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    Making Flex DisplayObjects Zoom and Rotate (Multitouch Screencast)

    2010 - 02.04

    RotatableScalable.movI have a friend who once said that the image rotate and zoom application is the ‘hello world’ of multitouch. I thought that was a pretty astute observation.

    In this video tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to make any Flex component Rotatable and Scalable. This class can be applied to images for the classic ‘hello world’ effect, but it can also be added to videos, data grids and containers making for a fun and engaging user experience.

    Video and code after the jump.

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    Multitouch Ripple Effect (Screencast)

    2010 - 01.06

    This is short screencast showing how to build a multitouch water ripple effect using David Lenaerts’s Shallow Water Container and pixel bender shadder classes.

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    Links and full code after the jump

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    Air 2 Beta 2 Now on Labs

    2010 - 02.02

    air_logoAdobe today released their latest drop of the next Air run-time. They seem to have corrected a lot of bugs and small issues.

    This second iteration of the Air run-time uses Flash player 10.1, giving developers access to the new multitouch apis. Go grab it at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/

    Be sure to double check your own personal Air applications and let Adobe know if your seeing any issues.

    Here’s a partial feature list and be sure to check out Christian Cantrel’s list of Air 2 resources here.

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    Getting Apple’s Magic Mouse Multitouch to Work with Air 2.0

    2010 - 01.25

    Magic MouseIf your sitting behind an older Mac notebook that doesn’t have the unibody trackpad or if you have a Mac Pro tower, you might be interested in snagging the new Apple Magic Mouse

    I read ‘Sesamouse adds more multitouch gestures to Magic Mouse‘ yesterday and figured that if this software was able to dispatch OS level gestures than Adobe Air 2 would probably be able to pick this up and run with it.

    Turns out this works rather nicely. Here’s the how to and a video of it working.

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