Want to Make Money from Flash Games?

10/08/2008 09:34 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

You can now. Google just released Adsense for Game, called Google In-Game Advertising. Current Requirements: Game plays: Minimum 500,000 per day Game types: Web-based Flash only Integration: Must be technically capable of SDK integration Traffic source: Must be 80% US & UK Traffic Content: Family safe and targeted at users age 13 and up Distribution: Must be able to report embed [...]

Curious about what’s new in CS4?

09/29/2008 06:52 am in Adobe Flash

I found some great videos on Adobe TV about the soon to be released Creative Suite 4: Adobe CS4 Launch Broadcast - tons of demos - 1 hour long Web Premium CS4 Feature Tour - multiple videos Production Premium CS4 Feature Tour - multiple videos Design Premium CS4 Feature Tour - multiple videos A matrix showing the different editions is [...]

Digest Adobe CS4 Announcement

09/25/2008 06:45 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

Adobe announced the release of Creative Suite 4 (CS4) and claims CS4 that “radical workflow breakthroughs, new levels of Flash expressiveness and integration anchor Adobe’s biggest software release.” Man! that’s quite a statement. Let me try to digest some of it: Delivering radical workflow breakthroughs that bring down the walls between designers and developers The wall between [...]

Streaming Flash Movie with Ruby

09/21/2008 04:27 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

If you can do that then it means you can create a Rails Flash movie server. Yes, you do, with RubyIZUMI. RubyIZUMI is an open source RTMP Server for Flash Video/Audio Streaming. It is written in (Pure) Ruby and it supports to broadcast MP4(H.264 + AAC). You can watch it on the latest Flash player [...]

Flex Magazines!

09/06/2008 02:01 pm in Adobe Flash

Two Flex magazines - Flex Authority and Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. Both both print and PDF subscriptions. Thanks to Judah Frangipane for discovering these. P.S. How long has it been since you saw a blinking font? Wow. (Flash and Flex Dev Mag website is like a 1995 flashback - but according to Judah, it’s not an [...]

Develop Flash Application in Ruby

08/18/2008 05:32 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

There are this IronMonkey open source project that will enable Flash development using language rather than ActionScript. Here is another one, HotRuby. HotRuby is a Ruby VM written JavaScript (yes, it’s odd and interesting), which runs opcode compiled by YARV. Here are examples of developed using HotRuby: Pinball - Flash and Box2DFlashAS3 - Flash. But, don’t get [...]

Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming

08/15/2008 05:28 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

I believe there are lots of Flash game developers and wanabes around. Game programming is really not about programming or coding. It’s all about applying algorithms to creativity. I run into this site gives you all the basic for game programming. You can scan through and see if game programming is your thing. To even try [...]

Flash is now Searchable

07/02/2008 12:49 am by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

Fantastic news for all users of Flash technology! Today Adobe announced that they are teaming up with major search engines such as Google and Yahoo to make Flash search-able. Adobe is providing Yahoo and Google with optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to enhance their ability to search the SWF file format and uncover information that [...]

Adobe Acrobat 9 microsite introduces new features via online tour, videos

07/01/2008 02:26 am in Adobe Flash

Every project we’ve completed for Adobe has pushed our abilities creatively, and the Acrobat 9 microsite was no exception. With all the innovative features that extend Acrobat 9 beyond the document reader, we needed to tell a story from which new and experienced users would benefit - one that would allow them to fully grasp the significant advances [...]

Can’t Apple and Adobe Just Get Along?

06/27/2008 11:37 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it looks like all of those rumors of of Flash for the iPhone are wrong: Adobe Systems Inc. felt the sting of the iPhone in March when Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs dismissed a cellphone version of Adobe’s flash media player as not fit for the iPhone. Ever since, an [...]

How Search Engines Index Flash Sites

06/05/2008 11:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

SEO is always on the minds of flash site designers. How well or unwell are flash sites indexed by search engines? How at all? Google was the first engine to index .PDFs, .DOCs, other dynamic content, and also flash, through its in-house methods. Later, FAST became the first engine to index flash sites using the Flash [...]

SmallWorld Is Flashingly Bigger

06/04/2008 07:15 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

The Flash and Flex based new startup virtual world SmallWorld finally opens its door to beta testers. If you previously signed up for the beta then you should be able to login and find the virtual you in the small world. I did. The experience is very different from Second Life. I guess because of avoiding [...]

Flashing Handwriting Analysis

05/28/2008 06:31 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

Bumped into this very interesting Flash site that does analysis on you handwriting and the result could be either entertaining or surprising, TUL.com. Basically you click through the choices that illustrate the handwriting types and at the end the video shows you what kind of person you are. You need be patient though because you have [...]

A Handy Flash Brainstorm Tool

05/27/2008 10:10 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

Sometimes you just want to dump what ever in your mind to somewhere, someplace or some software. You can only move on when you know that you won’t loss what you had in mind. That’s why there are those brainstorm software such as the popular MindJet’s MingManager. Sometimes you just want to have something simple [...]

Flash Timer Count Elapsed Time Since China’s Earthquake

05/20/2008 07:59 am by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

To support the relief effort for China’s earthquake, the china-earthquake-relief.com needs a Flash timer to remind the time elapsed since the earthquake stroke at 14:28 May 12, 2008. So we made one. It’s a Flash application developed right out of Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. It can be easily down with Flex but then the size [...]

Astro: Flash Player 10 - Available Now!

05/15/2008 07:07 am by FlashGuru Consulting in Adobe Flash

Today Adobe have released a beta version of Flash Player 10 to the masses. Its available to download now on Adobe Labs, there you will find various demos that showcase some of the new features in the player. The latest player features some of the most requested features since the release of the last version of [...]

Flash Visual Search Goes Extra Miles

05/14/2008 06:30 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

RIA based applications never cease to impress and Viewzi takes this even forward by presenting features that can literally change the way you search on the internet. Essentially it’s a Flash based visual Search engine. It gives a chance to users to seek content of their choice visually and in many specialized way. The interactivity [...]

10000 Cents in Flash

04/23/2008 01:11 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

Among variety of interesting projects floating in the cyber world, Ten Thousand Cents stands outs for its ingenuity. There is something intriguing about how www.tenthousandcents.com materialized and much of it points to how technology these days is fructifying new ideas. Basically the project is a digital artwork which represents a $100 bill with each small [...]

Calling all Flash Devs. Please add deep-linking to your websites and un-break the web.

04/18/2008 01:00 am by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Adobe Flash

Content is still king. When you lock your awesome content away you lose, your visitors lose, and Flash as a platform gets a bad rap: “stupid Flash interface.” All this can be avoided with some simple code that provides deep-linking to your great content. Our series of tubes is powered by a series of links. [...]

Play YouTube Videos with Silverlight 2.0

04/08/2008 12:58 am by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Adobe Flash

I had to wait to post this, since it would have probably just been passed over as some kind of joke if I posted it last week (April 1st). I wanted to experiment using the [ScriptableType] attribute of C# classes in Silverlight 2.0 and thought this would be a perfect test case. Here’s some really [...]

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