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Apple iPad: No Flash Plugin Support

   Posted: January 27th, 2010    By: Devin Walker   

Apple’s largely hyped iPad will not support the Flash plugin on it’s built-in Safari browser.  This means there will be no free Flash games, videos or music on the Apple iPad.  Instead, the Safari browser will show the missing plugin icon when an iPad user attempts to access a website that is Flash enabled.

Apple iPad No Flash Compatibility

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Flash Fluid Website Template Tutorial and Download

   Posted: December 8th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

Flash EggI’ve been getting a lot of email lately from people asking about how I included buttons in the code for the fluid layout tutorial found here at Active Tut’s. I decided to just offer up my code in a package for those who want to modify it to suit their needs. Why? Because after much deliberation, I’m moving away from the all-Flash site for a blog/flash mix site (the one you’re on now). Let me know what you think and please come back to show me the sites you make!

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Easy Flash CS4 Alpha Gradient Mask Logo Tutorial

   Posted: December 8th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

Gradient masks are useful for creating cool effects on logos and other flash objects. In this tutorial I will demonstrate a common way to outline or make text ’shimmer’ in Flash CS4. Please note: I do use Photoshop CS4 to create the outline, but you can do this in Flash just as easy with the ink bottle tool.

Video: Part 1 of 2

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Flash Dropdown Menu ActionScript 3

   Posted: October 19th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

Flash Icon PNGAdobe Flash is great for making smooth dropdowns using masks and actionscript to programically tween in and out a menu movie clip.  This tutorial requires minor programming skill and at least Adobe Flash CS3 to complete.  Please let me know if you have any questions on it!

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SWFObject is undefined Error Solution

   Posted: October 15th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

When developing this website I ran into an error with my .swf logo that was causing this error in Internet Explorer: “SWFObject” is undefined. I will show you how I resolved this error, it was pretty simple.
Internet Explorer Error Message

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