AS3 Lightweight TouchList

You’re free to define your list-items with the only restriction that they subclass DisplayObject. Large lists only ever instantiate enough list-items to fill the visible scroll-area, and recycle pooled objects.

Fragmentation ruins the HTML5 audio element

We do a lot of work with audio-players, usually in Flash, so naturally I wanted to explore HTML5′s new audio element.

OSMF + PHP Gateway

If you’re wondering why OSMF isn’t loading audio from your PHP gateway, here’s why.

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Twitter crossdomain.xml

I recently needed to retrieve XML from a public user’s tweets without oauth, and discovered Twitter no longer allows external domains to access the twitter api in their crossdomain.xml file.

MultiKeyMaster – Simultaneous AS3 Keyboard Events

A lightweight class for simultaneous key events, such as pressing “shift +”, or “command s”.

Steve Jobs Is Full Of It

“We’re Apple, have it our way or we’ll brick your phone & raid your house while you’re out for dinner.”

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Is FlashPlayer Buggy in Safari? Is Flash to blame?

An Apple guy, “Bertrand Serlet”, mentioned that the number one source of reported crashes on OS X were related to web-plugins

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Harp Instrument made with Flash on Android

Adobe sent out an invitation to participate in the AIR for Android prerelease, and having already built the iPhone harp instrument with Flash’s iphone-packager, I decided to flip it to Android.

MultiTouch Swipe Event for Flash

The SWIPE_EVENT passes e.numTouchPoint, which is the number of touch-points (fingers) onscreen during the swipe, for example; allowing you to ignore 1-finger swipes, and respond differently for 2-finger swipes, and so on. The SWIPE_EVENT also passes e.time, which is the time taken to complete the swipe, for example; allowing you to tween a page-flip timed [...]

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