Flash Player Auto-Update : Quite a good news !

Dec 312006
 
IE Flash AutoUpdate

I got a nice surprise when trying to solve some connection trouble on the pc of my future wife, after installing Internet Explorer 7 and rebooting the pc, a pop up appear at the start of the pc : A new Flash Player is ready to be downloaded. Woaaw, seems that Flash Player auto update is working great (at least for Internet Explorer) and so can assure an even better penetration of the Flash Player. I’m sure that people will tend to make the update more confidently when it’s proposed in Windows itself. It’s only quite a good news because it install the new Player only for Internet Explorer and not for Firefox… but that already great.

P.S: Happy New Year and best wishes for 2007 ;)

Ahmet

KeyCode doesn’t work equally on Mac & Win

Dec 292006
 

Something quite frustrating I just notice today, the keyCode aren’t the same on a mac and on a pc…
This little code will work correctly on my pc but not on my mac (with ActionScript 3.0):
if (e.keyCode == F_KEY && e.ctrlKey == true) {...}
Seems that the command + KEY is always reserved to the browser and is not shared with the Flash Player (9) in mac. Or am I missing something here ?

Ahmet

When viral marketing backfire on Sony

Dec 202006
 

psp logo
[via Digg] Sony asked to “Zipatoni” (it’s a marketing company, or should I say WAS, because I wouldn’t like to be in their position) to make a viral marketing campaign. All webmarketer even young students like me, know that web marketing is nearly impossible to control and should be used very carefully. Nevertheless Zipatoni marketer decided to develop a false blog for a false friend with false cousin and so on. Everything was just false and it was noticed and propagated by some web user (but who ? Nintendo counter marketer ?). The only reaction they could have : put everything offline and hope that the cache from Google will soon disappear (the wayback machine didn’t archived them yet). The bad is already done, so why put it all offline ? They could have try to use that backfire in a better way like a video with the author telling how you were smart to discover it and if you are smart you will love the psp or something like that.
But well, let’s say that I’m a student and I’ve still a lot to learn…
How would you have react if you were a Zipatoni marketer ?

More info:
Digg
Business Week
Whois
alliwantforxmasisapsp.com

Ahmet

p.s : btw Zipatoni website is really unusable, strange for a company willing to make people act…

CSS Advisor beta : An Online CSS Cookbook

Dec 162006
 

Adobe LogoThe news was nearly unseen with the release of Photoshop CS3, but Adobe has also release a new web tools as beta : CSS Advisor. We already heard of if during presentation of Dreamweaver 9 (or CS3 ?) but I didn’t knew it was out. It’s a “cookbook” style site, with problem, solution and Detailed description. It’s quite empty, but it’s social and it will be linked with DW9 (wondering if we will be able to post solution directly from DW9).
You can access it from here : http://www.adobe.com/go/cssadvisor

Ahmet

100 seconds: Mobile TV News

Dec 162006
 

TSR 100sSince middle of November I’m working as a Multimedia Operator for the 100 seconds a service proposed by Swisscom and created (content) by TSR. The idea is to get the news as soon (or nearly) as they arrived in the Media Channel (EVN, Swiss Ring, …).
From 6 am to 23 pm, you get alert(sms with link to the updated video) of breaking news, and every hour a new Mobile Video News of … 100 seconds.

It’s in French or in German and by now you can have a free 30 days test, after you’ll have to subscribe. Unfortunately you must be a client of Swisscom, which is very unprobable for most of you as you don’t live in Switzerland (according to my web stats), but if you from here and are a news maniak this service can be for you!

Now what I think of it: I’m just afraid that it’s just to early for Streamed Moblie TV, the cost are just to expansive for data-transfer in Switzerland for now. But at least it’s a try to damp the invest in 3G / EDGE tech, now time will tell. As soon as I get some stats I’ll post them here.

Ahmet

AS3 video tutorial : playing a FLV with Actionscript 3.0

Dec 142006
 

Metah logoNew tutorial is out, this time it’s about playing and displaying a Flash Video (Flv) with AS3. The tutorial is a bit longer than the other (17min) but is also more oriented object.
Now I hope the audio quality is better.
Watch the video or visit my AS3 video tutorials page.

Ahmet

Flash FullScreen Video Player

Dec 122006
 

Ratatouille screenshoot
Since the new version of the Flash Player (at least version 9,0,28,0), we can do Flash without the chrome of the web browser. That mean true fullscreen, not just the Javascript popup. For me it’s one of the most important step in web diffusion, web outside the box ;)
So to test it I quickly done a Flv Player that go fullscreen when your press play, just test it!
This is just a quick test so don’t take too much importance about some button behavior and so one… Also the video is set fullscreen so that the pixel ratio can be non conform depending on your screen size (apparent pixel) and as I don’t have a streaming server it can be slow sometimes.

Link to the video player

Ahmet

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