Archive for August, 2010

Now Shipping: Flash Media Playback

Posted: August 30, 2010 in Adobe, Media
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Flash Media Playback is a brand new free media player for Flash that makes it much easier to deliver high quality video the widest possible audience using Adobe Flash Player. Flash Media Playback has been designed to make it super simple to deploy video in no time at all with full support for all the [...]

Model Driven Development with Adobe Flex

Posted: August 30, 2010 in LCDS
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Adobe has developed a new technology, code named Fiber, which brings model-driven development to Flex developers. With Fiber, developers start by creating an application model from which they go on to develop the Flex user interface and the server business logic. It is easier and quicker to now develop Flex applications with Flash Builder 4 [...]

Youtube gets an HTML5 website for mobiles

Posted: August 27, 2010 in HTML5
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MOBILE HTML5 VIDEO is now accessible at Youtube through a website dedicated to the format for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Youtube’s owner Google said that with mobile web browsing expected to overtake desktop browsing it has updated its mobile video website for use on-the-go. With the update Google has added features from the [...]

OSM Player – Advanced HTML5 Media Player

Posted: August 19, 2010 in HTML5
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OSM Player is also known as Open Standard Media (OSM) Player. it’s an open source, fully featured HTML 5 supported media player that is written in jQuery to dynamically play any type of web media, including HTML5, YouTube, Vimeo, and Flash. For any non-standard media and browsers without HTML5 support, OSM player automatically fallback to [...]

Accessing the USB port

Posted: August 18, 2010 in API
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The Arduino is an inexpensive, easy to find, open-source hardware prototyping platform.  You can connect a wide variety of sensors and other electronics to it, and then using the open-source as3glue “Physical Interaction Library for Flash” you can communicate via the USB port with Flash or AIR. Arduino: http://www.arduino.cc/ as3glue: http://code.google.com/p/as3glue/ Get an Arduino, a [...]

For communicate with device (in my case a biometric scanner) via RS232. This involves interpreting the serial output from the device and sending the device commands as required. Use the freeware application ‘Serproxy’ to redirect serial communication with the device via a network socket connection to my Air application. Serproxy can be found here:  http://www.lspace.nildram.co.uk/freeware.html [...]

Adobe’s Flash technology has been taking a beating lately. Apple (AAPL) still won’t support it on its upcoming iPad or its iPhone. Steve Jobs calls it buggy and crash-prone and dismisses Adobe (ADBE) as being lazy. Adobe is trying to fight the negative vibes emanating from Cupertino and elsewhere. It has already pointed out that [...]