Adtools

Google have released a ‘network panel‘ to their Developer Tools that acts in a very similar way to other HTTP tracing tools like httpFox and httpWatch. This is a very welcome addition to an excellent set of tools for Chrome and means you’ll easily be able to trace what calls are being made from adtags [...]

The Problem: Your company is developing an app that will utilise your adserver to deliver and render ads. How do you ensure that the app is calling the right ads and then later when it’s in use by your users how do you check problems with adcalls into that app without recourse to httpWatch, FireBug [...]

Found a very simple mechanism to reduce (or increase) audio levels in FLV video files. Historically this has always been a pain to work as we would normally need to demux the files and work on the audio and then remux them. This technique uses the open-source ffmpeg package, you don’t really need to know [...]

Ghostery is a new free service/browser-plugin for IE, Firefox & Chrome which highlights many tracking, behavioural & analytics tags (commonly referred to as web-bugs or pixels) on a site’s page. More importantly from our industry’s perspective is that it can also act as filtering mechanism and gives the user direct access to block any/all of [...]

Freshmeat are reporting an update to the open-source SWFTools package with increases in performance of the pdf2swf tool and fixes to numerous bugs. “SWFTools is a collection of code for handling Flash .SWF-files. This includes a merging tool (swfcombine), an extracting tool (swfextract), PDF/JPEG/PNG/AVI/TTF/WAV to SWF converters (pdf2swf, jpeg2swf, png2swf, avi2swf, font2swf, and wav2swf), a [...]

A number of years ago I had a meeting with OneVision, a company used in newspaper/print for pre-production/press Quality Assurance amongst others things. At the time we were looking at trying to resolve issues with badly coded flash ads, where the clickTag() hadn’t been set properly or been set to CLICKTAG() or cLiCKTag() or some [...]

After installing to the latest version of Sothink SWF Decompiler we’ve seen issues when using Firebug, this article from Firebug’s own Dev team explains things better. http://www.getfirebug.com/faq.html#Sothink