Archive for January, 2007

Writing Flash for the Nintendo Wii

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007


The following is an initial attempt to wrangle all of the useful knowledge from blogs and sites throughout the community concerning Flash and the Nintendo Wii. If you have a useful link that you believe is missing from this list – please leave a comment and let me know.

As you may know, the Nintendo Wii currently runs an Opera-based web browser. It can currently display Flash 7 files within the browser as well. As time passes people have been able to write code to recognize gestures with the remote as well as basic tracking of the Wii remote. Below is a compiled list of topics concerning writing Flash for the Wii and the marriage of the two in general:

Opera Browser
Wikipedia Information of the Opera-based Wii Web Browser

Programming (Wiimote)
Flash Wii Gesture Recognization

Wiimote buttons in Flash – Aral Balkan

Wiimote buttons in Flash – wii.teamxlink.co.uk

Wiimote in Flash – Quasimondo

Design
Wii Web Design Guide

Funny Wii Safety: Missing Pages

Videos
Video Showing Apparent Full Support of the Wiimote in Flash at DustyPixels

Interactive Singing Holiday Card

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

I know this is really late, but i forgot to share it last month! The company I work for, New Perspective, when not working at Pixelfumes, put out a cool little interactive holiday card this year. Myself and several members of the Pittsburgh Flash Users Group worked on this together (Myself, Wayne Lincoln, Joe Kromer and Val Head).

After you watch the “company card” you can upload your own picture, pic a scene and email it to your friends with a message.
Oh, and by the way, the singing is supposed to be silly – we weren’t going for American Idol here ;) .

View the Holiday Card Here

DHTML Snowstorm

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Always a lover of DHTML – I ran across this DHTML Snowstorm. I figured since I shared the Flash versions (AS2/AS3) that I have done you might be interested in this as well.

DHTML Snow Storm by Scott Schiller

P.S. Dig the DHTML MP3 Player at the top as well ;) .

Apple iPhone – Runs Safari / OS X

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Apple released the iPhone today in case you haven’t heard ;) . Actually – you can get it in June… It apparently runs OS X and includes Safari. I wonder how this will affect Flash Lite. I wonder if Safari on the iPhone will support a Flash 9 plugin. Take a look at the demos on the apple site – they are very well done and show the awesome capabilities of the iPhone. Oh, and it is an iPod as well…

If you are interested in the tech-specs you can view those here.

If you are having a hard time waiting until June click here.

Adobe CS3 Icons – Interactive Display

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Lee over at The Flash Blog has created a sweet little interactive piece to help you identify and get a fell for the new icons in the CS3 Suite of products.

Check it out here: http://theflashblog.com/?p=240. There are some other nice pieces of work to take a look at while you are over there.