Red5 Recorder is an open source Flash video recorder that is built on the free Red5 Flash server.
Using the resource, users of a website can easily record their videos and/or sounds (handy for job search websites, video e-mail apps, etc.).
It can be also set to play the videos with the player functionality.
There are multiple options provided like displaying the level of microphone activity, setting the max duration of a video, frames per second, etc.
P.S. The application requires a dedicated server (Windows or Linux).
Requirements: Dedicated server (Windows or Linux)
f4Player is a free and open source Flash video player that can play .fly, .f4v or .mp4 files in websites or within AS3 projects.
It is lightweight (8kb) and has a skinnable interface (few skins are included with the download).
The player supports progressive downloads (ability to play the downloaded portion of a file while the download is still in progress) and fullscreen display.
FlexPaper is an open source document viewer component for displaying PDF files inside websites or Flash applications.
The component does not exactly display PDF files but the PDF-to-SWF converted files in a Acrobat Reader-like interface.
Usage is pretty simple, just inserting the SWF file + customizing the options and there are free tools to convert documents, like SwfTools.
FlexPaper supports zoom in/out, paging, fullscreen, search and printing the documents viewed.
Optionally, it is possible to use the component in Adobe Flex as a SWC source file comes with the download.
Requirements: No Requirements
BigBlueButton is an open source video conferencing application which is specifically built for remote learning but can be used for standard meetings as well.
The application enables multiple users to login & share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same time.
It is a very ideal application for presentations as users can upload PDF or office documents & keep everyone in sync with their current page, zoom, pan, mouse pointer etc.
Also, users can share their desktop with others easily.
There are 3 user types:
- Presenter: can upload presentations & sharing their desktop
- Viewer: have no authority within the conference, can only view & chat with other users
- Moderator:can upload presentations, share the desktop & change user types of other users.
Users can raise hands to get the attention of the presenter, mute any other participants they want & chat between themselves in public or privately.
BigBlueButton completely relies on open source technologies & it can be improved further with the API provided.
Requirements: Linux-based Server
JuiceKit is an open source software development kit (SDK), which integrates with Adobe Flex, for building "information experience" applications.
The SDK includes components for controls, visualizations & utility classes that are easy to implement & aesthetically pleasing.
To better define the SDK, some of the components it has are a treemap, US Map, "copying data to the computer's clipboard" & much more..
These components can be used independently, within other applications or assembled together to create full applications.
JuiceKit is very well-documented & there are few examples provided to show the things that can be created.
Requirements: Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124+, Adobe Flex SDK
Adobe AIR applications are great considering the ease-of-use & simplicity they offer.
Almost regulary, WRD is sharing the fresh Adobe AIR applications that web designers & developers will find useful, like:
Since then, new applications are created & ready to use. And, here they are:
Image Editing, Debugging & Invoicing
This is an awesome Flickr search tool that makes browsing between images fun.
Once you find what you're looking for, just drag'n drop that image to your desktop to download it.
It helps measuring the width/height of any item on the desktop. With a semi-transparent background & custom-presets, it is a great helper when prototyping websites.
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Adobe used to have individual Cookbooks applications for Flex, AIR & Mobile that presented code snippets created by the community.
Now, they have combined all, with new additions, under a single Adobe Cookbooks application.
The website is a great place for finding ready-to-use code samples for Adobe products, specially ActionScript & Flex.
Besides adding new snippets, users can request for the ones that they can not find & other users can create/share them.
The new Adobe Cookbooks also offers a better search/browsing experience with titles like "related recipes" & "contributor lists".
Requirements: No Requirements
HydraFramework is a prescriptive development framework for quickly building Flex applications at every level.
The framework’s development methodology can be totally adopted or the core classes can be used in any way you see fit in projects.
It consists several projects:
- HydraFramework Core – an implementation of MVC (otherwise known as HydraMVC)
- HydraPlugins – for quickly adding prebuilt functionality into the core
- HydraComponents – a library of components built on the HydraFramework.
The framework is well documented & presents a demo.
Adobe AIR has clearly became the standard on creating desktop applications for web developers.
Besides the offline applications, it can combine the richness of web with the simplicity of desktop & offer very functional tools.
At WRD, there were 2 other posts that had shared web designer/developer focused Adobe AIR apps.:
Since then, various new tools are built & here are 15 new Adobe AIR applications for designers & developers:
colrful is a beautiful application that enables you to make color-based searches in Flickr. Any number of colors can be mentioned, they can be viewed as thumbnails/originals & downloaded.
Another feature is the ability to mention an image URL & get similar images from Flickr.
The application is a desktop interface for Google Analytics (free version works with 1 website).
It offers most of the features of Google Analytics including visits, pageviews, reports, Google Maps report & more..
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Hemlock is an open-source Flash framework which offers the richness of Flash & the scalability of XMPP.
It eases the creation of real-time & multi-user applications like games, collaboration and more.
Generally, real-time applications are handled with polling where a database is queried every x seconds to get the latest updates.
With the Hemlock approach, a client registers for a message and is only contacted when a relevant one arrives. This is clearly a better method as it is much real-time & cost-effective (no unnecessary polls).
Requirements: Adobe Flex SDK & ejabberd
