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mooFlair on Adobe’s top 10 list

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Areez Gangji has just posted on Adobe devnet an article listing the “Top 10 Adobe Flex and AIR applications for students“.
I’m very proud to say that a good friend (and fellow Daemon alumni) Patrick Tai has an app on their called mooFlair which he originally built for the AIR derby.
What is mooFlair?
A desktop application that [...]

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Getting Inkscape (0.46) to run on Mac Leopard

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Inscape is a fantastic open source vector graphics tool which can be a nice alternative to Adobe’s Illustrator.

Getting it to run on the Mac took a couple of extra steps though.
Firstly the download page advises that you upgrade X11.app to at least XQuartz v2.1.4. This is a large-ish download which forces you to quit all [...]

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I just read about a nice feature of the ColdFusion server monitor tool (available in ColdFusion 8) over on sandeepp’s blog.
Essentially within the server monitors settings screen you can setup an “alias” for any site which uses a front controller which a lot of sites do particularly if you are using any of the popular [...]

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Wordpress for mobile devices

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Wordpress is one of the most used blogging platforms around. One of the great things about it is the community support including the countless plugins you can use to enhance your blog/site.
Particularly with the iPhone and other smart devices, mobile web seems to be experiencing a surge in traffic and importance to businesses. Although a [...]

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How do you lock your screen on a Mac?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Call me crazy, but it doesn’t seem like you can “natively” lock your screen on a Mac like you can on Windows. Very odd and annoying as it’s something I do everytime I leave my workstation, I’ve even had to agree to a policy that I will never leave my workstation open as I have [...]

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