Adrian Parr’s Blog

HexoSearch - The World’s First Search Engine Dedicated to Actionscript

I know this has been around for quite a long time now, but I had kinda forgotten about it. It is a seach engine that is set-up specifically to search ActionScript related sites for your search term. This can be better than just using Google because it helps filter out all the non-actionscript content for you.

You can also add HexoSearch directly into your browser.

Over at 1stwebdesigner.com they have put together a list of 50 Flash Websites You Definitely Should See. There are some amazing sites on there to check out and take inspiration from. I’m pleased to see the likes of 2Advanced Studios, Magnetic North and Unit9 on there. I hadn’t come across this site before, but taking a brief look through there are some interesting acticles and great lists of things to inspire and educate.

This morning I came across this beautiful Flash website. It is for a company called Checkland Kindleysides, who are a design agency based in Leicestershire, UK. It is such a simple yet beautiful website. The animations of the paper cut-outs are gorgeous.

I recently discovered a Firefox Add-on called PicLens (created by a company called Cooliris) that nicely displays image search results in a seamless scrolling 3D space, and then allows you to view them as a slidshow. See screengrabs below …

It runs very smoothly and I am impressed with it’s ease of use. You can search Google Images, Flickr, Picasa, Yahoo, Facebook and many more.

They also have a WordPress plugin that I haven’t tried yet, but will check out soon.

I recommend you take a look at it.

I have just come across a really handy and well executed application and website that allows you to easily capture (image or video) and share what you are doing on screen.

The application is called the Jing Project, and is freely available for both Mac and Windows. It has been created by TechSmith who have many years of experience in this field (they produce Camtasia Studio as a commercial product).

Once you have captured your screen as either an image or video it is automatically encoded to Flash video and you then have the option of uploading it to your own area on screencast.com, embedding it on your own page or blog, uploading it to Flickr (images only), saving it as a SWF file locally, or uploading it to your FTP area.

It is very easy to use and it is FREE! I highly recommend you check it out.