Dave Curry

10 Essential Adobe Flash Links

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 [...]

Papervision 2.0 BorgEffects – Flash Version

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 [...]

Talking to Twitter via Actionscript 3.0

Please note this post is OLD; from way back in 2007! LATEST UPDATE: Twitter modified their crossdomain policy, which put an end to my flash fun... In other words, this doesn't work anymore the way I wrote it and I don't wanna spend any time updating it! *sigh* I rewrote the myTweets [...]

myTweets Twitter Flash Badge

UPDATE: Twitter modified their crossdomain policy, which put an end to the flash fun. In other words, this doesn't work anymore. *sigh* I wanted a Twitter badge for my site and Twitter is so easy to work with that I decided to whip one up that anyone can use. The myTweets flash [...]

Band Trivia Update – Identify 270 Bands XLS and More

Since the original post I've gotten a whole slew of requests for this file and thankfully a friend of mine found the website that it came from. Without further ado, here are the links to the XLS, its answer key, and a challenging solo artist quiz too. Group Artists Quiz: http://mega-quiz.com/quizzes/others/Groups.xls http://mega-quiz.com/quizzes/others/Groups_Answers.jpg Solo Artists Quiz: http://mega-quiz.com/quizzes/others/Solo%20Artists.xls And the source page, with [...]