Produle Blog http://blog.produle.com Online flash application service Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:40:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Review - Customized Flash Widgets http://blog.produle.com/2009/07/11/review-customized-flash-widgets/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/07/11/review-customized-flash-widgets/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:40:47 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=117 Came across an user review on Produle with a nice example for creating branded widgets. Click here to read more.

]]> http://blog.produle.com/2009/07/11/review-customized-flash-widgets/feed/ New Feature: Now add SWF assets to your widgets http://blog.produle.com/2009/07/01/new-feature-now-add-swf-assets-to-your-widgets/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/07/01/new-feature-now-add-swf-assets-to-your-widgets/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:29:23 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=113 The asset manager in Produle now supports Adobe Flash SWF assets.  SWF files can now be easily added to your widget using the “Flash” Component listed under “Media” category.  Here are some use cases of this feature:

A Gaming Widget (courtesy: Destroybox.com)

Interactive Flash Banner with feeds and sharing

]]> http://blog.produle.com/2009/07/01/new-feature-now-add-swf-assets-to-your-widgets/feed/ Premium plans are now open http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/20/premium-plans-are-now-open/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/20/premium-plans-are-now-open/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:26:17 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=106 Standard and Professional plans are now available for Produle. You can upgrade your basic plan to avail premium features listed below. Upgrade can be done by clicking the ‘Upgrade” button in User Settings. The subscriptions are on a monthly basis and plans can be switched or cancelled anytime. For any questions regarding this, contact support or forums.

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]]> http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/20/premium-plans-are-now-open/feed/ Widgets built by our users http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/18/widgets-built-by-our-users/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/18/widgets-built-by-our-users/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:51:21 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=92 Here are some widgets created by our users: click on the images to view them:

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]]> http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/18/widgets-built-by-our-users/feed/ Overview diagram http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/08/overview-diagram/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/08/overview-diagram/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:35:15 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=86 The below diagram shows the overview of the parts used to build widgets with Produle.

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]]> http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/08/overview-diagram/feed/ Flash Catalyst sample recreated with Produle http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/02/flash-catalyst-sample-recreated-with-produle/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/02/flash-catalyst-sample-recreated-with-produle/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:29:45 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=77 Adobe Flash Catalyst is an interaction design tool which was recently released as a Public Beta. From my initial impressions, it seems to be an awesome software for creating interactive prototypes for flex. Though one of the use cases of Produle is for creating UI for web services, Both these tools behave differently and address different problems. However I tried to recreate one of the samples made with Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 mentioned in adobe devnet. Click here for that tutorial. The Produle version of the application (”Employee Directory”) is embedded below. It uses PHP for communicating with the database and to return XML, whereas the UI and Data Service connection was done in Produle.
Link to the Produle App.

]]> http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/02/flash-catalyst-sample-recreated-with-produle/feed/ Why we re-labeled our service http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/01/why-we-re-labeled-our-service/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/01/why-we-re-labeled-our-service/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:51:51 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=68 If you are a frequent visitor to our site, you should have recently noticed the word “widgets” taking more prominence.  This is because we have re-labeled our web service from “Interactive flash applications” to “Flash Widgets”.   The main reason behind this change is that many of our visitors tend to skip the “interactivity” word and associate flash applications with animations and banners which isn’t. We believe that “Widgets” are best suited for the type of projects you can build with produle. However this is only a label change as part of our product strategy and it does not affect the way you create applications in Produle. Whether naming your finished application as widget, flash app, website, dashboard, web service app - its your own call!

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]]> http://blog.produle.com/2009/06/01/why-we-re-labeled-our-service/feed/ 3,2,1 - Launching Produle… http://blog.produle.com/2009/05/19/321-launching-produle/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/05/19/321-launching-produle/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 12:49:11 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=64 We are glad to announce that Produle is now open for business. This web based service for creating interactive flash applications was first announced as a preview on February this year. After 3 months, the preview program ended recently this month. We thank all our preview users for giving invaluable feedback about the product.

During this period, the product has seen tremendous change especially in terms of usability. We will continue to hear your thoughts and make progress.

As mentioned in the signup page, the service is available in free and premium plans. The premium plans will become functional once our payment integration is complete which would be announced when ready.

If this service is of interest to you, go ahead and give it a spin!

]]> http://blog.produle.com/2009/05/19/321-launching-produle/feed/ Align operations added to editor http://blog.produle.com/2009/05/15/align-operations-added-to-editor/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/05/15/align-operations-added-to-editor/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 08:47:31 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=59 Align operations are now found in the Top Menu of the Composer. This helps to position a set of components to the left, right, top or bottom similar to what you find in an image editor. You can select a set of components either by mouse or by using pressing the SHIFT key. After selection, they can be uniformly aligned by choosing the respective align operation from Menu->Align buttons.

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]]> http://blog.produle.com/2009/05/15/align-operations-added-to-editor/feed/ Access Produle from your Desktop http://blog.produle.com/2009/05/09/access-produle-from-your-desktop/ http://blog.produle.com/2009/05/09/access-produle-from-your-desktop/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 13:07:21 +0000 admin http://blog.produle.com/?p=45 While Produle brings in the technology to create and edit flash apps right from your browser from anywhere, traditional users are more comfortable launching and interacting with applications using icons rather than URL. Also desktop apps have the advantage of having more screen real estate which is vital especially for users with lower screen resolutions.

Official Produle Icon:

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Here comes Mozilla Prism, an awesome way to launch and run web apps just like they were installed in your PC or Mac. You can view the “Getting Started” Video from  http://prism.mozilla.com/started/ and download Prism from here. Then unzip the archive and run prism.exe. Enter - http://app.produle.com for the Produle App and you might want to use the icon given above.

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