http://chakramedia.com/blog Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:24:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick note to check out the newly re-designed Fall 08 prAna.com home page. It features three randomly loading Flash movies to give it a constantly changing look. I've done a lot of work with these guys over the years, they're a good crew and it's always a ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2008/08/01/prana-home-page/ Going through some old files, I found this Flash experiment I did back in 2003 with my friend Qtip. The 5 Second Volley is an exercise in creative freedom. One participant utilizes a 5 second block of the timeline to create an animation, then passes the file to the other ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2008/07/29/5-second-volley-an-exercise-in-creative-freedom/ I'm pleased to announce the launch of Sector 9 Skateboards' new web site: https://www.sector9.com/ I've been riding a skateboard since I was seven, so this was a pretty cool project for me and I was stoked to work on it. Chakra Media teamed up with Vividminds on the design and layout ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2008/04/10/new-site-sector-9-skateboards/ Computers and their Users around the world rejoiced as Adobe released a major update to the Flash Player. Flash Player 9 Update 3 (9.0.115.0) is now available and includes a slew a bug fixes and great features like: New audio/video options with H.264/HE-AAC codec support Improved Performance through multi-core support ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2007/12/04/adobe-updates-the-interweb/ With the release of SWFAddress 2.0 I figured now would be a good time to update my Flash design template to version two. The update includes the new SWFAddress 2.0 and SWFObject 2.0 as well as updated HTML embedding. The code has been cleaned up a bit and ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2007/11/17/swfaddress-design-template-20/ Sort of. After dealing with this little issue for longer than I would like to mention, I thought I'd post my findings so others won't waste their time as well. I was able to get HTML formatted text to render within the cells of the (Flash CS3) DataGrid by using ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2007/11/13/htmltext-with-as3-datagrid/ Dear Adobe, Dreamweaver sucks.  I want GoLive instead. You bought a great product from CyberStudio in 1999, and the next version came out a bloated, RAM-eating schweinhund.  Every version thereafter seemed slow as molasses.  I tried to switch to Dreamweaver but the interface was just too painful.  Now with CS3 Web Premium ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2007/07/05/dreamweaver-sucks-i-want-golive/ This past Saturday I ran in the Camp Pendleton World Famous Mud Run. The Mud Run is a challenging 10K run with hills, tire obstacles, river crossings, two 5-foot walls with mud on both sides, tunnel crawl, slippery hill climb, and the final 30-foot mud pit. This was ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2007/06/22/mud-run-07/ there's been a lot of updates going on with some of my favorites technologies and most of them have been blogged to death... here's my cliff-note version iPhone: damn i want one. where's the API? Web 2.0 without Flash? i don't think so.... Prediction: Adobe Air is ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2007/06/12/updates-galore/ The L.A. Times article I mentioned in a previous post about about 2A's Eric Jordan was released last month and I thought it turned out good. So it inspired me to write a little bit about my creative process and some of the weird little things I ... http://chakramedia.com/blog/2007/06/10/design-process-how-do-you-create/