I remember a few years ago I saw a demo of the "Unreal" 3d engine, mostly used for games. It would allow you to virtually walk through a 3d environment. Since then, I have seen some good and bad attempts to recreate a similar engine in Flash. Well… Florian Krush and Kai Hofmann have developed one of the best 3d environment engines (made in Flash) I have seen. Check it out:...
Read MoreBuilding Rich Internet Applications in Flash requires trying to apply the "software in a browser" concept. In order to do this you may need to create an application that look and feels like desktop software, and one of the first things common to any Windows application is the hierarchical menu on top of the screen. I had attempted in one of my experiments to create such a dynamic menu, but stopped working on it a while ago. Well, Hamza Fawzi has come up with a very good component that is XML driven and has many, many methods to customize it any way you want to. Check it out at Flashcomponents: Hierachical...
Read MoreThere is a lot of talk about this new technology that Macromedia has announced. But what exactly is it? See a detailed presentation (made in Breeze) that will explain all the...
Read MoreNeed some good tutorials, extensions and tips for any MX product? Check out Community MX and add it to your MX...
Read MoreCheck out 27bobs' new website and see how neat this "not so neat" charcoal theme is applied to this great website. And if you thought the interface was cool, check out his samples and experiments. Make sure you pay special attention to the scroller component and the interface settings. Click on "interface", then select "custom" and set your own settings. Very well done…....
Read MoreAt the last Coldfusion User Group where I was invited to speak about Flash Remoting, a member pointed out a terrific example of a Flash application. It is a search engine like no other, giving you visual detail of the relevance of your searches. The size of the symbol represents the relevance and the connections, well the related sites to the specific words you typed in. The accuracy is also pretty good. I did a search for a site that I recently build and it came back with that site, plus all other sites I have built. Check it out:...
Read MoreI have found this good presentation with the Al Ramadan, Vice president of Marketing at Macromedia. Good HTML and FLash comparisons from a business perspective. Don't miss this one....
Read MoreThese apps capture everything on your screen and convert it to a swf. Truly the best way to show a demo of software working or for training purposes. Camtasia was one of the first products on the shelves, but only exported to avi format. Currently they have add-on components that will export to swf format. Other products are FlashCast from MDM and CamStudio from RenderSoft which is free. Also, worth a look is ScreenFlash and...
Read MoreI noticed an article on Actionscript mentioning some page turn effect and found this site made by HP in Flash. It is an impressive site with lots of experimental Flash effects and peculiar design. For the page turn effect, make sure you select the "Shrek" application....
Read MoreI went to this particular site, registered and was amazed by the simplicity and ease of setting up my own shop with my own brand. So, what does this site do? You upload your logo and then they place that logo on a variety of items, such as shirts, hats, mugs, mousepads and more. You then decide which of these items to place on your shop and then anyone can come in and buy these items with your brand on it. It is completely free and you can open as many shops as you like. I can imagine you can create a logo for an event or a sports team, upload it, and then buy the shirts from your own shop inless than 20 minutes. What I am trying to say is that you do not have to go to someplace and talk to someone and give out lots of money to have custom-shirts or other promotional materials made. In any case, I ordered a shirt of my own...
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