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ShowCase - Show your case!
ShowCase is a rich presentation program. ShowCase helps to create compelling presentations with text, images, animations, transitions, audio and video. ShowCase's output is delivered as Adobe Flash, which allows you to present yourselves both online as well as offline with ease. ShowCase brings in the unique combination of Microsoft PowerPoint's simplicity with Adobe Flash's sophistication and rich presentation delivery.

J2ME or Java Micro Edition (also known as JavaME) can be said to be phenomenally successful. It has been shipped across major manufacturers’ devices (100+million I think). It has enjoyed popularity for almost 3 years now, in existence for around 5 years.

But J2ME doesn’t exactly reflect the vision of the Java Platform in the true sense .As someone said, Write once, compile once, run anywhere is anything but a bad joke in J2ME. And for those who tried writing J2ME applications, tool support, productivity and user interfaces that get generated isn’t exactly even close to exciting. Most rich mobile applications are built on custom UI’s that are built specifically for applications. Mophun & BREW 3D apps are overshadowing J2ME’s own JSR 184 API for Mobile 3D graphics.

Browser-based applications, also popularly known as Webtops, are where all the current action seems to be. Typically done by a very small team of developers, they are giving a run for money to much larger players. These WebTops can run almost as seamlessly as programs used on the desktop, with a rich interface, embedded audio, video, and drag-and-drop ease of use. Most of them are developed using Ajax, Flash RIA or Ruby on Rails.

Goowy is one such product, it is your personal webtop with following services.

* IM with your buddies from aol, msn, yahoo and icq

In the last 48 hours, have got several requests for need of individual talents from US, India and SriLanka. Am glad ITVidya is increasingly attracting more opportunities for our members and serving its purpose.
It seems there is going to be more and more demand in outsourcing not just to large companies, but also for freelancers and small businesses.

Manoj of Badmash.Tv in US is looking for a Full time Flash Illustrator/Animator, Interaction Designer and Ajax/Rails developer.

Anand of BrainReactions is looking for an SEO expert to work on some of his interesting projects.

This year's list of top problems clearly proves the need to get back to Web design basics. There's much talk about new fancy "Web 2.0" features on the Internet industry's mailing lists and websites, as well as at conferences. But users don't care about technology and don't especially want new features. They just want quality improvements in the basics:

text they can read;
content that answers their questions;
navigation and search that help them find what they want;
short and simple forms (streamlined registration, checkout, and other workflow); and
no bugs, typos, or corrupted data; no linkrot; no outdated content.
Anytime you feel tempted to add a new feature or advanced technology to your site, first consider whether you would get a higher ROI by spending the resources on polishing the quality of what you already have. Most companies, e-commerce sites, government agencies, and non-profit organizations would contribute more to their website's business goals with better headlines than with any new technology (aside from a better search engine, of course).

The problem has riddled developers since the birth of Macromedia Flash: What happens when a site visitor doesn't have the version of Macromedia Flash Player needed for my content, or doesn't have one at all? Many answers have appeared over the years. And so far, the work has not been the result of developers trying to reinvent the wheel. Instead, it's been the result of developers trying to invent a wheel that actually works.

Can Flash detection be truly effective? Can it be seamless for site visitors and simple for you to implement? Can it make the player upgrade process friendlier?

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Flash Video is sweeping the Internet, clearing way for the best user experience the world has ever known for Internet-based video. This 60-minute session is broken into six 10-minute tutorials. This Macrochat introduces material from the new Macromedia Flash Video Training course.

The session starts with an overview of Flash Video in the market. Flash Player is the most frequently installed video and MP3 player in the world. In that context, I review how you can use the pre-built components to deliver Flash Video to your users. Advanced users will see great advanced Flash Video techniques, including synchronizing data with video, closed captioning, and strategies for building a seek bar and monitoring the stream.

By using Flash Video, you provide your users with the best experience possible on the Internet today. After this Macrochat you will understand that "Play" just means "Play."

Maybe it's not as sexy as alpha video or a drop-shadow filter effect but the improved performance of Macromedia Flash Player 8 is a feature you can immediately benefit from—without doing a thing. One of the biggest contributors to the overall performance boost is the new garbage collection scheme, which improves ActionScript execution while reducing player memory usage.

Additionally, several changes to Flash Player 8 that are specific to the Macintosh platform result in greater parity between Windows and Macintosh performance. With these changes, you could see up to a 50% increase in the overall performance of Flash Player 8 when viewing content and applications.

The overall effect of the performance features and optimizations in Flash Player 8 makes for a smoother, faster experience for your content and applications.