Noteflight: Every Musician’s Flex App
For the musically illiterate, be sure to read this wiki entry. Music is written, using what are called notes. Not surprisingly, there are softwares for this too. Even though most musicians still write music in the traditional way, on paper like “old-fashioned” writers, today they are increasingly being saved and edited using music notation softwares. […]
Rich App for Rich Presentations
SlideRocket is a rich internet application in every sense of the phrase: rich utility, rich features, and rich look. It has been touted by the Flex community as the first and the best Flex app for a serious and a large-scale utility.
It is one of the competitors in the growing SaaS market of online office […]
A Startup on Silverlight (thought was Flash)
Do you guys know the little thing called Tamagotchi came from Japanese girl? It’s made little girls giggling around world. It’s a little electric and imaginary pet they have to take care of.
It’s OK if you have no clue. Just head to the new startup called Shidonni, where you (or more likely a kid) can […]
From Napkin to Flex Mockup
Here is the idea. When you are mocking up an UI design on a piece of napkin, people (users) would think you are just brain storming the UI. They won’t be too nervous about the UI because the sketch won’t imply the final look-and-feel. Now you want to start designing the UI with a more […]
Your Baby’s Scrapbook
Babies! They fill our lives with awe and beauty. They simultaneously make us proud and humble. We would like to freeze each moment and store it forever, but neither can most of us afford it nor do we have such time to spare. That is where HowFastTheyGrow.com enters the picture.
The people behind the website developed […]
MediaWombat Indexing Flash
Steve Webb and Troy Yohn are just two guys with day jobs working on the problem of indexing flash content in their own spare time.
MediaWombat is a search engine that parses through SWF files and catalogues information based on it. “We crawl the internet looking for SWF files, then grab them, rip them apart, index them and […]
Create Your Flex Games
I have never been a big gamer. But I remember sweating for hours at length creating my own stages in Tank and Lode Runner, and being thrilled while playing those as a kid. User-generated content in games could be the next big thing, and PlayCrafter, the gamers' next big thing.
PlayCrafter is a suite of games [...]
Rounding Up Last Week
British Telecom acquired Ribbit for about $105M. Ryan Stewart already interviewed Chuck Freedman, Ribbit's director of development platform, about the way it might affect developers. Ribbit, the self-proclaimed "Silicon Valley's first phone company", is an open platform that enables voice telephony in Web 2.0 applications.
The Flex SEO Contest Ryan launched early last month got good [...]
Trusting Adobe AIR Apps
MeeBone, RichFLV, Snackr, Twhirl, Wallowr. I can think of three things common to these RIAs. All five of them are Adobe AIR apps, with an UNKNOWN publisher, reviewed on our Flex RIA.
Users are aware that anything they install from the web could be unreliable. Shipping your Adobe AIR apps (for that matter, any apps) after [...]
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