Category Archives: Flash

SimpleViewer v1.8 Released

I finally got around to updating SimpleViewer. SimpleViewer is a free, customizable image viewing app that’s been suprisingly popular – I currently get around 7,000 downloads a week. It can be time-consuming to provide support, but it’s also gratifying to know lots of people are enjoying my software.

You can view the list of new features and bug-fixes here. Most of these feature were based on user feedback from the forum. The previous SV code was a few years old now and was starting to show it’s age, so I re-coded it from scratch in AS2.

I also offer SimpleViewer-Pro for sale here. The new version of SimpleViewer-Pro is a lot easier to customize than the previous version.

I’d also like to say a big thanks to the people who have provided additional methods to generate SimpleViewer galleries, such as Porta, SimpleViewer iPhoto Export, SimpleViewerAdmin and FlickrViewer. Thanks!

SimpleViewer / Flickr integration via FlickrViewer

[UPDATE: SimpleViewer v2.0 has direct Flickr Integration built in]

Over time, I’ve had lots of requests from SimpleViewer users for a way to load their Flickr images. Due to my schedule I haven’t had time to build this and I was hoping that someone else would be able to help out.

[UPDATE: FlickrViewer is now hosted here]

Finally Mark Sweeting has come to the rescue with the fantastic FlickrViewe. FlickrViewer allows you view a selected Flickr photo set using SimpleViewer. The gallery data XML is generated dynamically while images and thumbnails are loaded from Flickr’s servers. This means you can add images to your SimpleViewer gallery just by uploading images to your Flickr photo set.

FlickrViewer requires a PHP enabled web server and a Flickr API key (you can get one instantly here). It’s still in beta and needs some testing. So if you have been wanting this feature, try it out and give Mark some feedback.

Gran Turismo / Nike 3D Site

  • Posted On: March 16th, 2006
  • Posted In: Flash

This is a mini-site I built a while back for NikeLab (high-bandwidth recommended). It’s a promo for a Nike / Gran Turismo 4 crossover. It uses a realtime 3D engine to create dynamic camera motion. The 3D code is based on illogicz’s great 3D engine.

I just found out this was not going to be used on the nikelab site, so I thought I’d post a link here. One extra feature in this version is that you can move the camera using the cursor-keys and W-A-S-D. Thanks to Gui, Carlos and the lab team at R/GA for making this a cool project (to give proper credit – I did the coding for this project, not the design).

AutoViewer – a New Image Viewing Application

AutoViewer is yet another Flash image viewing application. AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions, and also includes an auto-play feature (hence the name). It’s free to use – click to download and for instructions on how to use.

AutoViewer was built to be part of Dane Howard’s narrative template collection. This is a great set of free, downloadable templates to display your images. He’s also accepting contributers, so if you have an interesting way to display images, let him know.

Export to PostcardViewer from Photoshop

Another update to PostcardViewer. Jeffrey Tranberry from Adobe has provided this excellent script to create a PostcardViewer gallery directly from Photoshop. Instructions are here. Nice one Jeff!

PostcardViewer Update

PostcardViewer has been updated. PostcardViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewer. The interface is based on the real world metaphor of a set of postcards shuffled onto a surface.

I’ve also posted a Picasa web template to make creating your PostcardViewer galleries really easy. Just select your images in Picasa and click “Export as Web Page…”. Thanks to Albert W Alberts for the template.

One other update worth mentioning: the SimpleViewer Picasa web template has also been updated.