Entries tagged with “flash” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Film composer Mark Isham has written zillions of elegant soundtracks. Now he's posted some rare cues (including one of my favorites) in a slick online player. The technology has some interesting twists — and you can use it for free.

Imagine what creative developers could do if Flash could transmit and respond gracefully to MIDI. Now an online petition is urging Adobe to do something about that.

This is cool: Simply adding &loop=1 to a YouTube <embed> tag makes the video loop forever. Check it out with this short clip of a Pong-playing watch from Make magazine. (Be sure to click the small play button below the video, not the big one in the center.) Despite just writing an article on hacking embedded videos, I never thought...

First off, a request: if you're so inclined, go straight to the comments and say whether you watch online technical interview videos, and if so, which....

We're all familiar with pointless Flash animations that serve only as barriers to getting to useful web content. But I recently stumbled across an instructive exampe of a "pointless" Flash animation that works: It's on the web site of the musician Adem: http://www.adem.tv/site/ Why does it work? I see a few reasons, none of them mysterious and yet all of...

As everybody knows, the promise of Java was that functionality written once could run unmodified on different machines, different types of devices and different types of runtime spaces (e.g., server-side, client-side or browser-based). But this isn't a commentary about Java, its successes, and where and how it fell short. Rather, this post is an assessment of how digital media and...

Newer versions of Flash enable you to add high quality video to an HTML page that members of your audience can watch even if they don’t have the most powerful computer equipment or the fastest internet connections. Examples in this posting include clips from a Godzilla inspired short video and a social issue documentary on immigrant teens.

FlashForward NYC 2005 - Day 1

FlashForward Conference July 6-8th in NYC - not to be missed

This Flash-based drum machine is the first one I’ve seen where the notes aren’t quantized, which produces an interesting, sloppy feel. Cool sounds, too.

Flashforward 2003 in NYC offers ideas for designers, hardcore technical information for developers, and insights into future multimedia products.

FlashForward SF Day 3 was highlighted by a solid line-up of technical sessions, plus some mind-blowing artistic achievement.

FlashForward SF 2003 serves up Macromedia's Kevin Lynch, O'Reilly's namesake Tim O'Reilly, and a host of Flash luminaries

FlashForward SF serves up extended training and personal networking on Day 1

FlashForward NYC 2002 brings designers and coders together on common ground

Macromedia Releases Flash Search Engine SDK

Macromedia won its countersuit against Adobe, increasing the likelihood that Adobe and Macromedia will work out some cross-licensing deal

Apple is suing Sorensen to prevent use of Sorensen's video technology in Flash MX.

Adobe won its initial patent-infringement suit against Macromedia. What does this mean for the Macromedia MX product family?

Macromedia ships Flash MX today, with the Flash Player 6 available now.