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See Flash 10, Flex 4, AIR 1.5, FXG, Thermo, Degrafa and more

Posted by James - 26/08/08 at 03:08:19 pm

http://gregorywilson.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/video-see-flash-10-flex-4-air-15-fxg-thermo-degrafa-and-more/

All these physics games…

Posted by James - 25/08/08 at 09:08:55 am

It seems like fun physics games are on the rise - there’s Launchball, which I’ve mentioned before - but there also seems to be a rise in the numbers of other simple physics games created in Flash. Maybe its because of as3 libraries like APE making development easier, maybe commerical games like Little Big Planet are what drive innovation (imitation?), maybe its even just down to the arrival of Actionscript 3 and its enhanced processing abilities.
Whatever the reason, games like Fantasic Contraption and Magic Pen have appeared on the scene, and are well worth a play.  (Just don’t start playing when you should be working, otherwise you’ll be in trouble.)

If you like those games, you can use classes like APE to start building your own… Continue reading All these physics games……

I’m going to FLEX:CAMP

Posted by James - 24/08/08 at 09:08:35 pm

Continue reading I’m going to FLEX:CAMP…

Just how easy can you make an AIR application installation?

Posted by James - 23/08/08 at 10:08:54 pm

Well, if you’re using the AIR Install Badge - as Greg Wilson demonstrates - it can be surprisingly easy. The Install Badge handles the launching of your application (if you have it already installed), the installation of your application (if you have the AIR framework installed), and the installation of the AIR framework and the subsiquent installation of your application if you have neither.

The whole Flash / AIR auto-updater can be a pain to sort out when you do it yourself, but the result is very efficent from the end-users’ perspective.  Lucky then that the Install Badge template has this sorted for you.

When the ‘AIR framework requirement’ is a hurdle for getting clients to adopt an AIR solution, the ability to auto-install the AIR framework is a powerful arguement…

See Greg Wilson’s post here: http://gregorywilson.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/air-install-badge-use-it/

10 Adobe AIR Apps for Web Designers

Posted by James - 21/08/08 at 09:08:52 am

http://sixrevisions.com/tools/adobe_air_apps_web_designers/

BBC Sports’ AIR Application removes its offensive language

Posted by James - 05/08/08 at 04:08:07 pm

Well, that was fast (and rightly so).  This morning I posted about the BBC Sports’ Olympics AIR Application containing a text file of offensive language but now, roughly 1.5 hours after posting here, and 6.5 hours after it being initally posted, a new update has appeared for the Olympics AIR Application.

The release notes mention that it’s updating the listing events schedule (which it may well be) but it’s also changing the contents of the bbc-swear.txt file to say ‘deprecated functionality‘. (Instead of 1399 ways to swear.)

Continue reading BBC Sports’ AIR Application removes its offensive language…

BBC uses Adobe AIR to install a list of swear words to users machines.

Posted by James - 05/08/08 at 10:08:35 am

James Cannings from MMT Digital alerted me to this, and has written a post about it at: http://www.mmtdigital.co.uk/monkeymagic, and here’s my thoughts on it:

You can install the BBC Sport’s Desktop Monkey at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/monkey/7479984.stm

If you do however, you’ll be unwittingly installing a rather comprehensive list of offensive words as a plain text file to your hard drive. Once it’s installed, go to your application directory (Program Files) and BBC Olympics > assets > data > bbc-swear.txt
and you’ll be privvy to a 15kb, 1399 lines long list of bad words.

This is such an ridiculous error that I’m practically lost for words. For an audience as big as the BBC’s you think they’d be mindful about offending people – every other part of the development must have undergone a review process – but bundling a highly offensive text file with your application?

Continue reading BBC uses Adobe AIR to install a list of swear words to users machines….