Flash Media Servers Get Needed Security Updates
Adobe have just released a bunch of security updates for FMS. The updates appear to cover all versions of FMS and are highly recommended for installation.


Date: 2010-11-19

Using Air Display In Flash iOS Development
A few days ago my mini-display to DVI adapter that connects my external display to my iMac stopped working. Whilst waiting for a replacement I wondered if my iPad could act as a secondary display in the meantime.


Date: 2010-11-12

Flash Developer Take Aways From Adobe MAX 2010
Adobe MAX is always impressive. It offers unparalleled networking, fascinating exhibit hall booths and, for the last few years, excellent unconference sessions - all accessible on a $200 exhibits only pass. The general sessions are always well-rehearsed and theatrical, the sneak peeks interesting (with a cool special guest).


Date: 2010-11-05

Testing Flash On Apple iOS
I know I should be doing 'proper' work but right now I am having way too much fun playing with the Flash CS5 iOS packager.


Date: 2010-10-29

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Date: 2010-10-27

Enabling FMS4 Multicast Streams
A major gotcha when testing locally with FMS4 Dev Edition and multicast (fusion or p2p) is detailed here in the FMS docs. Note the section that says: To run Flash Player from the local file system, do the following to add the folder containing the multicastplayer.swf file to a list of trusted locations.


Date: 2010-10-15

Building a Multi-Platform Flash Based Chat System
In preparation for my session at Streaming Media Europe in a couple of weeks I had a play with the IP multicast feature in Flash today.


Date: 2010-10-08

Adobe Air on the Android
Adobe continues to impress the technological world with consistent advancements. In the recent 2 months, Adobe has been in the news majorly for doing good technological deeds.


Date: 2010-10-01

Return Characters ActionScript
A very quick one. I needed to determine the last n characters from a URL string which points to a file (not web page) in order to return the file extension.


Date: 2010-09-24

Flash Media Server 4 Announcement and Release
Today Adobe announced and released Flash Media Server 4 which they are currently showcasing at IBC in Amsterdam.


Date: 2010-09-17

Flashplayer Adds Acoustic Echo Cancellation
As some of my fellow Flashers have pointed out today, there seems to (finally) be some movement on a much requested feature (with over 550 votes) for Flash: AEC Support (Advanced Echo Cancellation).


Date: 2010-09-10

Flash Camp 2011
UPDATE - FlashCamp Birmingham has now been postponed until March 2011, right in the heart of sunny England. Ok, it may not be sunny but that's just one more reason to spend a day at the Birmingham Library Theatre.


Date: 2010-09-03

Screensharing Feature Now in Flash
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry, but as you've probably heard already it is now possible to incorporate screensharing functionality into your Flash and Flex based applications.


Date: 2010-08-27

Droid 2 Flash Video May Set Precedent
Anyone who wants to see Flash performing well on a mobile device – which Steve Jobs painted as an unprecedented situation about four months ago – shouldn’t need to look any further than the Droid 2. Adobe’s quite pleased with how this phone works with Flash Player 10.1...


Date: 2010-08-13

Bouncing a Ball with Shape Tweening
In this tutorial, we will be using a method called "tweening" to create a bouncing ball. If you are new to Flash, this is a great tutorial for creating something fun and easy at the same time.


Date: 2010-08-06

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Date: 2010-07-22

Flex Style Manager Code
Today I was working on a Flex 3 application which I now want to compile using the Flex 4 SDK.


Date: 2010-07-16

YouTube Declares Flash Is Best For Video Distribution
John Harding, Software Engineer at Google, has posted a lengthy article about the pros and cons of Flash video and HTML5 video support in today's browsers. It's fair to say that the post is in essence a major thumbs up to the Flash Platform.


Date: 2010-07-02

Adobe DevSummit Gets Renamed For 2010
AFPS recognizes the blurring dynamic of the designer/developer workflow, and features the latest developments on the Adobe Flash Platform that is of utmost importance to both developers, as well as designers.


Date: 2010-06-18

Hackers Exploit New Adobe Flash Player Bug
Cybercriminals can get into users' computers via a new security flaw in Adobe Flash player, Adobe Systems Inc. warned Friday.


Date: 2010-06-11

Steve Jobs Talks More About Not Supporting Flash
Steve Jobs starred in the latest episode of the soap opera about Adobe, Apple, and the future of Flash. He appeared at the All Things Digital D8 Conference, discussing a variety of topics, but of course the subject of Flash came up.


Date: 2010-06-04

Google Ends Codec Woes With VP8 Release
At the Google I/O keynote last week some details of what were announced had already public on the web. In particular it is clear - as was expected - that Google has released the source code for the VP8 video codec. VP8 of course is a supposedly high quality video codec which Google now owns after its acquisition of On2.


