Apple’s web designer
Here’s something I always wanted to know: Who designed apple’s website?
Today I came across this information by chance, while researching on skinning flex components (the results of this research will be another post).
So, turns out the guy is called Jason Wilson and you can check out his rather impressive porfolio here: http://wilson.tv/
Happy New Year 2009
It’s been over a year since my last post and almost exactly 3 years since I launched this blog on 31.12.2005.
I have just upgraded to Worpress 2.7 which has a much more powerful admin than 2.0 which I was using previously. I’m still experimenting with some themes so don’t be suprised if the pages look & feel changes over the next days and weeks. If you find any issues, please use the comments.
Wishing everyone all the best for the upcoming year!
New blog about how to make money with a blog
My friend David has started a new blog, in spanish, about how to make money with a blog. It’s only a couple of days old and he’s already added loads of useful information about how to get started, choose the right topic, quality assure your content, target the right audience, driving traffic to your site, measuring success of your activities and keeping the community alive.
David documents every step he takes throughout his experiment very thoroughly and provides a step-by-step guide you can follow to monetize on your own blog - It’s useful for both novices and experienced bloggers.
I wish David the best of luck and loads and loads of money!
Go check it out at www.monetizando.net.
Make VoIP telephone calls straight from your Flex app
“The Ribbit Phone Component will give Rich internet application developers the ability to make and receive calls, record/send and receive voicemail, as well as add and manage contacts.”
http://developer.ribbitphone.com/
This sounds exciting, I have not tried this yet but if this component keeps what it promises it could have an immense impact on the way people communicate. I’ll update this post if/once we get access to the pre-release/beta.
Flash Player on the iPhone
Walt Mossberg, one of the fortunate few to receive an iPhone prior to its launch, has released an iPhone review on his blog which give us hope that flash player may be included on the iPhone sooner than we thought we could hope for:
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.
This would of course be great news as it would allow another indirect route of developing applications such as OnSync on this device. Remains to be seen whether will be the full-blown flash player and thereby give the iPhone an edge over other mobile devices such as Nokia’s N95 which merely supports the dumbed down flash player lite.
Come talk to me on my walkie talkie..
Come talk with me at my own WalkieTalkie Web Channel. It’s easy and free.
Come join me here:
http://www.yackpack.com/walkietalkie/?dascope
(for some reason the embed html code won’t work..)
YackPack is one of many flash based free VoIP tools hitting the market right now. Nice to see this tech is finally gaining momentum.
Adobe CS3 Trials now available
Go get em while they’re hot. Your favourite Adobe tools are now available as free 30 day trials. I’ve already had a look at Flash CS3 and the interface improvements alone make it worth your while, not to mention the hugely improved drawing and illustrator import capabilities.
To be a bit more critical: Flash CS3 still cannot handle opacity masks and complex vector objects you create in Illustrator (NOTE: I tried importing an Illustrator CS2 file). It will still recommend you import them as bitmaps to preserve appearance, but at least it it warns you about it and allows you to selectively turn those layers on and off that are incompatible.
Adobe MAX Europe 2007 in Barcelona
This year Adobe Max will be in Barcelona, really looking forward to it. More infos here:
Adobe Max 2007
Date and Location:
October 15 - 18, 2007
Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB)
Barcelona, Spain
Convert FMS Nelly Moser MP3 audio
Apparently this tool makes it possible even though the solution would probably be called a “hack”:
Here’s another tool that claims it can do this: http://www.flash-video-mx.com/flv_to_video_web/
Flash Chroma Keying
This is some pretty amazing stuff by Mario Klingemann (Quasimondo). You can key in real time so you can point your webcam at a uniform background and knock it out on the fly. This is pretty old and written for flash 8 so performance is not what it could be. Once this is ported to AS3 this will be very powerful.