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Tracking PDF with Google Analytics (with embedded Flash)

Rien Verbrugghe — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:56:52 PST

Did you ever want to let your PDF files track themselves on their own? Without using the download link from your site? Well, it’s very easy todo when you use Flash with the Google Analytics AS3 API. We will embed an invisible Flash object into your PDF. So the flash object will do the tracking for [...]

QR Code Reader AS3

Rien Verbrugghe — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:37:05 PST

Discovered this one just today, straight from Japan ;) Another great new piece of the Spark Actionscript Library. The QRCodeReader classes! Check it out Flash Mobile application developers! Now you can integrate your own QR reader into your AS3 mobile application. Let’s hope this creates another big push to the markets, so this technology really get’s [...]

Discover Microsoft QR code technology alias “Tag”

Rien Verbrugghe — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:04:09 PST

I still find this an amazing piece of technology! So simple but so practical! Capture a photo of a printed QR code with your mobile device. And immediately get any kind of information on the matter. (Car promotion, festival, artist profile, real estate, etc.) It can be more specific info, an URL, a v card, pricing, [...]

Upload any file from Flex with AMFPHP

Rien Verbrugghe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:26:34 PST

This is so easy. I made a succesful AMFPHP multi file upload wich I’m using in my new release of the Rive.be CMS (clear your browser cache), by using this as a base. You can read all about it at Gertons’s blog (single file upload) and the Flex{er} blog (his multi file example didn’t work). [...]

Flash Lite Mobile Application with Nokia Web Runtime (WRT)

Rien Verbrugghe — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:26:51 PST

It’s so easy now! See it as a simple HTML webpage with some Javascript, CSS and an embedded Flash object. Creating widgets or applications for Nokia S60 5th edition is not that hard to do. You could use the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver or just plain old Notepad. How to package Flash [...]

Google Analytics Campaign Tracking For Adobe Flash

Rien Verbrugghe — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:24:02 PST

Campaigning for your blog, everyone is doing it in a way. Posting your links on Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, etc. But how about really tracking them specifically? It’s turned on by default in your Google Analytics account. So why leave those table/results empty? Only thing you should do is add some extra variables to your URL’s. See [...]

DEFECT: SWFObject 2.2 Dynamic embed method on Explorer 8

Rien Verbrugghe — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:48:53 PST

It came a bit as a shock to me, because at first, when I was checking out my own www.rive.be in Explorer 8… I thought I did something wrong in my HTML/Javascript code. But it seems to be an issue with IE 8 on Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows Vista 64bit as far as [...]

Twist and Bend Away3D with AS3Dmod

Rien Verbrugghe — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:32:35 PST

Playing arround with AS3Dmod for is fun! I’ve used the “Twist” and “Bend” modifiers for the Rive.be Productbox. For the Twist I had to move the centerpoint to the bottom of the box. By using a Vector3D with an y property, half the value of the height of the productbox. Now there’s at least some movement [...]

Flash Platform Ditribution Service Demo

Rien Verbrugghe — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:11:18 PST

After I implemented the Flash Platform Ditribution Service into my Flex 4 web application at the Rive.be CMS Share Page. I decided to try it on to a pure Actionscript 3 project. Visit http://www.rive.be and click the Share button in the bottom right side of your screen. Everything works out just great (try it out): Post an [...]

How a Flash Application becomes Facebook Application

Rien Verbrugghe — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:09:58 PST

In my previous post you saw how to “share” your flash applications into several platforms by using the Flash Platform Distribution Service. But one of those was Facebook. Now there’s a different way too. You can really “embed” your application within it’s own page. A Facebook Application such as the Rive.be Widget (and click “Add to [...]