How-Tos Archive

• 0October 09, 2009

  10 Super Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines

  By Dmitry Fadeyev at Smashing Magazine:
  Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making your pages easy and enjoyable for your visitors to use is key. Many studies have been done over the years on various aspects of Web and interface design, and the findings are [...]

  Read More

• 0October 06, 2009

  Flash Applications for iPhone

  Adobe Labs:
  Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.

  A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease [...]

  Read More

• 0October 04, 2009

  How To Get Into An Apple iPhone Commercial

  CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — If you want your branded app to be included in Apple’s next iPhone commercial, the first rule is not to ask. The second rule? Make the app really useful to consumers.

  A handful of branded apps are currently enjoying a cameo in Apple’s latest iPhone spots. The bad news is there isn’t some formal [...]

  Read More

• 0October 04, 2009

  Tips and Tricks in Flash Catalyst

  ADC Presents - Tips and Tricks in Flash Catalyst | Adobe TV.

  In this video, Nate Bishop discusses simple shortcuts for using the library and layers panels, action sequences, align tool, state commands and gradient controls in Adobe Flash Catalyst.

  Read More

• 0September 25, 2009

  BrowserLab and Dreamweaver Workflow

  Scott Fegette shows testing interactive web-based designs and applications using Dreamweaver CS4 and it’s integration with the new Adobe BrowserLab cross-browser testing service.

  From Adobe Labs:
  Welcome to the limited free preview of Adobe® BrowserLab, [...]

  Read More

• 0September 14, 2009

  Flash Catalyst

  Adobe Flash Catalyst, previously known as (codename) “Thermo,” has been out for a few months now in its initial beta release and I’ve been meaning to check it out. It wasn’t until recently that I got around to getting some hands-on experience with it and I thought I’d share some of my thoughts and findings.
  So far, I’m reasonably impressed. It’s kind of like Flash for [...]

  Read More

• 0September 04, 2009

  What’s Your Online Identity?

  Check how effective your personal brand is with the Online Identity Calculator.

  Today, if you don’t show up in Google, you don’t exist. Whether you are applying for a new job, being considered for a board position or trying to get a date, you can count on being Googled. So [...]

  Read More

• 0September 01, 2009

  25 Time Saving Adobe Air Apps For Developers & Designers

  Adobe AIR is great cross-platform runtime environment that allows developers to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that run directly on the desktop. Applications built on Adobe AIR are as diverse as they are handy… everything from productivity tools like Adobe’s Kuler Desktop to Twitter client TweetDeck. AIR is an extremely robust [...]

  Read More

• 2August 06, 2009

  How to: Get iPhone Push Notifications for (just about) Anything

  Utilizing the Growl notification system for Mac OS X, Prowl enables users to receive push notifications on their iPhone from any program or script that is running via Growl. It’s a highly extensible solution for notifications. As stated on their site: Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac or Windows computer [...]

  Read More

• 0August 05, 2009

  How to: Create 3D Inside Flash

  From AdobeTV and Flash Downunder
  Simple steps to creating and implementing 3D animations inside flash. Keep in mind that to build a true 3D experience, with an object’s depth of field, you’ll still need to first render a 3D object for the timeline. But, as illustrated above, it’s quite easy to take a flat 2D image and create axis points allowing you to spin it in 3D… resulting in a 3D-like effect.

  Read More