Update: Some of you did not see the demo the way it’s shown in the screen shot. This is because in my wisdom to get it up fast I embedded the font instead of loading it for run-time sharing. So if you did not have the font installed, you did not see the demo the [...]

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I have been trying to find ways to fill the strokes of dynamic text for my own manipulation. With AS2 it was only possible by hard-coding the positions of the strokes of each letter and number. That’s cumbersome. But with AS3, we have getPixel(), a BitmapData method that returns the color value of any given [...]

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If you upgraded to Firefox 3 you know that you can no longer use the Flash Switcher Plug-in. Here we have a neat little browser-independent widget for the Mac. It works well except installation is bit of a PITA. So far I have not been able to install Flash Player 8 and down because I [...]

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The ease of use has prompted me to throw together a couple of more demos. I must admit, I don’t dig the low level details of complex math, matrix algorithm, 3D logic, or whatever you call it. On top of that, I’m a lazy coder. If it’s easy to use and it works, it will [...]

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FIVe3D does not have camera or collada support; it lacks all the primitives such as Papervision or other 3D API have. But for your everyday Flash websites it will more than suffice. Wow factor? It’s all about how you use the tool.
Don’t believe me? Check out the demo I just threw together in minutes. Right-click [...]

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Update: Just a note that the “Settings” and “About Adobe Flash Player…” buttons are a requirement of the player. It is not possible to remove them via AS.
I am going to show you how to customize the right-click menu in ActionScript 3 as I have done in my photo gallery. AS3 already provides you with [...]

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Here’s another experiment with PV3D. This time applying real-time shadow in 3D by using 2 cameras and 2 viewports. The shadow is basically the same object with a blur filter and ColorTransform applied.

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The new 2.0 has a few new exciting things going. I got to play with PV3D’s primitives classes and I am still trying to figure out how to get the shaders to work. As you can see the light object is there but the actual shades don’t show. But everything looks smooth and promising. Click [...]

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Microsoft is removing the click to activate feature on IE after deciding to pay licensing fees to Eolas for the technologies.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/11/08/ie-automatic-component-activation-changes-to-ie-activex-update.aspx

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Today, Adobe let us in on some new features of the next Flash Player 10. Calling it the “next generation of Flash”, Adobe adds advanced text layout support (about time), new 3D features (about time), and introduces a new bitmap/blend effect scripting language, Hydra.

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