Did you ever want to let your PDF files track themselves on their own? Without using the download link from your site?
Well, it’s very easy todo when you use Flash with the Google Analytics AS3 API. We will embed an invisible Flash object into your PDF. So the flash object will More …
Discovered this one just today, straight from Japan ;) Another great new piece of the Spark Actionscript Library. The QRCodeReader classes! Check it out Flash Mobile application developers! Now you can integrate your own QR reader into your AS3 mobile application.
Let’s hope this creates another big push to the markets, so this technology really get’s as common as a price tag on a product in your local supermarket.
I still find this an amazing piece of technology! So simple but so practical! Capture a photo of a printed QR code with your mobile device. And immediately get any kind of information on the matter. (Car promotion, festival, artist profile, real estate, etc.)
It can be more specific info, an URL, a v card, pricing, ingredients, a note, etc.
Now Microsoft has the “Tag” (beta) ;) It even has reporting included, you can track how many visits you got by people scanning your tag in a magazine!
Also check out the Charts API of Google like I did with this http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=100×100&chl=http://www.rive.be&choe=UTF-8&chld=L|0
Let’s hope, now that the mobile market is growing exponentially worldwide… such technologies will soon be used, adapted and searched for, by a growing number of users! Can’t wait to see tons of products in the supermarket and magazines full with this printed codes!
This is so easy. I made a succesful AMFPHP multi file upload wich I’m using in my new release of the Rive.be CMS (clear your browser cache), by using this as a base. You can read all about it at Gertons’s blog (single file upload) and the Flex{er} blog (his multi file example didn’t work). So in the end if you throw these 2 examples together (merge them somehow) you should end up with a working solution.
Basically you have enough with these 2 snippets to upload any file you wish to a AMFPHP backend. More …
It’s so easy now! See it as a simple HTML webpage with some Javascript, CSS and an embedded Flash object. Creating widgets or applications for Nokia S60 5th edition is not that hard to do. You could use the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver or just plain old Notepad. How to package Flash content in a Widget where you zip the whole package and rename it *.wgz …et voila. More …
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Campaigning for your blog, everyone is doing it in a way. Posting your links on Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, etc. But how about really tracking them specifically?
It’s turned on by default in your Google Analytics account. So why leave those table/results empty? Only thing you should do is add some extra variables to your URL’s.
See Feedburner for example: More …
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It came a bit as a shock to me, because at first, when I was checking out my own www.rive.be in Explorer 8… I thought I did something wrong in my HTML/Javascript code. But it seems to be an issue with IE 8 on Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows Vista 64bit as far as I can tell.
Using the SWFObject 2.2 Test Suite:
So I went looking More …
Playing arround with AS3Dmod for is fun! I’ve used the “Twist” and “Bend” modifiers for the Rive.be Productbox. For the Twist I had to move the centerpoint to the bottom of the box. By using a Vector3D with an y property, half the value of the height of the productbox.
Now there’s at least some movement on the site while creating the rest of www.rive.be.
I’ve tried using the “Tape” modifier too but I couldn’t get it to expand only the middle of the box. It always seemed to start from the top. Maybe someone knows how to get this done? using the ’setFalloff(0, 1)’ function with all kinds of numbers didn’t seem to do what I want.
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After I implemented the Flash Platform Ditribution Service into my Flex 4 web application at the Rive.be CMS Share Page. I decided to try it on to a pure Actionscript 3 project. Visit http://www.rive.be and click the Share button in the bottom right side of your screen.
Everything works out just great (try it out):
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In my previous post you saw how to “share” your flash applications into several platforms by using the Flash Platform Distribution Service. But one of those was Facebook.
Now there’s a different way too. You can really “embed” your application within it’s own page. A Facebook Application such as the Rive.be Widget (and click “Add to my Page”). In real, it is just a PHP file (containg HTML with Flash) embedded within an iFrame into Facebook. The application itself is still loaded from your own hosting.
Now you can pass trough the persons firstname, More …
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Rien Verbrugghe is a Senior Flash Platform Developer/Consultant at Nascom.
Daily development with Adobe® Flash, Flex & AIR technologies, non-stop gathering of knowledge about mobile, web & desktop applications.
