Unlike the majority of reports out there, I’ve never had a major problem with Windows Vista. The two big problems I have had are in regard to the difficulty in taking ownership of files and directories even when logged in as an admin, and the initial lack of drivers. The first problem is remedied with …
The Student Shuffler AIR application is now available via Adobe AIR Marketplace. The app was built to facilitate a fair and transparent way of organizing classroom presentations whether by group or individual student. The instructor goes in before class and inputs each presenter into the application edit interface. This is saved locally to the internal …
There are two items to note here. Firstly, Adobe has done an awesome job updating the AIR Marketplace to be much more organized that the previous version. Very nice presentation. Second, my VidLoop AIR application has been approved and is now live at the AIR Marketplace. Very Nice! There are a lot of great apps …
Last week, I was approached by someone asking if we could build a small application that would run a series of videos in a continual loop. I told him it would be pretty simple to do this and that it would only be an afternoon’s work in AIR. So, that evening, I was able to …
There is really no denying it at this point for anyone who was seriously contending. Flash has the crown and is in no way giving it up. After seeing what Alchemy can do at the keynote today, P2P multicast video, Durango, and Server-Side ActionScript (!) during Sneaks this evening… Good God… what an awesome time …
So, we have both Flash Player 10 final (10.0.12.36) released today on top of the CS4 products shipping. We also finally see Flash Player 9 bundled with the newest Playstation 3 update (2.50). Flash Player 10 Do I really need to write anything here? Native 3D, Custom Filter Effects, Dynamic Sound Generation, Fullscreen Keyboard Support, …
Sonar 8 was released a few weeks ago. Being in the middle of a project at the time, I’ve had a good week or so to check out some of the new features. Here are some things I like: SONAR Performance Optimizations How can you not like this? I haven’t had a huge problem with …
First, let me say that I absolutely love working in Adobe Premiere Pro. The interface is clean and snappy- I can get things done in an organized way without a ton of fuss. Now with batch export through Adobe Media Encoder in CS4, it’s just a real, genuine pleasure to work with. Now, I also …
I’ll be attending the Adobe MAX 2008 event in San Francisco, California this November for the full three day duration on top of some pre-event sessions that I’ve been invited to. I just nailed everything down yesterday and am looking forward to the conference! I’ve also submitted the DUVAGA Projection System (VPS) as an entry …
CamStudio 2.5 is a screen recording application I’ve been using to author screencasts for the online courses I teach. These types of tutorials are really useful when teaching new users how to go about building things in Flash. It includes the option to output in FLV as well- so that is just perfect. I kind …
I know it’s fashionable to trash Microsoft at every turn and I have a lot of gripes with the company (Internet Explorer, anyone?), but with Office 2007, I really have a lot of nice things to say. I’m not an Excel person. I know really very little about spreadsheets in general and tend to do …
I’ve put off experimenting with Red5 until today as I’m quite happy with Adobe’s solution (Flash Media Server) and Red5 is still deep in beta-land at the time of this writing. I was able to install the server on Windows Vista and had a custom FLV stream piggybacked in a preconfigured sample application directory running …