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Flash Player Detection Kit Macrochat has just finished ...

... and here you can find the recorded version of Macrochat featuring Macromedia Senior Technical Support Engineer Jason Wylie presenting :

"Introducing the Flash Player Detection Kit" (see the recorded version)

I found it very interesting and focused.... thanks Jason !

The list of upcoming Macrochats can be found at: www.macromedia.com/community

Nice Flash tour for Adobe Acrobat 7

Navigating on Adobe site i found this flash tour on how Acrobat 7 helps us to work together better.
I appreciate the interactivity of the presentation.
Nice work !!

Go and see your own.

Breeze session : FLV Videos and text sync with Flash and AS2

On 2 Feb 2005 at 5 PM, I'll hold a Macromedia Breeze Live WebClasses session for Macromedia Italy.
We'll focus on developing a small flash videolayer that loads flv video and some data from an xml file.
Videos loaded into the user interface are automotically synchronazed to text contained inside the xml document.
You can see the final application runs here : http://www.genesoft.it/tqlinea/demoTQSis_Web.asp

All info on Macromedia Webclasses page.

To subscribe to the session go here, it's totally free :)

FlashFocus 2004 Slide and Examples

During my last conference for Macromedia, Flash Focus 2004, many people asked me to publish the slides and examples showed during the session.
I'm terribly sorry for the delay, i've just done it :(

Here is the link where you can download :
1_Slide_XML_Flash2004
2_Slide_Actionscript revolution
3_Slide_Flash_Remoting
4_Slide_SharedObject
5_Slide_Flash_Video
6_Slide_ComponentV2
6_Slide_Flash Communication Server 1.5
7_Slide_AS2
8_Slide_CSS_Flash2004
9_Slide_Flash v. 7_2
10_Slide_Flex_Central_Dir

Download'em all !! (10.5 MB, Italian language)
http://www.genesoft.it/demo/FlashFocus2004_PPT.zip

Sooner I'll publish all examples developed during the conference !!
thanks for the patience !

My first work using Macromedia Captivate

I'was very excited to be involved in a project that permited to use the new Macromedia Captivate to create some demos and simulations.
Here is the final result :

http://www.genesoft.it/tqlinea/demo/tara/main.htm

New Peldi's Coding Cafe : Best Practices in AS2 and FlashCom Programming

We are waiting for it for a long and now here it is. The new Peldi's Coding Cafè session with 2 hour-long  breeze conference !! Wow !!!

When: Saturday, Jan.22nd, 2005: 9:00am PST (that's 5:00pm GMT), and it will last TWO hours (I have a lot to cover).

Where: http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/r79943869/

Flex Guide by InformIt

Two new chapters were added to the InformIt Flash Reference Guide.
They are about developing Rich Internet Application using Macromedia Flex :

Building Rich Internet Applications: Using Macromedia Flex
Authoring with Flex
Publishing with Flex

I also reccomend to read the Introduction to Rich Internet Applications guide published on the same site.

MM Q3 Breezo : 10.000+ Flash Video Kit Shipped and new strategic agreement with Samsung for mobile

Macromedia today reported financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31, 2004.
We can see the Breeze presentation here.
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/ir/macr/web_pres/earnings/q305/

Some interesting topics are :

  - 10.000+ flash video kits shipped fo r the dreaweaver community

- some new great interactive flash video examples

ABCNEWS : http://abcnews.go.com/
TOYOTA : http://toyota.jp/sp/isis/
IMAGINASIAN TV : http://www.iatv.tv/index2.php
WWE : http://www.wwe.com/sponsoredby.html

- Flex had a really good quarter, It growths especially in the financial services

- 2 new Flex examples :

Mens Apparel : http://www.tjmaxx.com/home.jsp (shopping cart system)
Pahoros Reizen : http://www.pharosreizen.nl/stedentrips/

- New eary Blackstone feedbacks (slide 13 and 14)



- Macromedia Breeze

- great quarters for Breeze Customers. Some examples are : BMW, Epson, Pepco, Sun Microsystem, NTT DoCoMo, SBC, Siemens, Pfizer, NATO, US Army, University of Washington

- Contribute : new partnership with Ebay, more than 250 new customers (Sony, NASA, Hitachi, VISA ...)

- Ship first Macromedia branded version of Robodemo : Captivate.

- FlashLite : new strategic agreement to license FlashLite on Samsung mobile phones. first available only in Korea.

- Approximately 15 million NTT DoCoMo subscribers have Flash-enabled devices.
http://www.macromedia.com/mobile/news_reviews/special/docomo_flashlite.pdf

- 3GSM World Congress on 14-17 Feb 2005, Cannes - France http://www.3gsmworldcongress.com/2005/default.asp

Macromedia Captivate in action : Swift 3d interactive tutorials

Electricrain realesed a great series of tutorials for their Swift 3D ver. 4  product developed with Macromedia Captivate.

You can see the result here : http://www.erain.com/support/Tutorials/v4/series/index.html

During these days i'm using Macromedia Captivate and I find it an impressive software for creating simulations and software demonstrations.

For further info about Captivate folllow these links :

- Captivate Flash Paper Datasheet
- Captivate Features
- Working with Breeze and Flash
- Breeze presentation
- Download Free trial

Search result clustering (SRC) Algorithm

Via BetaNews I read that  Microsoft Research Asia's Web Search and Mining Group has engineered the SRC algorithm to efficiently scan for distinct and independent keywords so that clusters can be formed "on-the-fly."

I googled for the SRC algorithm and I found a lot of resources. We're thinking about developing an actionscript class to perform this kind of algorithm for our VideoCV web application.
Anybody has already developed something about that ?