Tag: SWF

Don't get us wrong -- Adobe has gotten better about responding to security risks over the past year or so -- but news of a new, critical Flash zero-day exploit going unfixed for a week has us hearing the sad trombone noise all over again. The flaw lies in both the Flash Player and authplay.dll, which ships with Windows versions of Reader. Flash is affected on all operating systems, however. ...

Adobe, in yet another move to shift its eggs into other baskets, has released an experimental Flash-to-HTML5 converter called Wallaby. The tool doesn't do much at the moment -- it just exports the assets used in the Flash project, and uses HTML and CSS to lay them out. It also creates a custom JavaScript library which seems to handle animation (but we couldn't get animation to work), and ...

SilverX is a Windows app that converts Flash (.SWF) videos to Microsoft's Silverlight format. It recognizes all the vectors, images, text and animations from the original Flash file, so you can extract all of those elements and edit them in a Silverlight app later. If you want to manipulate the individual elements, you can edit them like any other Silverlight solution, and even apply XAML. If you ...

Pimp out your ride, without having a knock on the door from X to the Z (Xzibit). If you aren't familiar with MTV's Pimp my Ride series, it features rap superstar Xzibit surprising viewers owning junky cars with a fresh custom ride from customization specialists GAS. This little flash eCard builder plays off the Pimp my Ride series. Choose your ride, Ol'Skool, Coupe or SUV. Slap on paint, wheels, ...

How would you like to have your face bounce up and down your website talking to visitors in a flash overlaid bubble? Ok, so it's not cool, and it seems kind of annoying when checking out the demo, but it does have its uses. Bubble Guru helps users deliver clear messages through a video displayed on websites, with no massive website reworking. It works by recording a message from within a browser ...

Oh, how I love free things. Especially free pretty things. And I'm the kind of person who things Flash charts and graphs are pretty, so I present amCharts and PHP/SWF Charts. amCharts is a relative newcomer that creates attractive Flash pie and donut charts based on data you put in a text file in either XML or CSV formats (which makes exporting from Excel easy). It's very configurable, allowing ...

So you're building a web site and want users to upload files--lots of files at once. Using an ordinary HTML file dialog is easy and gets the job done, but if the user wants to upload 30 files he has to click on a "Browse..." button 30 times and select each file one at a time. Some sites, like Flickr, solved this problem with a downloadable desktop app. Others used Java applets. And then along came ...

Flash is wonderful, Flash is good, not everyone uses it, but everyone should. And if you can't afford Flash I found a little app that lets you create presentations that turn into those nifty little SWF's. It's called Wink, by the good folks over at DebugMode. I've seen it used on several sites to demonstrate software. Not only does it grab screenshots (complete with cursor movement), you can also ...