- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- AlfaClock 2. Right Presentation for Your Time — Trying to be user-friendly, all computer programs imitate something we know from the real world. However, sometimes the standard programs (those that come with operating systems) are too primitive replications of the world. In your real life, you always can replace things you dislike with other ones. But in your Windows environment, some elements seem to be «nailed down» and can’t be replaced. So it seems…
- Flash Text Effects Components, Artistic Writing — Flash is most likely today’s most full-featured artistic canvas in the Internet. With Flash, your imagination has literally no boundaries despite of how abstract or specific your tasks are. Moreover, another good thing about Flash lies in its capability to tightly integrate your own artistic ideas with ones created by other recognized professionals. Flash Text Effects Components is a huge set of text appearance effects, which…
- SWF Toolbox 3.1.12, Obedient Flash — The Flash (SWF) and Flash Video (FLV) file formats are very common and useful on the Web. Their only drawback is their «thing in itself» nature: You hardly can change those files, extract their parts or convert them to other formats. You hardly can — unless you have SWF Toolbox! In this case, you can do virtually any conversion with Flash/Flash Video files. Here is an (incomplete) description of what SWF Toolbox allows…
- TimeGuard Pro, Time Tracking for the Real Work — Work time tracking software isn’t something exclusive. But anyone who has tried using any program of such kind knows a number of nuances involved in this process. The «naïve» programs asking you to «write here, what and when you’ve done» just don’t work. What DOES work? I’ll show you with TimeGuard Pro. TimeGuard Pro stands out for being brief and non-obtrusive when it’s vital for the normal…
- Aero SWF.max 1.5.800, Flash Can Play Better — Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is an all-today’s-goodies format. Small games, rich interfaces, video publishing, blah-blah. But there’s one major drawback of downloaded flash videos: it’s their playback. Flash packed as EXE behave like a video-player with very poor features, other flash formats (swf, flv) are typically opened in browser and behave like a video-player without any features, even play/pause. If there…
- Real Cut 2D 6.5, Does Cuts, Really — Real Cut 2D is an ultra-fast, ultra-correct and ultra-easy program for the automated cutting and layouting. Despite its ease, Real Cut 2D provides comprehensive settings and informative output, and can be used in the production with great benefits. Inside Real Cut 2D, you work in terms of Repository (sheets you have and want to cut) and Demand (sheets you need to obtain). You enter information about sheets to both lists, then just…
- Flash2X Flash Hunter - just save a Flash movie you found on the web and enjoy it later — Today’s Internet is full of Flash movies of all sorts. A great part of them are useless ad banners, but it’s not at all uncommon to come across real masterpieces, as well as short movies, trailers, teasers and other kinds of content that you would gladly save on your hard drive and watch later. Unfortunately, most Flash players and movies are protected from being downloaded and saved…
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