Archive for the “Flash” category
I’m in Web Designer Mag
by leon on July 3, 2008
The latest issue of Web Designer Mag recently landed on my door mat and I was pleasantly surprised to see some of my work included in the mag and on their promotional disc. I was contacted by the editor a (…)
Find me on Adobe Exchange!
by leon on June 24, 2008
Looking for a Flash extension that will allow you to find a latitude and longitude based on a location? Then you need my locator panel, which is now also available on the Adobe Exchange. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1526018
Visual Tag Clouds
by leon on June 15, 2008
A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size (…)
Creating Cross Platform CD-Roms
by leon on June 4, 2008
Back in my University days having a Mac was not always fun in a Windows dominated campus. I always had to ensure that my disc’s were able to be read in a Windows machine, even though they were burned on (…)
Flash Fonts
by leon on June 4, 2008
A constant worry when creating Flash files is “will my font’s look the same everywhere”? If it’s a standard font like Arial then yes, but a custom font will fail unless you embed it. You can embed a font in (…)
Frowl – Growl style Flash interface
by leon on June 1, 2008
I have recently created a Growl style Flash interface. Firstly if you don’t know what Growl is then it is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. Notifications are a (…)
AFC Giveaway
by leon on April 30, 2008
I’ve just heard news that AFC (the creators of GMap amongst others) are to give away all of their AS2 components for free. This is their biggest giveaway ever ($310) and we would appreciate your help spreading the word. You (…)
flCodr – beta
by leon on April 20, 2008
Quick update!! After about a week of hard work the beta version of flCodr is now online. The basic idea is to have a repository of Flash code snippets online in a centralised location. The unique idea hear however is (…)
AFComponents
by leon on April 10, 2008
I’m on Advanced Flash Components!! My two GMap enabled mash-ups have been posted on the AFC website. AFC make the GMap component and lots of other fantastic ones. Give them a try for your next project
flcodr.com – a Flash of genius?
by leon on April 10, 2008
Inspired my Lee Brimelow’s Snippet extension Panel for Flash I am setting up a new code repository for Flash Developers. If you don’t know what Snippet’s is, its an extension for Flash that displays a list of code snippets that (…)