Do you sometimes scratch your head and ask WTF (I said “frick” in my head. Really.) when projects suddenly fall apart? Suppose you’re a project manager. Your team is steadily moving along on a project. There is no indication that anything is wrong, and your team says they’re on target to [...]
As of the first Creative Suite, Adobe made the decision to remove the simple yet uber-helpful feature from Photoshop that allows you to see thumbnail previews of PSD files in Windows Explorer. If you upgraded your older version of Photoshop, you still have this feature, but if you installed CS, CS2, or CS3 from scratch [...]
I came across an interesting article on Techcrunch that discussed How to Build a Web App in Four Days. I really like this approach, and I’ve always felt it could be extremely successful given the right team and the right environment…
I noticed an idea in the article that I liked so I thought I’d [...]
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Good news from Techcrunch:
Adobe has created a special Flash player for the search engines that acts like a virtual user going through each application. It actually goes through the runtime of each Flash application and translates it into something the search engines can understand. So all of those fancy interactive Flash Websites and other rich [...]
This is a very cool little application that will allow you to very easily install and run Internet Explorer 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6 and 7. It’s especially nice to be able to test pages in IE 6 and 7 on the same machine during development…
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
I’ve found some helpful tools, cheeseball humor, jobs and other random information about freelancing on this site:
http://freelanceswitch.com/
Every now and then, there is an idea executed on the internet so well, it could make almost any concept look wonderful. But what if the concept was great to begin with AND was executed flawlessly? This is rare, but a friend of mine turned me onto such a case: Grooveshark.
Grooveshark allows you to search [...]
So Adobe finally released their online version of Photoshop. It is a Flex based RIA called Photoshop Express. While the tool is a very nice tool, it only slightly similar to the desktop version, and IMO doesn’t really deserve the “Photoshop” name. The Express version seems like more of an online photo [...]
Apparently there’s this thing called Google, and you can just type in what you’re looking for and it finds it.
Amazing, eh?
Hence, I found another tool. It’s called Pixel Ruler. Take a guess what it does.
I just found a tool we all will probably find valuable. It’s called Virtual Magnifying Glass. It basically allows you to bind a hotkey to transform your mouse into a magnifying glass. If you’re like me, you’re constantly squinting to assess some tiny graphic flaw, and then you may end up taking a screenshot into [...]
Finding that perfect color combination can sometimes be a tough nut to crack. I find that for me, it’s all about inspiration, so here are 5 great resources for “color-block.” And of course they’re presented in a list… because everyone loves lists.
5 - COLORJACK
http://www.colorjack.com
Extremely useful online utility that allows you to create color palettes by [...]
I ran across a site called FillColors.com that is promoting the separation of style and layout in Flex applications.
The concept isn’t new; CSS Zen Garden has been using a similar tactic for ages to generate buzz around CSS styling in HTML pages, but I think this could be a great way to derail [...]
For those that don’t know, your Window’s “hosts” file can be used to map a domain name to an IP address to trick your browser into thinking routing requests for a particular domain to a different server.
This file is not typically needed in development, but if you ever need to map a domain [...]
Check it out! Unusual use of technology.
Need to ask Buddy if we can get one…
The Flex Bug and Issue Management System is now available publicly for the Flash community. Adobe has opened the doors on the internal development efforts and provided a powerful tool for [...]
I’ve been messing with the Google Custom Search functionality lately and so far I’m impressed.
It is a very useful for your site to add on if you don’t have strong search capabilities (and I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt your sites indexing as well.)
One of the uses that I think it might have would be to [...]
I’m sure some of you have probaly seen this software, but I thought I would mention it because it looks like it could be really useful. I installed the trial on my home machine and it works great.
From the website: “Parallels Workstation is a powerful, easy to use, cost effective desktop virtualization solution that [...]
