Category Archives: Flash

Adobe CS5 crash on launch

Posted on December 14, 2010 by vmvadmin

When you launch a Creative Suite 5 application, the application unexpectedly quits with an error report that is similar to the following: (in the windows error box click on the show error link) AppName: [application].exe AppVer: [app version] ModName: updaternotifications.dll … Continue reading →

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Best/worst web sites page in wiki

Posted on August 3, 2010 by virtualmv

Just added a best/worst web site page to my wiki. Feel free to add/comment (you will need to login first) http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Multimedia:Design:Examples

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Screen Recorders

Posted on June 30, 2010 by virtualmv

After a post on givaway of the day http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ had  feedback about free screen recorders Two that came up were Cam studio (open source) http://camstudio.org/ and the online  Screenr http://www.screenr.com

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To Flash or not to Flash this is the question…

Posted on May 1, 2010 by virtualmv

Looks like a tsunami of change again for Multimedia. Flash CS5 Microsoft Visual studio/Silverlight HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript? With Steve Jobs firing a major salvo across Adobes bows: Apple Didn’t Kill Flash, HTML5 Did -http://bit.ly/dzFV3V Steve Jobs: Adobe’s Flash “has major technical drawbacks”http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=8179 … Continue reading →

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The Top 50 Web Development Icon Sets from 2009

Posted on December 21, 2009 by virtualmv

From JS: Lots of icons to give you ideas for your own ones. http://speckyboy.com/2009/12/21/the-top-50-web-development-icon-sets-from-2009/

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Posted on November 18, 2009 by virtualmv

Just cause I want to remember this if I find I need it in the future FusionCharts (n.d.)[1] - http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/download/?_doPostback=561369948 FusionCharts Free helps you create free flash charts in your web applications. It supports a variety of chart types including bar, … Continue reading →

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Freeware (donationware) Video Converter

Posted on June 18, 2009 by virtualmv

JJ has found a video converter Huang, S. (2009) MediaCoder – more than a universal audio/video transcoder. Retrieved June 17, 2009 from http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

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Video files (offline)

Posted on October 28, 2008 by virtualmv

Not sure about the legality, but for students (and you) to use youTube videos (offline) in presentations (especially if your organisation has a firewall that blocks YouTube) you can try http://www.videodownloadx.com/ which will allow them to download the videos.

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Web reader that can be used anywhere

Posted on July 23, 2008 by virtualmv

WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine. Interesting to get a web page and listen to how the page is read back. WebAnywhere: A Screen reader … Continue reading →

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Flash Links

Posted on June 4, 2008 by virtualmv

Some Flash links from Olga. Displaying text Campbell, C. (2008) Creating a Custom Scroller in Flash . Retrieved June 5, 2008 from  http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/flash/video/customscrollbar.php XML: Adobe (n.d.) An example of using styles with XML — Flash CS3. Retrieved June 5, 2008 from … Continue reading →

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