“A Diamond is Forever”
I was cleaning out my inbox and came across this article on engagement rings–particularly how the whole thing’s just a marketing ploy that’s duped us all.
Well, not me. My wife’s practical 
Helpful Firefox Extensions When Authoring SWFs and XHTML
Just reposting this from my CCNY class.
Here’s a short list of some of the Firefox extensions I use when developing:
- Firebug by Joe Hewitt – development tool allows you to edit Web pages within the browser.
- Web Developer by Chris Pedrick – a tool bar full of developer goodies, like enable/disable CSS, JS, etc.
- FlashTracer by Alessandro Crugnola – allows you to see trace statements within the browser during runtime (requires a Flash Player 9 Debugger Version). This extension can be pretty amusing, as it’s interesting to see what trace() statements other Flash developers have left in their live sites.
- Flash Switcher by Alessandro Crugnola – allows you to switch Flash Player plugins or remove the plugin (works with Mac, too).
If anyone has recommendations of other plugins I should be using, I’d love to hear it.
design:related
I thought I’d share a shameless plug for my friend’s up-and-coming social network for designers, design:related. It sports a very clean interface, a growing international user base, and is a nice place to hang up that portfolio piece.
I think part of the challenge with getting designers to comment on work is that critiques should be handled during the design process, not afterwards. I hope to see opportunities for more involvement . . .
I’d also love to see a resources section for designers the includes business forms and possibly advice, as well as perhaps some competitions, but one thing at a time.
iPod Battery Replacement
Ever wonder what’s on the inside of your iPod? I did, and with the battery barely holding a charge on my 4G iPod, I figured I’d save the $65 fee Apple charges and replace the battery myself using one of the cheap battery replacement kits off the Web. I figured doing it myself’d remind me of those physical computing days at ITP–and my enforce my motto of “don’t let an expert do it, become an expert and do it!”
Let me just say, if you have a protective case for your iPod, this option isn’t for you. Trying to pry open the case with a screwdriver left my iPod with several new scars. I don’t care, though, as I figure I’m beating that statistic of modern electronics having only a 2 year shelf life (I also take pride in the fact that my iPod looks like it survives the NYC commute).
The guts of this MP3 player are pretty tightly-packed (the blue rubber above is the HD’s protection). Once it was open, though, it was pretty smooth sailing.
Fuse 2.1.3 and FuseFX 0.1 Released
For you Flash Fuse users out there, Fuse 2.1.3 has just been released, as well as FuseFX, an extension to Fuse that allows you to manipulate sound (MixerFX), text (TextFX), and color transforms (ColorFX). You can get them over at the Moses’s Fuse ZigoEngine site.
Mmmmm, Cheeseburgers.
Thanks to my friends Kevin and Vid, I’ve got my summer meal planned out. I’ve been informed that we’re going to check out the burgers at Denny’s Beer Barrel Club (so long as they don’t wait until I get up there for PSU football).
I almost feel obligated to try and sell Denny a new Web site, but I’ll really be going to see Vid eat the Belly Buster all by himself
Flash 3D Gone Wild
I’m simply blown away by the demos done in Papervision3D. Granted, I’m running Flash Player 9 on a Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro (and the interactivity isn’t exactly Virtools), but the animation is the 3D smoothest I’ve seen in Flash yet. I can’t wait to check it out when it goes public.
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I'm a designer, developer, and teacher based in Harrisburg, Pa. I run Hauck Interactive, Inc.
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