Computing e-books for $5

Computing e-books for $5

https://app.packtpub.com/#

Make sure you go through the app store for the discounted books.

Adobe CS5 crash on launch

When you launch a Creative Suite 5 application, the application unexpectedly quits with an error report that is similar to the following: (in the windows error box click on the show error link)

AppName: [application].exe AppVer: [app version] ModName: updaternotifications.dll ModVer: 1.0.0.64 Offset: 0006a8dc

Solution: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/845/cpsid_84586.html

Too me all day to find this (including completely removing all adobe products from my PC!!)

Best/worst web sites page in wiki

Just added a best/worst web site page to my wiki. Feel free to add/comment (you will need to login first)

http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Multimedia:Design:Examples

Screen Recorders

After a post on givaway of the day http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ had  feedback about free screen recorders

Two that came up were

1. Cam studio (open source) http://camstudio.org/ and


2. the online  Screenr http://www.screenr.com

To Flash or not to Flash this is the question...

Looks like a tsunami of change again for Multimedia.

• Flash CS5


• Microsoft Visual studio/Silverlight


• HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript?

With Steve Jobs firing a major salvo across Adobes bows:

• Apple Didn’t Kill Flash, HTML5 Did -http://bit.ly/dzFV3V


• Steve Jobs: Adobe's Flash "has major technical drawbacks"http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=8179

(Thanks Steph)

I'm going to have to think about how we will deliver multimedia in the future.

Darn!!!!

The Top 50 Web Development Icon Sets from 2009

From JS:

Lots of icons to give you ideas for your own ones.

http://speckyboy.com/2009/12/21/the-top-50-web-development-icon-sets-from-2009/

Just cause I want to remember this if I find I need it in the future :)

FusionCharts (n.d.)[1] - http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/download/?_doPostback=561369948

	
FusionCharts Free helps you create free flash charts in your web applications.
	
It supports a variety of chart types including bar, column, line, area, pie, doughnut
	
 (donut), combination, funnel, Gantt etc

Freeware (donationware) Video Converter

JJ has found a video converter

Huang, S. (2009) MediaCoder - more than a universal audio/video transcoder. Retrieved June 17, 2009 from http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

Video files (offline)

Not sure about the legality, but for students (and you) to use youTube videos (offline) in presentations (especially if your organisation has a firewall that blocks YouTube) you can try http://www.videodownloadx.com/ which will allow them to download the videos.

Web reader that can be used anywhere

WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine.

Interesting to get a web page and listen to how the page is read back.

WebAnywhere: A Screen reader on the go. Retrieved July 24, 2008 from http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/

Flash Links

Some Flash links from Olga.

Displaying text

Campbell, C. (2008) Creating a Custom Scroller in Flash . Retrieved June 5, 2008 from  http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/flash/video/customscrollbar.php

XML:

Adobe (n.d.) An example of using styles with XML -- Flash CS3. Retrieved June 5, 2008 from  http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000919.html

Kipupa (2008) Displaying XML Data in Flash - Page 2. Retrieved June 5, 2008 from  http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xmldataflash2.htm
(simple helps understand XML in flash)

Kipupa (2008) XML to TextField - Page 2. Retrieved June 5, 2008 http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13697&page=2
(Not easy to follow but extensive)

Animation:

LearnFlash (n.d.) How to use AS instead of motion tweens to animate objects (Tween, Bounce and Elastic Classes). Retrieved June 5, 2008 from http://tutorials.learnflash.com/tutorials/flash/bounce_class.html

URLs

Experst Exchange (2008) How Do I Use a Flash Button to Open an Email Client and Pre-fill Subject and Body? Retrieved June 5, 2008 from http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Photos_Graphics/Web_Graphics/Macromedia_Flash/Q_23051210.html

Flash examples from HP

Hewlett-Packard (2004) Dreamworks + HP. Retrieved May 16, 2008 from http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/msg/corp/flashdreamworks.html

Some examples of applications written in Flash. Thanks to RochelleA.

Flash ActionScript: Convert PPT to SWF

Zheng, S. (2005) How to Convert PowerPoint to Flash Manually. Retrieved February 27, 2008 from http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2005/09/02/how-to-convert-powerpoint-to-flash-manually

For those who like coding in ActionScript (if you're not into programming you will probably want a converter).. let me know if you can find a good free one.

Adobe magazine & ActionScript 3.0

Adobe (2008) Magazine for creative professionals. Retrieved February 27, 2008 fromhttp://www.adobemagazine.com/ 

Adobe (2008) ActionScript 3.0 from the ground up. Retrieved February 27, 2008 from  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/as3_tour.html

Adobe CS3 problem

Problem: Doesn't install! (click on image to enlarge)

Solution: Un-install Flash Player 8 and plugins

This is a quick (well depends if you have 40 minutes) fix that worked on my WinXP machine.
1. First the problem (for me) were installed Flash 8 player and plugins. Trying to de-install did not work as apparently they needed a network deinstaller.
2. Microsoft to the rescue (it does happen!). Went to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 and downloaded the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility.
3. Ran the utility and deinstalled the Flash 8 players!
4. re inserted the CS3 DVD and asked it to repair my existing installation.... amazing ... it worked!! Really slack programming from Adobe though and I know it will cause a lot of unnecessary work for lots of people.