We have posted a chapter from Colin Moock’s forthcoming tome on ActionScript 2, titled Essential ActionScript 2.0.
You can read chapter 2, “Object Oriented ActionScript”, here.
You can find more information on Essential ActionScript 2.0 from here.
I primarily use a Windows machine for work and play and for the most part, I like the greater number of options I have for tools and software on Windows. However, I have not been able to find a decent news feed aggregator for Windows. I had been using NetNewsWire on OS X which I think is hands down the best news aggregator available. Not only does it provide feed organization in a tree format, but it also aggregates all of the feeds in a folder, so you can quickly see what is new in that folder. Finally, it is hands down the fastest aggregator (that I have come across) on any platform.
Daemon has posted a preview release of their very cool certification exam application named Certifiable.
I saw a sneak peak of this at MXDU, and it is easily one of the coolest, and most useful Central applications available.
You can find more information on Certifiable (including screenshots and FAQs) as well as download the application from here.
I am addicted to world news from the BBC World Service. However, I can’t carry my shortwave with me everywhere (I don’t think they broadcast to North America anymore anyways), and I don’t want to install Real player (which the BBC uses to stream its broadcasts). Luckily, I was able to find a couple of public radio stations that stream BBC programs via MP3.
The ones I have found thus far are:
I decided that it was time to do a clean install on my iMac in order to get rid of all of the junk and tools that have been accumulating. So, I load up the panther install disk, erase my drive, and start the install. However, I forgot that my Panther disk was an upgrade disk. No problem I thought, I just eject the CD and put in my original OS X install disk.
Here is a map which plots my running route (from Saturday) via GPS (Sawyer Park Trail in San Mateo). The GPS data comes from my Garmin Forerunner 201, and the mapping and plotting was done via USAPhotoMaps.
I am constantly copying text into an app such as Word, just to spell check it. I decided to build a simple spell check app that would sit on the tray and spell check whatever text was in the clipboard. I did a quick search on Google, and found that someone had already built such an app.
TraySpell uses the NetSpell C# library to provide a simple tray tool that spell checks whatever is in the clipboard. When I first tested it, is missed some pretty obvious words, but once I updated the dictionary to include the words from the Open Office English dictionary, it seems to work pretty well (although it still doesn’t understand some obvious words such as “tray” and “tool”).
