Is it hypocritical of me to write about a Flash blocker when I’ve spent a good portion of my time the last four years doing Flash? Maybe, but some of the sites out there have ridiculous amounts of intrusive and annoying banner ads, and I just can’t stand having my the fans on my Mac [...]
Tag Archives: Fixing shit that’s broken
O’Reilly iPhone app update
January 8, 2010 – 01:10
A short while ago I wrote about my disappointment with the O’Reilly iPhone apps. The other day I noticed that three of the four titles I originally bought had an update. I’ve finally had time to have a look at them and I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised. The 1.1 versions are infinitely [...]
NSFW Rating System
December 30, 2009 – 21:14
BW6JK44BUVQH It seems like people have a hair trigger when it comes to labeling their links “NSFW“. I’ve even seen warnings about NSFW language which seems like overdoing it a bit to me. Anyway, since using the label “NSFW” to refer to anything from cuss words in plain text to “Harry Potter / Tentacle Rape [...]
Open letter to O’Reilly : Your iPhone apps suck
December 12, 2009 – 12:07
Update 2: New versions of several of these apps have been released. Things are a lot better. Update:I’ve had feedback on this post from O’Reilly both by email and in the comments. Both Andrew and the other O’Reilly representative I’ve been in contact with seem sincere when they say that these apps will be updated [...]
Capture key sequences in ActionScript 3. AKA The Konami Comeback.
June 6, 2009 – 12:43
Lately the internet has had a wave of sites using the cherished Konami Cheatcode to reveal easter eggs or similar functionality in the site or app. I wrote a (crappy but working) class to implement such functionality in ActionScript about a year ago here. I decided to polish it up a bit for the benefit [...]
Adobe Updodger
April 21, 2009 – 18:12
Do you use any Adobe products? Tell me if this sounds familiar: “Oh hai! I need to update some totally unrelated stuff on your machine! You know, some camera raw stuff or InDesign whatchamacallits, so I’m just going to force you to quit all your browsers, because lordy lordy who knows what might happen if [...]
Some Path Finder AppleScripts
March 6, 2009 – 11:09
How’s that for a TitleCased title? So I’ve been checking out Path Finder again. The thing with Path Finder is that it’s very nearly awesome, but there are a few things that bug the hell out of me. I may or may not come back to the most irritating shortcomings in a later post, but [...]
Center and resize window with AppleScript
January 9, 2009 – 20:34
I use a 15″ MacBook Pro that I carry between work and home. At work I have a 30″ Cinema Display which means I can actually have half of the Flash IDE showing at once. Mostly it’s plug and play but every once in a while some app just doesn’t realize that I’ve unplugged the [...]
Better (AS3) imports in TextMate
December 1, 2008 – 13:43
Summary: In which Martin has concocted a hack to make importing packages in TextMate a wee bit easier. TextMate TextMate TextMate. I might as well make this a pure TextMate blog soon, but I can’t help it. My love for this app is overwhelming. I spend a lot of my time writing ActionScript, and one [...]
