360° Video with Papervision
I just stumble upon this demo of Papervision playing a movie filmed with a 360° camera. You can then see in all directions what is happening in the movie… That is really incredibly great! Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Deploying Adobe AIR Applications – Badge Tutorials
The very often criticized Badge installer for AIR applications (for cause of security) have a nice tutorials explaining how to use and configure it for your own AIR applications. You can read this tutorials from the Adobe AIR Developer Center. this tutorials was done by David Tucker. Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
The End of SWF-SEO nightmare? Google indexing SWF with Adobe SDK?
I came across this news from the Los Angeles Flex Users Group, then I followed to the new O’Reilly website on RIA: “Inside RIA” to finally end up on John Dowdell’s blog. As it is the first time I disagree with John, and my answer started to be long, I preferred to import it here… Read More »
AIR Application Visible from the Browser: the Browser API
As you certainly already know, the Adobe AIR beta 3 is out since mid December. I’ve just read on Oliver Goldman’s blog about a very interesting API added to AIR: The ability to detect and launch AIR-based applications from within the browser, this API lets you do the following from within the browser: Install an… Read More »
ASTRA: ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications
I followed a link to ASTRA from Flashbookmarks. Strangely I never heard about ASTRA althrough I already knew Yahoo! had a Flash developer center. So what is ASTRA? Well, ASTRA, the ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, is Yahoo!’s collection of Flash and Flex components, libraries, toolkits and advanced applications. These libraries are open-source and available… Read More »
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Passes Acid2 Test ?
It seems that the Internet Explorer team from Microsoft is working hard to improve the quality of the much criticized non standard compliance IE generation (5 – 6 -7). With respect to standards and interoperability, our goal in developing Internet Explorer 8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations and do… Read More »
Adobe Bordeaux: no it’s not about wine…
This new codename from Adobe hide a nice move from Adobe. They seem (as it is not confirmed yet by Adobe) to be preparing a software that would simplify Flash for the none coders: Adobe Bordeaux is the codename for a new product for graphic designers, art directors, creative directors, and others who don’t need… Read More »
Getting RSS (or a XML) from a server without a crossdomain.xml
I just added a new feature to my blog, it display my RSS feed from StumbleUpon. Everything worked well as long as I did not upload it to my server. Once uploaded I got an error coming from StumbleUpon. It appears that they don’t host a crossdomain.xml (or I did not found it)… The only… Read More »
When Military Technologies help Protecting Humans
A bit off topic for this blog but this news from Wired is still interesting IMHO. A Geo-Information technologist, has been using satellite photography to help NGOs document atrocities in isolated crisis zones like Darfur, Zimbabwe and now in the Union of Myanmar. […]To catch human rights abusers in the act, Bromley will need a… Read More »
Flash – ActionScript is part from the Top 10 Marketable Web Development Skills
Read/WriteWeb has published a list of the Top 10 marketable web development skills. I’m happy to see that Flash and ActionScript are part of the list! Even if I don’t fully agree with this list I do think that it is interesting to make such a list, so here the list of skills I found… Read More »
Get your Location on Mobile without a GPS
I just came accross this video on youTube, Google Maps Mobile (GMM) has added a Location services based on CellID (Cell Of Origine). Cool, now the question is: is there an API from GMM to get this bluedot position and use it with Flash Lite? Supported device: most web enabled phones such as Java, BlackBerry,… Read More »
Ads for Adobe Pdf powered by Yahoo! – A Bad Idea?
On 28th November Adobe and Yahoo! announced their partnership to display ads in generated pdfs. […]an opt-in service that enables online commercial publishers to drive new revenue by including timely, contextual ads next to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)-based content[…] […]Ads can only be displayed within Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, in a panel adjacent… Read More »
Google to let you Vote for Search Result
[Via TechCrunch] Google is working on a new experience within their search result, offering a way to the users to customize their search (voting for or against a result). Unfortunately this behavior would be only for the users not for all the research neither than for a network of friends / coworkers: […]This experiment lets… Read More »
Web 2.0 and Advertising
Very interesting article from Dale Dougherty at O’Reilly Radar. After displaying a (quite boring but illustrative) video, the author look at the changing world of advertisement with the Web 2.0. […]The concept behind this video is that advertisers think they know consumers and know what they want but they really don’t[…] […]Will my online profiles… Read More »
Click to Activate to be Removed by April 2008
[…]As a result of recent technology licenses acquired by Microsoft, the “click to activate” restrictions are no longer mandatory. Microsoft plans to remove the activation behavior from Internet Explorer in April 2008. Microsoft has indicated that developers will not need to make any modifications to existing websites; controls will function as they did before the… Read More »