Nokia E90 Black Edition

Sun, 25 May 2008 15:43:07 -0400

Via Dailymobile, some picture of the new Nokia E90.Alessandro

Optimization. Validate my findings.

Sun, 25 May 2008 21:59:00 -0400

I usually code like this to begin with:PLAIN TEXTActionscript:for(var i:int = 0; i

Embedding fonts in Flex: just some glyphs

Mon, 26 May 2008 03:21:05 -0400

This is not tutorial, I’m just trying to figure answer our for that question: Is it possible to embed just some glyphs of font in AS3.0 project? I’m using just FlexBuilder, but there some other way, please let me know, I need to k

Sothink SWF Decompiler for Mac!

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:38:48 -0400

I just got word that my favorite decompiler is now available for OS X! I’m really starting to run out of reasons to use Windows at this point. I’ve done some basic tests with this version and everything seems to work exactly the s

Nokia and Adobe: Flash and Mobile Browsing e-seminar

Tue, 27 May 2008 16:30:35 -0400

Via Bill, there is an upcoming online seminar:Topic: Flash and Mobile BrowsingTime: 10-11 am PST (1-2 pm EST), 5 June 2008Presenters: Stephen Ellis (Forum Nokia) & Bill Perry (Adobe)Description: “This one-hour webinar will

Adobe Flash 9 vulnerability found ?!?!?

Tue, 27 May 2008 17:51:10 -0400

I've just read it and reported. It seems that Symantec found a bug on the Adobe Flash Player ( include 9.0.124 .0and 9.0.115.0) and it says web sites hosting Adobe Flash Player content can be compromised by an exploit in the newes

POC : Implementing HTML 5 Video Element using JavaScript and Flash

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:38:45 -0400

Since the first leg of the European on AIR Tour wrapped up, I have had some time to take some time and research / play around with some new technologies. In particular, I have been looking into the HTML 5 draft spec, as well as so

FP10: Generic Number Crunching Via Pixel Bender And ShaderJob

Tue, 27 May 2008 23:24:42 -0400

Though the use of Pixel Bender kernels is mainly designed for carrying out graphics-related tasks, it has another powerful use - generic number crunching. Since Pixel Bender kernels and ActionScript run on separate threads, you ca

Cut By The Wind

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:23:40 -0400

I wanted to build something using my AS3 grass simulation experiments that was more cinematic than most of the pieces I've built to date, and had some form of open ended narrative. The result was cutByTheWind, which you can see be

YUI 2.5.2 Released: Bug Fixes and Support for Upcoming Firefox and Opera Releases Yahoo! User Interface Blog

Wed, 28 May 2008 19:17:28 -0400

The YUI development team released version 2.5.2 today; you can download the new release from SourceForge or configure your implementation using the YUI Configurator. This is a focused release that addresses several key bugs while

Update on Flash Player vulnerability

Thu, 29 May 2008 02:57:53 -0400

The Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team is reporting that the latest version of the Flash Player (version 9.0.124.0) is not affected by the vulnerability that was reported earlier this week. “The exploit appears to be ta

Lazy Model Responder

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:49:48 -0400

Within a Flex application it is a very common thing to show lists of items or domain objects for instance a list of articles, users or whatever.There are many ways to implement this and I would like to share an approach which I c

Heads Up: Firefox 3 Breaks Some Flash Applications

Fri, 30 May 2008 06:18:10 -0400

Update: They’re going to rollback the change that caused the problem with Flash. Thanks to mjg for the heads up.I wanted to give Flash developers a quick heads up because when Firefox 3 gets rolled out you may be getting emails f

Flash Uses The GPU

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:43:53 -0400

A much clamored-for feature (right after native 64-bit, wmode/transparency, and V4L2) is Flash GPU (graphical processing unit) acceleration, sometimes founded in a belief that it's a magic solution for making things fast without a

The Evolution of the Flash Platform

Sat, 31 May 2008 17:29:34 -0400

I did a talk last night on “The Evolution of the Flash Platform” at Skills Matter as part of the London Web Week. Had a nice group of people turn up from various backgrounds and all seemed very interested in seeing the direction F

15 Must-Know Photography Tactics

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:51:29 -0400

Photo by BrajeshwarBright ColorsPeople with colorful attire at Indian Bahai (Lotus) Temple, Delhi (INDIA)Photography fascinates many people and it turn out to be a good opportunity when a good blogger told me he wish to write.

Open Country Codes: ISO 3166 country names and Alpha-2 country codes in HTML, Python, JavaScript, ActionScript, Flex, JSON, and XML

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:21:21 -0400

Introducing Open Country Codes: easy to use ISO 3166 country codes for your apps. Why are some things just much harder than they need to be? Finding a current, easy-to-use data source for populating a country selection box, for e

Additional Flash CS3 Components

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:15:26 -0400

In a recent project we required some additional functionality to the default components that come with Flash CS3. Here’s examples for some of them which we have added to our Google Code Library. ArrowlessScrollBarAutoSizeButtonEx

Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Coda Slider Effect

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:52:39 -0400

The effect of “sliding panels” has become extremely popular for categorizing & displaying large amounts of data on a single page. One of the most notable implementations of this effect was done by Panic to display all of the f

Silverlight Gets Serious

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:27:10 -0400

So today we announced Silverlight 2 Beta 2. There are a lot of features that are noteworthy but the most exciting thing is that this release is the first release of Silverlight 2 that has a go-live license. When this release is av

What is your passion?

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:15:19 -0400

I'm just now starting to get back into the swing of things having recently returned from what can probably be considered my first real vacation in years. 10 days away from deadlines, work, worries - lots of time to do a bit of sel

3D Zoo Site Raises the Bar

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:47:23 -0400

I just received a link to The Eco Zoo site and quite honestly this is a step above what we might normally expect from a web site. Using Papervision a custom 3D engine in a slick fashion, switching between 3D environments, the tree

HTC Touch Pro - the perfect PDA phone

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:34:03 -0400

Its existence shows that we should think carefully and wait a little while before we buy any electronic device, because a new/better one always appear right after you buy a you-think-is-the-best-model.HTC Diamond is cool, but its

America's Capacity for Change

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:26:07 -0400

Peggy Noonan wrote a lovely few paragraphs celebrating America, in the middle of an otherwise somewhat nasty editorial about Hillary Clinton.A friend sent, by instant message, the AP flash that ran at 16:56 ET on 06-03-2008. The

The Final Week(end) for Film Festival Nominations!

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:17:47 -0400

---Tick… Tick… Tick…--–- “You may delay, but time will not.” -Benjamin FranklinAh, the dreaded alarm clock image! Just a reminder that the deadline for Film Festival nominations is Monday, June 16. Judging will begin

Kerner wants "One Brush to Rule Them All" and you should, too!

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:55:55 -0400

Matt Kerner popped up on my IM client with a long, expletive-laden rant (and he's actively religious, so I started paying attention immediately) about brushes in Fireworks CS3. It seems that he has a workflow issue with Fireworks

New Flash 10 Card Flip Tutorial Online

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:23:32 -0400

I just finished writing an article for The Tech Labs. The article steps you through the creation of a class that simulates the flip of a business card. Lots of you have downloaded and commented on my previous CardFlip class writ

The Right to Read

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:29:43 -0400

by Richard StallmanThis article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).(from “The Road To Tycho”, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, publis

Going HD: Part 2 (HTPC)

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:29:11 -0400

In the first part of this Going HD series I discussed the arrival of a 50-inch Samsung plasma HDTV as the core of my new HD setup. I’ve spent almost two weeks with the HDTV and I have no complaints thus far; it’s a stellar display

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