When it comes to beauty nothing can beat the beauty of nature. Although we, designers, can derive inspiration from almost everywhere, nature often manages to provide us with beautiful eye-catching perspectives we would never have explored otherwise.
Yaquina Head Lighthouse "The Yaquina Head Light also known as Cape Foulweather Lighthouse, is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast of the United States. Built in 1873, it was automated in 1966 and is currently an active aid to…
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Adobe Flash is an excellent technology that allows developers to add interactivity and smooth animations to web pages. Its popularity is so immense that youll find many websites dedicated to helping developers interested in Flash. In this article, youll find 12 wonderful websites thats worth a bookmark if youre looking into sharpening your …
Flash Kit is one of the biggest and oldest community dedicated to Flash development. With over 600,000 members, you won’t have a hard time finding people with a similar interest in Flash. There’s a forums section, free…
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Picsviewr provides a wide variety of slideshows for viewing your Flickr photos with more flexibility.
Every Flickr user has a slideshow here. There is no need to create an account or configure anything and your preferences are saved. Simply enter your flickr username:
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Very cool!
Belgian iPhone coder Thomas Joos posted this video up on YouTube showing his iPhone running Flash Lite. No, this isn't official or Adobe-backed in the slightest way, but rather a port of the software hacked into the iPhone OS using the two…
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A very easy to use photo gallery creator. Choose from several styles and outputs.
Using FotoViewr is so simple, anyone can use it. You dont even need to know how to write code.
“There’s a new beta for Flash Player 10 (Astro) available for Windows, Mac, and — you guessed it — Linux.” Drop-down menus, like the one on Adobe’s webpages, can now properly overlay Flash animations in both Firefox and Opera. There’s also better camera support, better language support and speed and stability improvements.
Performance seems to got better too. More instances of the plugin seem to have a lower impact in performance. Webcam had no improvement in my setup. I tested it with Kopete just to be sure everything was ok, the webcam is working fine with it….
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In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find. Now that weve launched our Flash indexing algorithm, web designer
Q: How does Google “see” the contents of a Flash file? We’ve developed an algorithm that explores Flash files in the same way that a person would, by clicking buttons, entering input, and so on. Our algorithm…
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Adobe has announced that it is working with Google and Yahoo to finally ensure that Flash SWF files are indexable by search engines. Google has already gotten a jump start on this feature that designers have been asking for since the late 90s, too.
This announcement may also result in some major usability changes (for the better) for Flash on the web. In a post to its Webmaster Central Blog, Google wrote that it can now index all kinds of textual content in SWF files, like that…
Google can now index flash files. very good news for webmasters. hopefully flash will be fully searched like normal HTML in coming days
Adobe says they have developed an optimized Flash player for search engines and are collaborating with both Google and Yahoo!. Yahoo! has not yet implemented the technology, although they stated that Yahoo! is committed to supporting webmaster…
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For most people on the Web, if Google or Yahoo cannot find something, it doesnt exist. That has been one of the biggest drawbacks to creating a Website or application that displays itself as a Flash (SWF) file. Search engines could see the file, but they could not see what was in it. Until now.
Perhaps a sitemap.xml-style standard, but specifically taking into account the usage cases for RIAs. Sure, it’ll take some thinking to get even the first iteration close to being “right”, but it’s…
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Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
Why does it take so long for MKV to load? QuickTime expects to know about the entire movie when playing it, but that's not possible with many formats, including MKV and MPEG. Ask Apple to support seeking without an index if you'd like this…
Equinix is responsible for holding massive amounts of data, including storage for popular sites like MySpace.com. Take a tour of the facilities, and see how much energy it takes to keep the Web alive. CNET News.com’s Neha Tiwari reports.
AP to set guidelines for using its stories in blogs
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One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled “Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore.” While Apple maintained high security during the entire NDA-sealed WWDC session, the secret of SproutCore is out because it is an open source project and people can’t stop talking abou
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By now, you've heard of Adobe AIR - the cross-OS runtime that lets you run rich internet applications on your desktop.
In the finance industry, the international corporation that is Deutsche Bank has deployed Adobe AIR to their desktops which lets employees actively monitor activity on their customers' accounts. The AIR solution provided a better alternative…
