Category Archives: Tools

October 30, 2009

BrowserLab live on adobe.com– also posted in Misc

I’m probably a bit behind the times with this one, but Adobe have added “BrowserLab” functionality to “preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand“.
Seems to work like other paid services, but is free
https://browserlab.adobe.com/
Available browser options (across mac and windows) include:

IE 6/7/8
Firefox 2/3
Safari 3/4

November 12, 2008

Google releases video chat– also posted in Misc

For those that use gtalk/gmail, google have finally caught up and released voice and video chat.
They even help you buy a webcam!

October 22, 2008

Aqua Data Studio 7 includes an ER modeler– also posted in Databases

Those of you who miss diagramming support when using MySQL tools will be pleased to know that the latest version of Aqua Data Studio has support for ER Modeling
The Entity-Relationship (ER) Modeler we’ve built into Aqua Data Studio 7 is as powerful as even the best standalone database diagramming tools. Use it to [...]

September 3, 2008

mooFlair on Adobe’s top 10 list– also posted in AIR, Flex

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 [...]

August 6, 2008

Getting Inkscape (0.46) to run on Mac Leopard– also posted in Mac

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 [...]