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Webcam + face detection = Spooky goings on…

Posted by James - 23/10/09 at 02:10:16 pm

… at MMT Digital.

Here’s a bit of Friday afternoon fun for you.  I was playing around with some Actionscript face detection libraries last night, combined them with a webcam, some dynamic overlays, and voila! Augmented Reality, and just in time for Halloween too.  You will need a webcam to try it out yourself, as it’s just an early prototype, but we thought it was cool enough to stick on the company homepage for a short while.

Update: You can see a live version and download the source code, from this post.

ImageSizer 0.5.3 is now available!

Posted by James - 16/10/09 at 09:10:35 am

Wow.  Because I’m so lazy at actually blogging about things, at least two full versions of ImageSizer have come and gone since my last post, so this is going to be a round-up of all of the cool things that’ve been introduced to ImageSizer recently.

Individual files output

“Hey, that sounds like a good idea.”

ImageSizer initially started as a batch image resizer, and still is, but it seems a little over-restrictive to only be able to export files in a folder or compressed archive.  So now we have an individual files output panel.  Tacked onto the previous encoding output screen is a new option in the top left corner, labelled “Individual file export options” (perhaps that needs rephrasing).  Click that and the view will shift, showing you a list of the files that’ve just been resized, so you can grab individual files, instead of a single folder.

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Getting FTP access in Flex Builder…

Posted by James - 14/10/09 at 10:10:41 am

Little nugget of discovery for today;

If like me, you hate having to open a separate FTP program to upload projects to a remote server you can install an FTP plugin for Eclipse, aka Flex Builder.  It’s not easy as pie to configure and it’s not so good with copying large volumes of files or folders, but it’s perfectly capable of uploading files to the server without having to leave your development environment.  I haven’t found a way of setting projects up to publish to a remote server yet, but at least it bypasses opening that separate program.

Here’s a little link that tells you how to install, configure and use the plugin: http://www.venukb.com/2007/06/06/how-to-browse-remote-files-in-eclipse-ide/

Link: Comparing files in Flex Builder

Posted by James - 07/10/09 at 10:10:38 pm

Useful link I’ve come across today – http://undefined-type.com/2008/07/flex-builder-built-in-compare-tools/ – how to use the built-in Flex Builder / Eclipse compare tools.