tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145931042009-07-27T10:10:24.669Zrandommedia's [completely unofficial] blogAdzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1146232357622796492006-04-28T13:47:00.000Z2006-04-28T13:52:37.636Z

Yup, due to me no longer working for Randommedia I have been asked to remove all traces of Randommedia branding from the blog. I thought now would be a good time to close this one down and re-open my own personal blog elsewhere.So please update your links, feed readers, aggregators etc to point to:http://www.dustypixels.com/blogThankyou, and Goodbye.

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1141785988282098812006-03-08T02:43:00.000Z2006-03-08T02:46:28.306Z

I've posted my photos from WebDU in Sydney on Flickr, you can see them along with others from the conference in the WebDU group @ http://www.flickr.com/groups/webdu/More photos from my current travels are also up @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/46549372@N00/

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1141360733626165882006-03-03T04:36:00.000Z2006-03-03T04:38:53.640Z

just noticed all the flash examples on this site have stopped working as they were all hosted on the randommedia domain. nothing I can do about it now (I'm currently sitting in Guys talk at WebDU) but I'll fix it all up when I get back to England and my good old desktop computer :)

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1141348624413396542006-03-03T01:14:00.000Z2006-03-03T01:17:04.426Z

Just noticed we were up for a Flashforwad award for the last BBC projet I worked on, a series of flash cartoons and games called 'A fairly reliable history of British films'. We didn't win, but at least we went down fighting :)

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1141348245364630222006-03-03T01:10:00.000Z2006-03-03T01:26:27.643Z

Ok, so I've not blogged anything on my travel blog, shame on me, but instead have been taking loads of photos. Check them out @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/46549372@N00/I'm currently in Sydney, Australia, hanging out with Tink & Guy @ the WebDU conference. Bit of a culture shock after the beaches, and expensive too! And although it's a lot nicer than back home still, it feels pretty cold here

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1141348188408595792006-03-03T01:09:00.000Z2006-03-03T01:09:52.956Z

Well, after 5 years of hard work it appears Randommedia are now dead, the domain no longer loads. Damn shame if you ask me!

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1137496764605521622006-01-17T11:19:00.000Z2006-01-17T11:19:24.890Z

...don't think I'll be posting here much for a while at least, see my new Thailand travel blog to keep up with my adventures :)AdSiam

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1136370743568426442006-01-04T10:32:00.000Z2006-01-04T10:48:13.383Z

This one repetitively applies a filter to the bitmap image. Sure in AS3 this could be bigger, but it's pretty smooth even in AS2.

The Dudenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1135176732190282212005-12-21T14:50:00.000Z2005-12-21T14:52:12.190Z

Simple interaction but still very engaging. I like weird pretty games like this.But I'm stuck on the 3rd level and I'm too busy to continuehttp://www.samorost2.net/

evilliamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1135008174384713732005-12-19T15:27:00.000Z2005-12-19T16:10:44.426Z

Bought a shiney new webcam last weekend to play with Flash 8's webcam input and the new Bitmap functions a bit more, here's the results so far.One thing, my camera does 320*240 but most cheapo webcams are only 160*120, so not sure how this will look on a lower res camera (as I'm doing an image scale up by 2), be interested to find out.And of course they all look a lot better moving, so if you

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1134557193679080842005-12-14T10:46:00.000Z2005-12-14T10:46:33.706Z

via penny-arcade The finalists in the 2006 Independent Games Festival have been announced. This almost always means good times, as many of these things have either free demos or are simply free altogether. You have no doubt already heard of Darwinia, but there's some way quirkier stuff than that even. Strange fighting games where the object is to pile bodies high enough to escape is only one

evilliamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1134225723274831212005-12-10T14:42:00.000Z2005-12-10T14:42:03.330Z

I've got one of those fancy new wireless Microsoft keyboards with loads of pointless buttons on it that you never use. The most annoying thing about it is that they've decided to remap all the function keys (F1-F12) and make them do pointless things, one that always gets me is F2 which is 'undo' now instead of 'rename'...grrr! And F7 is 'reply' now instead of 'spell check' like its always been,

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133921387378808132005-12-07T02:09:00.000Z2005-12-07T02:09:47.423Z

If this isn't a viral advert it should be... SpikedHumor.com

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133875741124419022005-12-06T13:29:00.000Z2005-12-06T13:29:01.210Z

Wow, assimilation didn't take long, Macromedia.com is now fully Adobe branded. "Adobe Flash", "Adobe Dreamweaver"... still doesn't sound right but I guess I'd better get used to it :)

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133787750191789472005-12-05T13:01:00.000Z2005-12-05T13:31:34.366Z

Another little play with Perlin Noise, quite subtle wind effect... (Flash8.5 required)(I'll add the source code once I clean it up a touch :)

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133783633676579672005-12-05T11:40:00.000Z2005-12-05T13:33:50.546Z

A little As3 test based on Andre Michelles experiment here. Performance seems amazing, this is moving 15,000 points each frame and still runs at 40fps in Firefox on my machine! I've had it shifting over 50,000 points without too much slowdown...imagine that in FLash5 ;)(Flash 8.5 required)(The source is in the first comment)

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133610731794878542005-12-03T11:52:00.000Z2005-12-05T13:19:39.476Z

OH MY GOD! Austrialas scariest trany more like it. Freekin' hilarious, I think these shots are meant to be sexy...eeek! (found via Milk & Cookies in case you were wondering :)

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133609767154281392005-12-03T11:36:00.000Z2005-12-03T11:36:07.176Z

Large collection of all kinds of free sounds, loops and effects at freesound

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133520954291904052005-12-02T10:55:00.000Z2005-12-02T10:55:55.146Z

Very nice new site from Grant Skinner to house all his Flash experiements. The timeline is nicely done, and some of the latest F8 stuff (particularly the webcam interaction stuff) is really cool... http://www.incomplet.org/

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133479517805889702005-12-01T23:25:00.000Z2005-12-01T23:25:17.850Z

Eduardo was asking about an easy way to get an overview of the new features in Flash8, well this is quite fun... flash8! by nectarine studios

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133462425801506182005-12-01T18:40:00.000Z2005-12-01T18:40:25.843Z

Nice little demo here of using the new ExternalInterface class to create HTML tooltips from Flash, note the tooltips are outside the actual flash file... ExternalInterface, CSS, & Tooltips, Oh My!

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133456208504465032005-12-01T16:56:00.000Z2005-12-01T16:56:48.510Z

Interesting, and I agree completely, sometimes it's a real pain to have to keep learning new technologies just when you think you've almost got the hang of the last....but at the same time thats what keeps our profession interesting... A web professional can never stop learning | 456 Berea Street

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133455013546324502005-12-01T16:36:00.000Z2005-12-01T16:36:53.576Z

Handy tips fro HTML email constructioin... Email Design Guidelines for 2006 | Articles/Tips - Campaign Monitor Blog

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133191227307782842005-11-28T15:20:00.000Z2005-11-28T15:20:27.313Z

Looks like a nice simple API for embedding google maps using PHP, you can display a map with just 5 lines of code. http://www.system7designs.com/codebase

Adzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00995399711991505505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14593104.post-1133189076243259402005-11-28T14:44:00.000Z2005-11-28T14:44:36.320Z

Wanna give this ago (if I get a chance...), cool gizmos that can take input from the real world into flash...TELEO

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