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Adobe Flash – Brave Fold
In poker, a brave fold would be a case where you have a strong hand and you are already committed to the pot (you’ve already put in some substantial amount of…
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Debugging Flash Player on Google Chrome
Just a quick tip in case you missed it. I’ve written previously on how to better develop Flash and Flex on Google Chrome. But, since Chrome is now auto…
Exotic Flash Builder 4 Tips and Tricks
The Flash Builder is built on Eclipse, you know, hence many of Eclipse stuff will naturally comply, also, these tips will mostly work the same in Flex Builder…
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Flash Player 10.1 Global Error Handling Examples and the Flex 3.x Issue
We all welcomed this addition to the Flash Player 10.1. The ability to catch all exceptions inside the player has lots of benefits, from proper logging on to…
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Flash Private Browsing Fixed - Not Good Enough
I was going to congrat Adobe for their fix to the private browsing in Flash, this was my original text: I’m glad to say that Adobe has fixed the minor issue…
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Flash vs HTML5 vs Adobe vs Apple
Disclaimer: I’ve written this post a few days weeks ago when I was a bit pissed, so it has some ranting-ness in it. I do have a soft side for Flash, but, as I…
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About the 16 Months Flash Crash Bug
Recently, reports of an old bug in the Flash Player surfaced again. Claiming this bug, that enabled a developer to crash the player, were already reported 16…
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Kiss And Tell What Is The User Browsing Mode
To know if the user is currently in normal or private browsing mode can be valuable info for any ads providers and spammers, but not only. With the upcoming…
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HTML 5 vs Flash vs SilverLight
This is by no mean a full technical comparison between these technologies, just a chat between 2 geeks. One is a skeptic backend dude 😉 and the other one is…
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The biggest terrorists in the world are... Flex bloggers
Adrian Parr, a Flex blogger mostly known for his post listing of AS3 frameworks got hacked by some political lamers. The whole blog is replaced with common and…
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So what is Flex then, again?!
With the release of the new Flash Builder 4 beta yesterday, it’s my chance, again, to congrat Adobe on the name change. Yeah I know this is old news, Flex…
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Hundred million breaths of fresh AIR
Lately I was wondering how well is AIR doing, has it lived to its promise of compatibility? Today passing through the technical default, Techcrunch, I found…
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Google Hackathon was hacked
Two days ago, the first Israeli Google Developer Day was held. It was a colorful and interesting event, to the best of google tradition. Yesterday, all…
Thanx for not killing the Flash clipboard
Recently, a questionable Flash feature of writing to the user’s clipboard has been exploited. Adobe will finally fix this feature and it’ll require user…
Encapsulating CSRF attacks inside massively distributed Flash movies - Real world example
Update: Added a sterilized demo and the source code. CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) is considered one of the most widely spread exploits in websites today.…
Police brutality against Flash
Update: You need to check the website to see what I’m talking about The police (not the band) in general is a problematic institute. Giving average (and below)…
Reliving your childhood through every browser
This is what fMAME is all about, it’s a MAME (Arcade Games Emulator) written in Flash that is running in every browser with no installation. I get enthusiastic…
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Mysteries Flash exploit is hijacking the clipboard?
Update: Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) has referred to this “Clipboard attack” Update 2: Aviv Raff has updated me about the fact that it…
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Adobe to incorporate Voice-to-Text capabilities into Flash Video. SEO Video?