Date: 2010-05-28

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Date: 2010-05-27

VP8 To Deliver Better Video Than H.264
Jan Ozer was quick on the mark to deliver a side-by-side comparison of video encoded with VP8 (the codec which Google open sourced as recently as two days ago) and H.264, the de-facto codec standard for web video and beyond


Date: 2010-05-21

Streaming Media East: Flash Access 2
Adobe have made some announcements at this week's Streaming Media East Conference in New York and streamingmedia.com has some great coverage on that.


Date: 2010-05-14

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Date: 2010-05-12

Flash Lite Team Explains The Android Delay
I recently interviewed the team that was principally behind the development of Adobe Flash Lite for mobile who quickly saw that Adobe could not keep up with the fast paced developments in mobile.


Date: 2010-05-07

Flash Returns Fire to Steve Job's Smear Campaign
I got to be honest, I was gearing up for a massive rant on the latest PR effort by Apple in which Steve Jobs is trying to defend the company's ridiculous anti-Flash stance. But as it turns out I'm far too slow and some of my friends and colleagues have already said what needs to be said and I therefore would like to simply point you to a few of my favourite posts on the subject.


Date: 2010-04-30

Unreal Streaming Technologies Adds H.264 Support
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Unreal Streaming Technologies
Unreal Streaming Technologies have recently released version 7 of Unreal Media and Live servers, adding H.264 encoding and the ability to stream to Flash player through the support of the RTMP protocol.


Date: 2010-04-23

What the Mobile Web Should Look Like
Maybe - just maybe - Adobe will be delivering on its promise of Flash on mobile this time. If videos such as the one below are anything to go by then now would be a good time to get excited - I know I am.

Date: 2010-04-16

New Flash Media List Materials
Some new materials have just surfaced on the Flash Media List, they include a presentation on RTMFP by Matthew Kaufman. Matthew gave this presentation on Wednesday, March 24 2010 to the IETF. An audio recording is available for download via FTP here (the RTMFP part starts about 1 hour into the recording).

Date: 2010-04-02

SWF Resize Tips in Firefox 3.6
Have you noticed that when viewed in Firefox 3.6 some SWF files seem to mysteriously resize themselves or show a focus border when clicked on?

Date: 2010-03-26

No Flash on the iPad, Adobe Fires Back
There's a ton of chatter on Techmeme today regarding iPad and Flash and HTML 5. Again. In particular don't miss posts from ReadWriteWeb regarding Flash vs. HTML 5 speed and PC World's comparison of HP's new Slate vs. the iPad and how the focus will be on Flash.

Date: 2010-03-12

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Date: 2010-3-03

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Date: 2009-2-26

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Date: 2009-2-22

Flash Comes to the Android Phone
As you may already know, the Mobile World Congress kicked off today in Barcelona and it did not take long for the first announcements to hit the interwebs. Adobe has of course a large presence at MWC and today announced support for Flash Player as well as Adobe AIR on Android devices. While we have seen some demos of Flash running on Android already, support for the AIR runtime gives developers yet another option for deployment on mobile devices, besides the traditional Flash content for (mobile) web browsers that is going to hit mobile screen sometime in the first half of 2010.

Date: 2009-2-19

Open Source Media Framework 0.9 Release
Version 0.9 of the Open Source Media Framework has just been released. For those who haven't heard about OSMF (formerly codenamed Strobe) yet, it is an ActionScript based framework to help facilitate the easy development of media players running on the Flash Platform.

Date: 2009-2-12

Can Google Save Flash?
Let's go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn't work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, ecommerce sites, and others. Why not? Because those sites were coded specifically for the dominant Internet Explorer back then.

Date: 2009-2-05

Adobe Stratus 2 in Flash Platform
Adobe have just announced the immediate availability of the version 2 of Stratus, an update to the existing Peer 2 Peer rendezvous service that was launched in 2008.
In Adobe's words: "Adobe Stratus 2 enables peer assisted networking using the Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) within the Adobe Flash Platform.

Date: 2009-1-29

Flash Chat Framework
I've just received an interesting email from Jaromir Sivic, a czech developer who sent me news about a project of his called 'Radical Flash Chat'.

Date: 2009-1-22

New Media Server Releases from Adobe and Wowza
I'm very late with this piece of news, I know, but in case you haven't heard both Adobe and Wowza have released updates to their respective Media Server technologies. I must admit that one of these updates appears more significant than the other as Wowza have pushed out a major new version with Wowza Media Server 2.0.

Date: 2009-1-15

Flash Websites and SEO
Search engines like Google have gotten a lot better at reading Flash files than they were in the past. In fact, the content of a site written primarily in Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash used to be invisible to a search engine. Although Google is much better at reading and indexing Flash content, most people in the SEO world will still recommend having an HTML-style navigation and content template.

Date: 2009-1-08