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Distracting 4 years ago

I'm sure that these people signed a piece of paper stating that these commercials would never be shown anywhere outside of Japan. Isn't the internet great for discovering and archiving stuff. I found this link originally on Screenhead (a ...

Gadget Fetish: RSS Feeds That Provide a Fix 4 years ago

As blogged recently I'm aggregating a custom list of feeds to support my news junkie habits, included in those are a few that do a good job of updating what kind of gadgets are new/hot/cool/interesting... I'm always on the lookout for other s...

Screen Recording Directly to a Flash Movie 4 years ago

It's possible, using Vnc2swf, to record screen activity directly to Flash movies (SWF format) on either X-Window (X11), Windows or OS X. There's not really a whole lot of information on the software maker's site, Japanese with English translation, th...

Another Reason Why I've Never Installed RealPlayer 4 years ago

In the process of deciding what software "essentials" to install on the PowerBook that I had bought when joining RocketBoots there were conscience choices of what not to install. Top of that no go list was RealPlayer. Apart from concerns about ...

Are There Too Many Flash Conferences? 4 years ago

MAX, Flashforward (SF, NY, Amsterdam), MXDU, Flashtival, Media Elements, Flash Europe, Flash Parade, Flashbelt, Flash Kit, Flash in the Can. Generally speaking, they all follow similar formats - meet, greet, watch, listen, learn, network, drink, e...

Are There Too Many Flash Conferences? 4 years ago

MAX, Flashforward (SF, NY, Amsterdam), MXDU, Flashtival, Media Elements, Flash Europe, Flash Parade, Flashbelt, Flash Kit, Flash in the Can. Generally speaking, they all follow similar formats - meet, greet, watch, listen, learn, network, drink, e...

Making a Good Thing Better 4 years ago

I've admitted here previously that I'm a news junkie, and to satisfy my habit I've been searching for a personal RSS aggregator that meets my needs. I'd looked at NetNewsWire Lite for my PowerBook but wasn't happy with the way that it worked, part...

Adding Flex to a BEA Workshop Application 4 years ago

The thing about Flex is that since it's distributed as a Java WAR file it's capable of being installed on just about any J2EE server that's out there. While the RocketBoots team are using JRun on their Windows XP and OS X laptops for development ...

Silly Quotes Silliness 4 years ago

Some Flash distractions are fun, some are silly and some are just plain dumb. From the Safari default home page I came across a link to a small Flash quiz in which you try to to match a dumb quote to a celebrity. The thing looked nice enough, wor...

Virtual PC 7 Arrived 4 years ago

I received Virtual PC 7 in the post yesterday and tried it out (some other sofware called Office that came with it is still lying around on my desk somewhere). I have OSX 10.3.5 on a new G4 Powerbook. The initial install was straightforward, and you ...