Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

At IBC a saw a company selling modified keyboards with new keys for specific software. So he had a keyboard for Final Cut users with lots of colored keys and custom icons besides the normal letters, with the final goal to make the software keyboard shortcuts more accessible (visible on the keyboard). They did not […]

Many very advanced Third Party Flash Extensions are now for sale on the Macromedia Online Store! Macromedia has been working with many ‘flash-output companies’ like the creators of Swift 3D, Swish, Zoomifyer and many more to bring the power of those tools *into* Flash is a third party plugin. I have not played with all […]

Video support has improved a whole lot in Flash MX 2004 (both the Professional autoring environment, as well as the Player 7). Forest Key has written a great whitepaper on Flash and video. I’d encourage everyone to read it, it gives you a lot of insight into the technology!
It covers a technical overview of standards […]

Try Macromedia Studio MX 2004 NOW! (Indeed, the trial versions are available)

You can start downloading Macromedia Studio MX 2004 *with* Flash MX 2004 Professional and Homesite+ 5.5 right now, if you have a DevNet Professional Subscription! I wish you all lots of fun, and let me know what you think about everything!

The London Macromedia Usergroup will have a Flash MX 2004 Special event later this month. How funny, 33% of the confirmed speakers lives in the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg)! Looks like they don’t have enough experts in London
Just kidding, it’s good to see that Peter Elst and Owen van Dijk travel around Europe […]

DMXzone interviews Bob Regan, Senior PM of Accessibility, Macromedia.

Time flies when you are doing press conferences! This week I had one for the press in Belgium and one for the Dutch press and they were my first real big ones. I think everything went fine and the journalists really seemed to like many things of Breeze Live and Studio MX 2004. I had […]