Author Archives: Erik
Star Wars titles with CSS
Check it out. My thoughts? Cool. Except that the fonts look like crap. And it really looks like crap as it crawls off into the distance. And, as he said, “It only works in Snow Leopard in Safari 4.0.4 and the WebKit nightly.” I should point out that I don’t think I have the WebKit [...]
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Gordon – Open source Flash runtime written in JavaScript
Check out the demos. Does it do anything besides play back linear animation? If not, WHO THE FUCK CARES?!
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Loading in local external assets into an Air app
I’ve recently been tasked with turning an existing Flash app (that is to say, a self contained Windows EXE/Mac App) into an Air app. The original was only meant to run locally. It was never meant to be hosted on a web server. This module depends on loading in lots of external XML docs and [...]
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Getting text notes out of Evernote WITHOUT losing text formatting
I’m in the middle of a project. I’m looking at my notes in Evernote and if a note can be saved as plain old text, then I’m pulling it out of Evernote and dumping it into Notational Velocity. NV is awesome. Ignore its ugly icon — are the letters made out of Jell-O? — and [...]
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Apple Magic Mouse and USB Overdrive don’t mix
I just got myself a Magic Mouse since my not-so-old Logitech VX Nano started getting super flaky on me. It’s nice. I’ll probably keep it. But I’ve realized that I’m usually just as effective using the trackpad on my MBP. Plus the gestures work better (or I should say that they are easier to use) [...]
Flash-like effects without Flash, might suck.
The Macheist nanobundle is up, and the site has some Flash-like elements created without Flash. When viewed in Safari 4 on my Mac, everything probably looks as intended. But there are some issues with trying to create these eye-candy effects without Flash. It causes some noticeable lag in the browser. These pieces of eye candy [...]
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Cha-Ching 2 – MAJOR FAIL
So long Midnight Apps. And go to hell. I tried to load my beta of Cha-Ching 2 but was told the beta had expired and I needed to check the site for updates. I go to the site and get the latest version. Install it. Still no good. Apparently I was already running the latest [...]
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TextField.onSetFocus and onKillFocus weirdness