Find me on Adobe Exchange!

by Leon on June 24, 2008

Looking for a Flash extension that will allow you to find a latitude and longitude based on a location? Then you need my locator panel, which is now also available on the Adobe Exchange. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1526018

Where is the web going? Web 3.0 anyone!

by Leon on June 22, 2008

The early part of the 21st century brought many new buzzwords and phrases. IT professionals are no longer known simply as the ‘computer guy’ but instead have names such as Software Architect and eLearning Developer. Gone were the days of (…)

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Visual Tag Clouds

by Leon on June 15, 2008

A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size (…)

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PHP to Twitter

by Leon on June 5, 2008

As you may have guessed from the title, this post is about two things; PHP and twitter. I’ll assume you all know what PHP is, but for people that don’t know about Twitter it is a service for friends, family, (…)

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Creating Cross Platform CD-Roms

by Leon on June 4, 2008

Back in my University days having a Mac was not always fun in a Windows dominated campus. I always had to ensure that my disc’s were able to be read in a Windows machine, even though they were burned on (…)

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Flash Fonts

by Leon on June 4, 2008

A constant worry when creating Flash files is “will my font’s look the same everywhere”? If it’s a standard font like Arial then yes, but a custom font will fail unless you embed it. You can embed a font in (…)

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Frowl – Growl style Flash interface

by Leon on June 1, 2008

I have recently created a Growl style Flash interface. Firstly if you don’t know what Growl is then it is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. Notifications are a (…)

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New blogging tool

by Leon on May 21, 2008

Just trying out an updated blogging tool called Blogo from Brain Juice. Its simple to install and if your reading this works well. I’m a big fan of open source (and getting things for free) so i’m a little miffed (…)

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Creating search plug-ins

by Leon on May 8, 2008

This post is for any web site owner who wants to add a search plugin for their site. If your not too sure what I mean, then take a look in the top right corner of your browser next to (…)

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Create GoogleDocs using iPhone (natively)

by Leon on May 7, 2008

Ok, so this may not be ground breaking but it’s pretty cool, none the less. There is a simple way to create a GoogleDocs document directly on the iPhone using the Notes.app. Notes has a pretty nice feature that allows (…)

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