Finally after a long period being in developement, Firefox 1.0 was announced!
It’s a long time this is my default and only browser… I cannot imagine to surf the internet without it actually.
I want to say I have nothing against Microsoft, but the comparison between Internet Explorer and Firefox it’s really embarrassing.
“Beware of spyware. If you can, use the Firefox browser.” – USA Today
“Better than Internet Explorer by leaps and bounds.” – FORBES
Link: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
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Macromedia announces 04 MAX Awards
For those who haven’t heard yet; Macromedia recently announced the 2004 MAX Awards. Personally, I found Phoenix Support Management System awesome, which was developed by Optimal Payments, Inc.
Links are:
– Finalists:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/maxawards
– Phoenix Support Management System:
http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p59088801/
MTASC : Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler
MTASC is the first ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler.
Right now it’s a command line compiler which get .as files as input and will generate .swf files as output. This means it can be easily integrated into any editor which can run command line tools (such as sepy).
It seems MTASC is more and more quickly than the internal flash compiler:
MTASC is based on the best compiler technology available (namely the OCaml programming language) and thus provide a great speed improvement over MMC (compile around 100 classes in less than 5 seconds).
Since the source code is made more concise by using good technology, it is more easy to maintain and implement robust and proven typing algorithms. The feedback we get from Open Source community help us fixes the bug quickly.
It’s made using OCaml as programming language.
The mailing list is available at this link: http://lists.motion-twin.com/mailman/listinfo/mtasc
For examples, download and bugs refer to the linked MTASC page.
Nightwish, once again!
Really great concert yesterday at the Mazda Palace in Milan!
I was surprised… I couldn’t believe so many people know them here in Italy 🙂
Master! Apprentice! Heartborne, 7th Seeker
Warrior! Disciple! In me the Wishmaster…
A dreamy-eyed child staring into night
On a journey to storyteller’s mind
Whispers a wish speaks with the stars the words are silent in him
Distant sigh from a lonely heart
“I’ll be with you soon, my Shalafi”
Grey Havens my destiny…
flash player 8 demo in tokyo
via Moock.
I just read on moock’s blog that kevin lynch, macromedia’s chief software architect, demonstrated the next generation version of the flash player at the macromedia flash conference in tokyo, japan.
only a few features were shown, but it seems they are great, expecially, as we were already heard few time ago, for the graphics.
There is a video available, taken from te conference, in which these features are shown:
- a new type-rendering engine
- performance improvements
- bitmap effects (blur, dropshadow, colour matrix etc)
- realtime video alpha channel
video is avail at different locations:
Carl-Alexandre Malartre from ScoLab
>> low bw (5mb 320×240, 15fps)
>> med bw (14.5mb 320×240, 30fps)
>> high bw (42mb, 640×480, 30fps)
Ultrashock
>> low bw (5mb 320×240, 15fps)
>> med bw (5mb 320×240, 30fps)
>> high bw (42mb, 640×480, 30fps)
Link: http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000146.html
FlashComm Server and AMFPHP
Today I was trying to do some stuff with Flash communication server mx, since it was very long time since i’ve played with it..
nothing really particulary complicated.
I wanted to create some sort of video conference , with a list of available recorded conferences..
In order to get the list of previously recorded video, their date and so on, I wished to use amfphp in order to use php filesystem functions.. and I was happily surprised for the fact i was immediately able to use AMFPHP into the application asc server file at the first attempt 🙂
FlashComm: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashcom/
Do you know Google Desktop?
Today I’ve installed Google Desktop Search, a desktop search application that provides full text search over mails, local files, and the web pages viewed.
Once launched the installer, it will create a service which will indexes all your computer (it will took hours the first time), then search can be activated from the taskbar icon. It’s integrated in the browser, in fact it’s the same as using google, but results are files on the computer!
Another cool feature is that When you view a web page in the browser, Google Desktop “caches” the content so that it can be viewed later, the same version of the page, even if its live content has changed or you’re offline.
Google Desktop Search organizes email search results into conversations, so that all email messages in the same thread are grouped into a single search result.
and basically it doesn’t affect the computer performance because it works only when computer is idle.. great
It’s really useful and funny 🙂
Link: http://desktop.google.com/about.html
A pure Flash Blog. OpenSource!
Guys at Motion4graphics.com have developed a flash blog ( www.flashblog.org ), i think the first Weblog made in Flash/Php/MySQL Opensource.
It is a project that is in Beta test, but that the main features already are already included. As they said: “We wished to be extending benefits little by little, we didn’t want to reinvent the Weblog”.
Next there will be the feature to donwload all the archives.
The main features are actually:
– Front End, developed in Flash.
– BackEnd developed in Php/MySQL
– Creation of categories.
– Searches.
– Limitation of entrances by page.
– extended Entrances (read more..).
– Publisher wysiwyg.
– Multiple users and authors.
– Limitless vertical Stage.
– Function botons back/ahead.
– Source codes FLA including.
Jpegs can be added, including the limitations of flash which can load only non progressive jpegs.. maybe they can add the GD support (or also image magik) in order to let all jpegs compatible and also PNG (waiting for gif support come back in the GD lib) ?
I’m still trying to understand how is set the framework.. how data is transmitted to flash (xml, remoting or flat loadvars)..
It seems a really promising project. take a minute to look at this.