January 12, 2009

From what I gather, any external ActionScript script you may have that you are linking to through an #include statement, you may need to use this code to allow certain characters to be read in the document as UTF-8.  I ran into this issue about a…

January 06, 2009

I just discovered today that PlayStation 3 is now supporting Flash Player 9.  It'd be awesome to see other systems adopt this standard like the Wii.  It also be awesome if the XBOX had a web browser.  Who knows what will happen.  Either way, I'm…

October 15, 2008

Go get it! https://www.adobe.com/go/getflash

July 01, 2008

Take a look at the articles: adobe.com google.com This sounds pretty exciting to me.

May 30, 2008

So I found a little treat with the 10.5.3 update I just did from my hotel room in South Dakota.  You can now sync your gmail address book with your mac!  Amazing.  Such a nice treat on our journey out to Seattle.  You can read more here: tuaw.com.

May 15, 2008

Incase you haven't heard the new yet today, Flash Player 10 has become public.  Looks like some exciting new stuff.  Check it out on Adobe Labs.  It's not as significant as Flash Player 9, but it sounds pretty sweet still.  With native 3D support…

May 13, 2008

I have known that there's a javascript/css fix for transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer, but I've tried to stay away from this always!  As of today, I was faced with answering this problem on a site I'm working on.  I found it's quite simple and…

May 10, 2008

I'm sure a lot of people in the Flash community have already heard.  For the few of you who haven't, this is huge!  When considering what this will do for mobile devices and even the possibilities on gaming systems like the Wii and PS3, it's very…

May 08, 2008

Straight from the creators of google maps "street view", there's is now interactive video that you can scroll and navigate around in while the video plays. I think it shows how impressive flash player really is. Flash is pulling in an FLV file with…

April 08, 2008

So  I know there may be some iTunes hatters out there, but I just discovered a useful thing with iTunes. I've used iTunes for many years now, but never noticed this feature. Maybe this is a new feature? You can actually print out different templates…

April 04, 2008

After seeing the ProCable headphones for the iPhone on TUAW.com, I decided to buy a pair for the low price of $24.95.  I wasn't expecting much, but I was hoping for the best.  I also used the promo code to purchase them, which brought them down in…

March 18, 2008

I finally bought the hard drive I've been waiting for over the past 2 months. I'm really excited I finally have the drive and can faithfully know my data is being written across two hot swappable drives. The drive runs several different RAID modes…

February 10, 2008

The flex tour came to Milwaukee yesterday. It was a pretty amazing demonstration about all the great new features in being released in Adobe Flex 3. I was pretty amazed with all the new features Kevin Hoyt presented at the meeting. I give a big thank…

February 03, 2008

I finally decided to drop sprint after 5 long years. After my contract expired in october I've had nothing but problems with sprint. In August they messed up my plan on my treo 700p and began charging me around 60 dollars a month. After numerous 4…

January 10, 2008

Today, a coworker pointed out to me a feature he discovered in Apple Safari after doing a search for a random error code while writing an Ajax script for Chefmd.com. This is a very useful feature of safari that I'm surprised they don't allow you to…

January 09, 2008

So I had yet until today found a free plug-in for creating .ico (windows) icon files out of photoshop. After doing some brief searching on Google I found a free photoshop plug-in that works with CS3 created by Toby Thain at Telegraphics. Thank you…

December 26, 2007

I know this is no new news for most, but I just realized today Gmail now supports IMAP!  I stopped using the POP3 capabilities a while ago because I hated it not syncing, but now IMAP is supported.  YAY!  I guess this occurred back in October.  Where…

December 19, 2007

I have made several recent entries about code development for the web. I recently stumbled upon a new studio for programming on the web. It's called "Aptana Studio". I have yet to use it extensively, but I'm looking forward to using the tool. It…

December 11, 2007

Adobe has me excited about a couple things this past week. First the announcement of HD Video in flash player! Adobe released flash player 9 update 3 and it now supports HD quality video: Press Release. The other thing that has me excited is my…

December 06, 2007

I know dreamweaver isn't the best choice for editing PHP code by hand, but it's worked relatively well for me over the past 2 years. There are better tools out there that offer code/syntax validation such as the Eclipse IDE with php, and even simple…