Vuvox is a very cool Flash RIA that allows you to create interactive slideshows from your uploaded images, video and audio. Once your media is in the system it can be displayed via a variety of Flash templates. I helped out with some of the templates, as did the awesome Quasimondo.
Vuvox allows you to upload your content via Flickr or Picasa, and has a Facebook widget for easy sharing of your presentations. Check it out here.
roofs is Agnieszka Garofeanu’s great design portfolio. I helped Agnieszka with the coding for the site. The site uses a variable height SWF as described by Hoss Gifford here. This allows browsing multiple large images easily by using the browser scroll bar. I like the way the site navigation is really simple, allowing you to focus on the content.
Robert Hodgin has released a fantastic iTunes visualizer, based on his mind-blowing processing experiments. I’ve never been a fan of visualizers in the past, probably because they typically look like something from an early 70′s sci-fi TV show (and not in a good way). In contrast this thing is all smooth organic 3-d motion and lovely glowing orbs.
I am very happy to announce that my latest project has gone live: Design-Feed.
Design-Feed is a design feed aggregator. We hand-pick the most interesting design related RSS feeds and present them in an easy-to-browse format. This means you can get all the latest design news in one place, rather than trawling through hundreds of sites a day. Every post aggregated is also searchable by keyword.
Basically, it’s a one-stop shop to get all the latest web-design buzz. If you are familiar with MXNA, you can think of this as MXNA for designers. Take a look, and if you like it, make sure you send the link on to your designer buddies! Read more about design-feed here.
A big thanks to Stan Wiechers for building out the fantastic admin app that keeps the site ticking, and Thiago deMello Bueno for the graphic design.
For the last year and a half I’ve been working at Brightcove, helping build out their Flash front-end. Last week I got to add fullscreen functionality to the brightcove.com video player – before youTube, google video etc 
. Fullscreen mode is accessible via the full-screen button or by right click. Check out an example below.
It was fairly straight-forward to implement following the documentation. One thing to note is that keyboard input is disabled in fullscreen mode due to security restrictions, which means we had disable the video overlay menu functionality. Since fullscreen mode requires at least Flash v9.0.18, users with earlier versions are prompted to upgrade in the SWF via express install.
I am a huge Nintendo fanboy, and I’m very excited about the upcoming Wii console.
One thing that is going to be pretty revolutionary about the Wii is the fact that it includes a free, fully-featured web browser. This means for $250 you get instant-on web access on your TV. This is something that the XBox can’t deliver for fear of cutting into Microsoft’s PC market.
Opera is building a version of their browser specifically for the Wii that includes Flash support and a smooth zooming feature. Also, the Wii controller is perfectly suited to work with mouse based interfaces (assuming you have a steady hand). Check out the browser in action.
The big unknown at the moment is – how do you type in the URLs? Presumably there will be an onscreen keyboard – I’m not sure how easy it will be to type laser-pointer style. There is speculation that either Nintendo will sell a keyboard add-on, or you will be able to plug in a standard PC keyboard via the Wii’s USB ports.
Another sweet feature is the Wii’s Virtual Console. This will be able to load up classic games from the NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, MSX, Turbografx 16 and Commodore 64. Bring it on!
