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After a very long, very tiring battle against signing up for Twitter, I have ultimately failed.  I now Twitter. (Tweet?)  I have to admit, it’s pretty cool.  However, I believe this now makes 1,945 blogs and or websites that I currently own and do not update.

For anyone doing drag and drop in AIR beta 3, make sure that you change the old “DragManager” reference to “NativeDragManager”.  And hopefully you’ll find this before you spend hours pulling your hair out like I did.

Ok, I am enamored with AIR.  Here’s the situation:  one of the duties in my new job requires me to use Powerpoint and Keynote at conferences.  The problem?  Neither of them support swf files.  So… how do I display swf files (in fullscreen, like PPT) from a pre-made playlist?  AIR to the rescue!  It only […]

Ok, I got it working by re-installing everything.  And at first glance, I love AIR.

Ok, so I have been frantically trying to get AIR running and I can’t get it to work!  It’s driving me crazy!  There are so many cool things you can do with it, and I really would like to try them.  Get it together Adobe!

I love the Flash community.  I can’t think of any other web area where people are so willing to share their resources, ideas and techniques.  A great example is flashsourcecode.com.  It’s very seldom that I ever have a question that I can’t find the answer to by looking through a few forums to find that […]

As I am in the business of flash, I occasionally come across some very cool flash websites.  I saw this one on the FWA a few weeks ago, and I was reminded of it yesterday.  It’s a simple ad landing page for Northwestern Mutual, but it is SO well done.  It’s immediately interesting and engaging, […]

One of the biggest problems I struggle with in user interaction is knowing how to explain things through visual references and not words (which, I guess is basically what interaction design is come to think of it) Anyways, this article over at blink showed a great example of Vista dialog boxes vs. mac.  Check it […]