You will not believe quite how many requests I’ve had since the arrival of my current favorite gadget. Essentially, people have been asking me exactly how I have been taking screenshots of my iPod touch, rather than taking a photo with my camera. The answer’s actually surprisingly simple, and can be found quite easily by anyone playing around with their iPhone.
To take the screenshot, hold the Home Button (the square symbol printed upon a physical button at the bottom of the iPod/iPhone) and press the Sleep/Wake button on the top …
Apple has always been a world leader, in terms of mixing technology with style, to the point that even Windows users find themselves envying the shiny white ’shrink-wrapped’ boxes, and the masterpieces inside them.
It feels like poking a marshmallow, yet it smells like a bin (if you go close enough).
Apple Wired Keyboard
The Apple Wired Keyboard is more widely preferred, thanks to its full set of characters (unlike its wireless sibling, it doesn’t lack the numeric keypad, or the ‘transition keys’ (which, I presume, are named after the periodic table).
It simply …
Syslogd hogs your CPU.
Quick tip for all those Mac users out there. I spent a couple of hours with co-editor Simon Shand. I noticed his Mac was making an awfully loud air circulation. Because of my concerns that if left much longer, it would begin to erode part of the wall behind it, I decided to investigate.
We then went into ACTIVITY MONITOR (the OS X-equivalent of Window’s Task Manager) and discovered that SYSLOGD was taking up about 98% of the CPU. This also explains a blatant lack in performance-related areas.
After …
Hi.
My name is Simon Shand and I’m going to be writing here from now on along with Lawrence.
So to get started I’ve got a pretty cool thing to talk about, and I’ve already talked about on my other blog and that news is that Adobe has released Adobe TV!
This is a really quite cool site, I think it was built in Flex, but I could be wrong..
I love the site though more for its contents that the design, it has tonnes of programs about most of the Adobe products. It’s …
There are a considerable number of options to complete this, and I’m sure that I’ll cover them some other time. However, in the mean time, I’ll show you the easiest way. The topics you should learn from this tutorial are probably as follows:
PHP Basics
PHP Simple concatenation
PHP Variables and super-globals
Passing data to flash
If you’re interested in passing variables straight through Flash, you can use loaderInfo.loaderURL; - for more information see Bruce’s comment. It’s worth noting that this works with AS3/CS3 only.
This involves PHP, so please check and be sure that your …