I’m pleased to announce the latest update to Picklish is now completely cross-platform. Now you can create slick Flash photo and video galleries on your PC and your Mac! There’s no easier way to publish your photos and video to the net.
It was a big challenge making my first cross-platform application. Using MDM Zinc made it possible. Zinc is a great development system, however their OS X version doesn’t have nearly the number of features that the PC version does.
I use ffmpeg to encode video in FLV format. And, since Picklish is free, I can’t afford to include MP3 encoding functionality in the app itself—due to the fact I would need to pay royalties to the creators of the MP3 codec. I use Windows Media Player to encode the audio into MP3 format on the PC. For OS X, I use iTunes to encode the audio stream to MP3. Since Zinc supports AppleScript, I was able to tell iTunes to encode the audio stream.
So, please give it a try and let me know what you think!
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For those of you with who serve Flash content to The Beast, they are changing their Flash embedding requirements. No longer can you get embed with them. You must be the object of their desires (via) to get onto profiles.
They are automatically converting profiles over to the new object codes, so old embeds will still work – they’ll be automatically malamuted over. Trouble is, it seems they are converting them in phases, along with the requirements. So, some people are still able to post embeds and they work, and some must use object. This may create an awkward situation for those of you serving codes to the masses. You may need to offer both for a while.
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I recently launched a new site which has Google AdSense ads on it. I also decided to use Google AdWords to promote the site. Recently while I was browsing my site, I noticed that one of the Google ads that appeared was my own! Now, I thought that must be a bug or a fluke. Nope. It’s normal, expected behavior of the system.
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Use Google AdWords and AdSense? Exclude Yourself!
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Landcraft is a Flash-based isometric terrain builder that has controls reminiscent of KPT Bryce. It’s one of those things you though you could do, and you’ve always wanted to do since the BitmapData object was released, but never had the time nor the skill to do this well. Nicely done. (via)
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I’m pleased to announce the realization of a dream I’ve had for a long time. It’s been over 2 years in the making, and it’s finally ready for you. I’d like to share with you the launch of a new Flash social gaming site. Sploder is currently host to the first of many games — a shoot-em-up space style arcade game. What makes Sploder unique is that it includes an interactive drag and drop level-editor that allows people to create their own game levels. You won’t find anything else out there quite like this.
