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How Times Have Changed For Flash Video
I've been digging around on a few technology websites and came across a few interesting articles, some from way back (who remembers CNET's Talk to us live series, courtesy of FCS? This was cutting edge back then. Check out the christmas countdown: -726 days left LOL).
Date: 2006-12-22
Adobe's Apollo To Ease Desktop Development?
In early 2005, when Adobe announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia, creative professionals released a collective gasp. Many worried about a creative software monopoly, others pondered the fate of competing applications (GoLive versus Dreamweaver, Freehand versus Illustrator, etc), and some dreamed of what offspring may come of this union.
Date: 2006-12-15
Embedding & Controlling Flash Video With Actionscript
Of late, there's no questioning the ubiquity of flash video on the web: Google, Yahoo, YouTube, etc...
Date: 2006-12-08
Merchant Processing Solutions in Time for the Holidays
Your first $200 in Credit Card Processing is FREE*, for a typical merchant this means on average 3 months of credit card processing (Normal fees will apply after the $200 of free processing is used).
Date: 2006-12-07
Eltima's New Flash Decompiler
Flash Decompiler is an SWF tool that lets you decompile SWF files and converts SWF documents into FLAs.
Date: 2006-12-01
Build Desktop Applications with Adobe Flash or Flex
Zinc™ v2.5 has been updated to work with Flex 2 & ActionScript 3! Build Powerful Applications with the latest Technology!
Date: 2006-11-28
Redirect Your MySpace Traffic With Flash
Well, we all know that MySpace pages have the potential to drive a ton of traffic. Sure, it takes some work to build an extensive network, but eventually many people have gotten their MySpace pages to the point where they might have 1000+ uniques per day running through these pages.
Date: 2006-11-17
Flash's Crossdomain.xml Dangers
PHP security guru Chris Shiflett has a great post about the dangers of Cross Domain Flash.
Date: 2006-11-10
Fixing The "Click To Activate" Flash Content In IE
In the good name of internet security, Microsoft added a feature in Internet Explorer that disables automatic activation of objects. All objects in an HTML <object> tag is affected and that includes Java applets and Adobe Flash content.
Date: 2006-11-03
Build Desktop Applications with Adobe Flash or Flex
Zinc™ 2.5 is the Industry Standard Solution to Create, Build and Deploy real Desktop Applications for Windows and Mac OSX based upon the Macromedia Flash® Format!
Date: 2006-10-31
Zinc - Win, Mac, Device Flash Projector Wrapper/Enhancer
Once popularly known as Flash Studio Pro, Zinc in its current 2.x version have advanced way ahead in Flash Projector addition/enhancement/replacement capabilities...
Date: 2006-10-27
Flash Player 9 Released For Linux
Adobe announced the release of the Flash Player 9 for Linux...
Date: 2006-10-20
ImageLoader Class For Flash 8
This piece of code has been lying around for some time. I wrote it due to the fact that Flash 8 doesn't smooth dynamically loaded images by default.
Date: 2006-10-17
Enjoy Full Screen Video With Flash Player 9
With the release of the new updates for Windows and Mac, besides fixing a bunch of bugs, Flash Player 9 will support Full Screen Mode on the web straight out of the browser. Adobe labs has the full details for you complete with Publish Template for Flash, Flex Builder and Sample Application.
Date: 2006-10-13
Adobe Includes Drag And Drop Flash Support In New Contribute Release
Entry-level and code-challenged webmasters now have a whole new set of tools to play with in the latest release of Adobe's web publishing product. Contribute 4 now boasts improved blog publishing capability and unified web publishing along with support for Flash video.
Date: 2006-10-06
Build Desktop Applications with Adobe Flash or Flex
Zinc™ v2.5 is a highly flexible application, limited only by your imagination! Build Powerful CD-ROM & Desktop Applications, Compelling Screensavers and More - Customize every aspect of your Application! Zinc™ v2.5 is used by thousands of Designers & Developers and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies around the world!
Date: 2006-10-03
Wallop Punches Up Social Networking
Modern participants will liken the Wallop site to the growing online communities with virtual goods, while older geeks may see the glimmer of a hint at places like Black Sun or Walled City. Wallop wants visitors to find self-expression and Flash developers to profit from creating mods for the site's users...
Date: 2006-09-29
Yahoo Flashes New Development Center
A Flash Development Center opened on the Yahoo Developer Network with a variety of resources for ActionScript 2 and 3 application builders...
Date: 2006-09-22
Opera Dips Flash Into Devices SDK
Developers working with Opera's software development kit for mobile platforms now have support for the Flash Player 7 SDK available to them...
Date: 2006-09-15
Opera To Resell Flash Player 7 SDK
Opera Software said yesterday it is adding support for Adobe's Macromedia Flash Player 7 SDK in Opera for Devices SDK...
