Ajax, Java, RIAs: How Internet Applications Transform Business for ISVs
Interesting webcast from bitpipe. Half of presentation is more publicity than something else but there still are some nice things to learn from this. 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Flash Statistics update
Nearly two month ago I published my Flash Stats Engine, now here are the result I get from it and the use of other stats engine. Data was gathered from more than 6000 different IP. On system that did already have Flash Player 7 installed and javascript enabled, this is the first bias. The second… Read More »
Google Analytics Invitation
After months of patient waiting I finally received an invitation code for Google Analytics. It gives a lot of useful statistics about different views from Marketing Optimization and Content Optimization. I warmly suggest it if you aren’t happy with your statistics tools. There even is a stats about Flash version. Google Analytics tells you everything… Read More »
How to Design Flash Pages for Google
Interesting article about designing pages for Google found on informit.com by J. Gonzalez. It explain how to use the Flash Search Engine SDK (win/lnx only). Flash Search Engine SDK emulate how would Google analyze your swf. 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Video time-warping machine with a tangible deformable screen
The KHRONOS PROJECTOR, […]go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate… Read More »
MovieClip ScrollBar
I had to made a scrollbar for a movieClip created by ActionScript. All that ended with a function: ScrollMc(MovieClip2Scroll, ScrollBarMc); It supports all movieClip (at least I hope, tell me if not) and you can have multiple scrollbar over multiple MC (multiple scrollbar for one MC also work). [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.metah.ch/blog/image/sampleScroll.swf” height=”300″ width=”400″ /] Download source… Read More »
Aperture future in question
Apple recently asked the engineering team behind its Aperture photo editing and management software to leave[…] […] hope for Aperture’s future is that the application’s problems are said to be so extensive that any version 2.0 would require major portions of code to be entirely rewritten. […] an entirely new engineering team could salvage the… Read More »
Flv Player mixed with Xml
For a project I had to make a little flash player linked with XML. It can also be used as a videofolio, at least I hope so 😉 Here it is: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.metah.ch/blog/image/Flvplayback.swf” height=”400″ width=”450″ /] Sources Fla, Xml, As or FullSize Demo To make it work for your use just edits: extraitFLV_xml.load(“../myFlv.xml”); my_flvPb.skin =… Read More »
Internet Explorer 7 : Quick Tabs
It’s not often that I speak happily from Internet Explorer (IE) because of all the time they make me loose … But this time they have made a nice update to IE (only for Internet Explorer 7), the QuickTabs (Ctrl + Q) button will, once clicked, show you all the tabs you have opened in… Read More »
ArtRage, great interface
I’m not a painter at all, but a friend showed me ArtRage, which is a painter software. They made a really nice and clean interface. Download a free trial version and try it by yourself from the ArtRage home. There is no .swf export but there is a .psd export, which can be afterward published… Read More »
Back from Turkiye
Some pictures I took from my trip in Turkey, a wonderful land. Copyright Metah 2006 More pictures from my archives 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Using your tongue to interact with your PC
[…]At the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, researchers are developing a system that will use the tongue as the interface[…] […]Everything nowadays is so ubiquitous with mobile computing, and we need to find new, hands-free ways of interacting for environments where your hands and eyes are busy[…] From Sci-Tech Today … Read More »
Usability Resources List
In no particular order here are some link to usability resources, don’t hesitate to complete it 😉 Flash Usability Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen’s Newsletter Heuristic Evaluation Usability News Usability News 2/ Usability News 3/ Adaptive path » user experience publications Web Pages That Suck Web Design from Scratch InfoDesign Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites… Read More »
Web 2.0 ?
I found on digg a new post about Web 2.0 design. I must admit that I’m a bit lost with Web 2.0. For me Web 2.0 is a new paradigm in how the user will interact with the web and not a new paradigm on how will the information be presented to the user. There… Read More »
Website update :)
Finally I managed to finish (or something that look like finish) the new version of my website. My old one was really a mess ! I hope this version is clearer than the old one. I hesitated a lot before publishing it, as always doing new project gives me new perspectives to webdesign, and the… Read More »