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Googlemaps. Coffee. Wallpaper. As artists create content for the web, best practices change. « The NY Times magazine this weekend notes that Flickr has developed its own ideas about beauty in photos, very different from the art-school aesthetic. People don’t upload to the Web words and images they had fashioned apart from the Web; they fashion their stuff specifically for online platforms and audiences.Consider photography. Blogs too have developed their own unique writing style, different from the writing of newspapers or magazines, and often influenced by the dictates of SEO best practices, headline focused RSS readers and the short attention span of web readers.

Writing has become more like advertising copy, with no room for a surprise ending as the reader may never get to it. It becomes all about the attention catching lead. Online video is another clear example of how the medium has changed best practices. Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog: Flash 8: Kaleidoscope. Flash 8: Kaleidoscope Just a little kaleidoscope eyecandy using beginBitmapFill() and the allmighty draw() command. I like the speed of it and also the looks if you zoom down to the pixel level.

The image used is "Autumn Leaves" by J.H. Lynch. There are quite a few keyboard commands (if there is no reaction you will have to click the flash file once in order to activate the keyboard focus): [1] - start/stop rotation 1 [2] - start/stop rotation 2 [3] - start/stop rotation 3 [4] - toggle flip tiles [+]/[-] - more/less tiles [q]/[w] - rotation 1 speed [a]/[s] - rotation 2 speed [y]/[x] - rotation 3 speed [e] - reset rotation 1 speed [d] - reset rotation 2 speed [c] - reset rotation 3 speed [UP]/[DOWN] - zoom in/out [m]/[n] - spiral offset [0] - reset spiral offset [5]/[6] - shearing 1 [7]/[8] - shearing 2 Download source file Ultrasweet!!!

Cool, und ich freu mich grade, dass flashplayer 8 mit wine funktioniert. :) hey ! Really a good demo via bitmap Features of 8. Wow - love the speed! Graffiti archaeology. Science/Nature | Audio Slideshow: Storm on Saturn. In the remote Australian Outback, a retired miner has found himself the toast of theastronomical world by capturing rare pictures of an electrical storm on Saturn.

Trevor Barry's images have attracted interest from Nasa's Cassini mission to the planet. Here the amateur astronomer, from Broken Hill, New South Wales, explains the significance of his Saturn pictures, and why he is so passionate about the night sky. <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="352" align="center"><tr><td><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="30" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc" width="100%" height="33"><tr><td bgcolor="#fafafa"><div class="font-family:Verdana;color:#666666;font-size:11px;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;font-size:18px;font-weight:800;"><strong>Javascript and Flash plug-in required</strong></span><P>Either the Flash plugin was not detected on your computer or the JavaScript features of your brower have been disabled.

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