Tag Archives | Flash

Apple Relaxes iOS App Dev Restrictions – Xcode No Longer Required

By on September 9, 2010 in Technology

In a surprising move that may open the door to Flash developers on the iOS platform, Apple has released revised App Development Guidelines today that remove the restriction on iOS developers being required to use Xcode exclusively. We are continually trying to make the App Store even better. We have listened to our developers and [...]

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10 Amazing Examples of JavaScript and HTML5

By on September 3, 2010 in Technology

Zef.me put together a list of 10 amazing JavaScript/HTML examples that a lot of people (me included) thought still required Flash to do. Some of the highlights is an accurate (and performant) interactive cloth simulation by Andrew Hoyer. You can drag any node on the “cloth” around and have it’s 3D skeleton realistically react to the interaction; [...]

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Amazing HTML5 Canvas / JavaScript Animation Examples

By on August 22, 2010 in Programming

Hakim El Hattab has put together a series of HTML5 Canvas animation examples on his website, hakim.se that are fantastic showcases of how animation-friendly HTML5 is on it’s own without Flash. Right now the use of Canvas is still relatively new and raw, but as the years tick on and more and more HTML5-capable browsers [...]

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Two Simple Tips For Taking Better Photos

By on August 3, 2010 in Technology

Back in my stock/wedding/studio photography days, I learned a lot of stuff that was important to the business, and I’d have to say that the two most important things I learned were composition and lighting. Now I know what you’re going to say: Tim, photography isn’t that complicated with all this new digital camera equipment!  [...]

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Tostitos Vimeo Ad Will Melt Your Face Off

By on March 2, 2010 in Life & World, Shopping

Saw a Tweet from adii (WooThemes founder) that said “This shit is intense” and a link over to a Vimeo page that looked to be an ad from Frito Lay for their Tostitos salsa. I thought “he must be impressed easily” and pressed play.

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HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues

By on July 23, 2009 in Technology

Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that [...]

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JaxaFX 1.0 Released – Not a Great First User Experience

By on December 6, 2008 in Programming

Please keep in mind I’m wearing my “Joe average user” hat that this platform is suppose to target as a delivery platform (and simplify developer’s lives in the process). I’ll admit that I’ve always had trouble with the Java plugin and Firefox on my old Windows XP SP2 desktop, Windows XP SP3 laptop and my [...]

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Internet Explorer, ActiveX, Macromedia Captivate and Flash

By on November 6, 2006 in Programming

Ok this is one of those “good lord I hate Microsoft” moments that seems to occur far too often. Here’s the situation: I’m working on recording and export Flash movies from Macromedia Captivate (now Adobe Captivate) and placing them in a webpage to view them. The problem is, every time I view the page in [...]

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Flash 9 for Linux Early 2007

By on September 5, 2006 in Technology

Over on the Adobe Flash/Linux blog it looks like more definitive times have been given for the final stable release: Early 2007. The team mentioned they are planning a Beta before that for later 2006 I assume which will be welcome after they are done fixing all the known issues with the plugin (which was [...]

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