Check this little beauty out: one of Intel’s newest processors, the CE 3100, which is designed for web enabled tv’s, set-top boxes, and Blu-ray players, will have built in support for Adobe Flash. This means that users of CE 3100-based HDTV’s will be able to stream Flash from YouTube or anywhere else directly on their [...]
Update: Here are Mike Chambers’ thoughts on the issue…
I thought it was a bad April fool’s joke at first, but it’s not April. It’s true, Adobe is laying off 8% of their global workforce, which is about 600 employees. More details will be available on Dec 16th during their regular earnings conference call. The full [...]
AppleInsider just released some details about CS4. They’re saying that insiders call it a “minor update.” Over on Keith Peter’s blog, he argues the point by praising these new features, “bones, 3D, PixelBender, sound synthesis, new text engine, new drawing API.” In response, Steven Sacks comments “Wait a sec, Keith. You’re talking about features of [...]
For background, read:
Standards, ECMAScript and representing the past
ActionScript 3 and ECMAScript 4
Ru Roh! Adobe Screwed By EcmaScript Standards Agreement
How will ECMAScript “Harmony” affect ActionScript 3?
Keith Peters just posed a good question, Why Standards?. On the one hand, standards are undeniably good, assuming that the point of a “standard” is that many adhere to it. It’s [...]
This is in response to Ryan Stewart’s post: The Open Web Is Slow.
Thanks for the post Ryan. I agree with much of what you are saying and as a non-Adobe employee, I definitely agree that Adobe does better-than-most commercial companies at contributing and fostering the open source community. In-fact, the Flash community, by and large, [...]
I was also having problems with the SOUND_COMPLETE event. I discovered Andre Michelle’s post petition about it and promptly added my name to the list. There have been multiple other people posting about the problem also. Unfortunately, the only response that I could find from Adobe was by Brent Baker on a bug report for [...]
I stumbled across a site today by Jamie Zawinski that randomly pulls various images from the web blindly (I do not know the workings of the algorithm) and throws them together every 60 seconds or so into a collage. If any of the images spark your interest, simply click on it to go to the [...]
The first one was hilarious:
The new one is good too:
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addthis_title = ‘Mac+vs+PC+vs+Linux%2C+South+Park+Style’;
addthis_pub = ‘natejc’;
Yesterday, Google introduced a new technology called “StreetView.” It allows you to see a panoramic view of any street that you want, from any location that you want! It allows you to:
View street level photographs (select cities)
Take virtual walks; pan, rotate and zoom
Explore cityscapes, landmarks, points of interest
Find shops, restaurants, parks, hotels and more
Although there [...]
Hopefully things will slow down at work so I can get back to the tutorials. In the mean time, check out the best animated cursor I have ever seen (and I typically can’t stand most animated cursors). It was created by www.1-click.jp, but I hosted it here in-case they ever move it.
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I had reason to run a downloaded flv file on my local system today. I tried three different players in the following order:
Flash Video Player by FlashGuru
Apollo Flash Video Player by Mutationevent.com,
FLV Player 1.3.3 by Martijn de Visser
The first two both installed just fine, but when I double clicked my .flv file, the respective player [...]
I live and work in Spokane, Washington, USA. Recently, I’ve been dreaming of having a SFPUG (Spokane Flash Platform User Group); but after trying hard to hire some good Flash developers for my current employer (DigiDeal), I was convinced that all of the good Flash developers in my somewhat-smaller-city were already working with me…
And then, [...]
I’ve never seen anything like it before in my life. It’s a large scale internet revolt. In-case you haven’t yet heard, the hex code to break the HD-DVD encryption was publicized on wikipedia and digg (among other various places). Both places removed it. The result? Check out Digg’s home page as of about five minutes [...]
Although I went on a rant about Adobe yesterday, I really do like and respect the company–even more so today. If you haven’t heard yet, Adobe just open sourced the Flex SDK as of this press release. This is definitely a bold move. From the release:
“The definition and evolution of Flex has been influenced by [...]
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