Chuck FreedmanWhile 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
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Need Questions for #JvJ2 at RIAUnleashed
THIS WEEK. Boston. Jesse Warden (@jesterxl) defends his title against Jesse Freeman (@CodeBum) in a followup to our smashingly successful, controversial and in-your-face JvJ debate from 360Flex DC. Those on hand in DC (fact check: suburban Maryland) witnessed an intellectual throwdown where Warden narrowly won. Plans were immediately in the works for a follow up [...]
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…
Flash on TV, 3D, Accelerometer via the Litl set top box
During a recent Seattle Flex user group I had the honor of presenting at, Adobe’s Marty Mickelson (TheFlexGuy) took some awesome photos of me demonstrating some of the amazing technology Litl is unveiling in the coming weeks! In this photo, I am showing the new Touch and Accelerometer remote (that’s my hand holding the real [...]
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 Great Framework Debate at 360Flex
The Great Framework Debate: We all have it! Which framework to use in your Flex project and why. We’ll find out at 360Flex D.C. starting September 19. Register Now! John Wilker, organizer extraordinaire of 360 Flex, has given me the honor of moderating a new panel to the general audience called “The Great Framework Debate”. [...]
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. [...]
Flash channel ecosystem taking shape this summer with litl SDK
Lots of exciting things coming together with the litl OS and SDK. The team has been growing as well as the developer community. A new batch of litl webbooks shipped and many went to developers eager to build Flash channels for the OS. We have a very busy summer planned and we are on schedule [...]
