PiXELWiT

I must preface this post by stating, “I suck at remembering names.”

So having said that…

• To the guy to my left who uses Photoshop to do HTML layouts but doesn’t have a laptop:
  1. I don’t know if you use FireFox and FireBug plugins but you might be interested in the PixelPerfect plugin.
  2. People mentioned FireWorks so I thought I’d throw in a link to an Adobe article discussing Photoshop and FireWorks integration.
  3. And when talking about FireWorks I always like to mention Senocular’s work.
• To the guy to my right with the Treo:
  1. I’m looking for some mobile techno devices and checking out everything I can.
  2. Thanks for tolerating my questions/grilling.
• To the guy who wants to sell PDFs as e-Books:
  1. Adobe just happens to have a PDF called “How to Create Adobe PDF eBooks“.
  2. You could skip the PDF entirely and just convert Quark to eBook.
  3. If you want to go the EXE route, you can have Quark export to HTML and try some eBook Compiler software like Activ E-Book Compiler
• To our group leader Megan (1 of the names I actually remember):
  • Thanks for mentioning my site.
  • And most importantly, thanks for the cookie.

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If you read my previous article Flex 3 Released you’d know that I was lucky enough to win a free copy of Flex Builder 3 at the February CPAUG meeting. I’m not sure why, but Adobe chose to send a boxed version of Flex Builder to all of the winners rather than e-mailing them a key-code for a downloaded copy. Oh well, that’s okay by me, I’m not really in a rush to try Flex and I wouldn’t mind having an installation disc around ‘just in case’ I ever need it.

After a couple weeks, my prize from Adobe finally arrived via Fed-Ex. I promptly stripped it from it’s bubble-wrapped confines and marveled at its splendor. Safely nestled within the Fed-Ex package was a shiny white box which contained another more cleverly shaped box which held yet another plastic box. Ooooo (pronounced the way you’d say it if you were watching a fireworks display) this was SO worth the wait! …
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I’ve written about Flash CS3 wasting screen space and Flash CS3 dropping PDF file import features but my humble little articles didn’t receive much attention. Well, today I read that the creator of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, (i.e. a bigshot) has abandoned DreamWeaver CS3 and gone back to using DreamWeaver 8. Not only that, but many of his blog readers have done or will do the same.

Of course I realize that one other blog post doesn’t necessarily validate all my criticisms of CS3 but I find it consoling to know I’m not the only one to balk at the latest incarnation of Adobe’s CS3 tools.

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I was reading Neatorama today when I saw a SWF file which I’ll call Ornaments (since it’s getting to be that time of year).

I tried to learn more about the file and its author but the page featuring Ornaments is written in Japanese and the BabelFish translation didn’t really provide much more insight. Whoever created the Ornaments file sure knows their stuff.

It starts out with 512 ornaments/particles rearranging to form various geometric configurations as the camera flies around to show it all off. You can click and drag inside the SWF to affect the camera view and you can make it a bit more interesting by pressing the plus sign to add more particles. I got to about 5,000 ornaments before it was a little choppy.

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