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Stock Flash Site, Introducing 'BuyStockFlash.com'

Buy Stock Flash Sell & Buy Flash Buy or Sell, Start Now – Stock Flash – Royalty Free Stock Flash effects, Video, Audio The New Kid on the block… it’s good to see some competition coming to the stock flash world. BuyStockFlash is revving it up. They are positioned to provide a place where flash-ers [...]

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Web Hosting Search Review

I recently stumbled across a site that could easily help with your web hosting needs. They are called Web Hosting Search and as the name indicates, they don’t offer hosting, but offer a database of different hosting companies which make it easy to search and compare rates and services. I found my current host and [...]

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Flash Video Issue: loadbar (size) vs playbar (time) usability

This deals with some issues I’m having with the seekbar of a player. The seekbar is the area that displays the video time as a bar that shows your current position/percentage of the video, it can also display the loaded portion of the video among other things as well. Including the video players I’ve made, [...]

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CreativePro Office | Helping Freelancers Be Tidy

Doing freelancing it seems like half of the work is not the freelancing. It’s administration, accounting, management etc… I got tired of spending my time doing those types of things and started looking for solutions, I quickly found the FREE CreativePro Office by Jeff Denton at UpStart Productions. It has already made my freelance life [...]

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Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! | Review

Keith Peter‘s Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! Can I just say WOW! Being a student of art and animation before turning to the flash world, I love how Keith is able to explain programming in terms that are very easy to understand and follow. I’ve been a huge fan of his since I [...]

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Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide | Book Review

Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser’s Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner’s Guide. This book is published by O’Reilly and is part of the Adobe Developer Library. This book was a great way for me to move into as3. I’m coming from a visual design background with little formal programming training, to know more of my background [...]

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  • Recent Posts

    Touch Specific Media Queries in CSS4

    Proposals in the works for new media queries specific to touch enabled devices. Examples include pointer, which will differentiate wether the device has a fine or coarse pointer (finger vs mouse) and hover, which would say if the device supports hover states. I can see this being helpful and useful for building mobile friendly sites [...]

    Responsive Image Dispute and Tourists – Analogy

    Jason explains the root of the problem and why no one has been able to devise a solution that makes everyone happy yet. The browsers (in their awesome drive to make browsing faster) are prefetching images and developers want to only use one image based on criteria the browser doesn't know until the layout is [...]

    Google Moog Keyboard Synthesizer Detailed

    This post on creativejs picks apart how this doodlue was made. Nice they they are able to support HTML5 audio even if it is only supported on chrome and the rest fall back to – you guessed it – flash. Embedded Link Google Moog synth tear-down Yesterday we featured Google's web-based analogue synth Moog tribute [...]

    Synth Emulator on Google Japan Doodle Today

    Synth Emulator on Google Japan Doodle Today Embedded Link Moog 自分のオリジナル曲を創って、 #moogdoodle で共有しよう。

    WordPress updates plugin directory

    New additions to the plugin directory include: favorites, incorporating support forums into it's own tab for each plugin as well as support stats being displayed! Great! I think we also need the ability to give plugins ratings and reviews (bonus points if it can be done from within a wordpress admin dashboard when installing plugins). [...]

    Short Head

    Use zipf's short head to tune your website rather than redesign the whole thing. To make a website successful it needs to meet the needs of the users. Find out what those needs are by using the short head philosophy to equate most searched things as the biggest needs of the users. Use personas to [...]

    Img Set?

    Great article at a list apart discusing the state of the industry regarding responsive images. This picks apart the set attribute of the img element from a surprisingly objective view coming from someone so close to the picture element. Insightful discussion about the principle behind the proposals than the actual solution too. If the working [...]

    Triudo

    A mesmerizing animated triangle-ish shape form. Embedded Link triduo triduo

    Git – the paradigm shift

    A great developer story about the differences on what Git is vs other version control and what Git is not. This is how we should learn it. I heard over and over that it was distributed, but never grasped what that meant, so here are a few links and explanations that will help unlearn version [...]

    Tweening Lib comes to Javascript!

    I'm very excited to share the news that the tween library from GreenSock (hands down the best tweening library I used in flash) is not ported for use in javascript! This will be great! I missed that simple syntax from as3 when animating javascript, and now I can have my cake and eat it too. [...]

  • Recent Comments

    Bruce Brownlee

    Bruce Brownlee

    Ah IE6. I'd have 2 more years of sleep without IE6. Margin doubling, no properties,...
    versaena

    versaena

    how to give color at runtime…… thank you
    Mobile Websites

    Mobile Websites

    I disagree, mobile websites are the future – desktop websites and mobile websites...
    Matt Fasick

    Matt Fasick

    That's cool. I like the ripple effect as well.
    Nico

    Nico

    hi! really great job guy! very impressive.. just a question… do u have a solution to do a refresh...
    Evan Mullins

    Evan Mullins

    Agreed! I've just seen some people get pretty heated about separating all functionality...