I guess you should be careful when you try to attack the competition.  They could one up you: from the online advertising blog http://www.thedenveregotist.com

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First of all, why the heck would you want to do this?  A couple of reasons: It gives the ability for someone else to modify the Flash content without knowing Flash! It keeps you from making many different swfs for projects that are highly similar.  i.e. If you need to create many different video players because they’re all going to play different clips.  Well, just make the content path to the video a variable in […]

Here is an interesting article about the state of the computer book market and some current trends in technical knowledge and the popularity of computer languages. You will see that C# has been steadily growing year after year while Java has been going in the opposite direction during the same period. PHP, ActionScript and Python are the other languages going in a positive direction. In fact, Actionscript in particular has made the jump into the top […]

I was recently asked how you could create inside page bleeds in InDesign, without affecting the opposite page.  The solution to this is to uncheck “Allow Pages to Shuffle” allowing you to drag the pages apart in oder to apply the full bleed.  David Blatner writes about this in detail on InDesignSecrects.com. Check it out! Now ideally, it would be nice to still preview the facing pages together.  You can’t currently do this so I’d consider […]

OK, so Adobe’s products are our tools of choice when it comes to anything creative.  But when it comes to process and workflow, Gridiron Flow might be the way to go.  It allows you to easily (?) see what files are being used in a project.  Whether it’s an After Effects file, InDesign file and (hopefully) a Flash file, you can see all the files associated with it.  Way cool.  The public beta is available on […]

The FLARToolKit is a shape recognition library that you can use in conjunction with Flash and a video camera, and at MAX Japan Saqoosha showed off a great demo.  Check it out! ARToolKit uses computer vision algorithms to solve this problem. The ARToolKit video tracking libraries calculate the real camera position and orientation relative to physical markers in real time. This enables the easy development of a wide range of Augmented Reality applications. Some of […]

Now I’ve made Flash widgets before, but nothing like this Sprint Now Widget. The mother of them all.

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