Category Archives: work

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/

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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”:
http://www.flv2mp3.com/
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 [...]

FMS alternatives

More and more projects are becoming available to replace the Flash Media Server, surely a sign of the success of this technology. This is an incomplete list. I hope to be able to add some reviews at some point. Most are focused on one-way video streaming and lag collaboration features although Red5 and Wowza offer [...]

Text Link Ads

Right in the middle of our upgrade, while reading through Justin Palmers blog (based on the up and coming RoR Mephisto by the way), I came across a service called Text Link Ads.
http://www.text-link-ads.com/
Similar to google adwords you can add sponsored links to your site - the thing is, they are less obtrusive meaning they [...]