http://designupdate.com/blog Design Update - Paul Trani's Blog about the interactive design and development world using Adobe products. Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:10:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a great extension for Firefox, allowing you to switch between different Flash player versions.  This is great considering the only other way to test Flash with different players is to uninstall your current Flash player and reinstall the one you want to test. This extension comes with all ... http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/11/03/flash-player-switcher-for-firefox/ If you find yourself in Photoshop using a certain vector item a lot (such as a logo) then consider turning it into a custom shape: Copy the starz logo in Illustrator. In Photoshop, paste as a Smart Object. With the object still selected, go to Edit > Define Custom Shape, ... http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/10/13/your-very-own-vector-library-in-photoshop/ Here are some sites that have free fonts that are pretty legible at a small size.  especially on screen.  All vector based.  Good for Flash! Miniml http://www.miniml.com Silkscreen http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Sevenet http://www.fountain.nu/catalogue/sevenet.asp (bottom left of page) Subatomic Screen http://www.dafont.com/kevin-meinert.d1416 Handy http://www.iamcal.com/misc/fonts/ Grixel Acme 7 http://www.grixel.gr/ (then ... http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/09/24/fonts-for-small-point-sizes/ http://www.ecodazoo.com is a great Flash site.  Very well designed and has a nice environmental message on living in a more eco friendly way.  I think it's made with Papervision 3D and a lot of hard work. http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/09/15/the-eco-zoo/ Stream live video from your mobile phone using Qik. It will then save the stream so you can share it with others. It's really that simple. Once it's set up you can stream video and then check it out later. Real World Example: We're interested in a ... http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/09/15/174/ The future of print or fancy gimmick? http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/09/12/esquire-anniversary-mag-uses-e-ink/ Need I say more?  Who knows if they were going to use it in the first place if MS didn't sponsor the site.  Go Flash!  See the full article here. http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/09/09/nbc-dumps-silverlight-after-olympics-and-goes-back-to-flash/ Jacob Gube from Six Revisions has posted 28 great cheat sheets for web designers.  From program shortcuts (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.) to hex, typography, and CSS shortcuts.  Pretty much everything under the sun, located on one page. And if you're looking for developer cheat sheets (more CSS, HTML, JavaScript) he has those as ... http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/09/08/useful-cheat-sheets-for-web-designers/ Adobe Creative Suite 4 is coming September 23rd at 12:01 A.M. (EST). Sign up to view the live webcast here: www.adobe.com/go/somethingbrilliant Be prepared to get your world rocked. http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/09/03/cs4-is-coming/ With some fancy code that you can get here, you can bring your designs to life using Flash.  A little ActionScript and a little thing called parallax, you can give designs depth.  Check out the example and download fully commented code here.  Enjoy! http://designupdate.com/blog/2008/08/29/its-alive-bring-your-design-to-life-with-flash/