Thanks to Robert who gave me this bit of information. Apparently in Flash Player 10 the clipboard can only be invoked by user interaction. My copy/paste deterrent—that I previously blogged about and subsequently became my most popular and most frequently visited post—was based on the idea that the clipboard would be written to several times per second because it was fired in the EnterFrame event. So, needless to say, it will not...

I’m at Adobe MAX this week. I’m currently sitting in the sneak peek session and blogging it with my phone (so forgive any typos or misunderstandings). Out of over 600 entries, the MAX award’s people’s choice was given to eBay Desktop. Now for the sneaks: Adobe Visual Communicator is new to Adobe. We all got a copy when we got here but had no idea what it was until the session explained that its pretty much a way to...

I decided to give the so called “Flash Killer” [Silverlight](http://silverlight.net/) a whirl and see what all the so called “hype” is about. As a huge fan of halo, I ended up attempting to view the [Halo 3 videos](http://silverlight.net/showcase/) on the showcase page. Only one problem: The video itself asked me for my birthdate (I assume to make sure I’m over 13, but probably also MS way of tracking...

I have a flash animation being used on the homepage of one of my websites that has a few text boxes that rotate/fade in and out of each other. For the longest time, when I publish this movie to the web, the text box has been showing up with a faint line at the top and bottom; sort of a lighter colored line than the actual background color. I tried all sorts of things to get rid of it including moving the box to different locations, resizing...

Whenever I try to load Macromedia Flash lately it takes for EVER to load. You know how the splash screen gives updated text as to what is currently loading? Mine is hanging on loading standard profiles. Anyone out there know what might be causing such a disturbance in the force? A google search tells me nothing.