July 2002

I told you that there were too many cool projects to ignore, didn’t I? Well, the Multi-threading Class looks like an interesting project. Its written by Jeremy Larkin and has been released on SwfNews today. The release is an alpha version. While multi-threading sounds like the domain of “hard-core” java or c++ developers, the technology and ideas can be ported to Flash. The availability of multi-threading in Flash would solve many problems. We could fix potential code bottlenecks and give the look of improved performance. Feedback during loops would certainly […]

This site confuses me. I am not a designer, but all the designers I have known have been kind of “neat-o” kind of people. You know, the kind that has to have that pixel just there, not an atom to the left or right — but just there. See where I am going? Well, Anarchitect is the weblog of Nick Boyce using Flash 5 as the front end. It looks kind design-type like to me. And it is a new take on the old traditional blog design. But I have

Following up his FlashForward coverage, Mike has posted a number of links to FlashForward Pictures and FlashForward slides that has been posted online. Well worth checking out.

Nicolas S.-Roy has released a new and improved version of his Flash RSS reader, the site is now called The Daily News Monkey and includes a number of newsfeeds in various categories (of course, including the Flash blogs). Using the SharedObjects he has made sure you can add your own newsfeeds to the RSS reader. Looks good, and is fairly fast.

Mike is doing what I wish I had time for, having fun with Flash Communication Server MX. His latest fun was hooking his XBox up against the video in of his machine and sharing his playing with everyone else. Thanks a lot Mike, now I have to go out and get myself a new video card and webcam :-) hehe Mike also writes about his first trials with the Flash Communication Server, sounds like a lot of hard work (not). Could someone tell me where I can buy more hours

Scott over at ActionScript.com writes about a petition for Flash by Linux users. This is an old issue, a lot of people have been wanting Flash on Linux for a long while, and Macromedia has been claiming that the development of Flash for Linux just isn’t worth the investment. While they support Linux as a server platform, they claim that there is really not a desktop market on Linux. I have always argued that its a catch 22, as long as companies such as Macromedia refuse to publish their products

Fellow Flashmagazine’er Jens Christian has taken the time between having a nice (rainy) norwegian vacation and writing books to write about what he calls the Video Wars. He boldly states that victory is in the numbers, and that when it comes to the video player wars on the net, Flash MX will be the winner. Interesting to see the comments coming in from other Flashers, John Dowdell writes: I suspect we’ll see people use Flash video in new ways, rather than just head-to-head in the old ways Dave Burrows: the

PowerConverter will let you publish your Powerpoint presentations to Flash. If nothing else, it will make your PowerPoints smaller in file size and more accessible on the web. I would rather have used another tool for making interactive presentation – such as Flash MX, especially since they are charging US $299 for this PowerPoint “plug-in”. [Via John Dowdell] (blogger has broken their permalinks – and its been broken for a while now)