KinRou Blog

Mozilla introduce ubiquity

Seb — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:41:58 +0000

If you are a MAC user and used quicksilver then you will love this. Ubiquity is a tool which allows to use the web with commands and it also allow the user to create their own mashup. This could be the next type of navigation for the web.
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

ActionScript 3 Layout Manager

Seb — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:37:55 +0000

Here is a really cool liquid layout manager.

http://www.soundstep.com/blog/downloads/baseui/

Setting up virtual hosts on Leopard

Seb — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:09:31 +0000

Here is a good tutorial for setting up all the apache config files to have virtual hosts on Leopard

http://mark-kirby.co.uk/2008/setting-up-virtual-hosts-on-os-x-leopard/

Augmented Reality in Flash

Seb — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:14:14 +0000

This is a very cool library which allows you to do augmented reality in Flash. The library is in an oriental which makes it quite hard to read. Hopefully someone might translate all the comment in the code. I can’t wait to be able to play with it.

http://www.hebiflux.com/blog/2008/05/19/la-realite-augmentee-a-portee-de-flash-10-en-3d/

http://www.libspark.org/browser/as3/FLARToolKit

Orientation aware camera

Seb — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:12:05 +0000

This guy managed to put together with a 3 axis magnetometer and accelerometer a very nice little toy; a camera which knows it’s orientation. this is much impressive
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/2610193676/

TweenLite on steroid

Seb — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:20:16 +0000

TweenMax gather all functionality of TweenLite and TweenFilterLite + it also adds interesting features such as “bezier through” which will allow you to apply a complex bezier curve to a tween
http://blog.greensock.com/tweenmaxas3/

Flex 3 Components

Seb — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:27:22 +0000

Here are a few useful links about making custom and also skinning flex components.

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/components.html

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=
en_us&extid=1273018

http://tv.adobe.com/#v=http%3A//adobe.edgeboss.net/flash/adobe/adobetvprod/
under_the_hood_with_adobe/35_uha_004.flv%3Frss_feedid%3D1052%26xmlvers%3D2

flex 3: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/skins_styles.html

flex 2: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_skins.html

http://scalenine.com/blog/2008/03/16/tips-for-using-the-flex-skin-design-extensions/

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?
context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001967.html

http://the.fontvir.us/b10g/?id=111

Make Robots

Seb — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:59:24 +0000

The letmakerobots is all about making your own little robots. Check out this very simple idea http://letsmakerobots.com/node/696

New 3D engine

Seb — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:06:45 +0000

There’s a new 3d engine in the place (Sharikura 3D Library) which was developed by http://www.roxik.com/. It’s a truly amazing piece of work. Go and check it out here. http://temp.roxik.com/datas/perform/index.html

Oh and by the way it’s the engine which was used to developed the really nice http://ecodazoo.com/ website. it feels so much lighter than Papervision3D.

Can wait for Roxik to release it…

Worldwide Telescope - Microsoft

Seb — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:02:50 +0000

This allows you to explore the universe. Is there any life out there? Let’s start dreaming.
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/