Cheese Cat image by Javier via Flickr
Since months I searched for a solution to fix the slow iPhone sync without restoring my iPhone or having to reinstall all my Apps. Finally I found a surprisingly easy solution, covert and buried in an Apple support forum thread. So I decided to write this down here, also to better remember how to fix it the next time… ;)
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I made it back from cologne. Thanks to the vulcano I made new friends with lots of business guys in the night train from Cologne to Berlin…
I just want to point out some session (in order of appearance). If you miss one here I either missed it or found it crap… ;)
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Undoubtedly Flash put the web to another level. With Flash there was finally the ability to create content with user experience not dictated by a markup language (HTML) but freeform, whatever the user liked, whatever the best usability was, whatever the IA / designer / programmer thought was best. This made the web big, this made Flash big.
However, times have changed. Flash is no longer the only technology to achieve all this. HTML5 can do some of it, JavaScript can do some of it, other proprietary platform like the iPhone and iPad can do some of it.
We all agree that Apple keeping back a hole bunch of cool content from the users by not putting Flash on their devices. On one hand they are doing it for “evil” business interests. They want to push their own gaming platform and don’t want all online Flash games on the web to be playable on their device. On the other hand they have good reasons: The iPhone was not powerful enough to render and display demanding Flash content.
Some of you guys asked, why even using the PreLoader instead of the original Loader from Adobe in the first place. The PreLoader queues the load requests, that’s all… :) Read the full story here.
For quick starters here an super simple example, that illustrates what we’re talking about:
PreLoader simple example. You might want to use something like charles to throttle down your bandwidth.
This example is also to be found the in PreLoader repository.
… and the server is going to be down for a while but we hope that we’ll be up and running again on monday morning. so don’t worry :)
Hi there.
Just wanted to post that our new (second revision) Flash CS4 book is out and you can get it here:
www.galileodesign.de
www.amazon.de
We recently finished a pretty untypical project. The client wanted to have a portfolio site, where the “cases”-pages were so different, that they did not fit in any cms or xml structure. And since the client has their own flash developer (well, more of a designer type…) they wanted to be able to maintain the FLA files themselves.
So we built the basic structure in an index.swf. The “cases” FLAs had a document class which inherited from a super class. So what if something in the superclass changes? Yes, you have to open every FLA and export it all over again.
For this case we wrote a little JSFL script with a XUL user interface. Interestingly this feature exists since Flash MX 2004 without much notice.
Goal:
Create a mailing list.
How to:
Background:
I never had a mailing list inside my email app. I’m using Thunderbird for several years now, but i was always too lazy to create a proper mailing list. I know that sounds funny, but every time i want to send some birthday invitations I pick every email address one-by-one from the global address book (thats where Thunderbird puts all the addresses in, i ever wrote an email to or received an email from). Ridiculous!
So if you ever have a lot of time to order all your email addresses, this tool might help you.
A couple of weeks ago i visited the entertainment trade fair IFA Berlin. And beside all the fancy LCD displays and strange looking MP3 players there was a huge multitouch display at the stand of the German Telekom.
After 10 minutes I caught myself touching and punching on the display with people behind staring at me. iPhone is nice (never without it again) but this big-time multitouch was seriously addictive. Here a short snap:
