I love Tagul
I don’t like tag clouds. Not in the way they’re usually implemented anyway. They are dull and ugly, really nothing more than a list of words of varying sizes. And yet, properly designed, they can be great infographics – beautiful and informative at the same time.
I discovered Wordle a few weeks ago and I found it fun for doing a little literary analysis, or comparing the spin on the news from different news sites (say Fox vs. CNN.) Still, I was unhappy with its lack of flexibility and options – not to mention that’s not a real, interactive tag cloud. Then I heard about Tagul.
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Vulnerability Analysis for Flash Developers
Flash Developers get a new shiny and powerful tool for their toolbox: static analysis (and a free decompiler) from HP.
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AS3 Tutorial: Creating a Slideshow
The code is AS3 and the tutorial assumes some general knowledge of flash and actionscript 1 and 2.
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Free Pie Chart Component
I needed to create a very simple Pie chart in Flash – one that had to work standalone (just a swf rendering data from an XML source) and it had to be very small.
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I had this idea on the back of my mind for a while now; the idea of making a photo gallery that’s both efficient and good-looking, one that supports a large number of images sorted in categories, easy to navigate either randomly or in sequence. Finally, I have a working version and I’d really like [...]
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Mini Flash Video Player
At only 12Kb (6Kb without some background art), the player can be embedded in a web site even without any Actionscript knowledge, just by sending several parameters. Advanced users can use it in their applications, or extend it as they see fit. Since it’s free for commercial purposes, it can be modified and extended in any way.
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