January 21, 2010 13:17 PM
Music and technology are blending together harmoniously. Just ask T-Pain. With the public pre-release of Flash 10.1, Adobe has made available technology that gives Actionscript 3 programmers access to Microphone/Line-in data! In theory, this is the same kind of access that the ingenious producers and audio techies exploit to "vocode" their way to the top of the charts. Granted the Flash player probably isn't quite in the realm of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) but that is not quite where my interest lies. As a humble guitarist/programmer, I would love to have a true Flash guitar tuner. Thanks to Flash 10.1, I can make one.
Continue reading Anatomy of a Flash 10.1 Guitar Tuner...
October 29, 2009 11:16 AM
With all the multitouch buzz these days, I've often wondered when we're going to have a fully multitouch enabled operating system. Both Windows 7 and OSX now support a high level of multitouch functionality, but those features are still secondary to the traditional keyboard and mouse. How will these systems adapt to a more natural and "human" method of interaction? R. Clayton Miller is thinking along these lines as well and has produced the following demonstration about this very subject:
10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.
This is certainly the correct frame of mind for this exercise. I'm not sold on the horizontal scrolling, although I would be more pleased if the application and operating system controls were instead on the top and bottom rather than on either edge. This stays closer to current interaction systems and might be more welcoming to users. However, I absolutely love the gestures for manipulating different levels of the system (2 fingers for scrolling windows, 3 for scrolling apps, etc.) and the idea of more stringent window management. Anyone else ready to ditch their mouse?
The 10/GUI site can be found at 10gui.com and has the video as well as some background about the project itself.
Found via Cool Infographics
October 15, 2009 09:07 AM
before you read this please go and see what WAVE is all about:
So I've got the Google WAVE preview! I'm been thinking about how we can incorporate this into our development process. At first I thought we could include all our clients into using WAVE but they would need a WAVE account, which might be a little presumptuous. So, considering that we are an Instant Messaging & Email based internal communications company, meaning we communicate through IM and email about projects all the time, I was thinking "what a great way to capture the essence of the conversation". We could internally and/or externally track an entire project's lifecycle communique. Think about it. once a project starts we can invite individuals to participate in the WAVE when needed and they can catch up to what's going on by replaying all the conversations. With the ability to add widgets such as video, links, documents, files, etc. we can track all communication, all the way up to each individual and deliverable with a record of the entire project communication WAVE. With that I hope that WAVE gives us the ability to group multiple waves under a category name so we could chunk our waves into phases.
October 13, 2009 17:41 PM
Adobe announced that the Flash Professional CS5 developer kit will include tools to convert your flash files into a standalone iPhone app. This by no means enables iPhones to play SWF's but it's a start! We expect limited functionality with this conversion tool but who knows. This will definitely flood the App store with even more worthless apps but maybe, just maybe a few good ones. :)
Flash Apps on iPhone