The architects Trinh Buscher will be talking about The Urban Topography Collection, an ongoing effort and the first stage to the Metropolitan Cityscapes platform.
The series explores the concept of space re-imagined through spatial memory and comparison.
www.metropolitan-cityscapes.com
Further speakers will be announced soon.
Following the recent nominations we are now competing for a Webby as well, in the coveted category Game or Application. And again, we need you! Please vote for the Red Bull Soapbox Racer at the People's Voice Award for a chance to win a Good Deed of the Day-Medal.
Due to many people still being on an easter vacation there won t be a talk on Tuesday the 6th of April.
Hope to see you in May!
Less Rain is looking for a versatile Flash developer for full-time employment in our Berlin office with a solid background in object oriented web development and in-depth experience in AS3. We are seeking a motivated and confident problem solver with an eye for interaction design and a passion for web technologies.
You will be working in an international team of experienced developers in Berlin. Your role involves working closely with our front-end designers and the developer team to implement projects ranging from mini-sites to large scale consumer & corporate websites. You will be working on projects such as:
Requirements
Please send your CV and portfolio to Thomas Meyer.
We can only accept applications via e-mail.
For further information about Less Rain visit:
http://www.lessrain.com
http://blog.lessrain.com
Julius Wiedemann and Rob Ford from the FWA teamed up for TASCHEN Verlag to present you with "sixty success stories from clients' briefings to final projects" – and two of them are ours. Both our Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab and Vandalsquad feature as examples for a successful investment online.
You can flip through the entire book here, or read more at the TASCHEN website. The Internet Case Study Book is out in April 2010.
While developing an AIR project one of the most annoying problems we are having is the impossibility to intercept when a runtime exception is triggered in the installed AIR application.
After Googling a bit we found a couple of interesting solutions provided by Xavi Beumala in his blog:
Our friends at Brauchbarkeit have just released a new game on the AppStore called “Doppelgänger”.
It’s a well made and challenging memory game, perfect for your casual gaming needs.
Check it out at One more Games or on the AppStore
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FireFox 3.6 draws one-pixel border aorund embedded SWF (also occurs with Java Applets) where the width and height is set to 100%, causing pointless scrollbars to appear.
It seems to be a side effect of fixed usability problem which makes old bugs to appear.
Solution 1:
In about:config:
Set browser.display.focusringonanything to true and set browser.display.focusring_width to 0
Solution 2:
Paste this in your css/stylesheet:
a:focus, object:focus {
outline: none;
-moz-outline-style: none;
}
Thanks Thomas for the info.
See more at support.mozilla.com forum (FireFox 3.6 draws a one-pixel border…)
Our 20th Talk About The Weather will feature the following speakers.
The SOZIALHELDEN started in 2005. Time has gone by. And with the help of the two student initiators the SOZIALHELDEN have turned into a big network of voluntaries and a charitable organization. With creative projects they draw attention to social problems and – in the best case – remove them.
Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen will present their latest project http://wheelmap.org/. The internet platform enables users to enter, change and find accessible and not so accessible locations.
For more than 5 years cinematographer Tomas Erhart has been taking still-pictures with his first generation cellphone-camera. One can see his highly respected work in exhibitions and on his website: http://cellphonology.com/
In “Talk about the Weather” Tomas speaks about pixels, Lomography, digital pictures and the hardship and pleasure of being a part-time foto-artist.
After almost a year in development, we finally went live with www.costanavarino.com, and immediately got ‘Site of the day’ in www.thefwa.com.
We have been working on the branding of this prime holiday destination since 2 years now, arguably the biggest branding exercise Less Rain had ever gone through. To this end we have enlisted the help of our friends at Praline
The website aims to collect information from all areas of knowledge related to Costa Navarino – history, flora, fauna, traditions, food – and prepare the visitor for the wealth of experience Costa Navarino has to offer.
The site has been built in a totally dynamic way, with full screen content and a variety of AS3 animations connecting all pages and interface elements in a seamless fashion. It features a computational soundtrack, using a small number of samples to construct 25 different sound scapes, saving a great deal of download time.
Vote now for your favourite website of the year, at the Favourite Website Awards. We hope it’ll be our Red Bull Soapbox Racer!
