We’re all a couple of weeks into 2011. Time to get serious about planning for this year. First, I really enjoyed 2010. It was equally exciting and stable for me and my family. We didn’t move across the country — something we’ve done twice in the past 5 years. However, we did have a baby…
Author: chuckstar
Returning to CES
The first and only time I’ve been to the great Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was 1996. My dad brought me during his remarkable streak (he went to them about 20 years in a row). 1996 was an incredible year in the consumer electronics space. At that show, the following were unveiled for the…
To everything, turn turn
While investigating page turning options for potential projects, I came across these impressive examples. One uses Flash and the other is done with HTML5. Flash, based on work by Didier Brun: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=77 http://www.didierbrun.com/foxaweb/demos/as3/pageflip/PageFlip.swf
Going Back to the Future at Adobe MAX 2010
This will be my 5th MAX, and by far, the busiest and most exciting. Here’s the many ways you can see me and our awesome team from litl in action during MAX 2010 in LA. My theme is Back to the Future. Read on and you’ll see why…
My blog turned 5 years old this month
With no fanfare or media coverage, my blog “Excerpts from the mind” quietly turned 5 years old this month. Having owned the domain chuckstar.com since 1997, I used it for portfolio, business and hosting projects until September 2005. My first post, which got lost in an early wordpress upgrade, talked about a car I was…
The end of software. A prediction.
My kid will never install software from a disc, thumb drive or any other medium. He will grow up in a world where all functionality he wishes to expand his device to, whether it be his tablet, communicator (what’s a phone?), large screen display or set top box (what’s a gaming console?) will be available…
Fenway dreams come true, courtesy of litl
Ever since I became a Red Sox fan during the season of 1987, when baseball cards had wooden borders, I dreamed of running on to the field at Fenway while my name was being announced. As I got older and started going to more and more games, that dream grew to one day sitting in…
Video Demo: Control a papervision3D sphere with a litl remote
After doing our first 2 live video workshops recently, some folks were asking about PaperVision3D and general 3D performance on litl. We grabbed a simple sphere rolling demo and wrapped it in a litl channel. The result is a simple, but insanely fun example of controlling a 3D object in Flash within a litl channel….
Lightroom 3 is awesome. So much fun enhancing photos.
My work-to-fun ratio with software reached about 50 to 1 many years ago. I stopped playing PC games and have spent almost all of my time using software for coding (admittedly fun – sometimes) and for work and personal productivity. The timing was good to see this tweet last week just days after I off…
litl SDK Available, Developers get webbook for $199
At FlashAndTheCity, we officially launched our Developer Center at http://developer.litl.com. You can now sign up for the SDK, which is in private beta. To date, we’ve approved 75% of developer signups based on Flash experience, and more importantly, ideas for channels developers want to build. The latter is important to ensure we dedicate support early…