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Stock Exchange

Posted by James - 03/06/07 at 03:06:02 pm

Free stock photos? Easy. Stock.xchng (www.sxc.hu) is a lovely little website that offers you just that. There’s a little bit of liscensing on some images, and you have to register (for free, however) to view the full-size images, but that’s all. It’s cunningly tied into their sister site, stock.xpert, which is of course, stuff you have to pay for.

Kuler Desktop released!

Posted by James - 28/05/07 at 02:05:54 pm

I noticed today that Kuler Desktop has arrived. Kuler, as I’ve mentioned before, is an awesome tool, and one which I first found out about through my research into Apollo. Kuler was always designed to be one of the first Apollo aps, a community colour-scheme orientated plugin for CS3. It was released early in Flex, probably to build up a following, with the promised that the Apollo one was on its’ way. And now it’s here. You can download the .air file from Kuler’s subdomain.

Secret Weapon 1 : Kuler

Posted by James - 15/05/07 at 10:05:15 pm

Print Designers have it easy, you know. They get things like Pantone Books, and well, things like that. Time to even the score? I think so, and obviously so does Adobe.

Until recently, I’d touted ColorJack as the best place to gen-up on colour theory and match colours, and it’s still pretty good. But Kuler, from Adobe Labs, is awesome for matching up colour schemes. Even better than that, you can save your schemes and share them with others. If you’re stuck for inspiration, take it from someone else’s scheme. If you need a good match, you can use Kuler’s tools to pick a theoretical partner.

Go ahead, check it out.

ActionScript Debugging

Posted by James - 28/02/07 at 05:02:42 pm

This is a simple little segment of code that i find very useful to work my way through flash files. It basically lists all the properties (which includes direct children) of the target movieclip. Here’s a few implimentations…

(Set n beforehand with something like var n = my_mc)

for(var i in n){
trace(i+" : "+n[i]);
};

and thats it in a nutshell. Your output will be something like this;

property : value

Ok, so thats not a very good example, but try it and you’ll see.
Here’s a function-based version for you…

traceProperties = function(movieclip){
n = movieclip;
for(i in n){
trace(i+" : "+n[i]);
}
}

and it’s Actionscript 2.0 sibling…

function traceProperties(n:Object):Void{
for(var i in n){
trace(i+" : "+n[i]);
}
}

Obscure Markup

Posted by James - 26/02/07 at 05:02:50 pm

This is probably the least tipworthy tip i can find, but here’s some of the weirdest, most unusual tags and functions you can use in your basic HTML.

http://obscuretags.com/

What interests me most is the encoding of base64 data in your text code. (Check previous posts and you can see i’ve touched on this before) But now thanks to this article you can have a look at these links; One for the wiki on it and t’other for a website that can generate this base64 code for you from your images. How about that?