Giacomo Guilizzoni – QA Engineer at Macromedia writes tutorial in creating your first broadcast with Flash Communication Server MX. The article contains a nice streaming video swf which introduces you to some of the capabilities of the streaming server with a nice video and narration ::: www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flashcom/articles/broadcast.html
The tutorial also comments on the “Synchronizing a Flash presentation to streaming video” article written by Odopod.
Odopod and Macromedia created a Presentation with Jeremy Allaire showcasing the MX capabilities. It is an excellent taste sample on the focus of User Experience and “Rich Internet Applications” which Macromedia is addressing with their new MX products.
Micheal Williams writes white paper on AS standards
Micheal Williams from Macromedia has written a white paper on ActionScript standards which is available for download from the DevNet subsite on at Macromedia.com. This PDF is very useful and a required read if you’re an ActionScript developer. ::: www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/whitepapers/actionscript_standards.pdf (large pdf – 715KB)
Karen Ingram beautiful portfolio site
The beautiful portfolio website of Karen Ingram. Her work has been featured numerous times online, in a number of publications here is one for example from ComputerArts magazine. I revisit her site once again for a little creative inspiration ::: http://www.krening.com
Word usage and identifying trends
New Scientist report on an interesting topic of studying word-usage counts as a way of rapidly identifying new trends and sorting information more efficiently.
Developed by Jon Kleinberg from Cornell University in New York, his new algorithm identifys bursts of word use in documents. Unlike traditional techniques of simply counting words, this approach takes into account the rate at which the word usage increases and can potentially suggest and track new social trends.
::: www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993405
Signlanguage reading software
An interesting innovation that allows translation software interpret signed language and translate it to english.
The software was developed by a few computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. The software reads Chinese signs and quickly translates them into English using nothing more than a palm-size computer equipped with a small camera. ::: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation60303.asp
MacWhispers comments on expected Mac software
MacWhispers, a site devoted to the rumoured Apple software and hardware related news, comments on some interesting apple products that might be in the pipeline, including an ultrabook. ::: www.envestco2.com/macwhispers/archives/000030.php and www.envestco2.com/macwhispers/archives/000028.php
Edward Tufte’s 2nd edition book of Envisioning Information
I revist design master Edward Tufte’s website to look for his 2nd edition of his book, Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information (2nd Edition) and also to revisit the ASK-ET section, where users/people ask questions about information design and architecture topics.
Jeffrey Veen recently commented on the application of Tufte’s principles in a Mac OS X “chartjunk” software. His website now contains a new section on writings, essays by Edward Tufte.
Edward Tufte is a renowned information designer, who has written and spoken extensively on how we visually interpret and represent data/information.
Google buys Blogger
An interesting article I came across earlier today is that Google, the search engine giant has purchased Pyra Labs, the maker of Blogger.
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000802.shtml#0008
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Kevin Lynch has an interesting view on this with a few links to some articles, links and blogs including Evan Williams (co-founder and recently ex-CEO of Pyra Labs)
Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction
I came across this hilarious site while stumbling over fellow Sydney MT blog’er Peter Hollo‘s website for the first time.
404 Not Found (Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction) ::: www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Read the error page carefully.
What is PGP?
PGP stands for ?Pretty Good Privacy?. It?s an excellent public-key encryption package that you can use to secure communications from a client to server.
It is available also as an open source version and is owned by PGP Corporation. They are a recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, that allow and ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure.
Over the last 6 years, PGP has built a global reputation for open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world’s largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. ::: http://www.pgp.com
A listing of their products can be found here:
http://www.pgp.com/display.php?pageID=2
Brendan Dawes comments on content over technology
An interesting article by Brendan Dawes titled “Flash: Content over tehcnology”. The article comments on originality and the quality of your ideas rather than knowing a particular software application inside out. ::: www.computerarts.co.uk/galleries/profile.asp?id=31954
Excerpts from Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization
Two interesting excerpts from the “Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization” book by Andrew B. King (ISBN:?0735713243). The excerpts are from chapter 9 and 10 of the book and are titled
Chapter 9: Optimizing JavaScript for Download Speed
Chapter 10: Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed
::: www.webreference.com/programming/optimize/speedup
New Safari browser update
A new update to the Safari browser has been released ::: www.apple.com/safari
The Safari Update 2-12-03 improves the compatibility with popular web sites based on Safari user feedback, further improves the performance of loading web pages and Flash content, adds support for XML, increases standards conformance and delivers improved application stability. The update also enables access to web sites that offer self-signed security certificates.
2Advanced launches Bacardi Dj SoundStudio
2Advanced studios launches the Bacardi Dj SoundStudio website ::: http://www.bacardidj.com
John Gaunt's Redfive Standing By site
The John Gaunt website titled “Redfive Standing By” ::: www.redfive.ws