Monthly Archives: April 2009

Adobe Flash secures TV set-top deal

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Nuno Correia

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8008070.stm: Adobe has secured a deal to put its Flash software into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes. It will enable developers and content providers to create applications to deliver web-based content such as … Continue reading →

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Importing Google SketchUp Models to Flash Using Papervision 3D

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Google SketchUp is a very practical, and free, way to develop simple 3D shapes and scenarios. With Papervision 3D, it’s now easy to import SketchUp models into Flash. Found this tutorial on the topic: http://www.elctech.com/tutorials/importing-google-sketchup-models-into-papervision-3d

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Course end / projects / documentation

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Nuno Correia

The Multimedia Authoring Course part 2 (2009) has just ended. Thank you to all participants. The projects can be found in this link (source code included): http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2009_03/projects/ Videos of the project presentations can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nunocorreia/sets/72157623538599815/ And photos here: … Continue reading →

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Flash and Facebook

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Adobe is now pushing Flash as a development tool for building Facebook apps, with the new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/

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Flash sound update

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Nuno Correia

About a year ago I posted about the new sound capabilities in Flash player 10: http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/archives/110 It seemed to be a direct result of the “Adobe Make Some Noise” campaign: http://www.make-some-noise.info/ Although the results were not what was expected originally, … Continue reading →

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Flash Sound Visualizer Links

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Some assorted links of examples, tutorials and reflections regarding sound visualizers in Flash: 1. Tutorials http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000296.html http://www.ultrashock.com/tutorials/flash8/spectrum.php http://www.thetechlabs.com/sound/create-a-as3-flash-9-mp3-player-with-spectrum-display/ http://www.thetechlabs.com/3d/create-a-as3-mp3-player-with-papervision3d-spectrum-display/ http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=8E9A0 2. Examples with source code http://www.terrypaton.com/as3-sound-spectrum/ http://www.anttikupila.com/flash/revolt-actionscript-3-based-spectrum-analyzer-source-released/ http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=118 http://clockmaker.jp/blog-en/2008/11/pv3d_visualizer/ 3. Links to visualizers http://diaghe.com/blog/?p=19 http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/10/as3_music_visua.html http://theflashblog.com/?p=197 4. Discussion http://www.ultrashock.com/forums/actionscript/as3-soundmixer-computespectrum-82605.html http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=176574 … Continue reading →

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Some links…

Posted on April 4, 2009 by tkuyanov

Just some links i found useful/interesting:   http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm#ActionScript_Basics easy to understand tutorials on AS3, examples code included…   http://englishblog.flepstudio.org/ some more tutorials, Italiano style :)   http://krazydad.com/bestiary/ Krazy Dad will show you some stuff there…especialy for girls;) (joke, no porno) … Continue reading →

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