Cat visits before I leave …

Plane Ride

French Quarter

Old’Miss 1

Old’Miss 2

I got here a bit early so I decided to do some site sighting … French Quarter, Bourbon St, etc … it’s ironic, but I swear that Halloween has nothing to do with the way people are dressing around here … lots of leather, tats, etc …
We’ll see what people are wearing tomorrow [...]

MAX 2004 … is almost here … looking forward to seeing more of the new flash player 8, informative sessions, talking with folks, and having a bit of fun in New Orleans.

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Came across an article that lays out how to read local files from a user’s pc using Acrobat 6 … basically having an embedded .swf within a PDF is a security risk, such that if you know the location of a file on a user’s machine you can read it …

Create a local [...]

It was done in shockwave not flash … but nevertheless, very cool …
http://razghul.ice.org/misc/zoom/zoom.htm

Recently, I’ve come across several bugs in both the MAC and PC versions of 2004 …
1. If you are working with embedded video files greatly than 8 megs … or the timeline frames exceeeds 5,000 or so, there is a HUGE performance hit under MAC … strange thing is, the PC handles it a lot [...]

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post … it’s not like this is a well traversed site … maybe someday when it gets included on MXNA or something …
Anyways I’ve been busy with an interactive CD-ROM with integrated video, as well as doing some actionscript instructing at a local institution. Students are [...]