If you aren’t yet convinced osflash.org is one of the most essential truck-stops for the Flash community, check out the open source Red5 project by that’s under development there. They’re making some serious progress in reverse-engineering the RTMP protocol used in Macromedia’s Flash Communication Server and have already managed to create a NetConnection with their read more
Monthly Archives: October 2005
Moving beyond the browser
Aral made an interesting point a few days back on AJAX and the browser as a plugin. I thought I’d pick up on that as its something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. In many ways computers these days are not stand-alone machines, connectivity has become an integral part in all aspects of read more
Thunderbird – Remove duplicate messages extension
I’ve found a great extension for Thunderbird to help with removing duplicate messages (which occasionally happens when you do a lot of importing, merging folders etc.) Just right-click and run it on the folder of your choice and it gives you a nice overview of all duplicate emails and suggests what to do with them. read more
Flaver – FLA version checker
One of my pet peeves when working with FLA’s is that there’s no easy way of finding out what Flash version the file was saved for. Northcode has just released a great freebie called Flaver – it hijacks the FLA format, checks what version it was saved as and launches the corresponding version of the read more