The weekly blend

Posted by on May 17, 2008 in Roundup, Weekly blend | Comments Off

“Weekly roundup” didn’t really cover the load of this post so I renamed it to “The weekly blend”.

  • Snackr: An RSS ticker on your desktop completely built with Flex on AIR [link]
  • World Wide Telescope: Excellent use of Flash by Microsoft Research [link]
  • Multitouch Mac OS X: Using Flash, Christian Moore enabled multitouch on a Mac [link]
  • Google Maps API for Flash [link]
  • Snippets in Flex Builder: Neil Webb wrote a guide on how to get snippets to work in Flex Builder [link]
  • FlexExamples.com: If you don’t know about this site, bookmark it now. Fellow Adobean Peter deHaan posts new examples and code-snippets every week. [link]
  • FastMac U-Charge: I’ve been looking for this for a while now. If you have an extra MacBook Pro battery, this is the only way to charge it without using your laptop. Immediately ordered mine! [link]

Use Flex SDK to create Flash Player 10 content

Posted by on May 16, 2008 in Flash, How-to | 1 comment

Fellow platform evangelist Lee Brimelow has published a great tutorial on how to use the daily build of the Flex SDK and its command-line compiler to create Flash Player 10 content.
Go check it out.

Flash Player 10 now in public beta

Posted by on May 15, 2008 in Flash, News | 1 comment

The pre-release version of Flash Player 10 (code-named ’Astro’) is now available on Adobe Labs. We’ve already shown Flash Player 10 at a number of events so most of you have a good idea about its new features like rich text layout including right-to-left language support, 3d effects, custom filters and effects with Pixel Bender and more hardware acceleration for bitmaps, filters, video and blend modes.

Unfortunately, there’s currently no tooling available to let you play with all these new features. This pre-release version is mainly there for you to test your current projects and to provide feedback on its performance. To allow you to test the new effects and capabilities, the Flash Player team has put together some demo projects for you. Additionally you can also start building your own Pixel Bender effects.

More information and download links on Adobe Labs.

“Flash on” billboard on Times Square

Posted by on May 10, 2008 in Cool stuff | 2 comments

I knew this was out here, but you have to see it to believe it. Here are the two segments I managed to capture last night. In case you were wondering why it’s so quiet in the video, this was actually shot at around 1am. I’ve also seen a segment on the Adobe Media Player but I was too late to catch that on video. Will try again tonight. Check out the videos after the break.

Weekly Roundup: May 4th – May 10th

Posted by on May 10, 2008 in Roundup, Weekly blend | Comments Off

As last week, this is just a collection of blog posts and sites that caught my attention this week.

  • Send your name to the moon: NASA is sending an unmanned mission to the moon and you can be part of it… well… Your name can be part of it but that’s still cool [link]
  • Spam 30 years old: The first spam message was sent on Arpanet on May 3rd, 1978 [link]
  • Giant solar powered LED screen in Bejing [link]
  • A celebration of Pixel Art: Smashing Magazine has a great collection of Pixel Art which includes the AIR launch poster by Eboy [link]
  • MXNA is back [link]
  • Hydra is now Pixel Bender [link]
  • Interactive demos of ILOG Elixir charting components for Flex: If you’re looking for sophisticated data visualization for Flex, don’t look any further [link]
  • FedEx Desktop released: Now you can follow your FedEx shipments with an AIR app [link]
  • Living in The Netherlands? Take the bus to Multi-Mania. The Dutch Adobe UserGroup is organizing a bustrip to Multi-Mania. [link]
  • The User Interface Resource Center: The User Interface Resource Center (UIRC) provides free articles and White Papers written by industry leaders about user interface design and rich Internet applications (RIAs) [link]