We’ve been working a lot with the Google Maps Flash API lately; recent projects Ride Oregon and Oregon Bounty make regular use of Google Maps to plot various types of data. Each project raised unique challenges, the solutions to which were rarely found in … read more

After many requests, I’ve updated the demo and source files for the wildly popular labs post Using AS3 to Upload and Encode Images. Hope everyone finds it helpful.

We’ve put together a simple AIR application that allows you to load a SWF, select any class, and export a series of PNG or JPEG images. Potential uses for this tool range from photoshop-style batch image creation to randomized image painting ala Erik Natzke.

There’s a built in … read more

The ability to proportionally scale an object to fit within, or fill a region is a powerful technique with a variety of applications. We used this approach on Logobama to allow users to upload any size photo and automatically scale it to fit within the available space, before … read more

I once heard Joshua Davis say that there is no Kick Ass button in Flash. While his point is valid, it looks like Adobe actually managed to include (at least) one with the upcoming release of Flash 10 (a.k.a. Astro).

The next release of Flash won’t … read more