Taterboy.com: Graphics, Multimedia and Such

Box of Sox built using Ansca Corona

taterboy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:09:08 +0000

The gig is up. All those who thought I was really smart for building Box of Sox with xCode now know the truth. Box of Sox and tapDots were built with Corona, not the beer, but an iPhone SDK from Ansca Mobile. Corona uses a scripting language that is very similar to actionScript, javascript, and php [...]

AS3-101: Introduction to Events

taterboy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:17:25 +0000

ActionScript 3 101: Introduction to Events and the WooHoo Application. Events are the most important concept to understand in ActionScript. After all, you can not have an interactive application without detecting user input. The new Event system in AS3 is much more powerful and consistent than in AS2, but it may seem like it requires a [...]

Some Sketches and Illustrations Summer 2009

taterboy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:05:06 +0000

Some of you may be aware, I know I bring it up all the time, that I began my career as an illustrator. With all of the programming and UI stuff, it could be months between having opportunities to pick up a pencil. So my sketchbooks are filled with notes, website grids and UI diagrams [...]

Blog Outages Should Be Fixed

taterboy — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:43:10 +0000

We have had some blog outages over the last few days. I apologize, we should be back up and running strong and hopefully a little faster even. Thanks for you patients and understanding. UPDATE I guess I spoke too soon, had another outage this morning. The good thing is it was unrealted to the other outages and it [...]

iPhone Watch, May 2009

taterboy — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:26:37 +0000

The month of April was a busy month, you may have noticed the lack of posts. It was not because I was slacking off. This week we launched our second iPhone game with a company called reallyMedia. Our first game was called tapDots, it went on sale in Apple’s app-store in March of this year. It [...]

Export SWFObject code directly from Flash and Flex

taterboy — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:39:23 +0000

SWFObject is the standard for embedding swfs into your webpages. In Flash CS4 the javascript embed code and plug-in detection has been combined into one file. This is easier then keeping track of extra javascript files, but not an easy way to transfer all that embed code to your web site. SWFObject has provided a great [...]

HDflix an AS2 FLV Player For Custom Skins

taterboy — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:11:06 +0000

There are many video players and player skins available online, but it can take hours to build something completely custom. Here is an AS2 FLV player that can make creating completely custom Flash video players a lot easier. HDflix is a fully functional player, but allows you to assign your own artwork to the player [...]

Using Filters In Flex

taterboy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:30:07 +0000

Flash developers have been using filters on MovieClips since Flash 8. Filters in Flex it is not as easy as using Flashes Filters property panel, but they are available. Many samples show how to create filters using pure ActionScript, but these samples use good old mxml and I think are a lot easier to use. [...]

Happy April Fools Day

taterboy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:27:47 +0000

If you came to the site any other way then www.taterboy.com. Click the link below to see our sad attempt at humor. April Fools Day Link Have a fun day and be careful. Update: To see the prank, click Read More. Here is an archive of the Incredible Insulting Loader. Click to Continue has been disabled.

Photoshop Tips Though the Years

taterboy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:36:02 +0000

Can you believe Photoshop is almost 20 years old? It was initially distributed as scanner software by a company called BarneyScan in 1988 and Adobe officially released Photoshop 1.0 in 1990. A tear comes to my eye as I think about all we have been through and how much Photoshop has evolved over the years. [...]