Adobe AIR FLV Player 

With the release of Adobe AIR I've been working on updating several of my older Flash multimedia projects for use on the desktop.  The first of these to roll off the assembly line is the Drez Media player for FLA video files.  The application itself is pretty basic, but it makes viewing FLV files nice and easy.  The interface uses drag and drop to load the files and then immediately starts playing with metadata usefully displayed on the right. Standard controls are available to start and stop the video and the user can also jump through the timeline by moving the scrubber or by clicking anywhere along the main timeline.

I was particularly interested in the new Sound features available in AIR and Actionscript 3 to allow for dynamic creation of spectrum graphs so this was incorporated into the bottom right.  The player also detects and handles video sizes of Standard 4:3, Widescreen 16:9, or YouTube formatting by dynamically changing the size of the video window.

SlideShowPro - Photoshop CS3 Export Scripts

I've used Todd Dominey's great slideshow component on a number of projects but required a simple way to generate content without needing to upgrade into the SSP Director CMS system.  That prompted me to write two Photoshop scripts in JavaScript which scale images, generate thumbnails, copy metadata, and write everything to an XML file especially formatted for SSP.  So really once you run the script all thats required is exporting your slideshow into the same directory and you're ready to roll.

This was offered for free on the SlideShowPro members forum a few months back and was so popular that it has since been picked up by Todd as an official product for the SSP library.  So if you're looking for a copy, head over to www.slideshowpro.net and look in the Extras section.