http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog Creatively Twisted Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:34:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just finished up the G4tv.com X-Play Video Widget which was a lot of fun to work on and allowed me to trim all of the fat off of my earlier video component classes. Now I've got a nice lean set of video components that are highly customizable both via Flash ... http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/adobe/flash/just-launched-g4-xplay-flash-video-widget/ One of the first Adobe Labs releases coming out of Adobe MAX 2008 is Cocomo "a Platform as a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA (Rich Internet Applications)." This reminds me a lot of Macromedia's Flash Communication Server, which was subsequently broken ... http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/adobe/flash/adobe-cocomo-real-time-social-apps/ One of the big announcements at Adobe MAX this year was the release name of Adobe Thermo, which is now called Adobe Catalyst. Since seeing the many demos of Catalyst on various blogs I've been anticipating its release for a long time. This is a tool that I think has ... http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/adobe/flash/adobe-thermo-is-now-adobe-catalyst/ **Update**: Adding the Class Path to the fl package in Flash fixed this issue and cut my original file size of 64KB down to only 32KB, an additional 16KB savings from the below solution. Not sure why I didn't think of this before. I attribute it to lack of sleep. ... http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/adobe/flash/as3-dataprovider-shedding-pounds/ So I moved to a Mac when I got my new job in November working at Clearspring and I quickly started missing FlashDevelop as I chugged away in the built-in Actionscript editor in Flash CS3. I've used FlashDevelop for Actionscript coding at home on my PC and have sworn by ... http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/adobe/flash/flex-to-flash-compiler-plugin-for-flex-builder/ For those who woke up bright and early this morning, played hooky from work and stood in line for hours to get their hands on the new iPhone 3G, disappointment quickly set in. With the release of the first major upgrade to the iPhone stores are currently unable to activate ... http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/marketing/iphone-199-to-call-911/ So I found a link on LifeHacker which had a link to MacRumors on where to get the iPhone 2.0 update a day early via download and manual install. Pretty much been playing with it all evening and downloading apps. http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/gagets-gizmos/iphone20-software-update-and-iphone-app-store/ Adobe just released a new Adobe AIR Update Framework that will aid developers in building AIR applications that can "periodically check for updates based on an interval or at the request of the user." The framework will also provide capabilities The framework comes with a default user interface developers can ... http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/adobe/flash/adobe-labs-adobe-air-update-framework-beta/ I just did an image search for screen shots of older versions of Adobe Flash and stumbled on this gem of a site. I was particularly fond of the Flash Splash Screens and Corel Draw Splash Screens sections. Take a walk down memory lane, laugh and wonder how the hell ... http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/adobe/flash/how-the-eff-did-we-ever-get-anything-done/ It appears Adobe just released Adobe Dreamweaver Beta, Adobe Fireworks Beta and Adobe Soundbooth Beta on Adobe Labs. These releases come just twelve days after the release of Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta. Could the Adobe Flash and Adobe Thermo BETAs be on the horizon? I'm excited to take these three ... http://www.mindtwitch.com/blog/web-design/adobe-dreamweaver-fireworks-and-soundbooth-beta/