Chris MacGregor’s excelent site Flazoom has been off the web for since wednesday now. The site has not been shut down, but it seems that his hosting provider isn’t exactly living up to their name. (Valueweb). Sad to be without one of my favorite sites. If you feel like me, let them know.
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This is a cool application for everyone making Pocket PC presentations. FlashAssist Pro allows you to make Flash presenations for the Pocket PC as full screen installable Pocket PC applications, with advanced features not available when using the regular Pocket Intenret Explorer to view Flash content. Using a simple wizard interface you can make Flash applications Pocket PC ready in 1-2-3. Flash Assist Pro also includes a Flash XML server that allows you to store and retrive XML data to a Picket PC file using ActionScript, and adds ActionScript that
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Sean Voisen of Eat Orange has released Eat Orange Blogchat Version 1.0. The Flash based Jabber application is made with his Flash JabberConf API (see previous posting). He has also made available the source code needed to make your own Flash frontend for Jabber, you will need to set up a Jabber server to run chats on your own domain.
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Interesting Google resource – Zeitgeist, it gives insight into what has been on peoples minds in the way that it shows what people have been looking for at Google. [Via Mario Klingemann]
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Coolin Moock’s ActionScript: The Definitive Guide is the best ActionScript book you can find out there, and now Colin has announced that he will be making ActionScript: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, the mini-site includes a FAQ that should answer most of your questions about the book project, including: When will asdg2 be available? As usual, I indent not to rush the book. O’Reilly and I prefer to publish books that add a lot of value, not merely rehash the Macromedia documentation. This requires an incredible amount of research, testing,
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Optimaze! is a Flash vector optimization/compression program that most of you might not have heard of. The developers of Optimaze, the UK based Ideaworks3D, first showcased their technology at the FlashForward 2001 New York City, they knocked everyones socks off with their compression technology and have been promising to release their excellent program ever since then. When I was attending FlashForward 2002 in San Francisco I again got to see their product taken to the next level. This time not only doing amazing compression but also adding vector effects to
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Janis Ian writes an alternative perception of the music industry and their “problems” with peer-to-peer networks: If you think about it, the music industry should be rejoicing at this new technological advance! Here’s a fool-proof way to deliver music to millions who might otherwise would never purchase a CD in a store. The cross-marketing opportunities are unbelievable. It’s instantaneous, costs are minimal, shipping non-existant?a staggering vehicle for higher earnings and lower costs. Instead, they’re running around like chickens with their heads cut off, bleeding on everyone and making no sense.
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Mario (Quasimondo) keep on producing cool projects, this time around its the Flash Connection v1.0 that has been released. Mario writes: [It] tries to visualize the ties between the flash-related sites that I currently link to. My rough crawler could of course only read HTML so pure flash sites will probably show no outgoing links. At the moment the information gets served by a static XML file, but in the future I try to make it fully dynamic (perhaps it is even a better idea to crawl RSS feeds). I
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Interesting article in the New York Times today: Escaping to Bryant Park, but Staying Connected to the Web It was the perfect collision of technology and nature, at least the way Oren Eckhaus, a Brooklyn photographer, describes it. He was surfing the Internet on his Apple Titanium PowerBook one day last week and a leaf fluttered in a light breeze and landed on his keyboard. “I’m surrounded by all this technology, and this leaf falls — that is so amazing,” Mr. Eckhaus said, sitting in the shade on a bench
A new cool resource for anyone using any of Macromedia’s MX products for developing or designing web and multimedia content: Designer & Developer : Tips Library Its nice to see Macromedia coming along with a more interactive resource center. At the Tips Library you can contribute with your own tips, to quote Macromedia; «ways of saving time, checking quality, or making your site something “special”»
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