Date: 2006-09-08
Build Desktop Applications with Adobe Flash or Flex
Zinc™ v2.5 is a highly flexible application, limited only by your imagination! Build Powerful CD-ROM & Desktop Applications, Compelling Screensavers and More - Customize every aspect of your Application! Zinc™ v2.5 is used by thousands of Designers & Developers and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies around the world!
Date: 2006-09-05
No Flash 9 Alpha For Linux
Everyone who has been anxiously awaiting a peek at Adobe's Flash Player 9 for Linux will have to wait until a well-scrubbed beta release becomes available...
Date: 2006-09-01
Adobe Calls For Flash Design Entries
The inaugural Y Design Awards 2006, launched as part of the London Design Festival, will take submissions until September 6th.
Date: 2006-08-25
New Encoding Application Released For Flash
On2 Technologies, which offers "advanced video compression solutions," announced the release of an application for Flash. Earlier today, the company put out a press release describing On2 Flix Live 8. On2 Technologies wants you to know that this is the "world's first live video encoding application for Flash 8."
Date: 2006-08-18
Flash Marks Tenth Anniversary
Flash technology has moved from an illustrator program for Tablet PCs to being the most popular way to embed audio and video content on the World Wide Web; it may be on the way to bringing an end to the Ajax phenomenon that has pervaded throughout numerous recent Internet startups.
Date: 2006-08-11
Flash Player 9 Heading To Linux
Development continues at Adobe to bring the latest version of its Flash Player to the Linux operating system platform.
Date: 2006-07-28
Gliffy Does Flash Diagramming Online
The usefulness of Flash for applications in the browser takes a giant step forward with Gliffy, a tool that provides the kind of diagramming functionality one has to pay for with Microsoft Visio.
Date: 2006-08-04
Flash Player 9 Heading To Linux
Development continues at Adobe to bring the latest version of its Flash Player to the Linux operating system platform.
Date: 2006-07-28
Flash Worm Leads To No MySpace Widget Love
TechCrunch is reporting that third-party MySpace widgets such as those by the ever popular YouTube are no longer allowed to have link throughs.
Date: 2006-07-21
Flash As A Big Ball Of Clay
This interview is a resource of DesignMaster Training, an online professional training and development website for working design professionals.
Date: 2006-07-14
Flash Player Receives Update
After Fortinet called attention to two security flaws in Flash Player, Adobe has released an updated, fixed version. The new release will take users from the vulnerable v8.0.24.0 up to v9.0.16.0.
Date: 2006-07-07
Build Desktop Applications with Macromedia Flash
Zinc™ v2.5 is a highly flexible application, limited only by your imagination! Build Powerful CD-ROM & Desktop Applications, Compelling Screensavers and More - Customize every aspect of your Application! Zinc™ v2.5 is used by thousands of Designers & Developers and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies around the world!
Date: 2006-07-05
Flash Player 9, Flex 2, Released
Adobe released the final version of Flash Player 9 earlier this week, as well as Flex 2. This signals a continuation of the spread of Flash, which Adobe is promoting heavily for use in next-generation Web applications. It has already been implemented in a number of services, including some owned by Yahoo and Google.
Date: 2006-06-30
ActionScript 2.0 Best Practices
Actionscript is a very powerful language made by macromedia. Learning actionscript can be tricky until you get your mind thinking the same way actionscript does.
Date: 2006-06-23
Adobe's Apollo Program
Offline applications have often been a thorn in the side of developers. Adobe is coming to the rescue - the company has begun work on a project, dubbed Apollo, which would allow developers to insert hooks for portability to offline clients.
Date: 2006-06-16
Chatting Through Macromedia Flash Communication Server
Businesses and individuals alike are constantly looking to find new ways to communicate for work related and entertainment purposes.
Date: 2006-06-09
Google Graphs World Development
Google has produced a very interesting tool that plots world development indicators on a graph to compare against each other. Part of Google's Co-op program, the tool is called the Gapminder, a "non-profit venture" that collects information and makes it viewable in visual and animated ways using Flash technology.
Date: 2006-06-02
Apollo Details Disclosed By Adobe
"This is the natural evolution of what [Adobe and Macromedia] have been promoting for a long time," Todd Hay, Adobe's director of platform marketing and developer relations, told PDFZone. "A lot of our core community really sees PDF not as a portable document format but rather a portable application container."
Date: 2006-05-26
Flash Cannes Make Filmmakers Better
As part of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in France, Adobe will pair student filmmakers with professionals to create documentaries on their Cannes experiences.
Date: 2006-05-19
Microsoft's Patch For Flash Player Flops
Microsoft made a step this week towards working cooperatively with other applications, but it resulted in a decidedly less than a positive outcome. A patch for the Adobe Flash Player, offered through the Windows Update service, seems to create more problems than it resolves.
Date: 2006-05-12
Build Desktop Applications with Macromedia Flash
Zinc™
2.5 is the Industry Standard Solution to Create, Build and Deploy real Desktop
Applications for Windows
and Mac
OSX based upon the Macromedia Flash® Format!
