Can Flash Be Saved

As a fellow Flasher for almost…5 years (unofficially 12 years! First met Flash during their Flash 3 era), it absolutely boiled my blood just to read the thoughts on the blog post. I might be over-reacting, but it seems the trend crowrd now tend to over-hyping HTML5 like the goddess of their time and throwing shits on Flash like everything bad is made of them.

Read the heated discussion here.

And on a sidenote, a good move by the giant, Google.

• Google will stop supporting IE6

Rejoice ladies!

I have wrote a script that automates the process of your project in detecting the user location based on their current IP address via maxmind’s Javascript API. What you will need to do is to

• See the demo below
• Get the source code
• Read the comment inside the FLA and start using it 

What is this?

A simplified script that detects the visitor’s country and other details such as latitude/longtitude based on their current IP address.

Why is this necessary?

I felt that there is a need sometimes for us to automate the language selection or region selection process in some major big site that helps in cutting down user frustration through multiple clicks before going into the site. I figured this could be useful.

How to use it?

What you will need to do is to wait until the loading listener is completed before using it.  Sample usage :

var userCountry:String = getCountryName();

Where to get the files?

Download the source file

View the demo (SWF)

So actually it’s kind of possible to chop it like watermelon. Did some experimentation @ wonderfl.net. The codes are shared under MIT license. Enjoy using it. Explore possibilities.

Stop H*Commerce

At first when I went into the site, I thought it’s a movement by Symantec or equivalent, and didn’t notice the McAfee brand until later, and though that the brand died off in the early 2000. They were a bunch of great dudes back in 90’s but slowly overshadowed by Symantec’s Norton Antivirus. It’s nice to see them making a lot of positive comeback in this industry. However, aside from a damn fine professional job at the site’s transition and interface design. It’s really :

• Usable, from all the visual indications on what you can do and click next.
• Slick, no-nonsense site
• VERY informative towards mainstream audience that NEEDS to know about basics in avoiding scams, hackers and jargons that they always bumped into the internet world.

So this is a MUST visit for those that has no idea what a backdoor means, no it’s not your house’s back door. Please.

Thanks Eugene.

p.s. -<sarcasm> site’s aside, I really get f*cking fed up of receiving random spam message from my contact list that messaged me less than 1 alphabet per year, telling me how I can earn more moneys. So please, do yourself a favor and learn to get protected. </sarcasm>

Alberto Seveso
Perhaps one of the great illustrator of all time I have ever seen. Pretty inventive and genius in its own sense.

Tilt Viewer
If my memory serve me well, I strongly believes that this is one of the early 3D application built in Flash that revolutionize the  way we view pictures in websites, even way before CoolIris became uncool (those were the days cooliris were known as PicLens).

No More Kings
It might have been a while, but this is a cute site that brings you around different section in a pseudo-3D manner. The songs are cool though.

While some of you might be interested in looking for more resources on 3D in flash. You can try out fFiles.