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YourMinis.com – Your Personalised Widgets Online

by Ades on November 18, 2006 in Flash, Online Tools with No comments

If you like Yahoo! Widgets then you will like YourMinis. Basically it’s online version of Yahoo! Widgets, you can have clock, calendar, to-do lists, notepad, xml fetchers…etc You can create multiple tabs, each tab will be a different page and you can create different widgets for different pages. For example one page you can make a news page, another page you can make an email page (you can have gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail and other pop3 accounts all in one page). So go get your minis! http://www.yourminis.com

ColorToy 2.0 – Online Flash Color Generator

by Ades on November 15, 2006 in About Colors, Flash, Online Tools with No comments

Flash Schemer is a flash based color generator tool. You can input RGB or HTML codes and get a variation of that color, as well as other matching colors. http://defmech.com/color/

Flapr – Flash based interface to Flickr

by Ades on April 10, 2006 in Flash, Online Tools with No comments

Flapr is done entirely in flash, I find it a lot easier to use, compared to Flickr itself. For some reason Flickr does not display Search box on the secondary pages, this makes a lot of people’s life difficult – imagine thousands of people searching for the Search box and clicking back button to make a new search. Flapr retrieves the images in the same page so you don’t have to go from page to page as you do in Flickr.

http://www.bcdef.org/flappr/

Flash RSS Reader

by Ades on November 2, 2005 in Flash, Online Tools with No comments

www.neomyz.com is offering quite cool flash tools, one of them is RSS reader that you see on the left, other two tools are Web Polls and Online Games. You can try their tools for free for 30 days, and yearly subscription costs $29.95. Tools have different sets of skins to choose from, however for the trial period only one skin is available.

Flash and Usability!

by Ades on October 22, 2005 in Flash with No comments

Jakob Nielsen in his Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 writes:

Flash is a programming environment and should be used to offer users additional power and features that are unavailable from a static page. Flash should not be used to jazz up a page. If your content is boring, rewrite text to make it more compelling and hire a professional photographer to shoot better photos. Don’t make your pages move. It doesn’t increase users’ attention, it drives them away; most people equate animated content with useless content.

If used correctly flash can be a great tool and a great addition to your site. However if designed badly (especially the fully flash sites) it can be a disaster to a company. Here designed badly means in the usability sense, Continue reading →

Bow Man – Flash Game

by Ades on September 14, 2005 in Flash, Games with No comments

Very entertaining flash game. You can either play against a PC or a human, I have chosen human and played both characters myself… ;) that was fun.

ShutterBook – Online Photo Sharing the Flash way

by Ades on September 6, 2005 in Flash, Online Tools with 1 Comment

ShutterBook is a new flash based online photo sharing service. Currently it is in Beta, so the service is free. If you want to get a free account you need to register now, because after the official launch it will be a paid service. All beta testers receive Premium accounts and after the official launch, beta testers will keep their Premium accounts at no additional charge. Here is a demo of this service http://www.shutterbook.com/home/demo.php It seems a nice tool, however if you have too many photos inside one album the connection seems to slow down.

Flash Image Viewer – Gallery

by Ades on August 18, 2005 in Flash, Scripts with 5 Comments

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.

Features:

Intelligent image pre-loading.
Intuitive image navigation
Lightweight (12k).
Customizable interface – Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
Resizable interface – Interface scales to fit browser window.
Cross platform (requires Flash 6 or higher).
Flash 6 detection. Users without Flash 6 are redirected to an upgrade page.
International font support.
Keyboard Navigation (left and right cursor keys)
Free!

http://airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/

NewsMap – View Google News in flash way

by Ades on August 18, 2005 in Flash, Online Tools with No comments

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.