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The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes.
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Bill Gates offers some insight on their rationale behind trying to acquire Yahoo… and everyone is talking about that. What i found more interesting is their approach to provide their software for free to students. Now that is a move that I believe it is going to help them greatly. If you are a student […]

Flash Player 10 Code Name Astro

In: News

The name is out! Emmy Huang, product manager for Adobe Flash Player released the code name for the Flash Player 10 “Astro” and for those lucky ones that will be able to make it to MAX this year they will be able to see what “Astro” can do […]

I had a few hours to spare the other day and I created the diagram (sketch) above trying to understand Colin Moock’s take in the subject. One post won’t cover all the ins and outs of this Design Pattern but its more of a review and study of the author’s view.

UPS Out of the Box

In: Projects, News

I had the opportunity to work on Out of the Box mini site for UPS at T-3. I had the chance to do all the Flash actionscripting after receiving the comps from the Art Director, and this is what we came up with…
Link: outofthebox.ups.com.

Starcraft 2 is coming out

In: StarCraft, News

Thats right, Starcraft II is finally in the works. After almost 10 years after the first release of Starcraft they finally decided to put their act together and get us the new version. Can’t Wait!
Link: www.starcraft2.com

Trace selected text with TextMate

In: News

That is right, thanks to the guys from TextMate and their help I was able to get a small Macro that will trace the selected word in Flash.
What I mean is this:
1. Select a word
2. Run the Macro
3. the word you selected will appear in the next line as follows:
trace(”the Word You Selected = ” […]

Complex Array combo

In: News

I haven’t tested this kind of array usage against the processor so I am not sure how intensive it is but it definitely helps in case you want to keep your arrays very descriptive and you don’t want to do a search on the array every-time you need a certain node.
So the regular way of […]

Password protected flash site Class

In: News

After seeing so many people requesting help with the easy Username and Password method for Flash I decided to write a small class.
Granted UserName and Password verification shouldn’t be taken slightly, but many times you just want to make a section of your site “Pass Protected with flash”, and in reality this is a very […]

Posting from Textmate

In: News

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During the day I work as a Sr. Rich Media Designer for T3, During the evenings I enjoy the best time of the day as a husband and a father and sometimes during the nights I work for myself at multimedia247.

This blog is mostly about my findings on the web, my contribution to noobs to flash that might be able to learn something from the site. If you dont consider yourself a noob and you still were able to learn or discover something new on this blog, even better.