August 31, 2005 | This may or may not be news, can't seem to remember seeing it before. They have a special on now where you can get a free softcover photobook with a $20 purchase. (link) (#)
August 31, 2005 | Khoi Vinh discusses the work his firm, Behavior, did to redesign the best fake newspaper in the country. (link) (#)
August 31, 2005 | Tim Bray buys a new Mac Mini for his mom and documents the user experience from her perspective. (link) (#)
August 30, 2005 | Some of the influences and inspiration for the Incredibles. (link) (#)
August 29, 2005 | How a hurricane like Katrina is measured and determined to be a category four. (link) (#)
August 26, 2005 | Toggle the checkbox on and off to see the performance difference when attempting to render this many moving boxes. (link) (#)
August 26, 2005 | This functionality was in Flash Player 7, but has changed a bit in Flash 8. (link) (#)
August 26, 2005 | Convert your Flash applications to true standalone exes. (link) (#)
August 26, 2005 | The latest upgrade to MT has been released. They claim to have simplified the upgrade process, so I will be attempting to upgrade soon. (link) (#)
August 25, 2005 | The new iTrip has a built in tuning knob to select frequency on your car stereo through which you want to listen to your iPod. This addresses my one complaint about my iTrip is that selecting the station was a bit kludgy, especially while trying to keep one eye on the road. (link) (#)
August 25, 2005 | Screen shots of Photoshop and its interface from 1.0 to CS2. (link) (#)
August 25, 2005 | A free After Effects Plugin. Haven't tested this, but free is good. (link) (#)
August 23, 2005 | XIFF is an opensource API for developing Jabber clients in Flash. Rumor today is that Google is going to launch it's own IM client built around the open source Jabber server. (link) (#)
August 23, 2005 | This looks fairly slick, a php module to generate dynamic SWF files with all manner of charts. PHP is good middleware to hook right into your datasource. Check out the gallery to view samples. (link) (#)
August 22, 2005 | At $3299 it's not exactly an entry-level camera, but this looks like another nice inclusion in the EOS line. (link) (#)
August 22, 2005 | Yay, now we can add PNG (and GIF) to the formats available for dynamic inclusion in our Flash projects after JPEG, FLV and MP3. (link) (#)
August 20, 2005 | These guys have been around for a while, I remember looking at their stuff back in the Flash 3 and 4 days. They still subscribe to the more is more school of whiz bang flash interfaces. Pure video game geekiness… but wow… they do what they do quite well. (link) (#)
August 19, 2005 | Wow, this guy is right... I have sort of missed the news about how cool Smart Objects are. Too bad I can't get a nickel everytime they include the word Smart. (link) (#)
August 18, 2005 | Wow, I hope my archive discs at home, labeled with a sharpie, aren't going to crap out in a few years. (link) (#)
August 18, 2005 | Another URL-shortening service similar to tinyURL.com. (link) (#)
August 18, 2005 | Pretty amazing variety of designs, some look right out of a sci-fi movie. (link) (#)
August 16, 2005 | Take a look at the gear that Sam of Daily Dose of Imagery carries on any given day. (link) (#)
August 16, 2005 | Following up to yesterday's 10 CSS sites, here are 9 good Javascripts. Tomorrow I hope to have 8 good examples of Director Lingo routines. (link) (#)
August 16, 2005 | Wow, neat example of a Flash interface the replicates a bit of Google Maps in a slick Flash interface. Just experimental really, but very fast and response, plus you can switch on the fly between Google and Microsoft views and compare how they differ. (link) (#)
August 15, 2005 | I love visual effects and pure spectacle as much as the next guy, but I do think that movies today tend to rely more on visuals than story or character. (link) (#)
August 15, 2005 | Will Michael Bay, considered by many film fans today to be the anti-Christ, one day be seen as a true artist? (link) (#)
August 15, 2005 | You may have seen a lot of these already, but if not, they are a good place to get started with CSS. (link) (#)
August 15, 2005 | Want to make your own 3d feature film? Read on. (link) (#)
August 15, 2005 | Nice use of the Google Maps API to analyze your site traffic visually. (link) (#)
August 12, 2005 | FlashComGuru has compiled a couple of nice test video clips comparing the current Spark codec with the new VP6 from ON2 that will be the codec of choice in the new Flash 8. You can watch either version or a side-by-side split screen. (link) (#)
August 12, 2005 | A lot of nice historical images here including recent images of Space Shuttles landing at Edwards. Most have no copyright protection and are offered as large resolution 24bit JPEGS. (link) (#)
August 12, 2005 | Daniel Burka's ongoing collection of his favorite favions. Nice to browse for inspiration. (link) (#)
