Best Way to Kill Your Friday Idle Hours
It’s Friday! (for half of you I guess). I know you must have some idle time to kill in brain-dead way before calling it a day. I can’t blame you. That’s why I’m here to assist you with a perfect tool, the singing hourses, a Flash..um…something. You need turn on your speaker or […]
Breaking News With Flex and Google Maps
The apps featured on Adobe Flextv’s “App of the Week” have so far remained obscure. Few links—forget reviews—are discoverable. From now on, I shall try to cover these apps every Friday here.
fo.reca.st’s Breaking News Map was featured in Flextv’s second episode.
The RIA gets news from Reuters using Reuters Spotlight and maps these items with locations […]
I’m Totally Moved by the Nature of Love
I’m sure you will as well. Just watch this video…
RichFLV is Rich Indeed
RichFLV is an Adobe AIR app that can edit FLV files. It is also the only FLV editor, according to Ted Patrick.
There aren’t many instances where one might need to edit FLVs, it being mainly used as the common compressed output format. But ‘many’ doesn’t mean ‘any’. You might simply want to edit all the […]
Twhirl: THE Social Software Client
The Adobe AIR application Twhirl has proved its self-worth as the preferred software client for social streaming.
Social streaming is catching up. Who could have imagined that answering a simple question like “What are you doing?” would become such a wonderful alternative to the traditional social networking (which in itself is not exactly traditional)? This has […]
Adobe on Youtube
Ever since videoblogging became a rage, we have seen various kinds of official youtube channels coming up from the Royal Monarchy to Paris Hilton to FIFA 2008. Corporations whose modern marketing techniques now involve reaching people by helping and alluring them with inside information didn't take long to catch up with the trend.
I am not [...]
The 20% Animation Rule
You should read these wonderful Flash Animation Tips post by Hakim Elhattab on the media blog of Fi. Though the title has 'Flash' in it, they are all generic enough to be applied in any RIA with animation.
The tip that grabbed my attention, and all others' who read it, was the 20% rule.
"When an animation [...]
MeeBone: How One Dude Learnt AS and FLex
Meebo has been a blessing to all the chatterboxes in the corporate world. Still, there might be some who miss chatting through a messenger client, unsatisfied by a large window of a web browser. MeeBone can be their simple solution.
I only say that this AIR implementation of Meebo "can be" a solution because it is [...]
Snackr: A Flex RSS Ticker
Snackr is a simple RSS ticker built using Adobe AIR 1.0 and Adobe Flex 3. It pulls random posts from RSS feeds and scrolls them across the desktop. As it tries to store and update its FeedDatabase whenever it is opened, it can be run even offline.
The constant scrolling on the desktop can be annoying, [...]
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