Brian Behrens

If you’re looking to get FLVs to playback in Quicktime I believe your best route is Perian.  It installs a preference pane in your System Preferences.  It’s simple to install and update.  Another great thing about installing Perian is you can convert FLVs to other formats using Quicktime Pro.

Also if you want to quickly preview FLVs from within Finder using the Quick Look feature try using this Quick Look plugin.  Place the flv.qlgenerator file in your Library/QuickLook folder.  This can go in your root library folder or your user library folder.

Hope this is helpful, I use it everyday.

I’ve been working at POP for over 6 months now. It’s been an exciting experience. POP had been planning a move from Interbay to downtown before I began employment here. 1 week ago it happened. The space has been a great inspiration to us all.

Check out the blog from Dave Curry, our group creative director:

http://www.davecurry.net/2009/01/25/inspirational-workspace-pop/

From what I gather, any external ActionScript script you may have that you are linking to through an #include statement, you may need to use this code to allow certain characters to be read in the document as UTF-8.  I ran into this issue about a month ago, and a co-worker of mine knew the solution.  It’s something I find is rarely used and easily forgotten:

//!– UTF8

Taken from adobe.com:

To create a document that contains multiple languages, use the #include action.

Use an application that supports UTF‑8 encoding, such as Dreamweaver, to save the text file in UTF‑8 format.

To identify the file as Unicode to the Flash authoring tool, include the following header as the first line of the file:

//!– UTF8
Note: Include a space after the second dash (-).

I hope that helps some of you who may have struggled with this .

I just discovered today that PlayStation 3 is now supporting Flash Player 9.  It’d be awesome to see other systems adopt this standard like the Wii.  It also be awesome if the XBOX had a web browser.  Who knows what will happen.  Either way, I’m finding to be content in the realm of video games, I need all of the systems.  I’m still working on getting a PS3.  I know I should be learning more or maybe writing blog entries, but as of late, I’ve been enthralled in the fantasy worlds the different games bring me.  The iPhone has been rumored for quite some time to be adopting flash player.  It has yet to happen.  I think a big issue on all these devices may be processing power??  Any thoughts?

Go get it!

http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash

Take a look at the articles:

adobe.com

google.com

This sounds pretty exciting to me.

So I found a little treat with the 10.5.3 update I just did from my hotel room in South Dakota.  You can now sync your gmail address book with your mac!  Amazing.  Such a nice treat on our journey out to Seattle.  You can read more here: tuaw.com.

Incase you haven’t heard the new yet today, Flash Player 10 has become public.  Looks like some exciting new stuff.  Check it out on Adobe Labs.  It’s not as significant as Flash Player 9, but it sounds pretty sweet still.  With native 3D support, will this be the death of Director?

I have known that there’s a javascript/css fix for transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer, but I’ve tried to stay away from this always!  As of today, I was faced with answering this problem on a site I’m working on.  I found it’s quite simple and there’s a great article on this topic at “24 Ways to Impress Your Friends“.  Have at errrrrrrrrr.

I’m sure a lot of people in the Flash community have already heard.  For the few of you who haven’t, this is huge!  When considering what this will do for mobile devices and even the possibilities on gaming systems like the Wii and PS3, it’s very exciting.  Check out a video on the subject.  There are many more blogs out there on this topic.