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The Amgen Tour of California Flex 2 application

Posted by Simon
February 19, 2007

RIA pedia has spotted a very nice Flex 2 application that uses Flex Data Services and Flash Media Server. The Tour Tracker 2.0 was built in 4 weeks which is very impressive considering the functionality of the application. The application contains the following features:

Full-screen capable live video stream of each stage from start to finish […]

Flash 10th Anniversary

Posted by Simon
August 11, 2006

Mike Chambers has uploaded a video of Flash 10 Year Anniversary Party at Adobe in San Francisco.
The video clip includes birthday wishes from Strongbad, and Nectarine and some comments from Kevin Lynch and the guys from Big Spaceship.

Nike Swing Portrait - Great use of Flash Video

Posted by Simon
August 2, 2006

Now and again i visit Nike to look at the latest use of Flash on there sites. Over the last few months Nike have introduced more and more Flash Video. I found this cool video on Nike Golf called the Swing Portrait. I downloaded the TV Spot and added to my Brightcove account so you […]

Flash 9-based Motionbox Player Released

Posted by Simon
July 31, 2006

The NEW, Flash 9-based Motionbox Player lets you:

Scroll through thumbnails to see what’s inside the video

Skip the boring parts and get straight to the ‘good stuff’

Select any portion of the video and share it with friends

Create a permalink to any video selection

To check out the new player head on over to Motionbox and watch a […]

Apollo - Flash to jump beyond the browser

Posted by Simon
May 11, 2006

CNET News.com has a great article on Apollo featuring Kevin Lynch.
“The goal of Apollo, which will be available as a free download early next year, is to overcome some of the limitations in today’s Web applications, Lynch said. Right now, Flash programs run within a Web browser. Apollo is client-based software that will run Flash […]

Flex 2 Beta 3 & Cairngorm 2 for Flex 2 Beta 3 Released

Posted by Simon
May 9, 2006

The Flex 2.0 Beta 3 has been released to the public and Steven Webster has also announced the release of Cairngorm 2 for Beta 3. He does mention that there is little change from the previous version and migrating should not pose any problems.
We here at ThoughtFaqtory imported Cairngorm into our projects and there were a few slight […]

Brightcove’s Commercial Preview

Posted by Simon
April 27, 2006

I have been watching Brightcove for a while now and have been very keen to test there service. So when I heard they launched there commercial preview I visited there site to register.
The admin console is built in Flex 1.5 and it allows you to manage your Assets, Titles, Lineups, Players and Syndication. There is also […]

Flash Player 8 - Native Version for the new Mac Intel machines?

Posted by Simon
February 27, 2006

To clear this issue up and decided to post an article on the subject of universal binaries for Flash Player 8. I searched Google and find this article by Tinic Uro on Universal binaries for FP8. His article mentions and I quote “The new iMacs ship with a native Intel version of the Flash Player 8 […]

Using the BlurFilter in Flex 1.5 from Jesse Warden

Posted by Simon
January 24, 2006

I read Jesse Wardens posts on “How to Use the BlurFilter in Flex 1.5” and thought i would implement the BlurFilter into my MXNA Viewer built in Flex 1.5. To see it in action you must either open the preferences or report title window which in turn blurs the background.

ServiceBrowser with Fluorine

Posted by Simon
January 22, 2006

I have been playing around with Flourine over the weekend and i must say it is looking really nice. They also have a cool feature called a service browser which allows you to view your services that are available in your local assembly cache, WSDL description files in your web application directory and the stub […]

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