http://kinrou.com/blog Bits and Bobs Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:42:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/08/27/mozilla-introduce-ubiquity/ Here is a really cool liquid layout manager. http://www.soundstep.com/blog/downloads/baseui/ http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/08/04/actionscript-layout-manager/ 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/ http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/07/19/setting-up-virtual-hosts-on-leopard/ 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 http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/06/30/augmented-reality-in-flash/ 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/ http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/06/29/orientation-aware-camera-2/ 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/ http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/06/17/tweenlite-on-steroid/ 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 http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/06/14/flex-3-components/ The letmakerobots is all about making your own little robots. Check out this very simple idea http://letsmakerobots.com/node/696 http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/06/14/make-robots/ 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 ... http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/06/13/new-3d-engine/ This allows you to explore the universe. Is there any life out there? Let's start dreaming. http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/  http://kinrou.com/blog/2008/06/05/worldwide-telescope-microsoft/