The Red Bull Soapbox Racer has been showered with awards this week. After winning gold twice at the Davey Awards, we’ve also won gold at the London International Awards in the Online Games category – ahead of Dentsu, Tribal DDB and Sapient. Soapbox Racer is currently also nominated at the British Interactive Media Awards.
Ela Kagel is a freelance curator and producer, living and working in Berlin. She is currently developing the “Free Culture Incubator”, a project for next year’s Transmediale. The incubator strives to create a model of how a creative business can actually work: community-driven, self-determined and based on personal resources & networks.
Ela is engaged in a number of cultural activities, such as being a member of Public Art Lab Berlin (http://www.publicartlab.org) or running the Upgrade! events (http://www.upgrade-berlin.net). Since this year, she is also working in the curatorial team of the Transmediale Festival for Art and Digital Culture (http://www.transmediale.de).
Contentismissing is a group of professionals from the distinctive fields of architecture, design & music with the objective to ensure a creative environment for collaboration as well as independent work.
They will show how they provided missing content; design, code and motion for three different projects: the video installation New Life, a branding proposal for Opera and a multitouch-application for Deutsche Telekom Laboratories.
http://www.contentismissing.net
Okawari will serve delicious Tokyo style finger food.
The Less Rain London office is now looking for a Full Time AS3 Developer to complete the team!
You will be developing interactive environments in Actionscript 3.0, ranging from consumer & corporate websites to Rich Internet Applications. Here are some examples of the level of coding we expect:
Your role involves working with our front-end designers, back-end developers and Flash Developer team. Every project we do has a great concept / idea behind it and pushes the boundaries of what is possible, so you will never get bored doing the same website over and over again.
As a person you are quick, accurate and stress tolerant, a problem solver with good communication skills. You are self-motivated; flash development is a passion, not just a job. You like to try out new things and are willing to pass your knowledge to others.
You have a wide knowledge of Flash development and in-depth experience in web development.
Skills
Initial salaries are comparable to the market level and there will be a chance to negotiate as you develop.
Send your resume, references and portfolio to vassilios-at-lessrain.com.
Please include salary expectations.
Well the title says it all, our Red Bull Soapbox Racer won Gold in the Food and Beverages Category and Best in Show in the Events Category at this year’s W3 Awards.
Following our “shock and awe” presentation at the Flex User Group Berlin in August, we’re invited to present the Red Bull Soap Box Racer at the Adobe Flex User Group in Hamburg on the 20th of October.
Check the flexughh announcement for details. Thanks to Fabian and the flexughh for hosting us!
There’s a new feature in the Red Bull Soapbox Racer, that allows you to connect your Soapbox Racer account with your Facebook account. It allows for easy login as well as challenging your Facebook friends, sharing your cars, tracks and race results in your Facebook feed.
Connect yourself on www.redbullsoapboxracer.com.
Okawari will serve delicious Tokyo style finger food during the course of the evening. http://www.okawari.de/
Joerg Pfeiffer will talk about interactive videoreports for his column km42.spiegel.de, working in camper-vans and life as a digital normad. It’s also about videojournalism and the sense of travelling professionally.
Sporadic bloggers Dirk and Mac talk about how a virtual graffiti in their weblog www.dataloo.de got out of control and appeared on city streets, newspapers, protest marches, national TV and all over the German internet scene. They recall the time when they suddenly became political, accidentally created the key visual for a protest movement, collected a 5-digit sum, jumped the German blog charts and suspected that the secret service is tapping their phones.
Sebastian Purfürst is a Berlin-based new media artist with a strong focus on stage visuals and music. He will be presenting the experimental documentary, “The Fine Art of Designing Silence”, produced in 2005 in cooperation with Christian Mahler. The film attempts to explore the artistic potential of acoustic silence in film and music – a time-lapse voyage through the history of cinema, sonic enviroments and human perception in its ever-changing, technologically influenced form, from On and Off to 1 and 0.
This film is part of the long-term film project, “Design Strategies for Converging Media”.
The Red Bull Soapbox Racer just got voted Website of the Month at The FWA, and is also Website of the Day at Adobe.
*** Okawari will serve delicious Tokyo style finger food during the course of the evening. http://www.okawari.de/ ***
Christian Mahler will talk about his project “EIGENFACE – interconnected pictures” and how he is trying to develop aesthetics, poetics and maybe knowledge or beauty in the era of mass customized, machine-readable data.
http://www.lem-studios.com/EXHIBITIONS/eigenface.htm
Andreas Gehrke, photographer, will be showing his series ‘The Ionian Road’. He photographed these landscapes on the greek Peloponnesian peninsula, where in August 2007, large parts of the island were burnt in wildfires. The work is a hommage to this recent natural disaster.
