Archive for February, 2008

Flash Player Version

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Want to quickly find out what version of the Flash Player a client has installed? Send them to www.playerversion.com

Funky 3d Flash Lab

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Yet more pv3d goodness. Im loving this funky 3D Flash Lab, the work of Mathieu Badimon. [Update: Apparently this uses Five3D not PaperVision]

The FWA Interview

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

There is an old interview with me on The FWA, its fairly long at 8 pages.

Priority Pass

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

If you do alot of travelling then it makes sense to get yourself a Priority Pass, which will get you access to over 500 airport lounges worldwide, regardless of whether your flying enconomy, business or first.

Freelance Community

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Freelance Switch is a freelancer community with forums, jobs, daily tips and a complete 212 page e-book titled “How to be a rockstar freelancer” for sale.

New Media Jobs

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Lots of new media jobs at Creative Pool.

BBC IPlayer is Flash Video

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

BBC IPlayer is awesome, but its ashame that BBC News is still using Windows Media Player and Real video. Real player is officially badware.

Site is being updated!

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Sorry for the mess people, im re-jiggerising things around and getting the first magazine article together. It turns out wordpress doesn’t like to have two seperate instances running on the same server, using the same database, in seperate folders (it gets seriously confused), also why cant i rename any of the standard wordpress files? i hate having my root folder look a mess with files like wp-comments.php and so on…

There is a lot to do, ive got over 600 old posts to tag, there is the links to sort out for the sidebar, advertisement spots, search pages, archives pagination and the asides blog. It’s all fun and games.

Delete Empty Keyframes

Monday, February 4th, 2008

This Command will delete all empty keyframes on the selected layers. This is useful when you get a messy file from your designers and want to tidy it up a bit.

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Auto Save

Monday, February 4th, 2008

This extension adds a new panel to the Flash Authoring Tool, that enables you to specify an interval for automatically saving the document you are presently working on. Intervals can be set in minutes or hours.

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JSFL FileSystem API

Monday, February 4th, 2008

This extension adds a new FileSystem object to the JSAPI which contains 23 new JSFL functions that allow you to modify/access the local FileSystem in your JSFL scripts. You can for example write to the registry using JSFL, execute external applications and so on…

Documentation is provided for each of the new functions in the Help Panel.

As of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 7.2 a new FLfile object is added to the JSAPI. It provides some, but not all of the functionality found in this extension.

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Create Frame Sequence

Monday, February 4th, 2008

This extension adds a new command to the Commands menu in the Flash Authoring Tool that will take the frames you have selected and add them to a new layer in the order you selected them, one by one.

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Batch Run

Monday, February 4th, 2008

This extension adds a new command to the Commands menu in the Flash Authoring Tool that will open a list of flash documents, run a jsfl script for that document, and then optionally save that document and close it. All of which is customised through a GUI.

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Add Stop Frames

Monday, February 4th, 2008

This extension adds a new command to the Commands menu in the Flash Authoring Tool that will convert each of the selected frames into a keyframe and add a stop() action to it.

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Duplicate Layer

Monday, February 4th, 2008

This extension adds a new command to the Commands menu in the Flash Authoring Tool that will create an exact replica of a layer above the currently selected layer.
Assign the Command a Keyboard shortcut for maximum effect and ease of use.

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