Archive for July, 2007

Actionscript 3 Resources

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Trevor McCauley aka Senocular has been very active since the public got their eyes on Actionscript 3, in helping the community get up to scratch with whats new and whats changed in the new language, firstly by providing, probably one of the most useful posts i have seen across any of the major Flash Forums since the good old days of Were-Here, with an Actionscript 3 Tip of the Day thread, containing a collection of over 100 posts containing Actionscript 3 tips and tricks.

Secondly, a very accurate/comprehensive tutorial that will get people started using Actionscript 3 in Adobe Flash CS3.

That’s a whole lot of writing!

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PaperVision3D Experiment

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

If you havent heard already, PaperVision3D is in public beta, i haven’t done much experimenting over the past 6 months, ive been out and about enjoying myself instead, but ive now made a concious effort to put some fun back into my work, so ive been spending some time playing with Flash again, mashups et al.

Ive set up a new site, which will eventually become an experimental gallery, in the meantime, i wanted to put something up there, since ive just registered the domain.

I decided to have a quick dabble with PaperVision3D, and it officially rocks, its so easy, although the API needs some work and i found some rendering glitches here and there but anyways my new site guywatson.co.uk took 30 minutes to put together and just less than 100 lines of code, before PaperVision3D and Actionscript 3, something like this would be sssssllllooooooowww and would take 10 times as long to put together and most probably alot more code. My oh my how far things have come.

Now, what can i make next….

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Flash Player on the iPhone

Friday, July 6th, 2007

There is alot of hype about the new Apple iPhone simply because it is stylish and it has an iPod, i have an iPod and a phone, should i get rid of them both for this new style icon when it becomes available in the UK? or should i get myself a proper phone like the Nokia N95 which granted doesnt have the same funky intuitive interface but has alot more features and a bigger camera, 3G, Flash Lite and GPS, besides that Apple also forgot to include the Flash Player for Safari.

Apparently though, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist, Apple will be releasing a software update soon.

At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will occur within the next couple of months. However, a separate program included on the iPhone can play a limited selection of videos from YouTube, and the phone can play videos you purchase from Apple’s iTunes store, and certain videos you create yourself.

No Flash Player anytime soon

CNN Reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs today that “Adobe’s Flash Player Not Suited for the iphone”.

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