Satch Hoyt International visual artist and musician discusses his multilayered practice. Comprising of sculpture, and installations accompanied by sound. He has collaborated on projects with artists as far reaching as Louise Bourgeois to Grace Jones.
We’ll be presenting our new favorite project (you guessed it – the Red Bull Soapbox Racer) at Flex Labs organized by the Adobe Flex User Group Berlin tonight.
If you’re in Berlin you should sign up to the User Group here
From my own experience – it’s not just about the Flex framework but all things related to the Flash Platform and RIA in general.
This week’s edition is about overcoming this admin’s lonesome summer.
The bad news first: Unfortunately, the announced Scooby Doo interview has to be postponed due to an urgent surgery. Scoob is just getting a respiratory tract transplantation. Could this be a result of a long media carrier? I will ask him about that, when Mr. Doo is back on top. At least, he seems not to share a doctor with Michael Jackson.
What has happened so far? It’s summer time at the Less Rain office, everybody enjoys the summer outside. Execept me. While the upper floors are dark and empty, there’s still that gloomy well-known shining on the walls. While the telephones are softly covered with dust, my desk is covered with empty pizza boxes, RedBull tins and take away coffee cups, forming a strange yet interesting castle around the screens and keyboards.
So this is my state-of-mind while I am writing this post; the creepy conclusion in the back of mind, the shining screens in front. The only thing left to me is the chance to answer the fantastic question: “Where would I go if I could as I please?”
Red Bull Soapbox – kids of all ages in self-made cars, racing down a steep hill. An extremely popular event, held throughout the year across the globe. The cars are powered by gravity only, no engines allowed but all dreams and colors.
And now it’s online! All of it, the cars, the race, the place to meet and challenge your friends. We call it Red Bull Soapbox Racer and racing you will.
Race first, think later
One single click on “Race now” and you find yourself on top of a steep road, pointing downhill. While the countdown is running, please be reminded that the game is based on a realistic physics simulation and you should not not not smash into one of those nice obstacles. Do collect cans for an extra speed boost and don’t forget the spanners. With ultra speed comes maybe damage.
If you didn’t win instantly the first time, maybe it was the wrong track. We have tracks for everybody, Wildwest, Night Ride, Turkish Riviera, Waterland, Alpenglück – many more will be added. Or was there a problem with the car?
Another car, another race
Red Bull Soapbox Racer lets you build your own car in 3D. Just draw the outline with your mouse. It’s really that simple and everything you draw will have an effect later in the game. The rounder the wheels the better, reconsider materials, use more stickers, paint, use colors, use more colors than your opponents, use every tool you have at least once. And winning races will get you even more of those. (THERE IS A NAILGUN!)
Give it some love, cars will be rated by who-knows-what so make sure there is no doubt. You may also browse through all existing cars for some inspiration.
The Challenge
After tinkering and test driving for a while there comes a point in time where you are quite sure to have the best car ever built on this planet. Challenge your friends! Invite them by E-Mail or simply click on the name of your long-time-rival in the so-called friends list.
A challenge works like this: Start the challenge and you have three attempts to race your best time. After that your opponent will be notified and offered three rounds to beat your time.
And after that, there is the highscore list for everyone to see.
Steeper, faster, harder
It’s even better to challenge somebody on your own surprise track. Give it a try, it’s simpler than building cars. Draw with your mouse where the street should go, done. Then, if you like, adjust the downward slope with some gusto and remember the guideline: The steeper the faster. Place obstacles and power-ups as you see fit, some recommend at least one can of Red Bull.
Red Bull Soapbox Racer is the latest addition to our creative online communities. Make your race times heard, we sure will try to beat you. See you on the circuit!
