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whitepaper Flash 8 Cookbook: Building Preloaders2006-04-01 O'Reilly Media
  Flash movies begin playback as soon as the first frame is loaded. This default behavior generally works well with compact Flash vector graphics. However, when one uses other kinds of assets - notably, bitmap graphics, sound, video, and/or Flash components - Flash's default behavior can lead to stuttered, delayed, and broken playback. The cause of the unacceptable playback is that Flash is forced to try to play frames back that haven't been loaded yet. Flash has a built-in tool, the Bandwidth Profiler, which can be used to simulate the playback of a movie at different connection speeds.

Tags: Application Development, 		  
whitepaper Viewing and Organizing Camera RAW Images in Windows XP: Using the Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer2005-12-01 Microsoft
  Use of RAW image capture is preferred by many serious-minded photographers to preserve all the subtle color and detail possible from digital cameras. However, until now it has been impossible to view thumbnails and previews for RAW images in Microsoft Windows without use of special software. The Microsoft RAW Image Thumb-nailer and Viewer provides thumbnails, previews, printing, and meta-data display for RAW images from supported Canon and Nikon digital cameras on Windows XP. This tool, which is licensed at no cost by Microsoft, enables digital photographers to organize and work with RAW files within Windows in much the same way as with JPEG images. No more "Guessing" which image is which.

Tags: Windows XP		   
whitepaper Interactive Tools for Virtual X-Ray Vision in Mobile Augmented Reality2005-11-30 University of California
  This paper presents a set of interactive tools designed to give users Virtual X-Ray vision. These tools address a common problem in depicting occluded infrastructure: either too much information is displayed, confusing users, or too little information is displayed, depriving users of important depth cues. Four tools are presented: The Tunnel Tool and Room Selector Tool directly augment the user's view of the environment, allowing them to explore the scene in direct, first person view. The Room in Miniature Tool allows the user to select and interact with a room from a third person perspective, allowing users to view the contents of the room from points of view that would normally be difficult or impossible to achieve.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications