Adobe Flash Player Version Penetration

Worldwide Ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player by Version

http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html

Adobe Flash Player Version Check

You need to know what version you're running, and so do your testers. Sharing this link is an easy way to get people to upgrade.

Under "Adobe Flash Player" roll over "About"

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

Archived Flash Players Available for Testing Purposes

You can download archived Adobe Flash Players from the Adobe website. The archived versions are available specifically for Flash developers who are assessing their sites from the perspective of users with earlier versions of Flash Player.

http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14266

ActionScriptCheatSheet

Adobe Flex Language Reference Cheatsheets. Adobe AIR Language Reference Cheatsheets. ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference Cheatsheets. Papervision3D API Cheatsheets.

http://www.actionscriptcheatsheet.com/

SWFObject

SWFObject is an easy-to-use and standards-friendly method to embed Flash content, which utilizes one small JavaScript file.

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

SWFAddress

SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax.

http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/

TweenLite

A Lightweight (3K) and FAST Tweening Engine

http://blog.greensock.com/tweenliteas3/

Lee Brimelow's The Flash Blog

Lee is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities, and his site is required reading.

http://theflashblog.com/

[ draw.logic ]

draw.logic is a great blog to help you keep up with actionscript-related releases and issues.

http://drawlogic.com/

... and ActionscriptAPIs

ActionScriptAPIs is an up to date resource tracking AS3 and AS2 application programming interfaces for Flash/Flex/AIR designers and programmers... and it's mine. I've been wanting to set this up for a while and thanks to Godaddy, Tumblr and a few spare hours another tiny site is born.

http://actionscriptapis.com/

Many thanks to the iphone-dev team and all of their hard work. Those guys rule.

My upgrade was not without a few "oh @#$%&?! moments", but downloading the firmware from Apple via iTunes and the 2.0.1 version of the pwnage tool made all of the difference in the world.

After accidentally upgrading to 2.0 and putting my phone in emergency calls only mode, I followed the upgrade steps found on this page and everything worked brilliantly.

Just search for "iPhone 2.0 Upgrade Steps for 2G iPhones ACCIDENTALLY Upgraded to 2.0 already." in the comments.

I open up iTunes this morning...

And then...

Gee, thanks, Apple.

Wow, that was fast. I set aside a big chunk of my Sunday to upgrade to 1.1.4 and thanks to ZiPhone 2.5, it only took about 10 minutes. That was by far the easiest upgrade I've ever done on my iPhone.

I really should put some music on there, huh?

Yesterday I snagged Andy Zupko's super-amazing BorgEffects download which demos his new Effects branch for Papervision 2.0. It's very exciting stuff!

Since I'm not a big-time Flex user, I converted his borgEffects.as for use in the Flash IDE and decided to make it available for download. I thought it might be helpful to those struggling with Flex to Flash conversions.

Of course, I couldn't resist making a few changes by just messing around;

randomly changing the colorTransform settings onClick

using a different texture

changing the clippingPoint

etc...

To highlight the Flex to Flash diffs, I've commented my BorgEffects_flash.as like so:

// the FLEX WAY
//dae.load(XML(new shipAsset()), mats);
// the FLASH WAY
dae.load("cube.dae", mats);

To make it all hum, you'll need the latest build from the Papervision respository and be sure to point the BorgEffects_flash.fla Actionscript 3.0 Classpath to the class files in /branches/Effects/src.

Download the source files and have fun.

EDIT: I'm not sure exactly which revision of Great White this demo used, but since 2007 I'm sure a lot has changed. Proceed with caution!

This past Thursday night, Joel Eby and I gave a spirited presentation on Process of Design, focusing on a single project we had collaborated on at POP.

The event was organized by James Robinson of Mercury Cloud and held at their sweet offices. Kudos to James for putting this event together.

Jamie Monberg from HADW and James Robinson both shared smart and engaging presentations to an audience of 80+ designers.

The event was overwhelmingly positive and inspiring, and we are thrilled to have contributed to this new dialogue happening within Seattle's Interactive Design Community.

Over the past year I've gotten a lot of requests for my Zach Braff mii thanks to Kottke's celebrity mii contest. Now anyone can grab good 'ole Z.B. from the Check Mii Out channel that launched today.

Z.B. and a few of my favorites have been posted along with their entry codes. If you want to find them, just plug those entry codes into the Check Mii Out search.

Zach Braff Mii - 4031-8109-6516

Jerri Blank Mii - 7168-9119-0990

Luke Wilson Mii - 1127-8871-4030

Tom Cruise Mii - 5494-8549-6139

Jack Black Mii - 5497-5159-1634

Kyle Gass Mii - 9251-7484-3710

I've always loved Groucho and today CBS Sunday Morning aired a remembrance. Groucho died 30 years ago today.

Growing up I'd never miss a Marx Brothers movie. My parents had a subscription to TV Guide and I'd carefully read its pages looking for a funny film to watch on the weekends. A Duck Soup airing on Sunday afternoon was a real treat. Even today, I'll pretty much drop everything to watch one of their films on Turner Classic Movies.

CBS also posted this article on their site.