June 2002

The 5K award rating has begun

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This year the 5K contest has gathered 366 contestants, and you are the judge of which one is the best. This years contest opened the contest for Flash content, and there is a lot of neat Flash contest entries, all of which are 5 KB or less. I haven’t had the time to look through all the contestants, but a couple that seems to get good ratings (out of the Flash content) are: Animation Box – a drawing and animation tool made in Flash MX Remote control tank battle – […]

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JGenerator 2.1 MX

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Dmitry Skavish and his companions at JZox Inc is getting ready to release a new commercial version of JGenerator, the new Flash MX version of the Flash generator – JGenerator 2.1 MX will not be covered under the Apache Open Source License that JGenerator was covered by, and pricing of the new commercial Flash generator starts at US $125 for the developer edition, and maxes out at US $875 for the enterprise edition. With support agreements available from US $995 to US $1495 per year. JGenerator MX is due to

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Shazam – name that tune

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Shazam is THE killer-app for music lovers with mobile phones This new mobile service lets you call in and it will listen to the music you are listening to for 20 seconds, and then send you back a SMS text-message telling you what song and artist you were listing to. It also allows you to log in and look at a list of all the tunes you have “tagged”. Kind of reminds me of a Sony product that never took off, where you could tag songs on the radio, only

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The Future of Multimedia on Devices

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In the June edition of Macromedia’s The Edge, Lauren Gibbons Paul writes about The Future of Multimedia on Devices. Users are hungry for everything from location-enabled restaurant and movie reviews to games to short messaging services (SMS). Even streaming video and audio applications are making an appearance on the diminutive devices. As always, content is king. People are looking for content – and preferably on the device of their choice. Something which the publishing houses seem to want to fight, in the same way they were fighting the video tape

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How LCD screens work

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ExtremeTech has an interesting article about Flat Panel Display Technology. Since the LCD screen is becoming more and more common, its a good idea to have some insight into how they work – at least if you make multimedia presentations. Besides, the geek in me just plain out want to know how they work. ExtremeTech has a lot of other interesting articles, among them one titled “Exploiting/Protecting 802.11b Wireless Networks“, a good article about how vulnerable and insecure Wi-Fi networks really are — and what you can do to at

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