Jan
30
Adobe Flash CS4 Trial Download
Kategoria Flash & Flex, General | 69 comments
I just spent about half an hour trying to download the Adobe Flash CS4 Trial from adobe.com. Obviously downloading a file shouldn’t be big thing but now it turned out to be a bit trickier.
Adobe uses Akamai download manager for some downloads and that’s where my trouble started. Everything goes as it is supposed to until the Akamai download manager popup opens. Then… nothing happens. The download doesn’t start. I tried the download first with FF3, then with IE7 and finally with opera. The result was always the same. The download didn’t start. After a little struggle I noticed that the download managers url included urls to both files needed for the installation:
http://trials.adobe.com/dlm.html?files=http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/FlashPro/CS4/Win/ADBEFLPRCS4Win_LS1.exe|http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/FlashPro/CS4/Win/ADBEFLPRCS4Win_LS1.7z
So obviously that is supposed to tell Akamai download manager which files to download except it doesn’t work 
. Not for me anyway. So if you are experiencing same problems just use the direct download links below.
Direct download link to the .7z file
Direct download link to the .exe file
And here is the download link for Mac (thanks to Ukyo):
Direct download link for Mac
Jan
23
GTween beta 5
Kategoria AS3, Flash & Flex | Leave a comment
GTween beta 5 will be out soon. Can’t wait to get my hands on it. Skinner has been working on this fancy sequensing feature that enables you to “jump to any position in the sequence, and everything will display properly for that position”. Go check it out.
Dec
18
Mini Augmented Reality
Kategoria Flash & Flex, Flash 3D | Leave a comment
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTYeuo6pIjY[/youtube]
Wow. Here we go again.
“More than just creative marketing, this new advertisement for MINI uses augmented reality (AR) technology to create a truly interactive media piece out of a 2-dimensional magazine ad. “
All you need is a copy of the ad (download), a webcam, and a web browser (Internet Explorer/ActiveX only) to view the 3-D AR (augmented reality) effect.So why don’t you try it yourself.
Dec
13
I just read Jesse Wardens post “Why Google Analytics for Flash“. So finally we have a proper solution for trackin Flash content. Well yes it has been possible before but you had to write your own logic to accomplish the task. Now you get it with 1 line of code and some fore-thought into the events you’d like to track.
Currently, Flash tracking is available for any Flash content embedded in a web page. So basicly that means that data sent from Adobe Air or other standalone applications is not supported but I can live with that. So go download your ActionScript 3 API for Google Analytics and start trackin.
Dec
10
The 25-Line ActionScript Contest
Kategoria Demo, Flash & Flex | Leave a comment
The finalists are here. Go to “The 25-Line ActionScript Contest“, if you haven’t already, and vote for your favorite demo.
May the best 25 lines win.
Nov
27
Auditorium
Kategoria Flash & Flex | Leave a comment
Amazing game made with Flash. The basic idea is very simple and I guess that is one reason why I love it. It is also visually and technically really impressive. You have to give it a try.
“The Primary Goal of Auditorium is to guide your Flow into the various Audio Containers presented before you. As you fill these Containers, you will energize them. Given enough energy, the containers will begin to sing together in a symphony, providing the ultimate Harmony of Flow. But be advised: While some containers merely require the presence of Flow Energy, some containers will require a specific color of Flow. Beyond that, you may encounter containers that require a combination of two or more colors at a time in order to fill.“
BEAUTIFUL
Nov
20
Papervision – Augmented Reality
Kategoria Flash & Flex, Flash 3D, Video | Leave a comment
Papervision – Augmented Reality from dpinteractive on Vimeo.
WOW! This is crazy.
Read more about it here.
Sep
24
Iconator
Kategoria AS3, Flash & Flex | Leave a comment
Iconator is a small Flash app to generate favicons (16×16). You can either create one from the scratch or upload an image and modify it as needed. When you are done hit the “export” button to save your master piece on your local harddrive.
If you decide to use an existing image and upload it to Iconator you should remember one thing. Uploded pictures will be automatically streched to 16×16 size. So if you upload an image make sure its height and width are equal. Otherwise the image will be distorted.
If you are happy with the results and want to add the favicon to your web site you can use following markup:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
Well… to cut the long story short… give it a try.
Sep
1
Rob-O-Tron live
Kategoria Flash & Flex, Flash 3D | 2 comments
We’ve been working hard the past few weeks at Talvi Digital and finally gave birth to our new improved website. Go Talvi . On the whole it took a lot of working hours to get the site live but it was absolutely worth it. Antti Rautiola was our lead 3D animator and modeller on this project and he really did an awesome job. Great thanks also to Teemu Kutvonen and Mirko Grönroos (and obviously the rest of the team) for assistance.
I was responsible for the site design and putting it all together (Flash site). We’ve been going back and forth with this project but finally found a path to follow and we all are very pleased with the results. We built the show-reel section around this fictive future city called “Rob-O-Tron” and all video material is streamd with Flash Media Server.
Rob-O-Tron The Making of:
Antti Rautiola: “Here is the making of Rob-O-Tron, our new website. Crowd system is made with our in-house crowd plug in (manual-massive). Most of the animation, however, is handmade key-frame stuff.”
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/1644381[/vimeo]
If you want to read more about Talvi please visit our company blog.
Aug
31
Save your drawing as PNG
Kategoria AS3, Flash & Flex | Leave a comment
Here is tiny app to save your drawing as png to your local hard drive. Thanks to joa for this post “Save ByteArray to file with PHP“.
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