Archive for March, 2004

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[Flash Video] Another great video/news portal

March 30th, 2004

If you haven’t seen this yet, check it out NOW! Visit www.comcast.net and click on one of the links to “Watch video” and you’ll be taken to a very innovative, dynamic Flash/FlashCom/FVSS-based video player. You can get video feeds from CBS news, AP, TechTV, E! Entertainment, and several more – for free!

One small catch – I found that it can be strangely difficult to find links to the video player. I’m not sure why they don’t just put a “Watch Videos” link on the home page – or maybe I just missed it…

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RSS Reader plug-in for MS Outlook

March 28th, 2004

NewsGator
Just read about this on John Porcaro’s Blog. Very convenient if you’re an Outlook user.

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If you could have one new “designer” featue in Flash what would it be?

March 26th, 2004

[Re-posting for more comments]

It’s planning time again and the product team has a lot of great ideas. I’m curious to know what your number one designer-oriented feature for the next version might be. Is there something that Photoshop does that you wish Flash did? What about animation tools? Or video-related features?

I’m not prompting you to vent about bugs or the return of old features, I’m really looking for some new ideas that we may not have thought of.

Your ideas and suggestions are very welcome.

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New Demo: Director MX 2004 for Flash users

March 23rd, 2004

We have just posted a new demonstration that I created which provides Flash users with an overview of basic Director MX 2004 concepts like the workspace.

Visit Macromedia On Demand for the free presentation:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/ondemand/index.cfm?id=145&type=1

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Flash Video used to teach sign language

March 22nd, 2004

According to this article, Australian company
Catalyst Communications and Training is building an online sign-language dictionary for the deaf community in Australia.

The article mentions, “Finding the right sign will only be a matter of typing in a word and viewing it as a Macromedia Flash video.”

It’s great to see so many companies opting for Flash as their video delivery platform. A wise choice considering 93% of Web users will be able to see the video (via FLP 6 and up). The second most pervasive video player, Windows Media Player, is only installed on 61% of Internet-connected desktops – and it is an 11MB+ download for Windows! Flash Player 7 is only 463KB for Windows.

The Auslan dictionary will be made available from www.ridbc.org.au.

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