Flash CS4 rundown – list of up coming features

You can see the presentation demo of Adobe Flash CS4 here: http://tv.adobe.com/vi+f1556v1685
But if you’re too lazy, I’ve done a run through of the features.
Features of Flash CS4:

Object-based animation – Adobe’s new animation model, a.k.a ‘new motion feature’. Basically you can right click something and add motion tween. Not too exciting.
3d trasformation – new [...]

New Google Browser “Chrome”

Check out this neat little feature:
“By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites.”
what a great idea:)

Google Chrome! Google’s web browser

Google has released their new web browser (Chrome) out into the wild.
You can download it from here: http://www.google.com/chrome
My impressions so far:

It ‘feels’ a lot quicker than the other browsers I normally use
I like the ‘tab’ metaphore it uses for all the browser functions, I think it keeps your display neat and it just makes sense. [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 4 – Announcement September 23rd

Adobe have just announced that they’ll be announcing the Adobe Creative Suite 4 on the 23rd of September.
http://adobe.istreamplanet.com/
This does not meant that they are releasing CS4 on that date, it just means that they are announcing that they are going to release CS4. Why they need to announce that they are announcing something I’ll never [...]

Great article – Generation V (Virtual)

Generation V
Generation Virtual (also known as Generation V) is not defined by age — or gender, social demographic or geography — but is based on demonstrated achievement, accomplishments and an increasing preference for the use of digital media channels to discover information, build knowledge and share insights.
Generation V is the recognition that general behaviour, [...]

Setting the href in XSLT & XML

I spent ages trying to figure out how to output the xml for a link’s href (i.e. <a href=””>) by trying to escape the double quotes of the href. For example:
<a href=\”<xsl:value-of select=”@url”/>\”><xsl:value-of select=”@url”/></a>
But that didn’t work.
Ended up to be a simple solution as it always is.
Assuming we have an xml file that has a [...]

How to add custom ringtones to iPhone for free

Windows and Mac
1. To add a ringtone to your iPhone, using Windows Explorer or Finder just duplicate and rename any AAC file with a “M4R” extension, then double-click on it. This file will be added to your iTunes library automatically. (Some are reporting a size limit for the music file, so if you have trouble, [...]

How to fix the iPhone Optus 3G network if it’s slow

I have been having an ongoing issue where the Optus 3G service would only come on very rarely. Maybe on average 1 hour per day. The rest of the time the iphone would fall back to standard slow 2G GSM (GPRS) coverage, even though I am near the 3G tower.
So I went into the Optus [...]

Google Lively: Comprehensive Guide to Getting Started

Second Life, get a life. Google Lively is the new virtual world created by the world’s largest search engine.
Google Lively is billed as a “chat experience” using avatars. Google says, “You’re about to embark on a chat experience in which you can communicate and express yourself using avatars in your very own space. Choose an [...]

Google Lively

With Google Lively, you can create avatars, customize chat rooms and chat with your friends….check it out.
http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html