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How Flash help the TV medias

February 25th, 2006 at 12:12 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Flash



I’m positively surprised by the TSR (Swiss TV) were I work as a freelance.
They really use the new possibility of Flash. Their website is mostly using some Flash 7 adds for broadcasting news and TV show. Nothing revolutionary will you think but it’s not all. One of the show about the new technologies use some [...]

My Visit Card

February 20th, 2006 at 1:45 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Flash Lite



I have read around recently about Flash Lite business cards, so I thought i would post mine.

It was done with Flash Lite 1.1.
It’s simple dynamic textfield loading the data from a txt file online.
So if I have to change my phone number, my address or anything else it will directly be updated the next time [...]

Three Dimensional Images in the Air

February 18th, 2006 at 10:41 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in General



Incredible article I read today from The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, they managed to make a 3D image floating in the air. They didn’t mentioned anything about motion, but they said:
The emission time of the laser pulse light is on the order of a nano-second (10-9 sec). Our device uses [...]

The Benefits of Making your Website Accessible

February 15th, 2006 at 11:13 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Usability, Web Design



According to Trenton Moss of Webcredible (http://www.webcredible.co.uk), there are seven reasons to make your website accessible :

Your website will be easier to update
Your website will be compatible with new browsing technologies
Your website will appear higher in the search engines
You will not have to incur legal fees
The download time of your website will be significantly improved
The [...]

Flash Movie Contest

February 15th, 2006 at 4:29 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Contest



Citizens for Global Solutions is holding a contest for students, budding artists, multi-media designers, and activists who are interested in making some cool flash videos.[...]We’re looking for short flash movies that can inspire, amuse and activate people out there who believe a better world is possible.

You got until April 1, 2006 to make your [...]

See the sound from your video

February 15th, 2006 at 2:38 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Videos



Great idea that come from Italy, A&G Soluzioni Digitali has create a great application that show you from where come the sounds and also how strong it is (they use circle). This application is for video editing, so you can see what object makes sound (someone falling down) and how strong the sound are, directly [...]

Flash + Usability = Love !

February 14th, 2006 at 1:42 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Flash, Usability



One more Top 10 Mistakes In Web Design, which include Flash. Here’s my personal answer about this topic.
The Mistakes #3 according: http://www.bootstrike.com

Flash, Director and Java Usage
Flash, Java is cool. Shockwave, cooler. Director, awesome! They are good, but it brings a host of disadvantages to a site using it -
* Can’t be [...]

Working for the Olympics Game

February 11th, 2006 at 6:47 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Videos



I’ve just began my work for the Olympics Game in Turino at the TSR (Swiss TV)
I just do some video editing and some server side work.
You can see freely the resume of each competitions approximately 10 minutes after it ended. Enjoy.

Google Local for Mobile

February 9th, 2006 at 2:50 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Google



I’ve downloaded the Local for mobile service from Google but here in Switzerland it’s useless.

In France, Italy, Germany at least we can see the superhighways and some city name, but not for us in Switzerland. The only info we have is that this country is named “Switzerland”. I can’t understand why there is nothing for [...]

Another Flash Player Penetration Statistic

February 8th, 2006 at 4:16 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Stats



The first pre-result are out from my stats counter:
87% have a Flash Player 8 (!)
98% have a monitor DPI = 72
55% have a resolution bigger or equal to 1280px
56% have a resolution bigger or equal to 600px and under 1024px
54% have accessibility on
87% of Flash Player is quite impressive, but this stats is done with [...]