Archives / Tag: Flash

Alternatives to Flash (for animation) are starting to float to the surface

As a one time evangelist of Flash it’s interesting to see new tools floating to the surface over the course of the past few months. As browsers become more...

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Linerider Jumps the Shark

Seems there’s been a lot of buzz about this little game on the web, I’ve been a little late to give it a try but now I have, I’m totally addicted. It’s a...

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Creativity in a Telly Stylee

Blip.tv, Google Video and YouTube content experimentally re-engineered into the most fantastically simple yet compelling interface.

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Calling all Freelance Flash Developers!

Here at Nine Four we have a fair few Flash based projects on the horizon, and I’m a little short on freelance Flash talent. So if you think:

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When Flash ‘is’ good.

It’s not often that you come across Flash based websites which really make the most of this highly interactive medium. More often than not Flash sites exist...

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Flash Player Detection Kit Macrochat

This Friday Jason Wylie (Senior Technical Support Engineer at Macromedia) will be presenting “Introducing the Flash Player Detection Kit”.

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Friday fun… eggshot!

Bit of Friday fun… eggshot.com :)

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Flash Satay - The new old way to embed Flash movies in XHTML

A couple of years back Drew wrote an article for A List Apart detailing a method that could be used to embed Macromedia Flash movies in a valid XHTML...

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Flash Player 8 demo’ed in Tokyo

Colin Moock has posted a video on his blog of Kevin Lynch, Macromedia’s chief software architect, demonstrating the next generation version of the Flash...

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Easy comments in Flash

My good friend Steven Grosvenor has written a new Command Panel for Flash which provides an interface to add comments to Flash files.

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The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript

Steven Grosvenor of Phireworx has been hard at work on a brilliant new book for Flash Developers called The Flash Anthology – Cool Effects & Practical...

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yugop.com v4

After what seems like an age, yugop.com has been updated by Yugo Nakamura.

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Flash Video Kit Announced

The Macromedia Flash Video Kit is a set of extensions and resources to add Flash Video quickly and easily to your website. The Flash Video Kit contains the...

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Ellipsis (Flash 7.2) updater out

Macromedia have gone public with the Ellipsis updater for Flash MX 2004. This update to Flash MX 2004 increases developer productivity by making the...

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Expression (Microsoft’s first product to export to SWF)

All via flex-mx.com

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The mystery of the shifting pixel

If you work regularly with Flash you will be well aware of the annoying ‘shifting’ pixel issue. This generally occurs when you group or resize an object....

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Another Flash patch? Ellipsis.

According to an article on CNET New.com Macromedia has been inviting beta testers of Flash MX 2004 to sign up for testing of a product update code named...

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Flash Visual Sound Mixer

Via Flex-mx I came across this very neat Flash experiment based around audio that responds to the cursors distance from the floating globes.

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Interactive 3D CSS Box Model

Inspired by Jon Hicks 3D CSS Box Model graphic which I posted a link to last week, Redmelon.net have posted an Interactive 3D CSS Box Model on their site....

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Populating a Flash Application with data from MySQL via PHP

There’s a great new tutorial on the Macromedia Developer Center which covers assembling a rich Flash interface and connecting it to a MySQL database through...

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Out of the loop

Well, I’ve been a little out of the loop for the past week or so. I’m ‘on holiday’ at home until the end of this week with my ‘family’. :)

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Browsing XML with Flash

So, I finally got round to having a look at the Data components in Macromedia Flash MX 2004. I decided that a good place to start would be to create a small...

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Peggy Stancavage’s Internet Homepage

So today I went to check the news on Actionscript.com, and I got ‘Peggy Stancavage’s Internet Homepage’… Hmm…, something here is wrong.

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Rubberduck launch Sreenweaver MX

Rubberduck�s new version of its rich client desktop application production software enables Macromedia Flash developers to leverage their skills from the...

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Amazing flash page turn effect

I just have to share the Macromedia Site Of The Day with you, its an amazing flash piece developed by Method, Inc. and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.

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