Flash Dev In Demand
Pretty good post about the increase in flash related jobs by Lee Brimlow (Adobe Flash Evangelist )
http://blog.theflashblog.com/?p=2301
Fireworks & Web Design
We constantly look for ways to improve our design/development process and since including Fireworks into the work flow, it’s been rapidly becoming one of the best tools in our process. Here’s an article that explains some of the reason why: http://bit.ly/cdy2Te
We’re Doing WordPress Plugins!
Subject says it all. We published our first two official WordPress plug-ins recently and have been anxious to develop more so if you have any suggestions or plugin requests, please contact us or post them below.
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Introduction to Multi-touch in Flash Player 10.1
Flash Player 10.1 introduces a full, native multi-touch API that allows you to create some amazing applications. In this session I demonstrate how to build applications using native multi-touch feedback as well as how to use the built-in gesture support for things like scaling and rotating.
Natural User Interface
Natural user interface, or NUI, is the common parlance used by designers and developers of computer interfaces to refer to a user interface that is effectively invisible, or becomes invisible with successive learned interactions, to its users. The word natural is used because most computer interfaces use artificial control devices whose operation has to be learned. A NUI relies on a user being able to carry out relatively natural motions, movements or gestures that they quickly discover control the computer application or manipulate the on-screen content. The most descriptive identifier of a NUI is the lack of a physical keyboard and/or mouse.
