It’s no suprise – i’m a BIG Apple fan. I own an iPhone, iMac, MacBook and Apple TV. It’s not just the design and aesthetics that I love but the whole UI and user experience aswell as the great software that gets attracted to the platform. Sure, there are other products that work or have the same features as Apple do – but they don’t seem to be able to pull it off in the same way. So enough of the usual Apple fanboy babble, onto this post which is about three essential tools for anyone doing any Web Development on a Mac. I have included a local server, code editor...

This is my latest Flash extension panel – Ratio Calc. We’ve all been there, creating a video player for an application and having the task of working out the aspect ratio, or perhaps resizing images or even just trying to work out the size of the stage. This tool will do it for you with a few simple clicks and it’s free. The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that...

It’s been almost a month since I announced TwitterEagle and there is nothing to show (apart from a logo). Sorry about that, i’ve been rather busy and have not had much time to spend on the project. Hopefully, in a month from now I will have something up and running.

Here is my latest offering of notification alerts to Flash – a Facebook style pop up window that supports basic html formatting. It seems that the power of Facebook is everywhere (just take a look at flCodr [try clicking on the download link]- its using the Facebox javascript code to create modal dialoge boxes). I couldn’t resist creating my own version just for Flash. This one is a simple AS2.0 version that uses the tween and easing classes to add a bit of animation aswell. Take a look at it here and come back for some info about how it works. Setting it all up When you open up the...

After many hours of hard work by the team here at the SizzlaMedia offices (ok just me, in the study) the problem with the GMap powered apps has been fixed. Turns out a Google Analytics script was somehow appearing in the Flash apps. Once I removed the script everything seemed to work just fine! Hopefully we won’t see any more errors popping up!!

Just testing to see how well the native iPhone app works. Its breeze to set up and use. I’ve been waiting for this one, so far, so good!!

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 a Mac. After looking over some of my files I decided to share with the world some of the code snippets I found along the way. This posts concerns creating cross plaform Flash CD-Roms, inparticular opening folders from projectors. Auto Run Due to a security vulnerability in OS X 8 (i think!) the auto run feature was disabled on a Mac, however there was an option to open the root folder by default...

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 the address bar, and you will see another input box. This allows you to search directly from the browser. If your using Firefox your default search in normally Google and for IE user its Live Search. There is a method to add your site so that users can find content without first having to go to your site. (take a look at flCodr.com to see this – simply click on the drop down box arrow and click ‘Add flCodr’). The...

Inspired my Lee Brimelow’s Snippet extension Panel for Flash I am setting up a new code repository for Flash Developers. If you don’t know what Snippet’s is, its an extension for Flash that displays a list of code snippets that allows you to easily add code to your projects. The snippets are held in an XML file which makes the app dynamic and updateable. (I recently created my own hard coded version of a Code Helper, which dynamically produced scripts for various custom functions based on an input into a text field). The fact that Snippets runs from an XML file means that new...

Do you use Firefox on multiple platforms and machines? Yes? Than this post if for you. I’ve already written about Foxmarks the great Firefox add-on that allows you to sync your bookmarks between multiple instances on Firefox (even works across platforms – I use it to sync my Mac and XP versions). There are two add-ons (FEBE and Cleo) that will allow you to backup your Firefox install and then package your add-ons into a single xpi file. This is great if you want to copy your addons between machines. To prove it works, i’ve packaged my previous post on a set of Web Developer...