Date: 2006-05-10
Adobe Takes Flash Professional 8 On Tour
Adobe Systems Inc. is taking their Macromedia Flash Professional 8 on tour. The free "Roadshow," reaching Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, will preview the software to creative professionals, and demonstrate how to use new features in the program.
Date: 2006-05-05
Flash Passes QuickTime, Gaining On WMP
Macromedia Flash video has passed Apple's QuickTime and RealPlayer from RealNetworks in delivering online streaming media.
Date: 2006-04-28
Yahoo! Adds AJAX/Flash Map APIs
Yahoo! has been promoting two new Yahoo! Maps APIs for AJAX and Flash that webmasters can work with to publish customized maps on their websites. The Yahoo! Maps team says each API has features that may cause one to "geek out."
Date: 2006-04-21
Oregan Mobilizes Flash Renderer
Staying afloat in the movement to make web content available more smoothly on non-PC entertainment devices, Oregan Networks unveiled a new web media rendering engine for content authored with Macromedia Flash tools.
Date: 2006-04-14
Adobe Flashes Verizon Wireless
Adobe and Verizon shook hands on a deal that will incorporate Adobe's recently won Flash technology into Verizon mobile phones.
Date: 2006-04-07
Pros And Cons Of Using Flash For Banners
Flash banners (those of .swf extension) are becoming very common in Internet promotion - they are so frequently used because Macromedia Flash is a rather simple tool for producing complicated animation effects of fine quality.
Though, my experience shows that this type of banner has several drawbacks.
Date: 2006-03-31
Flash
Facing IE Popups Over Eolas
Due to Microsoft's patent fight with Eolas Technologies,
Microsoft has an update planned for Internet Explorer
that may hinder the way Flash content appears in IE browsers
visiting certain websites.
Date: 2006-03-24
Critical Vulnerabilities In Flash
Macromedia's Flash Player has been tagged with some vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take control of an affected system. Although an SWF must be loaded into the system for someone to take it over, mistakes are made. Macromedia recommends users to upgrade immediately.
Date: 2006-03-17
Adobe To Flash Lots Of Cash
The expanded availability of Macromedia Flash player on more mobile phones should lead to greater profits for Adobe.
Date: 2006-03-10
Build Desktop Applications with Macromedia Flash
Zinc™ v2.5 is a highly flexible application, limited only by your imagination! Build Powerful CD-ROM & Desktop Applications, Compelling Screensavers and More - Customize every aspect of your Application! Zinc™ v2.5 is used by thousands of Designers & Developers and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies around the world!
Date: 2006-03-06
Olympics End But Flash Hangs Around
Though much of the US Olympic performance left sports fans disappointed, the Olympic website has enjoyed a gold medal showing with the use of Flash throughout it.
Date: 2006-03-03
BenQ Makes Cell Phones With Flash Lite
BenQ-Siemens branded cell phones, from Munich-based BenQ Mobile, are set to feature Macromedia Flash Lite technology after a licensing agreement struck with Adobe Systems. The mobile handsets will be marketed in Asia, Europe, and North Latin America.
Date: 2006-02-17
Forum Nokia And Adobe On Mobile Flash Development
Finnish based Nokia announced on Thursday the creation of Forum Nokia PRO: Flash Zone. It's a support program put together between Nokia and Adobe with the intention of helping Forum Nokia PRO companies to develop Macromedia Flash applications for devices deployed by wireless operators.
Date: 2006-02-10
Build Flash Applications for Windows & Mac OSX
Zinc™ 2.5 is the Industry Standard Solution to Create, Build and Deploy real Desktop Applications for Windows and Mac OSX based upon the Macromedia Flash® Format!
Date: 2006-02-07
The Best Way to Create Flash Video for the Web
On2 Flix is the premiere family of Adobe Flash 8 video encoding products. On2 Flix 8 converts virtually any video to Flash 8 format and includes our revolutionary On2 TrueMotion VP6, the video compression that Adobe licensed for its Flash 8 family of products. On2 Flix delivers Flash video of unparalleled quality and low data rates.
Date: 2006-02-03
GNU Flash Player, Gnash, In The Works
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced earlier this month the addition of Gnash, a new open source Flash movie player and Firefox plugin, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). "Open source" indicates that developers can build on top of earlier software to add features or tweak the old ones.
Date: 2006-01-27
A Fine Example Of Flash
Take a look at the incredibly lame series of Flash introductions on the Fry Steel website. What benefit would anybody get from sitting through these if what they really want is get the company's catalog? (That's right; refresh the page and you'll get a different insipid Flash intro every time.)
Date: 2006-01-20
Character Creation
Creating a character is a work of art. Many animators use Flash to create their characters for presentation.
Date: 2006-01-13
Finding Flash Training
With the power of Flash the internet has come alive with animation and interactivity. Websites that were once flat and boring now have depth and interactivity that is quickly approaching the level of full-fledged computer software.
Date: 2006-01-06
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