July 2002

Mike Chambers writes about the questions about *nix versions of the Flash Communication Server MX Currently, it is only available for Windows servers, but we will be releasing Unix versions later in the year. Make sure to send which Unix flavor you prefer to the wish list. This will help us to prioritize the work. So if you have a Unix flavor of choice you would like to see the Flash Communication Server released on, let Macromedia know. (And, just FYI – various distributions of Linux does not constitute various […]

Random Media is todays Macromedia Site Of The Day and its not hard to see why. It showcases some of the possibilities with the Flash Communication Server MX. The site allows you to navigate through a world of audio, text and images and also seems to have a time dimension of sort. If you have a web cam or a microphone you can add to the mix with your own images and sounds, I found a lot of funny things on my trip through the site.

Macromedia has released the Flash Communication Server MX and they already have up an impressive development center for the server. This new server from Macromedia sports multiway audio and video streaming and messaging, making it ideal to be in the center of collaboration systems and multimedia delivery. Macromedia has only released it for Windows so far, but there are versions for Linux and Sun in the lineup. We have some screenshots up at Flashmagazine.com of the development part of the communication server, and there will be more articles made available

Toast.com offers a Flash based GUI for their free e-mail service. It looks good, and I am sure it will appeal to those that think Hotmail and friends look too damn ugly. But the usability of this e-mail Flash application could have used a real workover. First of all, why not use some common GUI idioms instead of making up their own GUI? This kind of application is most certianly not going to become the primary application for any of the users (ok, I take that back — there might

Interesting article by Gary Rosenzweig about how to protect your Flash and Shockwave content from thieves, he has some good suggestions, but I think John is right when he says that its probably better to make a theft-protection system that only fails once in a while – that way its harder to catch for the thiefs. [Via John Dowdell] (Welcome back from the accordion vacation John :-)

Macromedia has added the Macromedia Application Development Center for ASP.NET to their list of resources for people wanting to use Macromedia Flash MX and DreamWeaver MX together with ASP.NET technology. So if you are developing solutions based on Microsofts ASP.NET, you now have a lot of useful information available at Macromedia.com. If, on the other hand, you are a Java developer, you should check out the Macromedia Java Development Center. [Via Mike Chambers]

Thought I would link to a couple of new articles posted at Flashmagazine.com. David Vogeleer has written a nice follow-up tutorial on arrays: The Power of Arrays II – You can also read his first tutorial “The Power of Arrays – Array Fundamentals” Stephanie Reindel of Flash99good has written an article titled “We’ve Got Flash – The Ominous Wow Factor and Its Adverse Affect on Usability” As you might have discovered, Flashmagazine.com hasn’t only been redesigned, it has also woke up from the sleep that it has been in more