Building an ActionScript 3 MP3 Player

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Ryan Warner | View Comments

I hadn’t much experience working with Flash, so when the opportunity to do something interesting with Flash ActionScript presented itself I leapt upon it. The Great Unwashed, a funk band from Kingston, needed a site built and asked iSTORM for help. A large portion of the project involved building a Flash MP3 player so visitors could preview the band’s music.

I struggled with concepts I was not familiar with when I first got started. I had no idea that you need to load a sound object into a channel object, and then use a transform object to control the volume. Initially I loaded all of the sound…

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Engaging Delegates at Trade Shows

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Dave Rossborough | View Comments

With a few Trade Shows coming up this Spring/Summer that we will be attending, our thoughts have turned to what new and fresh ways we could engage and present information to potential clients and partners.

The concept on the left (click the image for full sized version) is the trade show idea we are currently playing with as our “leave behind” on the Trade Show floors when people visit our booth.

We wanted to find a way to reduce wasted paper (and things for delegates to have to carry), get people to our website, and easily continue the conversations we started at the Shows.

By moving our brochure online and…

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Tablet Computer Renaissance

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Ryan Warner | View Comments

Beat Up MartinIn 2003 I bought a Compaq TC1000, one of the first slate style tablet computers. At the time Microsoft was pushing a version of Windows XP that featured an onscreen keyboard. The primary input method of these early tablet computers was a stylus which was fantastic for software like Autodesk Sketchbook; a stylus is not ideal for text input so Microsoft bundled hand writing recognition with its virtual keyboard. Unfortunately handwriting recognition is notoriously unreliable and I didn’t find it particularly useful.

Apple launched the iPhone a short while after I started at iSTORM. I was quite skeptical at the time, having never been an Apple or…

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