Related Posts:
Red Bull Flugtag Flightlab
Developing Red Bull Flugtag Flightlab
Being the company’s only system administrator is not easy. Surely, you have the power to control each and every electron which is quite cool. This ultimate digital power on the one hand dooms you to be irreplaceable on the other hand. That’s when lyrics like “Wouldn’t it be nice if I were redundant / then I could roam all the world” come into my mind. However, the trend leads to keeping of admins in a species-appropriate environment: pairwise. Until species’ protection gets in here, it seems as if I can stuff backpacker world tours. The reason is quite obvious: Servers tend to sudden death and don’t have the wishful ability to reawaken by themselves. If they had, they were cats. The interested reader might chip in with the nearly complete GSM-coverage. Right: 
Nearly. Ever tried to tweet your thoughts while crossing the Sahara desert or did a complete server update on your way to the top on mount Kilimanjaro? You probably won’t enjoy that much. Hence, I need to add “take yet another extra WalMart bag to carry notebook and mobile satellite receiver as well as an emergency engine with a diesel tank with you” on my personal list. Who ever carried 50 gallons of fuel on his back knows what I will have to expect and how much fun this won’t be.
I would go so far as to say that even trans-atlantic flights, a welcomed entertaining offline break for the average Facebook consumer, turn out to be my personal perfect horror trip. Arriving at the airport, some uniformed men suddenly appear and ask me why I do carry a running mobile satellite receiver with me. Surprisingly, they are not satisfied with the most obvious answer: I am an administrator who takes his job seriously. Moreover, they tell me an outrageous story of world-wide terrorism and try to explain the world in a simple yet strange way.
Furthermore, they even force me to shut up and down – the former meaning my objections, the latter my equipment – and have nerve to call me paranoid. Anyway. I am an admin, not a rebel. So I conform and quickly rush through the security check. Some never ending 15 minutes later, I take a seat in the plane. But the worse part of the trip is just about to begin. Innocently I sit in that plane, trying to connect to my servers which means bring both laptop and mobile satellite receiver online to bring this frustrating offline period to an end. The stewardesses, usually known for their never-ending smile, suddenly freak out and for a second I feel like George Clooney realizing that he is in a vampire temple in disguise.
From one second to another their smiles turn into grotesque faces and from one second to another there’s a bunch of hyperventilating stewardesses yelling at me to turn off my phone and notebook because this ought to be forbidden. Please. For me, it’s yet another fake world conspiracy trying to cut the magic band between an admin and his servers. Okay. Got me. Terrorists win. However, I’m still an admin, not a rebel. So I conform again. I decide to wait until the maximum altitude has been reached and brought me as close as possible to my favorite satellite. This takes me another 45 endless minutes. Watching the latest Disney movie doesn’t help either.
But having reached the summit I quickly resume my sessions and connect me to my servers. Everything is working smoothly. Unfortunately, the vampires return – with some reinforcements in tow. It’s the gentlemen from the cockpit telling me the reason that our plane is going to hit the ground very soon would be my internet connection. Again, I am doomed to the agony of being offline because of the selfish behavior of a few. To tell the truth, it’s just their lack of not being able to fly a plane without all that blinking and computing electronic helpers that actually do all the work while the so-called pilots just try to be good-looking and touch down all the time. Anyway. If you don’t keep your admin in a species-appropriate environment, his personal holiday destination look-up procedure has a quite limited framework.
Google released the source code of the Apollo 11 mission – together with an emulator.
On the first sight this may seem as yet another nerdish project, but it’s much more than that.
If you belong to the rare specie of Assembler programmers, you will have the unique chance to follow the thoughts of the people who coded a program that controlled a computer which flew a space-ship from Earth to the moon and back. Moreover, you have the possibility to see how the Lunar Module was programmed.
But for the rest of us, although we do not understand anything of that code, it’s an important artifact of history of mankind. Frankly, how many of those artifacts are we able to read? Hieroglyphs? Are they an important artifact of human history? Definitely.
Finally, there is an emulator to run the programmes on any computer. Somebody even made it possible to run that software on a handheld! 40 years ago, people racked their brains how to have an efficient computer that does not consume too much space and energy and today we could do the same with a mobile. I love IT. 
Here’s the video…
Edgar Martins (portuguese photographer, grown up in Macau, China) creates interesting views on uninteresting scenes. We saw his exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal. Soon his work can be seen in Berlin (November 2009, at Caprice Horn Gallery).
A must-see!
