SAN FRANCISCO - Macromedia (www.macromedia.com) has introduced the Flash Communication Server MX, a new server that runs on a PC and integrates support for streaming media, multi-way video, audio, and text messaging, and realtime collaboration on Websites and rich Internet applications. The server also takes advantage of the popular Macromedia Flash Player, as well as the capabilities of the Macromedia MX product family. The solution's streaming media features allow developers to integrate streaming video and audio with motion graphics into a customizable player environment. The communication server takes advantage of the new Macromedia Flash Player 6 to receive and transmit video, audio and data. Visitors to the site need only Macromedia Flash Player to participate in the interactive environment. The Flash Player automatically recognizes installed microphones and standard USB or FireWire Webcams. To date, the latest Flash Player has been adopted faster than any player in Macromedia's history. "With the release of Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX, we are empowering developers to transform the Internet from a world of text and data into a space filled with live human interactions," explains Jonathan Gay, VP of engineering for Macromedia. The Flash Communication Server MX is now available. Pricing is $499 for the Personal Edition, and starts at $4,500 for the Professional Edition.
Adobe and MM have had gems and some real door stoppers in the past. I think Adobe is king of UI, while MM has (of late) embraced and empowered there customer base (extensions, employee blogs, newsletters, etc.).
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Mothes, C., & Mellado, C. (2021, accepted). Misperceptions beyond the audience? Discrepancies between journalistic role performance and perceived role enactment. Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), virtual conference.Ohme, J., Maslowska, E., & Mothes, C. (2021, accepted). How smartphones affect political knowledge gains from episodic and thematic frames in a news feed. Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), virtual conferenceOhme, J., & Mothes, C. (2021, accepted). Social media use on smartphones: Testing the relation between news post attention and political knowledge with the help of mobile eye-tracking. 8th European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).Mothes, C., & Ohme, J. (October 2020). Deliberative public discourse through civic self-affirmation: Testing a psychological intervention to reduce hostile media perceptions. Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), virtual conference.
Odermann, A., Ohme, J., & Mothes, C. (September 2019). Algorithmic media use and the polarization of political attitudes in Germany: Exploring the moderating role of media literacy. Interim Conference of the Political Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Poznań.Mellado, C., Mothes, C., Humanes, M. L., Amado, A., Mick, J., Sparks, C. Wang, H., Silke, H., Lauber, M., Logunova, O., & Oliviera, D. (September 2019). The interplay between actual performance, reported behaviours and self-perception of journalists as political actors: A comparative study of nine established democracies and hybrid regimes. Interim Conference of the Political Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Poznań.Mellado, C., Mothes, C., & Humanes, M. L. (August 2019). Explaining the gap between journalists' role conception and media role performance: A cross-national comparison. Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Toronto.Mothes, C., & Ohme, J. (July 2019). News consumption in times of technological and political upheaval: Effects of partisanship and public sentiment cues on partisan selective news exposure in a social media setting. Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Madrid.
Mellado, C., Mothes, C., Amado, A., Davydov, S., Mick, J., Olivera, D., Raemy, P., Roses, S., Silke, H., Sparks, C., & Wang, H. (July 2019). The gap between reported journalistic behaviors and role performance in the news: A cross-national comparison in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Madrid.
Macromedia has launched Macromedia Authorware 7, the dedicated solution for creating highly interactive rich media e-learning content. Macromedia Authorware 7 enables e-learning developers to import Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, play back content on Mac OS X, use industry standard JavaScript scripting and easily integrate content with learning management systems. Macromedia Authorware 7 is available for immediate download from the Macromedia Online Store at www.macromedia.com/go/buyaw7/.
The goodnews is that there are quite a few tools out there for both PCs andMacs that can save files in PNG format. The bad news is that not manysupport special features such as alpha channel transparency or gammacorrection. Furthermore, some programs that create PNG files do notcompress them as well as they could (including Adobe Photoshop 4.0and PaintShop Pro).
You can read more about Central from Kevin Lynch, the keeper of the Central vision: Central Whitepaper (308 KB, PDF format), and you can grab the software itself from the Central page on macromedia.com.On App Models and Ubiquitous Clients: Flex and Central Together
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Eeye Advisory - All versions of Macromedia Shockwave Flash for Windows and Unix contains remotely exploitable overflows in the handling of SWF files. Since this is a browser based bug, it makes it trivial to bypass firewalls and attack the user at his desktop. Also, application browser bugs allow you to target users based on the websites they visit, the newsgroups they read, or the mailing lists they frequent.
When people talk about using the Internet, they almost always mention surfing the Web and using email. Newsgroups, which can be one of the more useful resources for musicians, usually don't get a mention. So what are newsgroups, why do I consider them to be so useful, and how do you find the interesting ones?
When you first sign up with your ISP, you will be told what address to use for your news server: Virgin Net, which I use, uses the logical address of news.virgin.net, and other ISPs are likely to use similar names for their news servers. You will need to enter this in your newsreader application (the screenshot on page 240 shows the relevant page in Outlook Express). You will probably then be asked whether you want to download a list of newsgroups from this server. This can take some time (Virgin provided over 15,000 newsgroups when I last downloaded a complete list), so remember to do it after six o'clock!
If you choose to subscribe to a newsgroup, the messages that you download are stored on your hard drive for posterity (although you can manually delete messages, or automatically delete them after a given period of time). It is also possible to browse a newsgroup without subscribing, in which case messages are not stored: do remember that this is the case if you decide to post a message and then go back at a later date to see if there have been any replies.
Some companies, as mentioned earlier (and you may have noticed in the screenshot that Cakewalk has its own newsgroups), also provide newsgroups. Sometimes these will be monitored by their technical support staff, while others are just provided as an 'as is' forum for their users. Given that these newsgroups are very much oriented towards a given product (or product range), they are often one of the best places on the Internet to look for expert advice. Unfortunately, it's also all too easy to spend all your time ploughing through the newsgroup and no time using the program... such is life in the Internet world.
Fortunately, things are not that bad. Firstly, the newsgroups are generally sensibly named, as mentioned earlier. So, for example, most newsgroups dedicated to a band have the word music in the title (alt.music.abba for example). Second, although the news readers may list the newsgroups provided by a given news server alphabetically, and most newsgroups start with anything other than a useful word (alt, news, fido or the like), if you enter a word that you think may be in the newsgroup name (such as 'music' for example), the news reader displays those newsgroups that contain that word in their title anywhere. The screenshot on page 240 shows Outlook Express displaying the top of the list of newsgroups containing the word 'audio'.
So what words are sensible to search for? Well, thinking like the average musician, I started off entering 'audio' (returning about 30 newsgroups), 'music' (returning hundreds) and 'sounds' (some newsgroups were returned more than once). In these newsgroup titles, I then noticed some other words that seemed sensible to look for: 'samples', 'bands' and 'MIDI', all of which provided me with more potentially relevant newsgroups to sift through. A list of a handful of newsgroups to start with are given in the box to the right.
Although it is on the Cakewalk news server (news.cakewalk.com), the cakewalk.coffeehouse is a great forum for musicians to discuss any number of different topics (many of which are not strictly music related, but are fun anyway): it's also good to see a software house providing a service that isn't directly associated with its products. 2ff7e9595c
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