To celebrate, I’ve created a time portal back to December 1988 at http://betamaxmas.com
So, go and check it out, as I’m making a list, and checking it twice, and I know where you sleep.
Thanks to Eddy Tofslie, Nick and Lucas
First day’s stats: First day stats for BetaMaXMas
Digg: http://digg.com/television/Have_A_Very_BetaMaXMas
So, I whipped up a quick script to do just that.
IMAP2SMS will log into an IMAP account (like GMail) and look for unread, unflagged emails. When found, it strips all the HTML out, flags it (so it won’t send you the same message twice) and delivers it to your cellphone.
Set this up using a cron job, to run every 10 minutes or so.
Naturally, SMS charges still exist, so be wary if you have a cap on your SMS’s per month.
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I would commonly start to do it by hand only to get distracted halfway through and start moonwalking with my fingers on my desk
But today, I actually got up off my fingers and spent the 10 minutes building this, my opus, the thing i call the sortdedupercoder
We dreamed up a sweet idea of listening to stock prices, which we dubbed MoneyTalks.
It uses the new SampleDataEvent in Flash Player 10 to create sounds dynamically, which we map onto the value of a stock.
Not to pat ourselves on the back, but our app made Photoshop look like Minesweeper.
Sample videos of stock prices from Oct 06 - 10:
Google
Microsoft
Yahoo
Microsoft v Yahoo
These bad daddies require the Flash Player 10 beta:
Demo
Source
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I love breakfast. Never mind it being the most important meal of the day. It is simply superior to the other meals as far as caffeine and sugar intake are concerned.
Around my neck of the woods, there are three places that I can commonly be found eating on a Saturday or Sunday morning: J’s Pots of Soul, Stacks, or It’s Tops.
There was another restaurant in my past, but it and I had a falling out. Many asked what happened, and I’ve kept quiet. That is, until today.
A few years ago, as a young chap, I stumbled upon a restaurant in the Lower Haight that had a decadent breakfast, and akin to that new catchy pop song you play over and over, I became an obsessive visitor to this establishment.
After a few visits, my repressed design sense began to take note of their horrible handwritten menus. Legend has it that they were scribed during the 89 earthquake.
So, I did what any good breakfast Samaritan with a design degree would do: I covertly photographed their handwritten menu and redesigned it.
After printing up the menu and laminating it, I delivered it to a manager, along with a CD containing the PDF and the Illustrator file. She stared like a monkey at a Rubik’s Cube. I awkwardly moved backwards towards the door and then ran away.
Three weeks later, they chose to go with another handwritten menu that was even more difficult to read, and I’ve never been back since.
The lesson learned? Don’t design things for free for jerks.
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Yes, it says Fart.
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To use, input a width, height, foreground color, background color, and number of images, and you’ll get back a tidy zip file of images to use while the pothead designer gets their act together.
Happy FPO’ing.
This JSFL script copies the names of all named instances to the clipboard and attempts to type them. Due to limitations in JSFL, it can only type as MovieClip or TextField.
I would love to find a way to couple stage instances to their corresponding library item to derive non-intrinsic types. Please let me know if you know of a way to do this.
MXP: The Declarator
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