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Flash, Flex in the world
Google: 1-0 in Flash vs Sliverlight
Andrei Ionescu | 13.09.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

In this article from Google Webmaster Tools is presented the way Google manages Rich Media Files and Formats.
Some important points:

Google can index text in any flash content
sIFR is indexed as text by Google
Google is continually working to improve our indexing of Flash files
Google still have problems accessing the content of other rich media formats such [...]
Flash, Pixel Bender
Pixel Bender New Version Available: 1.5.1
Andrei Ionescu | 05.09.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Yesterday, Adobe released a new version of Pixel Bender. Now the last version released is 1.5.1.
If you don’t know what is Pixel Bender, this is in short words….
An image and video processing infrastructure with runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware.
You can get it from Adobe Labs (about page and download page) and now there is [...]
AIR, Bugs, Flash, Flash Player, Security
New Versions of Flash Player and AIR Available
Andrei Ionescu | 03.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last end of the week has been a busy time for Adobe. They released quite a few updates to Flash and AIR platforms and some security updates for Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Acrobat.
Now the last public version of Flash Player is 10.0.32.18 and can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. The update refers to this security [...]
ActionScript, Flash, Flex in the world, Flex news, Flex resources, Magazines
Starting with September 2009 FFDMag Will Be a Free Online Magazine
Andrei Ionescu | 28.07.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This is a good thing for us, developers. We will have the possibility to access this good resource free and easy. To quote their press release:
Since September 2009 FFD Magazine becomes online magazine. What is important – it will be also FREE of ANY charges. The only thing you need to do is to sign [...]
Errors, Flash, Flash CS4 Professional, How to
Flash Import Error: “One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them”
Andrei Ionescu | 27.07.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

The last week I have been working on a Flash/Actionscript 3 project and everything worked well. The project got in an 75% finalized. Meanwhile I needed to install a software product and it crashed my Windows Vista. Saved the important data and tried to fix it without having to reinstall the whole OS and all [...]
Flash, Flash CS4 Professional
Does Your Flash CS4 Professional Crashes When Trying To Edit Text Objects Containing Corrupted Fonts?
Andrei Ionescu | 23.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

If your Flash CS4 crashes when you try to edit some text object is because there is a problem with the font – it may be corrupted or may contain ambiguous data or there are more than one font with the same name or the font symbol name is identical to the Postscript name of [...]
Flash, SEO
Google Is Indexing Flash with External Resource Loading
Andrei Ionescu | 22.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

On 18th of June Google announced that now they support Flash indexing with external resource loading.
Quoting Janis Stipins, Software Engineer at Google:
This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file – whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc. – we can index this external content too, and associate [...]
Flash, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 SDK, Flex news, Flexer
Bucharest Pit Stop Passed
Andrei Ionescu | 11.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday (10.06.2009) at Adobe Systems Romania offices took place the Adobe User Groups Tour – Bucharest Pit Stop event. The event was a success – great things presented. Even all tickets were sold out long time before the event only 40 persons showed up at the event.

The event was about new beta products that [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flex Builder Rebranded into Flash Builder
Andrei Ionescu | 21.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]
ActionScript, Flash, Flex Builder 3, How to, MXML
Very First Flex Preloader Customization For Flex Builder 3/Flex SDK 3.2
Andrei Ionescu | 22.01.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

In a previous article I explained how to create a custom preloader that will replace the very first flex preloader (the one that appears when starting application). That article was created using Flex Builder 2 and now needs an update because Flex Builder is at version 3 since a good time and Gumbo is on [...]
Flash, Flex in the world, Flex news
Adobe MAX 2008 Europe – MAX Awards
Andrei Ionescu | 08.12.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

As we promised we are coming back with an article about the MAX Awards in Milano. The awards were structured in three categories: Design, Development and Envision.
Here are the nominees…
Design

Lacoste Future Tennis (http://www.lacoste-future.com)
Audi A5 by GT London (http://www.rhythmoflines.co.uk)
Alfa Romeo Experience 159 by Soleil Noir (http://www.experience159.com)

… and the winner is: Alfa Romeo Experience 159 by Soleil [...]
Flash
FlashPaper @ The End Of Its Life
Andrei Ionescu | 09.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

FlashPaper is at the end of its life. Is official!
As Adobe said when they bought Macromedia… FlashPaper is discontinued! So no more updates and no hope for Vista/IE7 version. They will still give support and for a period of time Adobe will even sell it.
More about it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/eod_faq/
ActionScript, Flash, RIA
New RIA on The Market – Pixlr
Andrei Ionescu | 08.09.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

New Rich Internet Application is out on the market – Pixlr, a web based image editor, was launched on 17th of August 2008! The most interesting thing is that is created by one person and is by far the closest image editor to Photoshop. Pixlr has layers, filters, adjusments, brushes, etc.
What can we say: WOW! [...]
Flash
Unveiling of Flash CS4 & Adobe Creative Suite 4 on 23rd of September
Andrei Ionescu | 03.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Is official! Adobe will unveil their new Adobe Creative Suite 4 (including Flash CS4) on 23rd of September. Although this is not a release this shows us that Adobe CS4 is ready to be released very soon.
You can see the unveiling watching Adobe’s special web broadcast clicking here and registering.
Enjoy it!
Links:
http://www.adobe.com/go/somethingbrilliant
http://theflashblog.com/?p=431
Flash, Flash Player, Flex news, RIA, SEO
Google And Yahoo! Are Indexing SWF Files
Andrei Ionescu | 01.07.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

This is a great news! I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time. If you don’t believe me that Google is indexing flash try to search on Google by this kind of phrases: “flex filetype:swf“; and you’ll get a list of SWF files that were indexed by Google.
How does Google do this? [...]

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