By Jeff on March 10, 2010
The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share [...]
Posted in Flash
By Jeff on November 30, 2009
Tell us what you think is the most anticipated feature of CS5 on the right. Don’t see something that you are anticipating? Let me know and I will add it.
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Advertising, Apple, Flash |
By Jeff on August 13, 2009
I just read the article over on AdAge predicting yet again the downfall of Flash. I have been developing Flash since 1999 and have read countless stories about the flash killer coming… like I have said before I will believe it when I see the numbers.
As far as Flash seeming slow, that is just [...]
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Flash, Flash Runtime | Tagged Flash |
By Jeff on June 17, 2009
Pages for companies, they are a boon for marketers online, but how many of them are tied back to personal profiles? I ask because if you are thinking about setting up a page on Facebook for your company, you should think about creating a business account on Facebook. The best part is that [...]
Posted in Flash, Social | Tagged FaceBook, Facebook Pages, Social |
By Jeff on June 1, 2009
Flash Builder 4 delivers a long list of new features, plus improvements to many existing features.There are three main themes to this release: developer productivity, designer-developer workflow, and data-centric application development. For an overview of the features included in this first public beta release, please read Tim Buntel’s What’s New in Flash Builder 4 article [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Adobe, Flash, Flash Player 10, Flash Runtime | Tagged Flash |
By Jeff on April 20, 2009
The denizens of Hollywood and Silicon Valley have, by and large, vastly different value systems, role models, even tastes in cars, food and clothing.
But they increasingly agree on one thing: a standard for online video called Adobe Flash.
Flash was once known primarily as the technology behind those niggling Web ads in the 1990s that gyrated [...]
Posted in Flash | Tagged Flash |
By Jeff on April 20, 2009
“The Official Cave Story Blog has revealed that soon WiiWare developers will be able to code games using Flash, which opens up a world of exciting (and possibly not so exciting) gaming experiences for Wii owners.”
WiiWare to Support Flash Soon – Nintendo Life: WiiWare.
Posted in Flash | Tagged Flash, Wii |
By Jeff on November 10, 2008
I recently asked this same question on a few of the LinkedIn groups that I run and was surprised by some of the responses I got back. While some have adapted to FDT or other apps like Flash Develop, there are still others that are still editing Flash content and AS on the Flash [...]
Posted in ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Flash |
By Jeff on April 10, 2008
Yahoo’s has announced that Flickr is going to start hosting video content. The photo sharing site already has over 25 million members who have collectively uploaded over 2 billion photos and now they want your moving-photos.
Yahoo says:
We spoke to our members, took surveys, played with very many video experiences on the web, and, of course, [...]
Posted in Flash |
By john on April 4, 2008
Handy add-on to swfobject that allows the developer to specify a minimum width & height for a full-browser flash movie:http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/flash/swfforcesize/
“scrollbars are added to the browser window if the user has sized it under the specified width or height.”
Posted in ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Flash, Flash Tricks, Flex |