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My wife and I have now been living tiny for several months. For those who don’t know, tiny homes (living units under roughly 200sq’) have become increasingly popular in the past couple of years. When we researched many options for different types of tiny homes, we found a lot of information -- …
Greetings once more from the Oregon outback. Posting has been light -- in large part because of the amount of effort we’ve put in to the process of battening down the hatches for our first winter on our land. The number of things that have gone wrong, due to the mixture of cold and wet, [...]
Flash has been a remarkable proving ground for the current generation of digital talent. Flash both enabled and forced this talent to confront the multitude of challenges when creating rich interactive experiences -- experiences far richer than would have been possible in the absence of Flash. …
Adobe’s recent announcements regarding the fate of Flash Player on mobile devices has sparked a significant debate on a wide variety of related topics. I started sharing my reactions earlier, in a separate post on the manner in which these announcements were made public, because I feel that those …
By now, of course, everyone knows of Adobe's announcement killing support for the Flash Player on mobile platforms. I hope to have time in the coming weeks to post some thoughts about what this all means for Flash Platform technology -- because, honestly, there's a lot to digest here. But I did …
HTML5 (or, as it’s more commonly known ‘HTML’) is a hot-subject these days -- in large part because of the ways in which it is seen as supplanting Adobe's Flash technology as a way to deliver rich experiences to connected devices. I've been trying to avoid stepping in the numerous potential …
Good afternoon, all. I've just posted another installment of my articles about StageVideo at Almer/Blank Labs. This is the 2nd in the series of posts based on my Featured Talk at Adobe MAX 2011. Entitled 'Delivering the Best HD Video in Flash', the talk is really about the StageVideo enhancements …
An hilarious and instructive video today of a baby trying to use a magazine. Maybe, as some of the comments say, the baby is just using a magazine the same way babies-of-yore would. But I really doubt it -- I doubt that the pervasive nature of these touch devices on the connected side of the [...]
Last week I posted about some of my antics installing an off-grid plumbing system. While I'm still down here, working in LA, I thought it might be nice to write a bit about my experience building my first deck, which I actually only completed the night before coming down here for MAX. If you've …
It's been an intense few days, in the center of the connected universe, staying in downtown Los Angeles for Adobe MAX 2011. I stood in LA Live, realizing that there was more power being consumed in one square block around me, than in a 50-mile radius from my home in Oregon. There was a 200'+ [...]
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@jdowdell I agree. Flash was a democratizing tech, enabling anyone to reach everyone, simply & inexpensively. That was a threat to many.@rblank9
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