Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Because I Was Bored

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Between my two projects, my latest widget "creation" and my next one, which will look like tutorial I hope, I had time to do some intense searches over web. Because search lasted few days, I was bored and because I was bored I stumble upon this one.
 
Website IS called Because I Was Bored. Don't you like this kind of domain names? I mean, you don't need any real explanation what website is about. Name says it all. You just know what kind of content it has. And this Martin guy, he is REALLY bored. He finds new funny things on Internet, including videos, pictures, articles and post them just "Because I Was Bored", as he says. Every day!
 
So, what does he do when he is bored? Let's see. He dances with World of Warcraft Characters. Ok... He learns the difference between men and women. Hmm... (Maybe he is very young?). Then, he learns to perform CPR. Useful. But this one is the best. Because he is bored, he lived in Fucking, Austria. I mean, how big this boredom of his must be?
 
Oh, yeah, you can also rate content, it doesn't matter if it is video, picture or whatever. In this way you can see what are others favorites. Good place for daily dose of antiboredom.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Easy Money

    I'm level1 kongregater and I have 25 points. It wasn't easy. First I had to sign up. Then, I had to play some not so good flash games. But I did it! I rated 2 games and I got 5 points for each. That's 25. 

   Website is kongregate.com and it's all about playing, making, rating flash games. Whole community of raters and kongregaters. If you upload your game you got 75 points. If you have your game featured you got 50 points. More points higher level. So? Well, they say : Soon, you'll be able to redeem your points for prizes ! What? For 1.000 points i become invisible magic rater? Great.

    Gone to collect more powerful points. See you there.

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Sunday, May 20, 2007

future is in past

 

 

Is this the future of Adobe? What secret conections are hidden in this name? What code Moxie hides? Maybe it's red color. Maybe it's pointed finger. But one thing is sure. You can't ignore Moxie. If you don't lose your vision looking at those spectar, you'll definetly lose your mind when you try it. Moxie that is. Prepare yourself, it's coming soon. And don't you forget : sugar free diet Moxie is also available. :)))

Anyway, I can hardly wait for it. In the meantime changed blog's header image. Also, from now I can present my offer to review YOUR site / blog / product / cat since this blog has good rankings and it has been accepted at Reviewme.com

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

adobe publisher verification

As I wrote earlier, I have installed and tested about 20+ apollo applications so far. I have noticed one thing. Every one of them had unverified publisher identity. Even Ascension that was written by Mike Chambers, Adobe guru.

Now, I tried to find informations about this verification, why none application has been verified and all of them have unrestricted access to users file system. This can be BIG threat to security. I can now see how much I haven't been careful, but I'm not sure that Adobe gave enough warning about this.

If anyone has some info about publisher verification system, please comment about it. Thank you.

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

fav apollo apps

There are still small number of apollo applications out there. Some new websites like apolloapps.com and apollohunter.com are trying to collect all those new air files in one place.

I have tried so far about 20 apollo apps and one game. Many are still betas, but some already have nice functions. I have prepared something for those who want to try apollo for first time.
I have made small collection of apollo applications (various authors). All apps are free to use. There are 10 apps inside zip file and complete collection is only 3 Mb. Offcourse, you'll need apollo runtime.

My favorite ones are fresh, lookup and apollobook. This is list of apollo applications you will download:

ApolloTwitter.air 268 kb
Ascension-0.6.air 425 kb
Fresh.air 525 kb
Lookup.air 322 kb
Tweetr.air 263 kb
YoutubePlayer.air 286 kb
Apollobook.air 206 kb
ASCodeAnalyzer.air 295 kb
ProjectTracker.air 351 kb
MyUrlShortener.air 241 kb
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All 3.1 Mb
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Enjoy !
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Saturday, May 12, 2007

widget madness

New project I'm currently working on is this widget-like website gadget (see image). I don't really know what will it be, I don't have any plans, but I'm sure something will come up along the way.

It's dimensions are 200x200. For now it has only one function. But that function works great! Little grey triangle in the left bottom corner is button, which has on rollOver function that shows tooltip. On press, button opens movieClip in the top, that have 3 input text fields, for red, green and blue colors in hexadecimal values. When you press button with new values, background color is changed accordingly.

And that's it. Simple but functional. I just couldn't wait to finish it before I presented it here :) Feedback is very appreciated.

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Project Tracker v0.5

ApolloApps already have 23 Apollo applications, many of them free to use, and one of them is Project Tracker v0.5 by Jacob Wright. He and his company are somewhere from Utah, as google maps on site shows. Highly interactive. We are talking about withincode.com , but they are not yet open for business.

However, Project Tracker is built with Apollo and you must have runtime to see application. I'm writing about it, cause I noticed that this application is perfect for bloggers. If you wanna be pro blogger or you already are one, this is nice app to work with. You can enter your every blog as client, and than every future post is new project. You have timer, calendar built in, and stopwatch. Using project tracker in this way gives you advantage in organizing your posting schedules.

Every pro blogger wanna be can save some time with Project Tracker and it is only v0.5. Can't wait for v1.

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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

to widget or not to widget


What about using a widget on your website/blog? First of let's see what is widget. Wikipedia defines widget or web widget as a portable chunk of code (flash or javascript) that can be installed and executed within separate HTML-based web page without additional compilation. Other terms are gadgets, badge, module, capsule, etc. widgetbox, widgets marketplace, says that widgets are every html code or flash that can be integrated in web page.

This definitions are quite loose. Everything can be a widget. What if I have flash based web site, and I insert some game on it, is that a widget? Or just another page? If my website is made in frames, than one frame is widget? In that case, every counter you entered on your website represents one widget. I can recognize twitter badge or "box" as widgets, but I'm still searching for right definition of it. Maybe flash widget should be known as fladgets. Cool name.

I can't imagine my blog without them. (Ok, I can, but this way is muuuuch better) So, how many of them is ok? If they have correct purpose within blog or website, if they display informations or give content that is useful or can contribute in better functionality of web site than using widget is fine. But if one puts x number of widgets on blog or website, just because they exist, he downgrades his blog.

To answer the question in my title: to widget, but properly.

 

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

new storage

Somehow, my ticker files have disappeared from my store site 4shared, so I decided to claim a new one, nicer, free 1Gb and cool widget, as you can see on new blog. Uploaded ticker.zip and album.zip files. From now on BOX.

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Friday, May 04, 2007

collaboration and partnership

     I have posted on several forums that I'm looking for partner to help with my comics flash album. For better presentation I want someone who has nice artistic skills and who wants to present his/hers work. Any comics author who provide several interesting comic pages will get free promotion. I'm not offering any money. This is about collaboration and partnership.

    You can contact me here (leave a comment) or at flanture [at] gmail [dot] com. Please, remember that comics album is work in progress, so I hope it will be better in every new version in the future.

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