August 11, 2005 | The movies, expanded universe, behind-the-scenes and more are covered in this wiki which already has over 7000 articles added just since March of this year (link) (#)
August 11, 2005 | Test sample SMS links on Google and preview how the results will appear on your cell phone. (link) (#)
August 10, 2005 | An updated detection kit to determine that users to your site have the proper version of Flash player. New to this version is something called "Express Install" which lets your Flash content initiate the upgrade on the client side. (link) (#)
August 10, 2005 | Cool, macromedia is now offering podcasts (subscribe via iTunes) featuring interviews with Macromedia employees and dev-related features. (link) (#)
August 10, 2005 | I'm sort of new to this, having only used Skype a bit lately. (link) (#)
August 10, 2005 | I can't imagine the pressure of creating the code to drive all the various Shuttle systems and striving for zero errors. The 3 errors in 400,000 lines of code is fairly staggering. The don't have the luxury I do when I work on the web: oh, a typo? Quick, just ftp a new file. Not so simple when you're dealing with spaceflight. Just a tad bit more on the line. (link) (#)
August 8, 2005 | Macromedia's news aggregator now has a smart channel just compiling news on the newly announced Studio 8. Also with its own RSS feed. (link) (#)
August 8, 2005 | There is more than one way to skin that cat. (I have no idea what that has to do with digital photography) (link) (#)
August 8, 2005 | I'm always a bit curious if Standford U. has a piece of Google. I mean, they really were instrumental in the history of Google. (link) (#)
August 5, 2005 | It's amazing to me that Flickr was only launched in February of 2004 and has already grown and been sold to Yahoo!. (link) (#)
August 5, 2005 | With the release of the Flash 8 Player beta by Macromedia, many folks have been posting example files showing off the new amazing features. I had been wondering how they were able to do so since the Flash 8 authoring tool (codename: 8Ball) has yet to be released. Well, read on... (link) (#)
August 4, 2005 | George Lucas was the keynote speaker at the 2005 Siggraph Conference that kicked off this past Monday in L.A. (link) (#)
August 4, 2005 | All about f-stops, what they mean and how they work. Now we just need a good tutorial on Circles of Confusion. (link) (#)
August 4, 2005 | "AJAX" is getting a lot of buzz and seems to offer a lot to web developers looking to create slick web interfaces, but there are some risks. Here are a few. (link) (#)
August 4, 2005 | Very slick, uses strict CSS to create hotspot rollovers on an image very much like Flickr does. (link) (#)
August 4, 2005 | A Photoshop plugin that enhances the color and saturation to mimic the look of Fuji's Velvia film. Remember film? When I was working in newspapers we always called velvia "Velveeta." We thought we were so hilarious. (link) (#)
August 4, 2005 | A mac/windows Photoshop plugin that helps manage and tweak skin tones in digital images. (link) (#)
August 3, 2005 | PNG always gets overlooked. At least by me. In fact, it just dawned on me what great use PNG would have in Flash projects since it supports 8-bit transparency. (link) (#)
August 3, 2005 | A nice reference guide for many of the more subtle Google Search Operators. I used convert and define quite a bit, but didn't know about using tilde for synonyms. Slick. (link) (#)
August 2, 2005 | Thanks Wikipedia! I had forgotten that the Soviet's built, tested and even flew their own shuttle. Interesting that it had no rockets of its own, rather it was just payload itself. This freed up more space for cargo. (link) (#)
August 2, 2005 | Nice, build your own underwater robot with video camera for $100. (link) (#)
August 2, 2005 | This looks to be a good bit of XML 101, specifically as it relates to Flash. (link) (#)
August 2, 2005 | Aren't we all designers? I know that wenever I meet family over the holidays I always seem to have difficulty explaining just what it is that I do. Well, I do video production, web applications, animation, motion graphics, photography, audio editing. Am I new media developer or a multimedia designer? (link) (#)
August 1, 2005 | Crazy domain name, but nice cheats regardless. (link) (#)
August 1, 2005 | Edit and maintain your blog without launching a browser. Probably a good way to enter content if you're traveling and may have internet access only occasionally. (link) (#)
August 1, 2005 | Using compression tools from On2, the supplier of the video codec in Flash 8, create a tool that will encode uploaded videos to FLV on the fly. (link) (#)
August 1, 2005 | Interesting concept. Seems to be a Flickr for videos. You can apparently upload in any format, but display is all handled by Flash video control. Too bad everything I've seen on there so far is fairly moronic cast offs from America's Funniest Home Videos. (link) (#)
August 1, 2005 | Siggraph starts today and George Lucas is giving the keynote. (link) (#)
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