Archive for May, 2008

Good Stuff’s Freeware of the Year

Content creation muahaha….sometimes live is tough in the world of content creation especially when it comes to getting the right tools to do your chores. 

Well, this week I’ve prepared with a list of comprehensive offline tool to have for all bloggers, course creators, educators, teachers and content creators.

So, here goes tada….presenting my all in all Good Stuff freeware of the year 2008!
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FREE Flash Carousel SlideShow

Alot of visitors emailed me on this one is that, “Where did I get the plugins for the Flash Carousel in my blog?”. FYI, the Flash Carousel thingy is not a wordpress plugin but, a template edit coupled with a FREE Flash Carousel SlideShow known as flShow.

This swf is created using Flex so, don’t expect FLA or source codes from the site however, you can use it freely to use the swf like any other embed code but add a url for the xml file. This xml file points the location of the images to form the slideshow. If you are familar with swf using xml as data source, tweaking this engine to suit your needs is easy.

Go ahead download the zip file there and read up the samples on how to implement it online. :)

PicLens 3D Viewer

piclensNotice, there’s a piclen view link right below of my posts. Once click, you get a immersive view of the pictures within the post itself. Piclens is a special plugins which allows user to display pictures within the post or a customized slideshow in a very immersive and impressive way.

Piclens comes with a normal javascript operated engine and users can have option to download the advance 3D version (free of charge) which utilizes your 3D graphics card. All your graphics and youtube video will be arrange in a 3D wall and is highly interactive.

You can check the video of piclens and demo in http://www.piclens.com , best thing is they even have wordpress plugins ready for you to download and just plug to use. If you already have piclens 3D installed; try clicking on the piclen links below you’ll know what I mean.

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Web-Games: Music Bounce

This is fairly a simple game. May look simple and dull as it seems but seriously, you should give it a try if you like musical puzzles. The object of the game is to use bouncing balls to clear all the notes on a stage. Each level has a maximum amount of ball gates you can open.

If 50 levels aren’t enough for you, check out letsmakeagame.com to play user-created levels and make your own!

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Action Script 3.0 Preloader

preloaderWriting a simple Action script 3.0 pre-loader is lightweight, and does not requires much. One of the common problem faced when animators or developers when they compile their clip with preloaders is that the preloader takes quite some time to appear (leaving a blank white screen) when testing for streaming simulation.  

The reason of this problem is the amount of chunk(movie clips, components, scripted sounds) needed for the preloader to appear is too high. This will make the preloader appear somewhere at the 50%-60%. This is due to your flash application is attached to a lot of scripted sounds, components and movieclips. Today, I’m gonna write some samples of preloader in actionscript 3.0 as well as how to overcome the issue of preoloading large chunk of swf file.

 

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