This is a cool contest for the ActionScript geeks: Write the most interesting Flash program with only 25 lines of code. ActionScript Contest May 2002! I love the results that I have seen so far of the competition. Putting restictions on what you can do usualy sparks a lot of creativity. Like the 5K competition, or the demo competitions on the Amiga. [Via Flazoom]
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Opera is a browser that I have often mentioned whenever vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer has been published (which happens a lot more often than I comment on it, but thats a digression). But all was not good in the paradise of the Opera browser I found out today. The Register writes: vulnerability in Opera 6.01 and 6.02 for Windows allows a malicious Web site to grab any file off a client’s local drive with ease, GreyMagic Software has discovered. That’s the bad news. The good news is that affects only
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Phillip Torrone (Flashenabled.com), the mad Flash gadget inventor, came up with a new product this weekend. I’ll let him tell you about it himself: i ran out of time this weekend to finish up a new project. basically, i’ve embedded a gps as well as stand-alone application systems in a hiking stick (uses macromedia flash and windowsmedia). the total cost of the unit is really cheap and at some point i might see about mass producing these. when i get back i’ll post screenshots from the application. imagine hiking and
Paul Andrews article in The Seattle Times titled Web logging can serve many roles raises the question about the integrity of the Macromedian bloggers, while trying to take the issue a step further, he focuses on the lack of labeling of the Macromedia weblogs. Macromedia’s bloggers want to have it both ways. They don’t want to be seen as shills. At the same time, they are loath to bite the hand that feeds them. As one Macromedia manager told me, he would never criticize the company or tout a competitor’s
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The wireless portal Room 33 has gone bankrupt, and the people behind the portal has released their software as free open source. The name of the software package is Hambo. The platform is based on Java, XML and WML Hambo is fully GPRS, UMTS, PCS, GSM ready. The Hambo platform includes built-in applications such as e-mail, calendar, ring-tone and icons, my-wap page, news, weather and community.
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cresk on Flash Aesthetics could become one of the great Flash blog resources, cresk has already put together an impressive resource in his Thelinkz.com, and I am sure he will be doing an equally good job with his new blog. Actually found it in my referer logs yesterday, but was too busy to have time to post it. Thanks for the link btw cresk. (And that goes for everyone linking to me, I really appreciate the kudos :-) I think the links are what makes weblogs truely effective, and seeing
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Funny to see a project that I was contemplating myself be realized. Samuel Wan is apparently having fun with Lego. Samuel has posted some info on his struggle to connect the wires to get his creation to come alive and talk with ColdFusion and Flash. Samuel has really been good at blogging his project. From the initial “Phase 3: Hello World…?” to shouting loud and clear “It’s ALIVE!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!” and then documenting some of the resources he found on the journey “Resources for designing a LEJOS remote-control protocol” Its well
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Google has made available a virtual play house for those that like to play with search engines – labs.google.com – Google Demos Quote from The Register: “These are experiments, we want people to play with them,” Google’s Nathan Tyler told us. An accompany FAQ stresses that the projects are in rough works-in-progress, suppported only by Google staff in their own time, and may be hauled offline at any moment for repair. “We ask for your indulgence if a demo refuses to run, or even walk quickly,” according to the FAQ
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For those unlucky souls trying to find a download from Macromedia.com for the Flash 5 Pocket PC player, this url will not get you anywhere (at the time of this posting): Macromedia – Flash Player for Pocket PC : Download While going the way via Microsoft.com will allow you to download the Flash 5 player for Pocket PC 2002 (Also works on Pocket PC). You will have to click the url on the right hand side of the page, titled “Macromedia Flash Player for Pocket PC 2002”. The interesting part
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Robert Hall has a post about Web Cams Delivered Via Flash Interesting links to implementations and information about how do deal with web cams in Flash.
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