Posts Tagged ‘flash’

The war for your internet video. Google’s VP8 released under open source licenses!

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

vp8, youtube, codec, google, stealing your tube

Watch out flash, quicktime, and .h264, there’s a new kid on the block… VP8! I have been reading about this for awhile, especially after google purchased On2. My eyebrows really raised up high when google released it under open source! What I can see happening though is flash and other 3rd party companies gobbling the codec up and integrating it right into their pre-existing codec platform… but that’s only speculation!

Take a look at what people are saying!

First in-depth technical analysis of VP8… seems a little weak but promising!

Open letter to Google regarding VP8 and youtube

And Of course Apple hates open source

FAQs/ Myths answered!

The bottomline:

Depending what side  you are on, the future looks bright for us all (consumers/viewers/developers). A little healthy competition never hurt anyone, and I’m sure each codec will improve in their own way.

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(AS3) – Tweenlite delayedCalls();

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Tweenlite/Max is easily my favorite AS3/AS2 Tween Engine. Here’s a quick code snippet that most people do not know about!! If you enjoy using timers in AS3 check out the “delayedCall()” function in TweenMax/Lite. The key argument here is scalability, after a while using 1 line of code  (delayedCall) becomes a lot more convenient then the more involved timer class.

Std. Timer listener dispatch + function

package {
    import flash.utils.Timer;
    import flash.events.TimerEvent;
    import flash.display.Sprite;

    public class TimerExample extends Sprite {

        public function TimerExample() {
            var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 2);
            myTimer.addEventListener("timer", timerHandler);
            myTimer.start();
        }

        public function timerHandler(event:TimerEvent):void {
            trace("timerHandler: " + event);
        }
    }
}

VS.


Std. Tweenlite/Max delayedCall (v.11)

package {
    import com.greensock.*;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    public class DelayedCallExample extends Sprite {

        public function DelayedCallExample() {
            TweenLite.delayedCall(0.5, myDelayedCall, [1,true]);
        }

        public function myDelayedCall(argument1:Number,Boolean):void {
            trace("that was easy!");
        }
    }
}
myD

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The easiest way to disable flash for testing alternate content!

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

This is something I have constantly wrestled with to find a clear cut answer. Its funny because back in the day I can remember that I had to literally go into my C:\program files and change the name of some  .dll, or .exe in order to cancel flash from loading. Adobe/Macromedia were pretty firm on the issue that they don’t want you “disabling” their plugin lol. Then there was an onslaught of plugins for FF, IE, etc that could also do it but none of them worked well. Finally FF was sensable about it and included an easy “disable flash” option which makes things so simple. The problem is that noone seems to know about it lol. So with that said, here’s how to do it!!

1. Here’s my Site!

sciro design

This is what my Site looks like with flash enabled. Pretty nice huh?

Now lets get rid rid of flash to see what my site looks like on a user’s mobile phone, older computer, or a computer at a business/school/etc that blocks flash all together!

2. Lets get rid of flash for a sec!

disable flash

To start head to the top of Firefox and find the “tools” menu. From there find “Add-ons” (as shown above) and click it!

3. The “Add-ons” menu!

disable flash2

After you clicked “Add-ons” from the “tools” toolbar you will get this dialog box that pops up. It should pop-up, and be on “extensions.” however we want to go elsewhere, so proceed to the next step!

3. Find the “plugins” section!

disable flash firefox

As you can see above “highlighted in red” simply click the “plugins” tab and then proceed to the next step! (we are almost done!)

3. Find “ShockWave Flash”!

disable flash how

After you clicked the “plugins” button you will be presented with a lot of different items (more or less depending on what you personally installed). Regardless, the list is in alphabetical order so scroll down to “S” and find “Shockwave Flash” which is “circled in red” above!

3. Disable/Enable Flash!

re enable flash

Finally just click “Disable” to temporarily turn off flash. When you are ready to turn it back on, just press “Enable” and you’ll be able to view any flash content like youtube videos, flash sites, and most importantly facebook’s farmville again lol.

3. Begin testing!

sciro design no flash

Here is my site with flash turned off. I personally use swfObject 2.0 (I’ll blog about swfObject soon, and why its so good) which presents the alternate content to my users. If they don’t have flash, then they have two options. Either update flash to the current version, or enter my low bandwidth site which doesn’t really require flash for any crucial information!

Have fun and Happy testing!

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Video Tutorials Are Coming To AndyBlog – Finally lol

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

andy blog video tutorials
Finally, I have come into some extra time and I will begin posting some video tutorials! They range from flash, Actionscript, AfterFx, Cool Web Tips, Awesome camera info, and a lot of awesome photoshop tuts (mainly because everyone can benefit from PS). See you soon!

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actionScripters! Flash Develop 3 is here to save YOU!!

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Flash Develop 3

Wow, all I have to say is WOW! Also I have to say that you need to download FlashDevelop 3 RIGHT NOW! I am used to using the document data class in flash to write all of my as3… which I thought did a great job until I ended up getting FD3.

Some basic features of FD3

* AS3 Project management with seamless and optimized Adobe Flex SDK integration
* AS2 Project management with seamless Swfmill and Mtasc integration (using a portable standalone command line tool)
* Advanced ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3 completion & code exploration with automatic classpath detection (even without project)
* Smart contextual Actionscript code generators
* SWF and SWC classes and symbols exploration
* Test movie in Adobe Flash IDE and with clickable error results (Flash CS3)
* MTASC compilation/code checking with clickable error results

Other Features

* Types Explorer
* Automatically cleans ASO files of modified AS2 classes
* Files explorer (can create Flash 8 Trust Files for you)
* Automatic JavaDoc creation from methods
* Smart Actionscript help websearch on F1
* Jump to class/member declaration on F4
* XML, HTML/PHP, JS, CSS code highlighting,
* Multibyte character encoding
* Program menu customization with XML files
* as2api GUI for documentation generation
* Snippets
* Lines bookmarks
* Code folding
* Zoom

BEST OF ALL ITS FREE – Thank you Open Source

Seriously tho Its so awesome, it takes advantage of a very intuitive “menu”(similiar to flash cs3/cs4′s) that allows you to rapidly develop… however it will also pull in instances of your own objects and classes in that list… plus so much more its nuts! OK enough talk heres the link, you won’t regret it!

FD 3

Flash Develop 3 features

Flash develop 3 features woo

DOCUMENTATION  OF FLASH DEVELOP 3

DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK OF FLASH DEVELOP 3

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Adobe Cs4 Launch Broadcast!

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

No rightup needed here…this is history in the making, let the video do the talking!

I HAVE NOTICED THE VIDEO ABOVE ISN’T WORKING AT ALL TIMES… HERE IS THE DIRECT LINK TO IT (lol adobe’s own player for its flagship suite doesn’t even work)

http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1556v1715

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