Archive for April, 2008
« Previous EntriesImageDropr Public Beta
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008The ImageDropr public beta has begun. To try the beta please install here.
Here are some new screen shots:
The application on load after dropping a few images.
Project ion+
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Last year at Max I met with some of the project team for the Adobe ion+ search project. I was shown a very cool new search engine that Adobe was developing to parse out information from a multitude of sources including community sites, blogs, help docs, etc.
The official goal of the project is to [...]
Do a Screen Capture with Adobe AIR
Thursday, April 24th, 2008I have created a sample AIR application that takes screen shots and saves them to disc. Impossible? Well yes it would be impossible if I were only using AIR. However, thanks to the Merapi Java bridge, we have new functionality exposed to AIR. Yes, it is true that currently there is no shell execute functionality [...]
iSpy motion detection AIR application
Thursday, April 17th, 2008iSpy was created based on Doug McCune’s Simple Flex Motion Detection example In addition to Doug’s web based motion detector, iSpy uses the AIR File and FileStream classes with the JPEGEncoder class to do its magic.
If there is a level of motion that exceeds the sensitivity level, it will either take a quick snap shot [...]
Adobe AIR: Create – Modify – Reuse
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008My publisher was nice enough to send me a copy of the Wrox companion book titled Adobe AIR: Create – Modify – Reuse to my book Beginning AIR: Building Applications for the Adobe Integrated Runtime.
I would like to offer my congratulations to the authors Marc Leuchner, Todd Anderson, and Matt Wright for completing this excellent [...]