May 2002

Illogicz.com is Stuart Schoneveld’s Flash weblog. I haven’t counted all the Flash related blogs lately, but its getting to be a lot of them. Its powered by Blogger, and lacks a RSS feed :-( But it does show some other RSS feeds, among them the feed we have at Flashmagazine.com, which is cool :-) I discovered this one in a discussion that Mike Chambers has opened to collect information about all the Flash blogs out there, I suspect he will have a the complete list of Flash blogs ready soon.

kartoo uses a Flash interface to show their search results, its especially useful when seeing how sites relate to each other, and easily narrow the search just by point and click. According to the FAQ at Kartoo.com, they use a number of search engines (in other words, they are a metacrawler/meta search engine). They seem to rely heavily on Google, at least it seems that way from the searches I have tested there. They have a desktop version of their search in development, I think Kartoo might very well be

Toon Boom Technologies has released a new version of their 2D animation solution for the web. This is a program that before V2 was a great time saver for anyone doing animations for web with Flash, and with Version 2 it has gotten even better. I quote from some of the new features: New in V2 3D Sceneplanning: New color transform and clipping effects. Different appearances for first and last key frame on a motion path so that you can easily identify and modify the key frame you want. Copy

Feasible Impossibilities is Robert M. Hall’s weblog. Its nice to see yet another Flash community member joing the club of webloggers. [Via JD on MX] (Just because John is much better than me at keeping updated on his referer log ;-) Obligatory Nagging: Yet another weblog without an RSS feed. :-(

Chris brought my attention to a discussion about Actionscript Viewer 3.0 on Flazoom I am not surprised by comments like: «Im really dissapointed that this new version of this product has come out. The purpose of this produt is to allow people to steal code, if stealing wasnt the motive then there would be a way to prevent decompilation» Luckily, the discussion is balanced and it seems that people understand that programs such as Actionscript Viewer does exist and deal with it. BTW: There is another product decompiling SWFs out

O’Reilly Network: SWF Is Not Flash (and Other Vectored Thoughts) by Jacek Artymiak Interesting article from O’Reilly Network and Jacek Artymiak. He writes about SWF and takes the time to inform people about the openess of the file format, and how it compares to SVG etc. Many interesting quotes from the article. I thought I would quote a couple: Quote 1: True, raw SWF is just as comprehensible as an .EXE file. To understand it, we have to use an SWF parser. But is that a problem? Graphics or animation

Today Microsoft made the Flash 5 player for Pocket PC available for download. With Flash 5 support for mp3 sound, advanced scripting, and XML is added to the Pocket PC 2002 platform, making it easier to deploy advanced applications on mobile devices running Pocket PC. While its nice that we have finally gotten access to a Flash 5 player for the Pocket PC 2002 platform, its kind of sad that it would take so long for the player to be ported to this fast expanding platform. I hope Macromedia will