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Thank god, its friday, time for an blog-entry

I found an interesting project about an VoIP application written in Flash. Everyone can talk over this application absolutely cost-free. Only requirements are an installed FlashPlayer >v9 and Headphones. Allow the SWF to use the Headphones and the WebCam, send your phone-partner the link and start talking.

We tested it by phoning from Cape Town/South Africa to Munic/Germany. Well, it worked but it was still buggy. The sound quality is not too good and after a time we were disconnected for some reason. There is a possibility to do a video-chat, but i couldn try it (i dont hava a webcam here).

Take a look at the page and have a try of your own, its very interesting doing that with flash, and i think these guys will improve the app.
www.fonie.de
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Let Gong Li, Shu Qi and Joan Chen take you on a beautiful journey through their Hong Kong, Bejing and Shanghai. Amazing atmosphere, great images and music. Worth a visit!

Louis Vuitton Soundwalk

A lot has happened since we have started working with SAE. The last campaign was our Post It action. The idea: To create additional intereste to SAE’s open day on June 21^st we came up with five inventive jingles to advertise SAE’s technical and creative excellence. These jingles were printed onto oversized Post-It notes. Hundreds of these were then posted by our guerrilla marketing team in trendy areas like Long st. and Kloof st. and also in and around some of the schools in Cape Town. The campaign was very successful in attracting attention to the event. It was an absolute blast to be part of this project, and we cannot wait for our next project with SAE.

25.6.08 Update: SAE South Africa as well as the head of SAE International marketing loved the campaign & overall feedback on all sides was overwhelming. Also check SAE South Africa’s facebook account for more pictures. Happy clients, happy us!

Very nice Flash site. Choose your ballo and join the race…

Still a really difficult thing with the FlexBuilder 3 IDE is to embed any installed font. I really broke my head when i searched a easy way to do this. Well, i didnt found a really simple way to do it, but i found one that is nearly comfortable. In this small tutorial i will explain a way to embed fonts with a little help from the Flash CS3 IDE.

First of all, open the Flash CS3 IDE and create a MovieClip. Inside this MovieClip generate a dynamic Textfield and set the font to whatever you want to use later on in FlexBuilder. If you want to embed several fonts just insert more TextFields and set the font you want to use later on. Now activate the “Export for ActionScript” Checkbox in the Librarys Linkage and keep the class-name in mind. Generate the SWF now and can switch to the Flex IDE.

Right before the Main-Class-Definition you have to insert the precompiler-instruction

[Embed(source="name_of_swf.swf#Fonts")]

Directly after the Class-Definition you have to link the Class of the just generated SWF to a Flex-Class-Object:

private var Fonts:Class;

Now you can simply use the Fonts you embeded in the Flash CS3 IDE MovieClip.
Small example:

var myTextField:TextField = new TextField();
/**
 * args
**/
myTextField.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat("Arial");

Finished…

This is quite nifty:

“Like magic, transparent parts of a PNG in your MovieClip are ignored during mouse interactions. Check it out!

Normally the clear areas of a PNG are treated as solid, which can be especially frustrating when dealing with a lot of images that overlap each other because they tend to block mouse interactions on the clips below them.

This utility fixes that so that mouse events don’t occur until you bump against a solid pixel, or a pixel of any transparency value besides totally clear. InteractivePNG lets you set an alphaTolerance level to determine what transparency level will register as a hit.”

http://blog.mosessupposes.com/?p=40

Check out CamSpace a software agent that can track objects in real-time using any standard webcam! The software will be for free any anybody can develop games for it and share them over the internet. Time to play…

Developed by CamTrax Technologies
First seen on Fabian Nöthe’s Blog (German)

GSDH is proud to welcome two more members in Cape Town.

Rob Picard, maintaining the international tradition, is from Belgium and will be doing an internship in the range of illustration and design in order to improve his skills. He studied Industrial Design and Packaging; however he is now concentrating on artistic illustrations. We certainly want to assist this passion of his and are really looking forward to see his work.

Hanne Jensen, born in Hamburg, has already been living in Cape Town for a couple of years and is now boosting our local project managing team. She graduated from the FH Kiel in Technology Management and Marketing before she moved down as an intern to South Africa. Since then Hanne has gained a lot of experience in the range of project management and marketing in various companies. Hanne is a professional and pro-active addition to the GSDH team.

For whoever doesn’t know about it yet:

Alternativa platform has launched!

Announcement on their blog.

GSDH designed and developed a completelly dynamic XML and ActionScript 3 driven Flex application for Kneipp.

The application is a tool that allows users to pick a certain health-indication group (e.g. pregnancy) via a intuitive & innovative navigational concept. In a next step the visitor can pick the most important vitamins and minerals within this indcation group and learns about nutritional facts and Kneipp products which will supplement in that particular field.

The development of the tool was real fun and the tool itself turned out really well!

Check out the “Nutritional Circle” here