©photography by E.Martins
Related links:
Edgar Martins
Caprice Horn Gallery
“The main goal of the Integra project is to create a new piece of software for composing and performing music with live electronics. The environment will be tested in real life thanks to substantial new commissions and an effort to modernise existing repertoire that currently uses obsolete technology. Furthermore, the project is an exciting opportunity to bring together research centres and new music ensembles from across Europe.” – Integralive.org
We’re very excited to be involved in UI/UX design and Graphic design for this new music software development project. There is a news post here about our involvement. Have a look at the whole site for more information on the groundbreaking work that Integra are doing.
Some very interesting illustrations made by Evangelos Papazoglou, inspired by handmade signs of a bygone time. Rooted in culture and spoken language but seen from a contemporary point of view, these illustrations do not try to conceal the fact they are handmade, but rather use it as a feature, creating a strange resonance.
The results are in! The Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab won in the category “Game or Application” – thank you, jury! The People’s Voice Award went to Goodby, Silverstein & Partners’ Hotel 626.
We also received a People’s Voice Award in category “ " onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?media_id=96_amp_season=13_webby_entry_food_drink_br_/&referer=');">Food and Beverages” – thank you, people! The category winner is Nike Football Head2Head by R/GA.
Click here for a full list of the nominees and winners.
Update: “Less Rain überrundet Jung von Matt” – ZDF Mittagsmagazin (German)
Don’t miss the next Talk about the Weather, where Frieder Weiss will show dance performances enhanced by motion-tracking real-time projections, Andreas Sommerwerk will tell the story behind his hand stitched watches, and Tobias Neisecke demonstrates the use of virtual worlds for healthcare & medical issues.
Talk about the Weather vol 12, Tuesday 5th May, 20 – 23h, at The Less Rain Basement Berlin.
Saw a presentation of one of the founders of Berlin based company betterplace.org yesterday. I absolutely love the idea, it’s an online marketplace (like ebay or amazon) for social projects, that allows you to give donations directly to social projects posted by people who are actually working on these projects, not some obscure organisation.
The credibility of these projects is regulated by the community itself, donations are forwarded 100%. Betterplace themselves are a non-profit organization and make their money by consulting companies for social activities based on the platform.
Rarely heard of a smoother and nobler business model!
Flight Lab has been nominated in two categories at this year’s Webby Awards, “Websites – Food and Beverages” and “Interactive Advertising – Games”. Vote now for Flight Lab at The Webby People’s Voice Award (requires registration).
As many of you know, music is one of my passions. I consider it’s an evidence that in the story of the Spanish music, where I come from, there have been and there are bands that deserve to be much more known that they are, even in my own country. That’s why a group of friends of mine and me created lafonoteca, a space that aims to reivindicate our own music, which has evolved in some cases creating an unique sound.
After a while living in London, it came to me the idea of bringing Spanish bands to play here. With the help of some people, and getting a couple of contacts, I am happy to announce that I am bringing Triangulo de Amor Bizarro -so far one of the best noise rock bands in the moment- the 10th of May to play at The Legion, in Shoreditch, in an event which will be the first step of a project that involves local bands to do an enriching crossover of music scenes. This time, TAB will be playing with The Light Shines, The Confederate Dead and Temperatures, best of all, for FREE!!
Doors will open at 19.30, is there any best option to go trough a Sunday hangover?
I have created an event on facebook to do a viral thing, so hope to see you all there!
Our now sadly defunct-because-we’re-sold-out online shop, The Less Rain Super Center, is featured in iCatching, a new book by Singaporean publisher Page One.
Filter Forge is a Photoshop plug-in that lets you create your own filters using a Max MSP-like interface. Very handy to create seamless, photo realistic textures like this one:
The Mac version got released just now, with a 30% discount. User-created filters can be downloaded for free.
Storing Files in databases as a BLOB always seemed inherently daft to me. I wanted to be able to store user generated Files as URLs in the database, and let an HTTP Server serve them, so why is Hibernate storing BLOBs? Hibernates UserType allows conversion between ungainly classes such as java.net.URL or java.io.File and the somewhat pale and pasty datatypes of the database world.
You might know the situation: It’s been a grey, draggy day since its very first second. All you would really like to have is a calm evening. You open a bottle of your favourite drink, take a seat in your lovely bathtub and start to do your favourite evening activity [play computer, watch TV, listen an opera, read a book].
