I discovered today whilst running Windows 7 on my mac using the latest version of Parallels 5 (which is a huge improvement over the earlier versions) that you can actually turn off Windows features like Internet Explorer, Windows Search, that Gadget Platform thing and other media features - the ones that were really annoying in any earlier Window OS. How clever of Microsoft to do that for us - nice! Ok so here's...

There will be 5.2 billion smartphones by 2011. 20 million mobiles are lost or stolen every year. Recycled phones typically go to China and Nigeria – countries having a high security threat! How much can your smartphone reveal about you? You need to read this... http://tinyurl.com/yjg54bg

Actionscript 3.0 didn't get a lot of support by those making the move from AS2. But Wonderwall's website has proven its sophistication. Wonderwall is an interior design firm established by Masamichi Katayama. Check out their site. It's fluid and... oh-so sexy! and definitely does justice to their work.

Apple has over 75,000 mobile apps available for download, Nokia < 5,000 Blackberry less. 50% of iPhone users buy Apps – generating US$200 million per month. 19% of handsets running Google Android OS buy Apps. Given that 50% of the world pays to use a mobile phone and only 23% have internet access (according to UN’s International Telecommunication Union) it would seem that mobile apps will become as...

So you have some old sites that you frequently use, and some of them work better with Flash Player 9, or in my instance use an uploader that has not been rewritten for Flash Player 10. You only need it now and then - what do you do? Can you have both? Yes you can and here is how I did it. Everyone is different, so to commence with I have a MacPro running 10.6.1 - you could be on 10.5 on a MacBook - shouldnt...

I'm going to show you how to use dynamic variable names in php. It's quite simple, just put your variable name in between {} symbols. // declare prefix. In a loop this would probably be a number. $prefix = "pfx";   // build your variable ${"varname_{$prefix}"} = "success";   //This would output "success" echo $varname_pfx; Simple isn't it....

Recently I was playing around with scaling background images and had issues with how the scaling behaved and image quality.  When scaling an image in proportion you want to make sure that the image container is centered to the movie clip it belongs to. My example below is the scaling code within a stage listener which will re size the background image according to the stage width & height. Stage.align...

Designers tend to pride themselves on their ability to name a random font, but every now and then a font will come along that can stump even the best know-it-all. Well fear no more, as myfonts.com has brought out an iPhone app that will save your reputation – WhatTheFont. WhatTheFont allows you to take a photo of any font, whether it be in a magazine or a web graphic, upload the image to the MyFonts server...

One technique of loading external images is using the Loader class. It's similar to the URLLoader class but the Loader class loads and displays loaded images and SWF content. The Loader class is a part of the DisplayObject class; it is capable of displaying content as well as loading it. To load external images using the Loader class, you need to create an object of the Loader class. var imgLoader:Loader =...

I'm sure most of us use swfObject, which in my opinion is the best option when it comes to embedding flash. Lately I've been having a lot of fun with mootools and needed a way to embed flash dynamically. Basically I wanted my flash file to be embedded after a mootools click event was triggered. So without further ado.. window.addEvent('domready', function() {   //get the div I want to...