Creating consistent and unified user experiences, especially with dispersed project teams, requires tight design guidelines. Yahoo has started a page listing some useful rules.
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/atoz.php
Consistency in Design
Full Screen Video in Flash
Check out this solution for full screen video in flash. It explains how to use smoothing properly and keep your file size down and user experience up!
What is Web 2.0?
Everyone’s talking about it but you are still unclear about what Web 2.0 really means? Then this article by Tim O’Reilly is for you.
OnSync™: All-in-one webconferencing
OnSync™: All-in-one webconferencingOnSync™ is the next big thing in online communications. Years of development and customer feedback come together in this platform to give you the experience you have always wanted, but have never found in other solutions.
OnSyncFind out why corporations are choosing OnSync™ to take care of their online communication needs!
Digital Samba : simply communicate
technorati tags:onsync, webconferencing, digital, samba, flash, media, server
Cool online video editing tool
Someone at work pointed this out to me. Friggin’ awesome
Flipclips
I found a really nice product online which I think I will be taking advantage of very soon!
Basically it allows you to make a flip book from any movie, coporate or personal. A very nice idea.
Uploaders
As part of a project I am working on we need reliable upload for large files. After a bit of research I found some really great scripts, either available at very low license cost, or even under some public open source licenses.
Here is a shortlist of the best ones I found:
Mega upload - Well known OS project with progress bar
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaupload/
AJAX/Asynchronous Uploader with progress bar, based on MegaUpload
http://tomas.epineer.se/archives/3
(no demo available)
File Chucker - v.nice, 25USD for source code
http://encodable.com/filechucker/
UberUploader - OS Project with progress bar (Moz license)
http://uber-uploader.sourceforge.net/
XUpload - Commercial project with progress and email notification $37 for single server source code
http://www.sibsoft.net/xupload.html
.. and there are surely more.
And as a bonus, some nice AJAX widgets:
http://www.turboajax.com/turbowidgets/examples/
And if you don’t mind using JAVA, this one allows drag & drop. I personally try to stay away from JAVA since it requires that nasty install on Windows which unfortunately disqualifies it as a pure browser based technology in my opinion. Nice to know your opions in any case.
http://www.radinks.com/upload/
Click to activate and use this control
Have you seen this message appear on your flash movies lately? Do you have to click to be able to access your flash movies? You’ve installed the latest Internet Explorer update which changes the way the browser handles this and some other plugins.
There is a fix for this, enjoy implementing this across all your client sites ![]()
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/articles/devletter.html
http://www.amarasoftware.com/flash-problem.htm
** UPDATE **
The recommended way of embedding flash these days is by using javascript and swfobject.js
You can get it here:
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
It’s a great script and it has been extended by many supoorting developers adding a lot of cool features such as back button support, deep linking into flash sites and mac os x support for the mouse scroll wheel just to name a few.