Suddenly, the phone rings. As you are a post-modern urbanized cosmopolitan you know the importance of communication. Therefore you instantly switch from relaxing to emergency mode – you jump right out of the tub, perform some body-drying twists and grab your towel. Unfortunately, your feet were unwilling to dry and so you slip right into your bathroom’s door.
Almost blind, you try to find the phone and the next Aspirin. You pick up the phone and a moderate attractive voices is twittering in your ear: «Good evening, my name is Maggie Smith and I’d love to ask you some questions about the new Oxygen-White-Mega-Pearl-Ultra-FlexiMax toilette cleaner»
If you’re freaking out right now, it’s probably okay. But there are more sophisticated ways to handle this solution. Martin Engelbregt created a «Counterscript» for moments like these.
flOw was – and still is – a simple, intuitive and ruminant Flash game by Jenova Chen 陈星汉 with an aestetic design and a deep soundscape.
PSP Games – flOw from multimediafreak on Vimeo.
It seemed to inspire the people at Blurst, which recently launched their beautiful oceanic undersea game Blush, that comes up with a lot more colors and personality.
Blush Trailer from Flashbang Studios on Vimeo.
Extremely simple yet addictive. Guide airplanes and helicopters to a safe landing. On sale for $.99. App Store link, and a short review plus video on touchArcade.
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Gesa von Grote is an architect who is specialized in conception, design and production of exhibitions. In the recent years she created about ten permanent and temporary exhibitions for public museums as well as for private clients.
In her talk she will give an insight into exhibition design and present recent projects focussing on her way of developing projects.
Wolfgang Opel is leading a team that developed a technique to enable 3D view on usual screens.
His company Spatial View produces applications for iPhone 3G, notebooks and displays that makes it possible for users to view 3D on their screens without using glasses. In his presentation he will recount his way from the idea to the final product.
www.spatialview.com
www.wazabee.net
Nice article on ars about the history of the music game genre.
Interesting read – shame they forgot to mention my all time favorite Vib Ribbon on the PlayStation!
Image taken from vib-ribbon.com.
I wish Sony would make us develop the Flash or iPhone version of it!!
Last year during the development of a project where blur filters were used extensively we put into practice several tips and tricks to be able to render this visual effects quicker.
What caught my attention on top of everything was something really obviuos, in fact it is mentioned in the Flash documentation (I never read every single line), values that are a power of 2 (such as 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32) are optimized to render more quickly than other values.
Having this into account, the problem (a fairly common problem in systems programming) was to locate the “next highest power of 2″, whenever I need the value to be dynamic.
Here there are a few AS3 algorithms to find the next highest power of 2:
Flash Switcher extension is a well known Firefox extension to switch between various Flash player versions. Also very useful to save or remove the current installed Flash plugin.
In the last two months I have found people around my friends network having a lot of trouble making the extension work with Windows Vista, getting this two common errors while installing the extension:
Component returned failure code: 0×80520008 (NSERRORFILEALREADYEXISTS) [nsILocalFile.copyTo]
Access to folder C:Windowssystem32MacromedFlash is denied. Consider to use an user accesible plugins folder instead (for example: ~/.mozilla/plugins/ )
The solution to get ridd of this error messages is very basic, you just need full access to the macromed folder in your system.
Another question that comes together with this errors is how to customize the Flash Switcher extension.
The default download for Flash Switcher includes a fair variety of player versions but not all and you may need to add newer players to fit your development needs, for example the new 10r22_87 version.
First you need to download the player from the following Flash Player archive:
Archived Flash Players available for testing purposes.
Download Flash Player 10 (debugger versions) (60 MB).
Open your Flash Switcher extension plugins directory, located at (remember I’m talking about Windows Vista):
C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\extensions\flash_switcher@sephiroth.it\plugins\win
Create a new folder and name it 10.0 r22 debug, which is the new version to install. (Released February 24, 2009 due to security vulnerabilities)
Next you need to install the Flash player (flashplayer10r2287win_debug.exe) which goes to C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash
Now copy the NPSWF32.dll file from the “Flash” folder to the Flash Switcher extension plugin directory that you just created.
And that’s all, now your Flash Switcher extension should work without problems in Windows Vista.
February 25 – March 12, BOO presents “NEW SALVATION ARMY” by designer friend Eider Corral.
Eider’s new work is a limited edition of custom made or fake “Lladró” for the occasion.
Pack design – Photo by Eider Corral.
