic vendors have scurried to lay the last mile of our super highway, none of us have paid much attention to the weight of our applications. But that is all soon to change. Resolution be damned, we are all being ushered into the wireless era, and like it or not, the game is changing.

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  - JOHN MARX

• Introducing Amethyst

  A Visual Studio user who wants to create a rich internet application (RIA) has, up to now, had only one real choice: Microsoft Silverlight. With the launch of Amethyst, that’s all changed. Amethyst puts a powerful suite of Flash Platform design and coding tools right inside Visual Studio.

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  - Huw Collingbourne

• Onyx-VJ development

  Onyx-VJ is an open source video performance tool based on ActionScript 3 language. The project was started by Daniel HAI back in 2003.

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  - Bruce Lane

• Engineering Business Focused Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter Apps

  The avenues for delivering innovative products and services to vast groups of clients are unlimited as internet media platforms evolve, become widely used, and are made more accessible.

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  - Princeton Brooke

• Monetizing Your Web Game Part 2

  Currently there are many choices when it comes to monetizing a web game. It can be daunting to decide which model is best for a developer.

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  - Chris Hughes

• Simple Class Generator for ActionScript 3.0

  Flex 4 containers are not close relatives of Flex 3 Containers. If you want to avoid family feuds, you need to take care of the children. In this article, we’ll find out how.

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  - Emmanuel Ulloa

• Communicating with the browser

  Sometimes Flash just isn’t enough to get the job done. Often times you might need to communicate with code outside the Flash Player, such as JavaScript in an HTML page.

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  - Ryan D’Agostino

• Flex and PHP Mobile

  Mobile is big. The web is big. Services are big. It is no secret that in the past several years the API has become king. Simply accessing a web site is not sufficient any more.

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  - KEVIN SCHROEDER, RYAN STEWART

• Amethyst Puts Flash In Visual Studio But can it compete with Silverlight?

   

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• Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source Volume 1

   

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  - Ali Raza