We have been incredibly inspired by the presentations at South by Southwest (SXSW). More than each individual panel and presentation we attended, we had the opportunity to meet so many smart, thoughtful people to continue our discussions with outside the lecture halls. One of the most interesting aspects of SXSW … 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

Anyone who has ever tried to display transparent Flash content over HTML knows that getting things to sort properly on the z-index can be frustrating. Flash has an annoying tendency to force itself to render above of all other content Some browsers have trouble rendering … read more