WordPress 3.6 Beta 1

WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 is now available. As usual, proceed with a caution before installing any beta products.

What’s new in WordPress 3.6

  • Post Formats:  Post Formats now have their own UI, and theme authors have access to templating functions to access the structured data.
  • Twenty Thirteen: We’re shipping this year’s default theme in our first release of the year. Twenty Thirteen is an opinionated, color-rich, blog-centric theme that makes full use of the new Post Formats support.
  • Audio/Video: You can embed audio and video files into your posts without relying on a plugin or a third party media hosting service.
  • Autosave:  Posts are now autosaved locally. If your browser crashes, your computer dies, or the server goes offline as you’re saving, you won’t lose the your post.
  • Post Locking:  See when someone is currently editing a post, and kick them out of it if they fall asleep at the keyboard.
  • Nav Menus:  Nav menus have been simplified with an accordion-based UI, and a separate tab for bulk-assigning menus to locations.
  • Revisions: The all-new revisions UI features avatars, a slider that “scrubs” through history, and two-slider range comparisons.

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Adobe Flash Player 11.7 Beta

Adobe has just released Flash Player 11.7 Beta (Code Name: Geary).

Announcement: We are moving to a rapid beta release cycle using “Background Update“. We encourage you to subscribe so you can get the latest and the greatest Flash Player without a single mouse click. You may also subscribe to our Twitter channel @FlashPlayerBeta to stay on top of the current release schedule updates

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We talked to Adobe Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Media Business Unit, David Wadhwani earlier this week. Adobe aims to add new features to existing product lines this Spring 2013.