flv encoders side by side
flashvideofaq.com provides a really nice way for quickly comparing the various Flash video encoding options.
Via Scott Fegette.
five month crossing
Popeye called, and he’d like his arms back.
Nearly five months to the day after setting out from Lisbon, Julie Wafaei and Colin Angus have rowed into rowed into Limon, Costa Rica to complete their human powered crossing of the Atlantic ocean in a 24′ rowboat. Following a short pitstop in St Lucia they began rowing for Costa Rica at the beginning of February, arriving arriving early yesterday morning.
Congratulations Colin and Julie!
update: A couple of the links to the expeditions update blog died so I’ve updated ‘em.
free director update will include flash 8 xtra
I can hear the Director users squealing with delight.
Adobe’s Tom Higgins has announced an update to the Shockwave Player and Director IDE that will include a Flash 8 Asset Xtra as well as fix some bugs related to QuickTime7 in the QuickTime Asset Xtra. I was fortunate enough to get a couple of sneak peeks at the Flash Xtra at Max last fall and have to admit that the “convert” functionality looked very cool.
When this update drops next month it will come nearly 6 months after the Flash Player 8 was released. (And Authorware developers will still be waiting). Such a delay really is unfortunate and I think needs to be addressed. I’m not so naive as to think that putting the Asset Xtras together is anywhere near a simple task, however I do feel that too often the various applications are on their seperate development cycles and the Xtra only gets updated based on them. When developing Authorware or Director applications we have the luxury of not having to be concerned with uptake of new Flash Players so why not take advantage of it?
Anyhow, to make that pill alot less bitter for my Director friends Tom mentions that this will be a free update. Hmm, a free Flash Xtra update for Authorware sure would make the wait for the long rumoured Authorware 8 a little less anxious…
ie activex update
Hello Eolas my old friend.
Microsoft have a new (circa last week) knowledge base article posted that describes some of the Eolas inspired changes to the way IE will handle ActiveX controls. The piece is short on detail, however it seems that this time around they’re planning on a “click to enable” type of functionality.
Of course, spinning through the Five Ws I notice that when gets missed. Seems kind of odd to document a bunch of known issues and avoid talking about a timeline for unleashing ‘em.
Via JD (who mentions that Adobe will likely be making some material available on the topic).
rmd and seamonkey
Seamonkey 1.0 users should now be able to join in the Remember Mismatched Domains fun.
It seems that the Firefox / Thunderbird extension manager isn’t built into Seamonkey so I’ve added a “Remember Mismatched Domains Options…” item to the “Tools” menu:
If you’re a Seamonkey user looking to remember mismatched domains you can install version 1.1 of the extension from here. Please add a comment if you find any issues.
