Flash is now Searchable
Fantastic news for all users of Flash technology! Today Adobe announced that they are teaming up with major search engines such as Google and Yahoo to make Flash search-able. Adobe is providing Yahoo and Google with optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to enhance their ability to search the SWF file format and uncover information that […]
Can’t Apple and Adobe Just Get Along?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it looks like all of those rumors of of Flash for the iPhone are wrong:
Adobe Systems Inc. felt the sting of the iPhone in March when Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs dismissed a cellphone version of Adobe’s flash media player as not fit for the iPhone.
Ever since, an […]
Flex Asteroid to Destroy Your Home
Have you ever wondered how big of an asteroid it would take to destroy your house? How about your neighborhood? Maybe your country? Now you have a chance to find out, and maybe understand what the dinosaurs felt like.
You can use the Flex application at down2earth.eu to create an asteroid, determine its density, speed and […]
Flashing the Funky Talent
Have you ever wanted to edit your pictures but not know how? How about video? Now there is a solution, befunky.com has created a Flash(Flex?) application that allows you to easily turn your pictures and videos into creative works of art. The program is easy to use, you simply upload your picture and use the […]
ASWing 1.4 released
AsWing AS3 version 1.4 was released on June 13th. The upgrade made the program more stable. The big additions to this version are a MultipleAssetIcon and a new GridList. The GridList component maybe useful for some programmers, you can see an example here.
The update also fixes the preferred size cache bug that was responsible for […]
BlazeDS Alternative Granite Data Services 1.1.0 RC2 released
The Granite DS team of Frank Wolff and William Drai continue to upgrade their alternative to Adobe® LiveCycle® (Flex™ 2+) Data Services for J2EE application servers. The latest release can be downloaded from sourceforge here.
This new release brings several improvements and bug fixes (gas3, hibernate support, gravity, spring security), and one brand new feature […]
Upgrade Silverlight to Work with Firefox 3
Today is the day we have all been waiting for; Firefox 3 is finally here! There is only one little problem and fortunately it is easily fixed. The forthcoming Firefox 3 release will break some Silverlight 1.0 installation experience on web sites that used the original Silverlight 1.0 SDK Silverlight.js file.
Fortunately Microsoft has anticipated this […]
Does FlexBuilder 3.0 Cause Unrealistic Expectations?
Dolores Joya Moore likes FlexBuilder 3.0. She is a graphic designer and uses it to mock up projects for clients. Then she passes the project off to developers. The question is does the advanced UI mock-up she provides give the client the impression that building the UI is too easy?
You want to show your client […]
Driving Simulation on Google Flash Map
Katsuomi Kobayashi has developed an interesting driving simulation using Google Maps API for Flash. This is his second driving simulation, the first was simply a flash toy and a time-waster that I admit cost my previous employer some productivity.
Kobayashi was trying to develop more complicated courses but found ready made courses in Google maps. Google […]
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