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Photoshop Broke My Color
I’m on a Mac Powerbook. For months, I’ve been having trouble saving images for the web in Adobe Photoshop. What would happen is I would File > Save For Web and Devices… and find that many of the colors are de-saturated in the preview window. What happened to my colors???
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Sitting in the Hot Seat
This is off the business topic, but it certainly is a major issue for all of us who work from home, especially Macbook Pro users. You see, I love my new laptop but it has a few particularities. It runs 3x hotter than my PC – so hot, in fact, that I have a hard time working with it on my lap. Normally, it would not be that big a deal. That is until Julie … Continue reading
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Our Type of Client
Last night at the Webbies Video Awards, Jennifer Daumler, Director of PR at Level3, asked me “what kind of clients do you look for?”
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Setting Keyboard Focus on Flex onLoad
When you refresh the browser with a flex app running fullscreen, obviously the flex app should be focused…. but it’s not Here’s a really easy way to set keyboard focus on your flex or flash embeded code. Basically, just paste the code below into the bottom of your html. After the page loads, this code gets called and sets the focus on your embeded swf.
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Scrolling List using Tween
We had a situation requiring up and down buttons, and we wanted them to scroll a list. The catch is how to animate the scrolling. Here’s how we did it.
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Flex Text Alignment & Layout
I know it’s super simple, but I’ve been banging my head on text layout for a couple of hours. I wanted 2 text boxes to have less space between them (leading) than the default. After trying many approaches, I finally figured out that I can set a negative paddingBottom to achieve the desired effect.
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Printing In Flex
Flex has its own printing package (mx.printing) which adds functionality to the flash.printing package, making it easier to format output (slicing and paginating).
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What Goes in a Proper Invoice?
When I first started contracting, I was amazed at the amount of paperwork stuff I had to figure out. Frankly, I just wanted to get paid. So in that vein, for those of you have sent the following type of message: Dear Client, Where is my money – its been over a month? – xoxo Contractor and recieved the following in response Dear Contractor, Upon reviewing your invoice, we noticed you are missing everything except … Continue reading
