For a recent Flash project at JMX2, I needed to have a dial for a user to turn and it would effect affect how many particles were generated by a particle generator.
There wasn't a dial component in the standard Flash IDE, so I looked around online and although there seemed to be a couple Flex versions, I didn't find a Flash version. I needed to make one myself. A dial seems so simple but there's more going on there than you might guess. It... + read on
If you visit http://m.supergeekery.com, you will see a very simple version of this site. It’s not a full fledged version of this site, but it served as an experimental exercise for what I wanted to try. Basically, I wanted to have a mobile-friendly version of my site without needing to write content in 2 different entries in my Expression Engine installation. (I don’t go into the actual HTML that used to code the mobile version here, but I used... + read on
The Expression Engine add-on I wrote when I made SuperGeekery, SuperGeekery Tag Stripper, has had a small feature update.
I've spoken to a few people who have been using the plug in for creating the meta data for their header tags. I think they've basically been taking a field from their content, maybe the summary field or the body field, and placing it in the header so search engines get an accurate view of what the page is about. The Tag... + read on
Update: As of June 8, 2011, it appears Facebook has killed this functionality. Adina posted a comment below with a link to Facebook's Feed dialog documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/. It's got everything you need to do this there. I'll eventually update this post to reflect these docs. Update #2: As of July 5, 2011, it appears the method I talked about in this post is working again. Just as Facebook killed... + read on
Let’s assume you’re trying to build a site with HTML5 video playback and you use Amazon S3. Good so far, right? Well, depending on how uploaded your video files to your Amazon S3 server, you might end up with video that won’t play back in Firefox. Actually, it’s not that it won’t load, it won’t even load and attempt to play.
It has to do with the headers that are set of the file during their upload. I normally use Transmit, the wonderful FTP... + read on
At JMX2 we recently had a Flash banner campaign that had what looked like a pretty typical feature to implement. Our client wanted a small share button for Facebook and Twitter.
For most things in life there's an easy way, and there's a hard way. Luckily, when it comes to Twitter, there's an easy way and it worked perfectly for what we needed to do. You like easy? Me too, that’s what we’re going to tackle today.
The Easy Tweet from... + read on
I’ve been setting up my new MacPro this week. It’s gone smoothly for the most part. I run quite a large number of apps regularly so I keep finding one that I missed and then my workflow get interrupted so I can make a quick addition.
Since I was updating from a nearly 5 year old machine, iStat Menus made me laugh when I had it display CPU usage. Since the new machine is a 12-core beast and each core has 2 threads, iStat menu will display the... + read on
What do you think of my typeface? I named it SG Funny Face. I made it on my iPad and I want to give you a quick review of the iPad application I used to make it. Before I start, I also wanted to give you a copy of the font. Click here to visit the SG Funny Face page and download your own copy. It's free and you can use it however you want.
The font creation app is called iFontMaker by The 2TTF. (Visit The 2TTf site or the application's page on... + read on
It all sounds so simple. For just 10 bucks, you get a little something extra.
$10? That’s like 2 drinks at Starbucks.
What can you get for $10? You can get HuluPremium. You can get Netflix On Demand. You can support your favorite podcast. You can get access to the Wall Street Journal. You can extra credits for iStockPhoto. You can get another gigabyte of data transfer for your phone. You can get a larger package of text messages. You can get... + read on
This is not a post about the iPhone, but I’ll talk about it because it helps make my point.
I spent 6 hours and 40 minutes standing in line to get the greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread in the mobile phone world, the iPhone 4. Is it really that great? Actually, it is a very impressive machine. But it was just the one year ago we had the previous greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread, the iPhone 3Gs, before that, the iPhone 3G, and so on. Will the... + read on
For a recent Flash project at JMX2, I needed to have a dial for a user to turn and it would effect affect how many particles were generated by a particle generator.
There wasn't a dial component in the standard Flash IDE, so I looked around online and although there seemed to be a couple Flex versions, I didn't find a Flash version. I needed to make one myself. A dial seems so simple but there's more going on there than you might guess. It... + read on
If you visit http://m.supergeekery.com, you will see a very simple version of this site. It’s not a full fledged version of this site, but it served as an experimental exercise for what I wanted to try. Basically, I wanted to have a mobile-friendly version of my site without needing to write content in 2 different entries in my Expression Engine installation. (I don’t go into the actual HTML that used to code the mobile version here, but I used... + read on
Update: As of June 8, 2011, it appears Facebook has killed this functionality. Adina posted a comment below with a link to Facebook's Feed dialog documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/. It's got everything you need to do this there. I'll eventually update this post to reflect these docs. Update #2: As of July 5, 2011, it appears the method I talked about in this post is working again. Just as Facebook killed... + read on
Let’s assume you’re trying to build a site with HTML5 video playback and you use Amazon S3. Good so far, right? Well, depending on how uploaded your video files to your Amazon S3 server, you might end up with video that won’t play back in Firefox. Actually, it’s not that it won’t load, it won’t even load and attempt to play.
It has to do with the headers that are set of the file during their upload. I normally use Transmit, the wonderful FTP... + read on
At JMX2 we recently had a Flash banner campaign that had what looked like a pretty typical feature to implement. Our client wanted a small share button for Facebook and Twitter.
For most things in life there's an easy way, and there's a hard way. Luckily, when it comes to Twitter, there's an easy way and it worked perfectly for what we needed to do. You like easy? Me too, that’s what we’re going to tackle today.
The Easy Tweet from... + read on
I’ve been setting up my new MacPro this week. It’s gone smoothly for the most part. I run quite a large number of apps regularly so I keep finding one that I missed and then my workflow get interrupted so I can make a quick addition.
Since I was updating from a nearly 5 year old machine, iStat Menus made me laugh when I had it display CPU usage. Since the new machine is a 12-core beast and each core has 2 threads, iStat menu will display the... + read on
What do you think of my typeface? I named it SG Funny Face. I made it on my iPad and I want to give you a quick review of the iPad application I used to make it. Before I start, I also wanted to give you a copy of the font. Click here to visit the SG Funny Face page and download your own copy. It's free and you can use it however you want.
The font creation app is called iFontMaker by The 2TTF. (Visit The 2TTf site or the application's page on... + read on
It all sounds so simple. For just 10 bucks, you get a little something extra.
$10? That’s like 2 drinks at Starbucks.
What can you get for $10? You can get HuluPremium. You can get Netflix On Demand. You can support your favorite podcast. You can get access to the Wall Street Journal. You can extra credits for iStockPhoto. You can get another gigabyte of data transfer for your phone. You can get a larger package of text messages. You can get... + read on
This is not a post about the iPhone, but I’ll talk about it because it helps make my point.
I spent 6 hours and 40 minutes standing in line to get the greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread in the mobile phone world, the iPhone 4. Is it really that great? Actually, it is a very impressive machine. But it was just the one year ago we had the previous greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread, the iPhone 3Gs, before that, the iPhone 3G, and so on. Will the... + read on