Using SWFObject for Flash Version Tracking

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At my company, we use Omniture SiteCatalyst for our web analytics/tracking. Unfortunately, Omniture does not give user’s Flash Version statistics in their standard reports like Google Analytics does. On the other hand, Omniture gives you the freedom to create custom reports that you can determine on your own using their provided JavaScript code. I am… Read more »

Prevent copy/paste and Print Screen online

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NOTE: This script is no longer supported in Flash Player 10. (It was fun while it lasted!) Let’s face it, there is such a thing as sensitive material on the web. I was recently put to the task of protecting a certain page on our company’s intranet from being redistributed outside the company. In other… Read more »

AOL vs. Flash Pre-Loader

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I’ve been using an image pre-loader that I wrote myself for several years now, whenever I need to load an external jpeg into my movie. I’ve also been in the habbit of re-naming my .jpg images to .jjj in order to trick AOL’s image compression “feature.” What I never expected is that AOL would also… Read more »