I came across this awesome video today of Jared Ficklin and a Ruben's Tube that he setup. Basically, he uses fire to create sound visualizations.
I met Jared at FlashForward in Austin a few months back when he was doing a lecture on sound visualizations in Flash. You may also recognize him from the very cool PBS show "Texas Ranch House".
The new updated beta Flash Player 9.3 (currently available on Adobe Labs) will support a full-screen mode which will allow sites to display full-screen Flash content over the web.
According to this blog post by Emmy Huang from Adobe, there are a few security restrictions that developers need to be aware of, but none of them seem to be anything that is a cause for concern. And, one of those "features" I actually like -- when the user first chooses to switch to full-screen mode, the player will display instructions on how to leave full-screen mode and then fade them out after a few seconds.
I really see sites like YouTube and others with heavy video usage standing to gain the most from this new feature, but I'm excited to give it a go.
More information here:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/10/flash_player_9_3.cfm
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With the new FlashTracer FireFox plugin compliments of Alessandro Crugnola (Sephiroth), you can see all of your (and everyone else's) trace statements from within FireFox. The plugin creates a sidebar that displays all of the output in real-time. This really aids in debugging and will undoubtedly help anyone who is working with remoting or any other server-side integration where running remotely is necessary.
You'll need to download and install the debug version of the Flash Player, which is free from Adobe.
While this isn't a new concept (you can set it up yourself manually following these instructions), this new FireFox plugin really takes all the work out of making it happen. And, it adds a ton of additional features such as searching the output with RegEx, viewing runtime warnings (for Flash 9), and limiting the size of the log file it is writing to.
I must say that last one is the biggest gain for me. I had setup the debug Flash Player and modified the config files to show traces to a text file, but I would have to clear the file just about every day since the filesize would eventually become to big.
Looking forward to putting this one to good use. Thanks Alessandro!
Download for free here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3469/previews/
(more photos after the jump)
Indeed.com has just released their salary search engine that allows you to do a "Google-like" search to estimate your salary worth. Overall the site is very easy to use and produces some fairly accurate results. I say "Google-like" because it gathers the data from over 50 million job postings over the last 12 months. This is a great usage of and extends the "mash-up" theme and concept.
They gather their results by searching through job postings on "thousands of unique sources" and compiling the data. This is very similar to what Mario Klingemann has done for several of his Flash mash-ups, where he uses RegEx to search through an HTML page's source code and pull out only the data he is going to use. This completely removes the need for an open API on your data source because now any website which produces a somewhat consistant HTML page can be used for your data set.
Recently I have found myself changing how I write my e-mails so they don't get labeled as spam and caught in the recipient's spam filter. We've all become so annoyed with spam that we're willing to go overboard on the filtering, which leads to normal non-intrusive emails being labeled as spam.
Does this mean the spammers have won when I am changing how I write my e-mails? Maybe not, but it is sure annoying to have to remember not to put punctuation your subject lines, or to add some additional text even though you just wanted to mail simple one-line URL to someone.
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