Archive for August, 2007

Comic Relief

August 20th 2007 Posted to General

I was looking for a little levity and I came across the popular web comic XKCD which is full of geek related giggles. The comics were so good that I read them all in a single sitting. If you start at the beginning you can watch the author Randall Munroe refine his style as he progresses through more than 300 comic strips.

But before you set out on your comic adventure, I feel it’s only fair to warn you that Mr. Munroe used to work at N.A.S.A developing robots and whatnot so an appreciation for occasional high level math references will prove beneficial.

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How do You Use Adobe Flash?

August 10th 2007 Posted to Flash

What type of Adobe Flash user are you?

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Tutorial for Resizing Page Flip Added

August 09th 2007 Posted to Flash

A new tutorial has been added to the PageFlip Help Section which explains how to resize the PageFlip by changing the size of the pages. If you’ve been having trouble changing the dimensions of the PageFlip book then this tutorial will help answer your questions.

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Translating Comments

August 06th 2007 Posted to Site Development

Translating a recent foreign-language comment proved too difficult for my usual text translation tool BabelFish. First BabelFish wanted me to tell it which language it would be translating “From” but I couldn’t figure that out because the message seemed like randomly paired vowels and consonants (terima kasih, saya begitu gembira, saya akan mencoba dan mengembangkannya. terima kasih). Apparently I wasn’t going to get very far with this until I determined what language this comment was written in.

The best tool I found for identifying a phrase’s native language was …
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