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The Adobe/Apple Brouhaha – My Thoughts
Flash CS4 is a bit of dog. I’ve documented a few of those issues. When I first heard that Adobe was adding the ability to create iPhone apps with Flash CS5, I rolled my eyes and thought, “Why are you working to add this major feature, the ability to make shitty iPhone apps, when you [...]
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Why does Parallels insist on handling certain file types?
I noticed that a .jsfl file was suddenly associated with Flash CS4. Not my Mac install of Flash CS4, but the Flash CS4 demo that was installed in Windows Vista running in a Parallels virtual machine. I have no idea how that happened. Next, and more troubling, I noticed that when I run my “Test [...]
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TaskPaper for iPhone sync bug
I’m liking TaskPaper for iPhone, but have run into a problem with syncing via SimpleText.ws First, a little background: I use Notational Velocity on my Mac. It stores its documents as plain text files in a folder on my hard drive. That folder lives in my Dropbox. That folder is also the folder I use [...]
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TextField.onSetFocus and onKillFocus weirdness
I had to make a quick form using ActionScript 2 today. I wanted to add a quick little feature where the default “filler” text would be wiped out when someone clicks on the text field to start editing. Also, if the user left the text field without typing anything, the “filler” text would come back. [...]
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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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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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Screencast Question – Voiceover Preference
What do you prefer? When screencasts are clearly narrated while they are being recorded, such as Merlin Mann’s desktop tour or when it is obvious (or at least appears obvious to me) that the voiceover was added after the video portion was recorded, such as this screencast about Blogo? (I should mention that the Blogo [...]
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The many error messages of MLB.TV