App Development
We’ve given our site a redesign, and along with it we’ve moved it from Drupal CMS (content management system) to WordPress CMS. We thought it was time for a refresh, but also we did this because WordPress gives us an unprecedented ease of use in creating and maintaining our own content. Hosting This move is … Read more
I've recently been looking at a number free File synchronization utilities. I'd previously used SyncToy from Microsoft. It worked well for me for a little while, but then I ended up loosing a number of files because it removed files that I didn't actually want to delete. The horror of loosing precious files made me … Read more
So you've got your self a shiny new web site, and now you want an icon for it? Just create a graphic sized 16×16, and save it as an ICO file. What? Photoshop doesn't save .ico files? Well, I found a few other softwares which didn't work well for my needs, before I came uppon … Read more
Ever wondered why your hard drive was so full? Ever wondered what was taking up so much space? Wouldn’t it be great to have a visual representation of all of your files at once? If you said yes to any of those questions, WinDirStat might be just the program you’ve been looking for! WinDirStat can … Read more
There is an interesting talk on Papervision at the Blender conference: http://river-valley.tv/conferences/blender_conference_2008/
Finally there is a way to get 3D into Flash, from Blender (or another program such as 3DsMax), with Animation! It’s a tool called Cast3D. Check out this: http://www.rustpunk.co.za/blog/?p=10 You can download the Papervision 3D component for Flash CS3 from here:http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/downloads/list
I thought this was a very cool demonstration of the fluid capabilities of Blender. It shows a "magician" character, who "magically" conjures the water into different shapes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruTNnF6Ztg You can find more info here: http://www10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~sinithue/ani_mfc/ and here: Magic Fluid Control
Great news everyone! Search Engines are now getting the technology to crawl through Adobe Flash content. The Flash SWFs files (even old ones) are now becoming searchable by search engines. 🙂 The improved SWF search even includes the capability to load and access remote data like XML calls and loaded SWFs. This means Flex applications … Read more
While looking for an open source publishing tool (such as Adobe InDesign or Microsoft publisher), I came across this site which lists popular comercial software and it’s counterpart in the open source world: http://www.osalt.com/system-utilities It seems that there are a lot of very powerful open source applications out there! Open source software can be great … Read more
For those that heard me talk in the Seattle Flash User Group tonight, I thought I’d post some links to the things I was talking about. For search engine optimization and Flash, there is SWFObject. This is great because it nabs a few birds at once, by getting rid of that annoying "click here to activate" thing … Read more