Create a Stunning Website with Flex Applications

Create a Stunning Website with Flex Applications

Published on: July 30th, 2009 12:05am by: netultimate

(OPENPRESS) July 30, 2009 -- Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. Flex creates SWF files that are rendered by Flash Player. Flex applications are delivered on the web via the Flash Player or to the desktop via Adobe AIR.

Apart from this, web developments are quite commonly known in the world of Internet. It is actually the development of various web applications to form a website and includes all the components that are required to precede with the task, like web designing and e-commerce, content development of a website, web server configuration and server-side/client-side coding.

Flex application development is a newly introduced term and may not be known by many. It basically relates to Adobe flex, which is the cross-platform, that is based on the Macromedia flash software, which is a development framework and a comprehensive application advancement tool. It is also a solution for the development and delivery of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) within the enterprise and also throughout the web to enhance the interactivity for the Internet.

Benefits of using Flex on your website
Here are some reasons for deciding to put a Flex application on your website:

• To have a very robust application that attractively visualizes complex data sets
• To engage your users or visitors and let them feel empowered
• Flex is the technology the future - it shows your organization is modern
• It works on all major platforms and users don't need to install anything
• Audio and video can be integrated, allowing even greater interaction
• Data synchronization allows real-time data push from back-end to application

Developing a Flex application
Free open source Flex software is available but many serious developers like to use Adobe Flex Builder software for quick, professional development and maintenance of applications. If you don't have a Flex development expert in your team, outsourcing to specialist offshore Flex developer may be the solution.

Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional offers all of the powerful features included Adobe Flex Builder 3 Standard plus powerful memory and performance profiling tools, the new Advanced Data grid, support for automated functional testing, and extensible charting components for rich data visualization.

ImgBurn - a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application

The Official ImgBurn Website

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task:

• Read - Read a disc to an image file
• Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc
• Write - Write an image file to a disc
• Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct
• Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing
  

ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.

It can burn Audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV.

You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease.

It supports Unicode folder/file names, so you shouldn't run in to any problems if you're using an international character set.

ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS's - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

It's a very flexible application with several advanced features that are often lacking in other tools, especially when it comes to burning DVD Video discs. It supports all the latest drives without the need for updates (including booktype / bitsetting / advanced settings on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, LG, NEC, Plextor, Samsung, Sony).

There is an image queue system for when you're burning several images (which you can automatically share between multiple drives if you have more than one) and an easy-to-use layer break selection screen for double layer DVD Video jobs. The Automatic Write Speed feature allows you store your favourite burn speed settings on a per 'Media ID' basis, right down to a drive by drive level. Data captured during the burn (write speed, buffer levels etc) can be displayed / analysed using DVDInfoPro.

Whilst ImgBurn is designed to work perfectly straight out of the box, advanced users will appreciate just how configurable it is.

Oh and let's not forget the best thing about it.... it's 100% FREE ;-)