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Javascript / HTML 5 based Flash Player in Development

Interesting site showcasing a javascript based Flash Player — http://smokescreen.us. The limitations are many but this will be great for getting ad banners out there onto iPhone type devices like the iPad, iPod and iPhones. Limitations are: No script execution … Continue reading

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Embedding Fonts part 3

I ran through this one more time today to get this ironed out once and for all. Seems folks are still having issues identifying fonts and targeting them for use in sub movies from externally loaded libraries. I’ve attached a … Continue reading

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My own view on Steve Jobs letter to Adobe ‘all your bases are belong to us’

I took a bit of an offense to father Jobs trying to explain the reasons why we don’t deserve free games and such on Apple devices. I totally get that they want to make as much money as possible and … Continue reading

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After 100 Flash based iPhone apps, Apple pulls the plug

Adobe has been working on iPhone export from CS5 for quite some time. It was announced in Oct 2009 and in general beta testers have been producing apps using their beta product since that time. Here’s a short list of … Continue reading

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Recent Projects

Been busy the last few months, and haven’t really posted too mucho about what is new and exciting. Here’s a few links to enjoy: http://www.fordvehicles.com/transitconnect/  (Bill Shippy helped me when the going got tough. Creatively not inspirational but the architecture … Continue reading

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Dell XPS m1530

I’ve got to write about my new laptop! It’s a Dell XPS m1530 and I’m pretty impressed with how it performs. I got a system outfitted with most of what I thought is cool for Vista based laptops these days … Continue reading

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Garbage collection in AS3/Flex

Matthew Tretter (of StateManager fame) has a great post on garbage collection and Tween, URLLoader, Timer and Loader classes in AS3. He’s provided replacement classes that solve the issues and this will be something you hit at some point.

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Serendipity

It’s nice to see ideas validated through concurrent creative endevours — as shown by Airgid’s new site (www.airgid.com) and Adobe’s new Flash On (http://www.adobe.com/flashon/).

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Fun with Winsock (Windows == work of the Devil)

I spend a few hours last night trying to fix my PC and thought I’d mention how it got fixed.  Turns out either getting spyware or removing spyware or even removing spyware shield programs can screw up your winsock chain.

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TIDY up XML source

SCITE includes TIDY for cleaning up HTML/XML documents (rewrapping lines, cleaning up spacing, etc). If you’ve never used Scintilla based products before (and you have if you’ve used SEPY, FlashDevelop, Scite|Flash) it’s a great text editing library that is wrapped … Continue reading

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