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.

Alternative video by Paul Robertson:

Garages, by Branislav Kropilak

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

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

Check out gotAPI.com

Found via Flashcomguru.

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

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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.

Related Entries:

• The Object formerly known as Flash
• Flash and IE: Click to activate and use this control.

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:

• Runing this uninstaller, will uninstall Macromedia Flash Player from all browsers on your system.
• Here you can find archived Macromedia Flash Players available for testing purposes. For testing the Express Install I have used the installers for Flash Player 7 inside the r61 folder (Flash Player 7,0,61,0).
• Macromedia Flash Player Support FAQ

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.

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.

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…

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.