15.11.08
add commentFlash stats with MAMA
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/how_many_sites_use_flash/
Interesting post over at flash magazine about a recent survey performed by MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application). MAMA is Opera’s structural search engine with the study examining 3,509,180 URLs in 3,011,668 domains.
The results with total number of MAMA URLs using the Flash plugin was 1,176,227 (33.5%), ranging from 25% in Germany to 67.03% in China (I guess that says more about thier population than anything else). Below is a summary of the top 20 countries order by flash use:
Germany 25.00%
Denmark 25.33%
Austria 27.61%
Switzerland 27.60%
Sweden 27.70%
Australia 30.15%
Great Britain 30.27%
Canada 30.95%
Japan 31.75%
United States 32.57%
Russia 32.78%
Netherlands 37.20%
Norway 37.19%
Italy 40.32%
France 41.58%
Poland 42.37%
Czech Republic 43.10%
Spain 46.24%
Turkey 59.85%
China 67.03%
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13.11.08
1 CommentAS3 YouTube Wrapper
http://code.google.com/p/youtubechromelesswrapper-as3/
Here’s a Chromeless AS3 Wrapper for YouTube which leverage’s ActionScript’s ExternalInterface class and YouTube’s JavaScript API.
Demo | Articale and code overview
Posted in Actionscript 3 | 1 Comment
12.11.08
add comment3D CMYK flash separation experiment
http://www.flashgamer.com/2008/11/another_cmyk_separation_in_3d.html
Found over at flash gamer, this little experiement separates the CMYK channels into different planes with the “multiply” blend method applied which can be rotated in 3d.
quite nice!
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07.10.08
2 CommentsPapervision simplified
Wish we had some decent flash conference’s here in Oz. Here’s a video of Seb Lee-Delisle’s presentation of Papervision 3D simplified at this years Flash on the Beach.
Seb Lee-Delisle - Papervision3D Simplified from Peter Elst on Vimeo.
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06.10.08
add commentdynamic letterspacing in flash
http://bobspace.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/flash-yourmomgettextformat-is-the-key-to-letterspacing/
A very handy and relatively simple example from bobspace.wordpress.com of how to achieve letter spacing for dynamic text in flash.
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01.10.08
1 CommentWhy cacheAsBitmap is bad
http://www.bytearray.org/?p=290
Interesting little bit of information over at ByteArray.org about evils of over using cacheAsBitmap when applying them to multiple clips on stage and the solution using bitmapdata.
P.S. - Im updating the flash gallery at the moment, and hopefully should have the update live sometime this week. Its going to include album navigation, more control through the xml and cleaner code so keep a look out.
Posted in Actionscript 3 | 1 Comment
21.08.08
1 CommentGoogle maps flash api update
The google maps flash api has been updated to 1.6. Some of the new features in the update include:
Even more exciting is a new flash component created by yuletide from the google group which is available as an mxp.
For other versions visit - http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash/files
Posted in Actionscript 3 | 1 Comment
07.01.08
5 CommentsTop Flash ActionScript Forums
Don’t you hate it when you’re working on a flash project and hit a brickwall with a certain issue you just can’t seem to fix?
I know I’ve been in the situation many of times, especially when I was working as the sole flash designer/coder at my previous company, and most of the times I could find the answer by either trolling through the many flash forums I visit or creating a new thread when the answer is not available in an existing thread.
So here are the top flash forums around in no particular order and some statistics to give you an idea of the amount of content that’s available. The stat’s were taken around a day or so ago so the figures might have changed since then.
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