19 March 2008 | filed under actionscript, air, flash | 11 comments »
I got excited when I learned that YouTube opened their API for third party developers. This would enable me to - for example - create a nifty AIR widget to quickly upload videos to my YouTube account. Drag-and-drop a video file onto the AIR app and have the uploading done in the background. Cool!
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27 January 2008 | filed under actionscript, air, software | 1 comment »
It’s been a while, but I had some spare moments lately to testdrive both FDT and the latest beta of AIR.
The cool thing about FDT is that it enables you to develop, test and package AIR applications straight from the Eclipse IDE. This process is explained in detail on the Powerflasher site. However, the Ant [...]
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20 October 2007 | filed under community, design, flash, flex, software | 4 comments »
This week I attended to the first ever Adobe MAX in Europe. It was held in beautiful Barcelona, which is a reason on its won to visit MAX of course. I was joined by two of my co-workers at Lost Boys, we had a great time attenting to the various sessions. The two things that [...]
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14 October 2007 | filed under software | 100 comments »
I just released a new version of FLV Player: 2.0. Please go to the FLV Player page for more details and give this new version a try! The most important and also most requested new feature is the option to switch to fullscreen mode.
Besides that obvious addition, I have also taken the opportunity to implement [...]
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24 September 2007 | filed under design, software | no comments »
Last week, Armin of underconsideration.com wrote about the new Adobe Photoshop logo as introduced by Adobe’s John Nack. After looking at it, I honestly thought it was a joke. See for yourself:
What is it? A speech bubble? With a hole in it? Some people even suggested it closely resembles E.T. Unfortunately, it is [...]
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20 September 2007 | filed under flash | 1 comment »
As I mentioned earlier, I’m working on a new version of FLV Player. This new version will be created with mProjector, the Screentime tool to create standalone executables with. While working on this project, I found out that there is no built-in functionality in mProjector to drag-resize a window (like mWindow.startDrag, which allows you to [...]
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30 July 2007 | filed under flash, software, video | 52 comments »
I am looking for people who’d like to bèta test an upcoming version of FLV Player. This new version has full screen mode (finally!), metadata inspection, a brand new look and all logic has been completely rewritten. Mostly because of that last fact, rewritten code, I would very much like to have some users testdrive this new version before it gets released.
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