Update: via The Universal Desktop, it’s getting closer. Before you’ll get too enthusiastic, it’s not like the next Flash Player will get a real-time…
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Adobe fight fire with fire
Recently Adobe has been needing to deal with a massive force attacking its main domain of dominance, we can call this domain – the highly interactive web or…
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XP SP3 downgrade the Flash Player
Update:Apparently SP3 doesn’t downgrade the player. It’ll only install an older version 9.0.115 if you don’t have the latest 9.0.124 already installed,…
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RIA on the mobile phones and small devices
Flash, SilverLight, Android, JavaFX, QT and the iPhone. Seems that everyone wants to redefine our mobile phone, the ultimate device/gadget of all time. I’ve…
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My new blog - Human VOIP
Writing a blog is not a simple task, writing a good blog is very difficult. I’m not sure I’m the kind of person who can handle more then one blog, I’m not Lee…
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Security flaws in FLA files
FLA is one of these file format that we’re used to freely open without any fear. Our complete confidence is going to change since a new exploit has been found.…
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OSE instead of SEO
The promise of google to have a human like understanding of the Internet it crawls has yet to reach reality. My point is that, we should start to expect…
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Technologies never cry
I’ve been thinking lately, will I leave my beloved Flash and jump to the newer SilverLight?! After all that Flash did for me, made me the man I am today, got…
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Thoughts about the pug dog screen cleaner
If you haven’t seen this cool pug cleaning your screen then click here. This cool Flash video embed inside a simple swf was floating all over the web for the…
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If you'll put in the pressure they will Flex
I have written before about my previous working place and how I’ve desperately tried to convince my superiors over there to make the move to Flash/Flex instead…
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Social Engineering Exploits using Flash
Apparently Adobe has fixed the bug I’ve found that enables a swf file to crash the browser, with the last version of the Flash Player (9,0,115,0). I don’t know…
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Resolving some issues with swfobject
There are some known issues with swfobject and ASP.NET, infact it’s not just with swfobject but also with the Flash object in general, one issue of using…
172 Flash Player versions
Would you believe me if I told you there are 172 different Flash Player versions out there, maybe not, but you would believe google-analytics, right? Since the…
Call me now! Jajah new Flash widget
We’ve just released the Jajah Buttons which enables you to receive calls from your website, blog, online community, email, etc’ directly to your phone and all…
Pay Per View with Flash Media Server
At JAJAH we are always looking for ways to leverage our payment system in new and exciting ways. One of the ideas that came up was to sell calls to videos. You…
Hostlynx 2.0 - Serious Flex app
There is a claim that there isn’t enough serious Flex applications out there. I’ve recently had the honor to preview an impressive one, and also to conduct a…
Too much focus will kill you
I’ve just came across of a way to kill the Flash player with a few lines of AS 2.0. I know of at least one other way of killing the Flash player along with…
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So Microsoft is interested in Flash ?!
No, not another conspiracy theory about Microsoft, and not another rant about Silverlight, just my latest, somewhat delirious, job search. Few months back I’ve…
Shape Hints - Have you forgotten how good they taste ?
These days it’s easy to forget that Flash is an amazing classic animation tool. Ever since the arrival of the fine Macromedia Tween Class and the amazing Fuse…
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Script# - C# compiled into Javascript
This might sound familiar to you, the idea of writing an Object Oriented code, that allow compile-time checking, and good code design, that is then compiled…
Uglying your photos with style
You might call it Pimp if you want it to sound cooler, but all in all pikipimp.com will help you make fun of people by uglying their images. Check out how I’ve…
Finally a good use for my wacom
Scribble is a simple, fun and original drawing flash game. It’s tons of fun playing the game with a wacom tablet. Play Scribble
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Tired of Ricki Lake?
Mr Paul Neave is not the next trash-TV host, he is a “serial Flash fettler and interactive designer”, or at least thats what he calls himself. He is a Flash…
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Careful with these decompilers
I was playing with the last Sothink SWF Decompiler (SSD) on my own swfs, just to see how it looks like and to check if it can re-fla it. It was long since I…
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It's all about the games !
Why make a small Flash game when you can make a small Xbox306 one ? One of the coolest thing about Flash is the fact that it made everyone a potential game…
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Best way to get address variables into Flash
I’ve seen too many wrong or old soulotions for sending query string variables into Flash (page.html?var1=Jon&var2=Smith… etc.). In fact, if you’ll google it…
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Why can't people understand when I tell 'em the future ?!
I remember about 13 years ago I’ve told a friend of mine, who is an airbrush artist and a photographer, that untill 2005 all photos will be digital. He didn’t…
Understanding Flash's ExternalInterface.
It occurs to me that too many people are not aware of the Flash 8 new and shiny ExternalInterface and are still using fscommand and setVariable or getURL for…
Watch me bleed - Fatal error in Flash 7.0 / 7.2
I’ve stumbled across an interesting error today: Using the Object.watch can result in a crush of the Flash 7.0 / 7.2 IDE, the Flash 7 stand alone player, and…
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Flash player inaccuracy clarified
I was ranting about the Flash inteval inaccuracy in some older post. Finaly, there is an article by Tinic Uro that clarifies why intervals and frame rates…
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Extending Ajax with Adobe Flex
This interview provide a good introduction to Flex abilities and Adobe pov on future RIA. http://www2.sys-con.com/webinararchive.cfm?registered=on&pid=67…
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Flash 8 and Beyond
Some background: At the company I work for, we have a product that does realtime patent manipulation on user photos. Our web version of the product uses an…
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Easiest way to embed Flash inside Wordpress
I was embedding my Flash inside the WordPress posts with the html tag. It was not only messy but also made it incompatible with the FireFox browser. My blog…