Archive for Web Apps
March 5, 2007 at 1:47 pm · Filed under Adobe, Web Apps
I'll bet this has been blogged about quite a bit today, but maybe it is worth posting again: Adobe CS3 will be formally announced on March 27th. I found this post on an official Adobe blog that speaks to the release. One thing to note is that while the apps will be offically announced on the 27th, they won't actually be shipping until later in the Spring. Here's hoping that they release a complete feature listing on the 27th.
As a side note, I noticed my beta of Fireworks CS3 expired today, so this date may have been planned for some time now.
[Update: a new build of Fireworks was released with an extended cutoff date, I just hadn't checked or downloaded it.]
February 14, 2007 at 3:32 pm · Filed under Flash, FlashForward Conference, Flex, Web Apps
At FlashForward 2006 in Austin Wallop was all the rage. They threw an awesome kickoff party, were looking for all the Flash developers they could to help build 'widgets' for their platform, and everyone was blogging about how cool it was of an idea.
In the past few months I hadn't heard a word about Wallop. I was wondering what happened, and today I saw a blog post from Ryan Stewart entitled "Signs of life at Wallop". It helps to explain the lack of communication coming out of Wallop/Microsoft (where it was founded -- surprising, I know, considering it is developed fully in Flash).
But, I'm interested to hear if anyone is still using, or better yet developing for, Wallop. It looks like they may be re-developing in Flex and I'm sure with all the hoopla around Flex these days that they'll pick up some interest there.
Check out Ryan's post here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=262
January 10, 2007 at 1:48 pm · Filed under Flash, Web Apps
I came across this great Flash application this afternoon:
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=22
They Rule is listed on the Visual Complexity site, and is a wonderful example of a visual thinking tool. It takes a large database of information, in this case the board of directors for Fortune 500 companies, and shows their relationships in an highly visual and easily understood format.
For instance, did you know McDonald's and Nike share a member of their board of directors?
November 1, 2006 at 12:00 am · Filed under Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Web Apps
Do you use SWFObject? If not, there is now even more reason why you should be. Today I came across a project called SWFAddress, which describes itself as such:
SWFAddress is a small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications. In other words it enables the Back, Forward and Refresh buttons of the browser and creates unique URLs with page titles that can be sent over email or IM.
Their samples work amazingly well, and it is extremely simple to implement -- they even provide AS2 and AS3 classes to use. It supports all major browsers including IE 6/7, FireFox 1.5/2, Safari 2.04+ and Opera 9.02. Finally, this may be the end of one of the largest usability gripes about Flash!
October 25, 2006 at 12:02 pm · Filed under Tech, Web Apps
Since I have started this blog I have been scouring the internet looking for an acceptable spell checker for WordPress. To date I haven't found one that wasn't either a pain to install, use, or that I tried for a week and then found completely unusable. I really didn't think that highlighting my incorrectly spelled words could be that difficult in the day-and-age of AJAX.
Today I installed Firefox 2 and... *problem solved*. Firefox 2 includes a wonderful automatic spell checker that, like Microsoft Word, checks your spelling as you type and underlines any words that it deems misspelled. Just... perfect. Exactly what I was looking for.
There are a lot of usability fixes to FF 2 as well, making the UI that much more rock solid.
Download the always free browser here:
http://www.getfirefox.com
October 3, 2006 at 1:45 pm · Filed under Business, Flash, Web Apps
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.
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