Sorry all, I did all this work to create a new release, told everyone about it, and somehow failed to upload the new release. I could have sworn I hit the ‘put’ button in Dreamweaver. Anyway, if you downloaded version 0.11a and wondered why video didn’t work, give 0.2a a shot. I have a feeling it has a bit better video support! Since I’m posting, I’d also like to link to some useful software for anyone who is creating desktop apps with Zinc, or any other language or framework. I owe these guys thanks…
I don’t know how many of you have a digital camera that also shoots video, but I have a Canon Digital Elph that shoots pretty good quality video. Of course, with only an SD memory card, you are limited to only short video clips. I’ve got tons of photos in my library with little video snippets included. Inside the camera, you can browse your videos just like your photos. So I thought, why not on the web? Why is it that every site out there separates videos and photos? There’s YouTube for video, and then there’s Flickr for photos.
I’ve just completed the first release of a really cool tool for Slideroll that allows you to capture your Flash slideshows to video. This really bridges the media gap and allows people to burn their slideshows to VCD or DVD, and even cooler, to upload them to YouTube to share. Since these are true video, you can import your slideshows into your favorite video editor.
You can also add an MP3 song to use as a soundtrack for your slideshow. The tool is a desktop app, and is Windows only for now.
IE7 is coming soon, and in order to prepare us, Microsoft is broadcasting e-mail notices to inform us regarding the Best Practices for “minimizing disruption” to our application environments. I’m so glad to see Microsoft being proactive about ensuring that everyone who codes for the web will have time to upgrade the internet to be Vista-ready. For those of you still coding for outdated browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Safari, or Opera, here’s a link to their readiness toolkit. Good luck, starfighter!
“The IE7 Readiness Toolkit provides the following:
- Pointer to the latest publicly available build of IE7
Picklish is a little photo gallery creator program I’ve been working on in the past weeks. My aim is to make a simple program that you can use to create slick-looking Flash photo galleries with simple drag and drop. The Picklish creator allows for automatic creation of Flash galleries that are portable and editable.
The creator is built with Flash Studio 8 and MDM Zinc 1.0, and uses its built-in image and file manipulation functions to automate the process of creating thumbnails and sizing your images for web deploy. It’s windows-only for now, and I hope to be able to release a Mac version if people find this tool useful.
