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Red Interactive

Posted by James - 07/05/08 at 11:05:48 pm

Red Interactive have got a really cool full browser flash site going on at their (really geeky domain) ff0000.com. It’s a showcase of what flash really can allow you to do to a traditional website, for better or worse.

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Ultrashock v2

Posted by James - 24/04/08 at 11:04:37 am

Ultrashock is one of those sites whose forums I tend to stumble around quite frequently on the ‘net - but I’ve only recently taken a good look at it. The site itself is pretty impressive you know. It’s mostly full browser flash, and a few of the interface elements gives away that it’s based in Flex, presumably with some very custom UI elements.

There’s the whole SWFAddress deeplinking going on, Flash and Flex integration, and a very seamless transition to non-Flash elements, like the Forums and Wordpress powered blog. If you’re looking for a showcase Flex site, here’s a goodie. FWA thinks so too.

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Red Bull Flugtag

Posted by James - 05/03/08 at 11:03:58 pm

Wow.  If you haven’t come across the ‘Flugtag’ site yet, I would highly recommend it - a highly interactive, user driven site, full flash, nice fun concept, exemplary interface, impressive Papervision 3D and all the other flash tricks that are out there.

After you’ve had a play, you might want to check out LESS RAIN, or the lessrain blog article about developing the Flugtag site.

Christmas Games – Online & Downloadable

Posted by James - 17/12/07 at 12:12:52 pm

It’s that time of year again, when production schedules relax just enough for the Marketing guys to get a look in, and we get to knock up a nice festive game for our Christmas E-mails. Last year we canibalized an old promotional game - spruced it up with some snazzy graphics - and unleashed it upon the world. [See the 2006 Game] This year (2007) MMT Digital is continuing - and improving upon - that fine tradition, bringing you a trio of festive games, available online or via download.
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3 Snazzy Photoshop tutorials to check out…

Posted by James - 26/11/07 at 09:11:43 am

There’s nothing like a good round of tutorials to help your Monday morning procrastination inspiration. If you haven’t already seen them, I’d suggest having a look at the following three Photoshop tutorials;

• Creating an Old-Collage effect poster
• Using Light & Shade to Bring Text to Life
• Vector Polishing Techniques

And then have a look at this article / tutorial on ‘the Polish’ (aka. finishing touches)

• Elements of Great Web Design: The Polish

ilovejackdaniels.com - Web design, development and marketing

Posted by James - 13/09/07 at 09:09:59 pm

Unusual name, great blog.  Run by Dave Child, and focusing on everything from marketing ideas to programming cheat sheets, it’s certainly worth a visit.  Theres’ a host of decent articles, and the website practises what it preaches and looks very good for it.

ActionScript 3.0 lets you work with ZIP files?

Posted by James - 09/08/07 at 02:08:03 pm

From côdeazur:

FZip

FZip is an Actionscript 3 class library to load standard
ZIP archives and extract/decompress contained files.

FZip parses ZIP archives progressively, allowing access
to contained files while the archive is loading.

http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/

The potential for this is impressive, and they’ve already implimented it in ways I wouldn’t've thought possible - an automatic .air file update checker. I’m not even sure there is a file format left that the ActionScript 3 trio can’t manipulate…