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Adobe rocks 🙂 Everyone has a plan, of course, but I will get the box by any means! WhatIsInTheBox.co.uk Nice 3D box on the website too.

To all of those that just joined us in the Adobe Seminar, I must apologize for losing connection 3 times, I can’t remember the last time I lost connection in my house, and I haven’t lost it since, but for those 20 minutes it was cursed. Also note to self, Dual Screen on Windows means issues. What we are going to do however is record the whole thing for you to play back at your leisure, the slides and source are up in the forums of http://www.flashmobilebook.com (at the bottom), for you to get familiar with the code, and I’ll post on here as well as the Adobe Seminar web page as soon as we have the full recording, hopefully this time with Weyert in there for completeness. ...

I’m just uploading the source code for part 2 of the “3 Briefs” Adobe Seminar which is taking place today 3PM EST (8PM GMT) Feb 28th, 2007. Download them from here. Slides are also included. The FLA requires the AS2 classes that ship with SUSHI Multi-user server (free version available). Link to original post.

I’m afraid to say I got different [relative] results to those published on the site (the Flex cache as bitmap version was by far the highest FPS on my machine), but I’d have to dig into the source to see how these have been put together… Link to the examples Link to the results and discussion. Some personal notes. I tend to think a Flash only (non-Flex framework) example would be a better option to a Flex app. Also the Flex example uses a Timer, he probably should try making use of the ENTER_FRAME event to see what results that gets. Also worth trying the fullscreen-then-back trick the Papervision3D guys are using to get a perf boost. Any other tests out there? Something like this would be interesting 😉 ...

I’ve just fixed my last Flash 9 experiment, I hadn’t built it in such a way as to not error if you don’t have a webcam installed at all. Also I developed this on an intel mac, and it runs smoothly at 60FPS, with over 200 firework particles at once, for some reason my pretty good PC is only running at around 5-10FPS with only 25 particles, but this may just be the PC here so please feel free to try it out. ...

I went to see Alias’ presentation at LFPUG the other night, and it made me keen to get back to some experimenting in Flash, in particular with Flash Player 9. You may have seen my last example which used Flash 8 alpha video as a mask. This kind of extends that, in that we are using an alpha mask again, this time we have some fireworks. Before the SWF, here’s a screenshot: ...

Please join us in an online seminar at the end of this month (Feb 28th). Scott Janousek, Weyert de Boer and myself will be covering topics from our book Foundation Flash for Mobile Devices (Friends of ED). The seminar will be broken into 3, with questions at the end and a raffle with some great prizes. Topics will include: Part 1: Cool Flash Lite™ Wallpaper and Screen saver content – Scott Janousek Join me as we do a quick overview on how to design, develop, and deploy cool wallpaper and screen savers for the latest devices supporting these Flash Lite multimedia content types. Note: We’ll cover Nokia Series 40 and Series 60 devices in particular. ...

Bookpool are doing a nice deal where you can get 23% off Foundation Flash for Mobile Devices. You can find out more info here (click the book cover on the right of this blog to visit the book’s website).

I’ve been thinking about video quite a bit recently. One thing that really bugs me is how people tend to treat video as this thing that sits in a box and plays from start to finish. When Flash 8 introduced alpha in video it opened up a whole new range of techniques, and I’ve just spent a little bit of time roughing out a simple (and rather crude) example: This example is seemingly simple, but there are quite a few steps involved which I will explain below. What happens here is that you can click a colour, and the car’s surface will fill with that colour as it rotates, as if paint were splashing into its existing finish. ...

Apart from the speed here (it’s very slow). This is a very impressive emulation, showing images, videos, text and search works too. Click through the icons to see the app. Knowing that this would have been very difficult to do using JavaScript as it currently does, my hat goes off to whoever made this (via Mike Harsh). http://www.vista.si/main.htm Plugin for windows Plugin for mac