Archive for October, 2005

Flash 8.5, ActionScript 3.0

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Just went to a talk at Max by Gary Grossman about Flash Player 8.5 (not released yet) and the changes they’re making. ActionScript is becoming a (more) strongly typed language. You’ll be able to declare variables with type, and have the runtime know the type of the object (AS2 let you declare the type, and […]

Killer App for Events?

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Dare Obasanjo asks Where is the Killer App for Events? The killer app for events is email. I use Yahoo! Calendar, and I’ve been using it for years. I enter things like birthdays, anniversaries, and other recurring events I want to remember, and every year, I get an email a few days before the event. […]

Max Pictures

Monday, October 17th, 2005

azoidX has better pictures of California and of the conference than I’ve got. I didn’t bring my camera to the conference today; maybe tomorrow.

Running Without a Page File

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Peter Provost posts about running without a page file. One of my biggest complaints about Windows performance is related to paging, so until SuperFetch gets here, I’m going to give this a try.

Macromedia Max

Monday, October 17th, 2005

I’m in Anaheim again (yes, that’s the second time this month) for the Macromedia Max conference. This should be a good one for me. The PDC was a great conference, but 80% of the material wasn’t new to me, since so much of it has been talked about online for so long. I’m not familiar […]

Face Matching in Photoshop Elements 4.0

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

The new Photoshop Elements is out, and one of the new features is face matching. I try to tag my photos with who is in them, so this is a great feature for me. Whenever I import a batch of pictures, it offers a window with closeups of the faces of all the people in […]

In-Car Navigation System

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

I posted a review of the MacVision MN2607 Automotive Navigation System that Canadian Tire is selling for $399 Canadian. Seems like good hardware for the price – includes a 30 gig hard disk that you can play MP3s from.

UFO Maps

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Cool reuse of Google Maps.. UFO Maps!

Google Account == Passport

Friday, October 14th, 2005

It’s nice to see Google unifying the authentication schemes for all their sites – you can now use your Google Account for Gmail, Orkut, home page personalization, Groups, Talk, and Video Upload. Google has access to all sorts of personal information, tying all these services together, and nobody really thinks about the privacy implications or […]

find and grep in Monad

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Good post on the equivalents of find and grep in Monad (MSH).