Volunteer #1 – Photo by Eider Corral.
Time and PlaceStart Time:
25 February 2009 at 19:00
End Time: 12 March 2009 at 21:00
Location: BOO
Street: Perla, 20
Town/City: Barcelona, Spain
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I finally got around watching Moyashimon, the Anime about a boy being able to see and interact with microbes. Pretty fantastic kids TV about agriculture, microbiology, chemistry, and girls in short skirts. Here’s the intro:
Fl@t33′s new book “Postcard” (Lauwrence King, ISBN: 978-185669-569-5) is now out, featuring (thanks, Tomi!) Less Rain Tokyo’s stationary and website:
We’ve just completed the development of the One Race Wear microsite for our friends Bionic Systems and their client One Industries.
Bionic Systems were responsible for the project and art direction, we added our Flash treatment:
In the last few days I’ve been experiencing weird rendering problems in some websites while using the latest stable version of Firefox (3.0.1) in MAC.
Searching google I found more people having similar issuses like blinking pages when using SWFAddress for Flash in FF3 MAC.
In all the cases the solution given for the problem is to add a small delay between the visual transition and the JavaScript interaction of SWFAddress.
After reading all this posts I thought the problem was specific for SWFAddress but my surpsise was when I found similar problems in one of our projects which is not using SWFAddress at all and it is almost 4 years old (AS2). In this specific project we were using ExternalInterface extensivelly.
I have done a small test with just a gradient background and three round corner buttons using ExternalInterface call method to call three different javscript functions and the results are scary:
1) First button (left) calls an alert in javascript using a timeout:
JAVASCRIPT: setTimeout(“alert(‘test 1 with timeout’)”, 1000);
FLASH: ExternalInterface.call(“test1″);
2) Second button (middle) calls an alert in javascript:
JAVASCRIPT: alert(“test2 no timeout”);
FLASH: ExternalInterface.call(“test2″);
3) Third button (right) calls scrollTo in javascript:
JAVASCRIPT: scrollTo(0,100);
FLASH: ExternalInterface.call(“test3″);
Second and third button in FF3 MAC makes the flash movie to behave in a weird way when the javascript action is executed.
http://www.lessrain.com/projects/luis/as3/bugs/ff3mac/deploy/
Looking at this results and considering that SWFAddress uses ExternalInterface I can say for now that part of the problem is caused by using the ExternalInterface call method in FF3 MAC (looking at the problem from a flash developer point of view, I don’t know what is happening behind the “Cocoa Firefox” scenes), but maybe the problem goes deeper than this, I don’t know yet, this is only my first attempt to find out the causes of Flash blinking and behaving bad in FF3 MAC.
Less Rain has been nominated for agency of the year at the 2008 .NET Awards, and our Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab has been nominated for website of the year! Vote now, at thenetawards.com.
Update: Voting is over, Flight Lab made it onto the short list for website of the year! Although that short list is very short, the competition is tough. We are up against Happiness Factory and Eco Zoo. So, fingers crossed!
Update: And the results are in: congratulations to Eco Zoo! Flight Lab made it runner up, not bad at all!
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The ‘A Message From Earth’ project invites Bebo users to submit messages and pictures that consider the planet from a fresh perspective. A selection of these messages will be broadcast from the National Space Agency in Ukraine on October 9th. The messages will travel on an amazing 120 trillion mile journey from Earth to Gliese 581, the closest planet believed by scientists to be capable of supporting life.
Less Rain is responsible for creating the unique ‘A Message From Earth’ application, which is the first fully integrated rich media Bebo application created entirely in Flash. The application encourages users to compose messages in text, photo or drawing form. Users can vote on their favorite messages, with the top 500 making it into the galactic broadcast on October 9th. This digital time capsule is historically significant, being the first ever space transmission where the content has been democratically formed on the Internet.
“I understand that in the majority of cases these messages may be naïve, but I also hope that we will receive a creative and fresh look at the subject,” says Dr Zaitsev, one of the world’s leading experts in interstellar radio communication and A Message From Earth Team member.
What is your message from earth?
Let the Universe know by submitting your composition by September 30th. You might even receive a reply – in about 20 years!
Visit www.bebo.com/amessagefromearth
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Marcus, currently working @ sächsische Informations-Compagnie zu Berlin and less rain. This site is just a sysadmin's web2.0 playground.
