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 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.
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.
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
March 29, 2007 – 11:58 am
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/
March 29, 2007 – 11:40 am
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.
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000615.php
March 29, 2007 – 11:40 am
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 at least basic collaboration possibilities.
Open Source
Red5 - http://www.osflash.org/red5
Haxe - http://code.google.com/p/haxevideo/source
Commercial
Wowza - www.wowzamedia.com
Onlinelib - http://www.onlinelib.de/
Sevenload - http://www.sevenload.de/
PHP solutions
http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2005/11/2/Streaming-flv-video-via-PHP-take-two
http://www.rich-media-project.com/
December 31, 2006 – 12:11 pm
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 slot in nicely with your design and navigation an probably get you a better click-through rate.
December 29, 2006 – 8:52 pm
The site is being updated right now, you may experience unexpected site behavior.
This design is temporary until the new one launches in the next days or weeks.
We have changed the site structure so google links are broken until we re-submt the sight for indexing.
December 4, 2006 – 6:07 pm
And get back standards compliant XHTML. And all that in 8 hours? Wow! I havn’t tried this yet but I sure am tempted.
http://www.psd2html.com/
UPDATE:
I’ve found another service that offers the same thing:
http://www.psd2website.com/