June 28, 2006 | iView Multimedia, creators of the very popular iView Media Pro software, has been bought by Microsoft. I hope they continue to support this tool for Mac OSX. Microsoft has really been ramping up their efforts around digital photography of late. (link) (#)
June 28, 2006 | Here's a nice After Effects expression that will display comp name, run time and date data overlayed on your video. (link) (#)
June 28, 2006 | Conduit is a plug-in of sorts that gives you the ability to run a nodal compositor within Apple's Motion, which traditionally is used to create motion graphics and not composite. (link) (#)
June 28, 2006 | You can get all of your AS3.0 goodness here, including an overview of the new features as well as the new AS3 Live Docs, Language Specs and this handy AS2 to AS3 Migration Guide. Whew, as Yoda might say... you must unlearn what you have learned. (link) (#)
June 28, 2006 | The latest version of the Flash IDE is released to Adobe Labs and includes the new Action Script 3.0. I'm really excited about what Adobe has planned for flash and I can't wait to see AS3, especially since Flash 8 was widely viewed as an update aimed more for designers. Jen deHaan explores more of the details around this release. (link) (#)
June 27, 2006 | Good tips here on how to properly redirect users away from old page toward new pages without resorting to HTTP Refresh. (link) (#)
June 23, 2006 | Lots of good info here, including a look at the new Adobe Engagement Platform as well as Live Cycle. (link) (#)
June 20, 2006 | Crazy, cool clip detailing how Rhythm & Hues Studios incorporated old footage of Marlon Brando into the new Superman Returns movie. (link) (#)
June 15, 2006 | Linklater is quite a prolific and diverse filmmaker with both A Scanner Darkly and Fast Food Nation both hitting theaters this year. (link) (#)
June 9, 2006 | A low rez, French-dubbed version of this was circulating on the internet over the past week, but here's a great version in beautiful Quick time. This is directed by Incredibles helmer Brad Bird, who took over the reigns midway through the production. It's rare to hear any sort of "trouble in paradise" stories from within Pixar, so I wonder if we'll ever really know the story behind the director change. (Brad's voice can be heard during the teaser as the French waiter) A nice touch from Pixar is the quick flip of the title to show the phonetic pronunciation. (link) (#)
June 8, 2006 | This is an amazing series of animated Rorschach ink blots with Barkley's face added in. Beautiful and freaky all at the same time. (link) (#)
June 7, 2006 | Google's new Firefox extension is huge for someone like me that uses Firefox on two or more machines, work and home for instance, and want's not only synchronize bookmarks, but cookies, history, open tabs and more. (link) (#)
June 2, 2006 | Sort of a similar to lightbox.JS in a free, easy-to-implement Jscript sort of way, comes Curvy Corners which gives you an easy way to dynamically create, wait for it, curved corners to your div tags on-the-fly. These examples really sell the point. (link) (#)
June 2, 2006 | This make sense since Gore is a FOSJ (Friend of Steve Jobs) as well as a member of Apple's Board not to mention the fact that Keynote is a great app that supports a lot of media. Here's more info on the design of Gore's presentation. (link) (#)
June 1, 2006 | Adobe recently confirmed the long-thought rumor that following the Macromedia aquisition they would kill Freehand and GoLive in favor of Illustrator and Dreamweaver. To help ease the transition, they've published this migration guide. (PDF!) I just remembered that 12 years ago I made maps to our wedding reception in Freehand on the Mac back in the day when it was Aldus Freehand 4. (link) (#)
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