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Top Cat music game on FlashPlayer on Nexus1

I hate to say it but not many Plug-in Media projects are optimised for low end machines. We usually squeeze every bit of performance out of Flash to fill every part of the screen with crazy 3D, pixels and video! But! We found one that works really well! And it works well for two reasons […]

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AIR for Android first steps

Having finished my first iPhone app in Objective C I thought it was probably time to have a go at setting up my Nexus1 with AIR for Android. Yes. I’m a digital slut. And no. I’m not gonna pick a side. Deal with it. 🙂 But anyway, I digress! I found Lee’s very cool intro […]

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3D globe in JavaScript with three.js

In my last post I mentioned that it should be possible to make a 3D globe in JavaScript using three.js. I was even considering putting it together myself but I didn’t need to because the awesome Mr Doob stepped in to prove it! Sadly I’m only seeing 1 frame per second right now in both […]

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Apple buys 3D Flash app

I just found this article about Apple acquiring 3D mapping company Poly9, whose site has been taken down since the acquisition. As far as I can tell, the French-Candian Poly9 is most well known for their in-browser 3D globe, that on the surface looks like a JavaScript library but is actually Flash (albeit with HTML […]

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Papervision3D training on Lynda.com

Remember when I disappeared mysteriously to LA for a week in February? I can now reveal that I was in Ventura, CA recording a 4 hour long tutorial series for Lynda.com that has just gone live! It was such a great experience, the team at Lynda are so professional and they have many recording booths […]