Category: SWF
PulpMX.com was launched in early 2009 as a place for well-known motocross columnist Steve Matthes to post his musings about the sport and its history. Originally conceived of as a modest site, it was built in early 2009 using a stock theme with a handful of custom images, the FCKeditor and IMCE modules to provide a built-in visual editor, and little else. Over time it had grown organically as needs developed: CCK, Filefield, and SWF Tools for posting audio interviews in a built-in player, for example.Continue
CU3OX is a free software (for Windows or Mac OS) that enables you to create beautiful and 3D Flash image sliders.
It has support for multiple transition effects like cubic, bounce or elastic where each of them can be customized with:
- the number of pieces
- tween type
- z-distance
- distance
- time
- delay and more
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Last week, a post at WRD was announcing the giveaway of 5 premium SlideshowBox licenses to WRD readers.
The winners are selected and can be found at the end of this post. But before that, let's remember:
What is SlideshowBox?
It is a complete kit for creating many different types of image galleries using JavaScript and/or Flash.
SlideshowBox comes with 24 templates with many variants of each from 3D to polaroid and simple to complicated ones.Continue
When it comes to Flash, there are some conflicting views. There is a misconception that that Flash web pages are not seen by search engines and can’t be indexed at all. Others reckon that Flash sites are not user-friendly and load for ages.Continue
Gentleface Toolbar Icon Set is a set of 244 icons that focuses on the "toolbar part" of applications..
However, they are pretty enough to be used in any type of software, websites or mobile applications.
The icons include pagination arrows, ratings and voting controls, social interaction symbols, file system and text editor actions.Continue
A trend today happened yesterday, but there is no denying full screen images are everywhere on the Internet. In 2010 bigger is better and large background websites having visual impact utilize widely available technology.
Here are links to a few large background site collections:
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Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), that is developed by Adobe, is a software framework for building feature-rich Flash video players and applications.
It can be integrated into custom applications using the simple API, or you can deploy the ready-to-run dynamic SWF player without compiling or writing custom scripts.
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f4Player is a free and open source Flash video player that can play .fly, .f4v or .mp4 files in websites or within AS3 projects.
It is lightweight (8kb) and has a skinnable interface (few skins are included with the download).
The player supports progressive downloads (ability to play the downloaded portion of a file while the download is still in progress) and fullscreen display.
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Piecemaker is a free and open source Flash image slider that displays images with 3D slice effects.
It can be completely configured from a XML file like setting the tween type, distance, time, delay, etc. and doesn't require working with the .FLA source file.
The slider shows images almost instantly due to the external image loading feature and supports JPG, GIF, PNG formats.
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