02/09/2010 12:14 AM
About Curious Minds Media
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Curious Minds Media, founded in 2003 by Eric Meyer and Travis Robie, is a premier provider of rich internet applications, web design, animation, and graphic design in the hudson valley. We specialize in Flex, Flash, HTML, Cold Fusion, PHP. We are currently located in the heart of Kingston New York.
We are a company facinated by the future, and fueled by the synergy of information and art. Our dedication to creating outstanding media solutions shows in the work that we do. It shows in the applications that we build, the art we create, and the culture we foster.
We are comfortable at the cutting edge of our craft, always looking around the corner to see what is next. We are adepts at digital content creation, and business application development.
We believe that digital media should not only be stunning, but accessible and inviting. Intuitive is a concept we strive for, and it's what we build.
11/18/2009 08:00 AM
DealerMouth
DealerMouth: Inventory management + social networking tool for car dealerships.
11/18/2009 08:00 AM
Magic Treehouse
The Magic Treehouse Website was created with integration in mind. SEO + Dynamic Flash.
07/02/2009 09:00 AM
Nasdaq Screen Animation
Curious Minds produces its first video for the Nasdaq board in Times Square.
06/08/2009 09:00 AM
Bowen and Company
New website for NYC event planners Bowen and Company.
04/21/2009 09:00 AM
James Beard Awards
2009 James Beard Foundation Awards site is launched.
05/22/2008 09:00 AM
Monster Annual Report
Curious Minds and Galperin Design build the Monster.com annual report.
06/26/2009 01:04 PM
Video animation for Times Square Nasdaq screen
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A client of ours, Sarah Fey, came to us with a rush video animation job. When we found out the video would be displayed on the huge Nasdaq video billboard in Time Square, we couldn’t pass it up. To watch the final video and footage from the live feed, click here. To learn more about [...]
06/17/2009 10:23 AM
Advantages of Using Flash Catalyst
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We have been currently working on a desktop application with customized components. As you may be aware without Flash Catalyst the work flow for creating an application with customized components can be time consuming and very demanding. You can customize the components using Flex Style Explorer or customize the templates offered in Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash [...]
06/09/2009 11:05 AM
Flash Builder 4 beta Released
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We had been waiting in eager anticipation through the first half of this year for it to finally arrive. All indications were that we would be well adjusted to our new work flow by the time summer rolled around for sure, enjoying all the new tooling and features of Flex 4...
06/03/2009 08:28 PM
Embedding Irregular Fonts in Flex 3
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Often in programming, what seems to be a simple task can trip you up. Yesterday I was trying to embed the font Helvetic Neue LT Com Bold 77 in a css style sheet for a project of ours. After about 20 minutes of trying different methods to get the project to compile without any errors, [...]
05/22/2009 03:34 PM
Graphical User Interface Design
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Currently, we are working on building a new desktop application. It all begins with good planning and beautiful design. Here are four steps with tips that will help designers design a successful application.
1. Structure
The application design should organize the user interface purposefully. All elements of the design should have meaning and be useful. The structure [...]
05/20/2009 03:01 PM
Warning: Filter will not render. are too large to be draw
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If you are looking at this error in your flex compiler, make sure that the DisplayObject that you are trying to add to the stage is subclassing UIComponent and not UIMovieClip. The two are nearly interchangeable, yet the UIMovieClip needs specific bounds.
Happy Coding!
05/15/2009 02:28 PM
Full Browser Flash with changing background color and automatic scrollbars
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Bowen and Company website, design by Florio Design
I finished a Flash animation for a client in which the background color of the movie fades from brown to white. The client liked it but decided that he would like the background of the browser (behind the embedded Flash movie) to change as well.
I figured the [...]
05/07/2009 03:22 PM
Using the Factory Method Pattern
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Introduction to a Classic OOP Design Pattern
Throughout my career as a developer I have had the occasion to use the Factory Method Pattern when appropriate, and grown to rely on it extensively in recent months as several projects have dictated. I find this pattern to be extremely useful in creating a loosely-coupled application architecture, which [...]
05/07/2009 12:08 PM
Flex Style Explorer
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An important part of developing for Flex is skinning or styling the components. Flex has a great set of components with a default appearance. If you want to customize the components to style them without loosing time use Flex Style Explorer. Flex Style Explorer has a very nice visual dashboard which allows you to edit [...]
