Archive for April, 2006

Music: monome 40h

Sunday, April 30th, 2006 by Carsten Schneider

Monome 40h, a reconfigurable grid of buttons which can be programmed to act as toggles, sliders, etc. for live remixing. There’s a video here.

Related post, the Tenori-On.

Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind

Friday, April 28th, 2006 by Carsten Schneider

Alternative video by Paul Robertson:

Photography: Branislav Kropilak

Friday, April 28th, 2006 by Carsten Schneider

Garages, by Branislav Kropilak

Found on we-make-money-not-art.com

Event: Threshold’06

Friday, April 28th, 2006 by Carsten Schneider

Threshold ‘06

Treshold Live, 29.04.2006, 8pm - 1am Janek Schaefer, Maix Mayer & Scanner, Klaus Janek & Matt Wade, Slub and The Sancho Plan

Threshold Residency Exhibition, Opening Night 29.04.2006, 6pm - 10pm With sound artist John Wynne, and Volker Morawe from fur. Funny pictures of Volker installing a Painstation in Japan here.

gotAPI: API documentation

Thursday, April 27th, 2006 by Luis

gotAPI gives you quick access to all sorts of API documentation including Actionscript.

Check out gotAPI.com

Found via Flashcomguru.

Google Maps street maps for ALL of Europe!

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by Luis

Google Maps Mania reports that Google Maps now shows street maps and driving directions for all of Europe.

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Active X and Flash: Flash Active Content Update

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by Luis

Adobe has released an Active Content FAQ and provides a Flash Extension which “fixes” the problem of manually activate ActiveX controls by clicking on the control or using the TAB and ENTER keys.

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Flash: Uninstall and Install for testing purposes

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by Luis

Untill now I’ve been using Flash Plugin Switcher to uninstall and install the Flash Player in order to test some stuff such as Express Install and the Flash Player detection.

Recently I downloaded the latest version of Flash Plugin Switcher which for some weird reason destroyed completely my IE making impossible to install or uninstall any Flash player version.

From now on I will install and uninstall the Flash player using a different method:

Software: Charles 2.4 released

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by Thomas

XK72 has released a new version of my favourite piece of software Charles.

To check the new features and download click here (The one I’m most excited about is the autoupdate feature!).

I had some trouble with the Autoconfiguration in Firefox 1.5 and realised that I had to uninstall the Charles Autoconfiguration Extension in Firefox, restart Firefox and install the latest version of the Extension. Now it works like a charm.

He is also writing a documentation Wiki on Charles and has opened a Blog.

Flash & Eclipse: FDT release candidate 1.1

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by Thomas

Powerflasher have published their release candidate for FDT v1.1.

The most visible changes are:

  • Placing the mouse cursor on a variable or type/class name highlights all occurences of it in the current class (Editor “Mark Occurences”)
  • Better code-folding
  • More detailed settings in Window-Preferences regarding encoding, folding
  • Jumping to methods and classes via CTRL + click on the class-name/type
  • First steps towards refactoring. If you rename a class or move it to another folder within the Flash Explorer it’ll replace the according names within the class file. It doesn’t change the imports of the project though… see FDT 2.0 announcement below

Here’s the list of all changes.

To install you need to got through the usual installation steps again, using a different URL. Note that this is a Test version. I’ve been using it since a week and so far haven’t encountered any problems.

Here are the installation instructions taken from their site with the test URL:

  1. Open Eclipse.
  2. Choose “Help”->”Software Updates”->”Find and install…”.
  3. Select “Search for new features to install” and choose “Next”.
  4. Choose “New Remote Site”.
  5. Insert “FDT” as name and the URL “http://fdt.powerflasher.com/updateTest”.
  6. Confirm with “OK”.
  7. Mark “FDT” and choose “Finish”.

Another exciting news is that they are working on their next major release FDT 2.0 with proper refactoring! Apparently the upgrade prize will be reasonable:

There will be no detriment for all existing FDT-owners with the upgradeprice, so there is no need to wait with licensing.

The Object formerly known as Flash

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by Thomas

Nothing new, just to spread the word (and yet again point out the silliness): Geoff Stearns’ Flash embedding Javascript class FlashObject is now called SWFObject.

In this post he writes about the reasons.

If anything Adobe should thank him for enabling developers to deliver Flash content easily and making our favourite IE ActiveX patch less painful than it could’ve been…

Undead Pixelart by Paul Robertson

Monday, April 24th, 2006 by Carsten Schneider

Maybe you’ve seen his amazing GIF animations, now they all come together in one almost featurelength movie: “Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight” at Paul Robertson’s Journal.